kansarin
Joined: 21 Feb 2006
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 Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 6:58 am Post subject: Pink Floyd 1975. |
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Wish You Were Here
In the time between this release and DSOM, Pink Floyd had risen into the rock elite and was none the happier for it! The first attempt at a follow-up, the "Household Objects" project, was abandoned in fall of 1973. The band reconvened in early 1975 only to have the sessions interrupted by two US tours. Artist languor that prevailed until Waters took things over. The bulk of the album is the nine-part "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", a tribute to their erstwhile member, Syd Barrette. According to legend, a bald, pale and fat Barrette showed up at Abbey Road while the band prepared the final mix. It would be the last "band" composition for the Floyd. Pressure from their record label (and healthy dose of Water's cynicism) was inspiration for both "Welcome to the Machine" and "Have a Cigar". The former is a Floyd classic, mucking underneath a percolating VSC3, while the later features Roy Harper on vocals. The title track, the lone Glimmer composition, became (almost) every budding guitarist�s first cover. Yet despite the hardships and quite rightly because of the emotional distance of the tracks, the album proved to be one of the bands finest. The stark arrangements belie a concise precision to both the bands compositions and performance - cold, stark and all the better for it. Wright turns in a particularly strong performance. Enormously successful, the album topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic and provided a stylistic blueprint for many bands to follow. The album was originally packaged in blue shrink-wrap, with only a sticker to identify it.
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