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Wish You Were Here 50

Pink Floyd30 songs • 4 hours, 19 minutesExplicit

Wish You Were Here is the ninth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 12 September 1975 through Harvest Records in the United Kingdom and a day later in the United States through Columbia Records, as the band's first album for the label. Based on material composed while performing in Europe, Wish You Were Here was recorded over numerous sessions throughout 1975 at EMI Studios in London. The lyrics express longing, alienation, and sardonic criticism of the music industry. The bulk of the album is taken up by "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", a nine-part tribute to Syd Barrett, a Pink Floyd co-founder who had left seven years earlier due to his deteriorating mental health; Barrett coincidentally visited the studio during recording. As with their previous release, The Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd employed studio effects and synthesisers. Guest singers included Roy Harper, who sang lead on "Have a Cigar", and Venetta Fields and Carlena Williams, who sang backing vocals on "Shine On You Crazy Diamond". To promote the album, Pink Floyd released the double A-side single "Have a Cigar" / "Welcome to the Machine". From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish_Yo...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)

Songs

  1. 1
    Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 1-5)
    Pink Floyd
  2. 2
    Welcome to the Machine
    Pink Floyd
  3. 3
    Have a Cigar
    Pink Floyd
  4. 4
    Wish You Were Here
    Pink Floyd
  5. 5
    Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 6-9)
    Pink Floyd
  6. 6
    Wine Glasses
    Pink Floyd
  7. 7
    Have A Cigar (Alternate Version)
    Pink Floyd
  8. 8
    Wish You Were Here (feat. Stéphane Grappelli)
    Pink Floyd
  9. 9
    Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Early Instrumental Version, Rough Mix)
    Pink Floyd
  10. 10
    The Machine Song (Roger's Demo)
    Pink Floyd
  11. 11
    The Machine Song (Demo #2, Revisited)
    Pink Floyd
  12. 12
    Wish You Were Here (Take 1)
    Pink Floyd
  13. 13
    Wish You Were Here (Pedal Steel Instrumental Mix)
    Pink Floyd
  14. 14
    Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 1-9, New Stereo Mix)
    Pink Floyd
  15. 15
    Raving And Drooling (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
    Pink Floyd
  16. 16
    You've Got To Be Crazy (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)Explicit
    Pink Floyd
  17. 17
    Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 1-5) (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
    Pink Floyd
  18. 18
    Have a Cigar (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
    Pink Floyd
  19. 19
    Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 6-9) (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)Explicit
    Pink Floyd
  20. 20
    Speak to Me (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)Explicit
    Pink Floyd
  21. 21
    Breathe (In the Air) (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
    Pink Floyd
  22. 22
    On the Run (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
    Pink Floyd
  23. 23
    Time (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
    Pink Floyd
  24. 24
    The Great Gig in the Sky (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
    Pink Floyd
  25. 25
    Money (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)Explicit
    Pink Floyd
  26. 26
    Us and Them (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
    Pink Floyd
  27. 27
    Any Colour You Like (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
    Pink Floyd
  28. 28
    Brain Damage (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
    Pink Floyd
  29. 29
    Eclipse (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
    Pink Floyd
  30. 30
    Echoes (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
    Pink Floyd

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