Customer Reviews
Pink Floyd's Masterwork - By: M. Evans, 13 Nov 2008 
No, not Dark Side of the Moon or The Wall, this is Pink Floyd's greatest work. Only 4 songs (one splitin two) but they're absolutely sublime. Shine On You Crazy Diamond is an amazing song and, I think, the Floyd's longest, Welcome to the Machine is eerie but compulsively listenable, Wish You Were Here one of their most gorgeous songs, & Have a Cigar is very underrated,in fact one of my favourite tracks & a nice change of style, without which the album might have felt a bit too heavy. You have to listen to the albumin one sitting to truly appreciate it, & it's a hugely rewarding experience with not a duff second on it. And the ending of the album is truly gorgeous, possibly the best ending to an album ever. Absolutely essential listening.
We Don't Need No Remastered CD - Where's the SACD ??? - By: John Watkins, 18 Oct 2008 
Stop messing about with yet another remastered CD - BRING OUT THE SACD VERSION THAT WE ALL KNOW HAS BEEN PRODUCED. Storm has done the cover art, all the work has been done on the 5.1 mix - please Please PLEASE cut it to SACD & bring it out before December 2008 & make my Xmas.
ALBUM 2 IN THE SERIES OF GREAT ALBUMS FROM FLOYD - By: Ben Faulkner, 16 Aug 2008 This album is without doubt my favourite Floyd album. It has everything you needin a concept/prog rock/Floyd album. Some say its the last of the great Floyd albums, before waters took over, & it was more of waters solo work. Although Mason is never credited, his classic drumming is always there to help the flow the immense music. Again, we have a short number of tracks, but we still get a blistering 44 odd mins. With the epic that is Shine On You Crazy Diamond, the first five parts are 5 brilliant pieces of music, I think we've all heard Shine On part II (if not, look it up) with the combination of Ricks excellent Piano & Synth work, & Gilmours quite frankly perfect guitar, the first few pieces all fit together, & then we get waters lyrics, reminiscent of their old front man Syd, & how cool is the wording, Shine on You crazy Diamond, waters was really on fire that day. The first 5 parts flow seamlessly into Welcome To The Machine. This monster of a track just shows waters at his best, attacking government with some fab guitar, & synths, the drumsin this are really cool too. Then we come to side 2 & the opening song which became a single, Have A Cigar. This bass driven, funky vocals & again perfect guitar from Gilmour, show what Floyd are made of. With the voice of Roy Harper, because waters had strained his voice doing Shine On, we get a sort of folk rock version of vocals, & it works so well. And alas we come to the title track, & indeed possibly floyds most famous song. Wish You Were Here, is the writing partnership of Gilmour/Waters at work. That beautiful riff that just gets better every time you here it, & those immortal words. Again its an album where waters wrote all lyrics, but you wouldnt ask for any better ones on this song. Its an anthem that will see Floyd remembered well after their gone. To end the album, Floyd then return the the Shine On suite, to add 4 more parts to end the album. Albeit,in my opinion not as good as the first 5, but parts VI-IX really show what Floyd are made of. They had wanted all of Shine On to be one long track, but it was too long for a side of vinyl they had to split it. Allin all, this is the only Floyd album I can listen to for pleasure. I love Floyd & they have some brill albums, but I have to say that this is my favourite to listen to, dark side is more of a rocky hey lets get up & play air guitar to Money, whereas WYWH is an album for listening to, its immortal & will never die, even after 30 years people still buy it, & for very good reason.
Wonderful From Start To Finish. - By: Mark Hilton, 07 Mar 2008 Following 'Dark Side Of The Moon' must have been difficult. So kudos to the Floyd for creating 'Wish You Were Here', for many their finest work. By their usual standards, this is remarkably gentle & can be easily appreciated by fans of all genres.
One of Pink Floyd's most famous songs, 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' is a loving tribute to the late, great Syd Barrett. A nine part composition split into two, It's a thing of beauty from start to finish made all the more poignant by the fact that Barrett himself, suddenly showed up at the studio whilst Floyd were recording that very song, prompting Richard Wright to proclaim it as "Karma, Fate, who knows?".
Things take a darker tone with 'Welcome To The Machine' & 'Have A Cigar', attacks on the hypocricy & greed of the music industry. With David Gilmour's blistering guitar work & tinny synthesizer beats, these tracks are more Rock orientated than the rest of the album.
But it's the title track 'Wish You Were Here' that seals the album's greatness. A simple, haunting, acoustic ballad that also, is based on Barrett. Rolling Stone voted it one of the top 500 songs ever made, & rightly so. This is affecting stuff from one of Rock Musics greats, & a fitting tribute to Syd Barrett, one of Rock music's great visionary minds.
Not as good as dark side..... BUT AMAZING! - By: Roadbloc HD, 21 Jan 2008 A brill album. Shine on you crazy diamond is the best song ever made; it's musical feelings reach out to you & calm you down, while Welcome To The Machine fills you with energy. Brill.
