WISH YOU WERE HERE

No doubt this is an album that should be in everybody's collection. It's an important, emotionally-charged masterpiece from beginning to end. Getting from beginning to end is the only issue I have here. Shine On, while great, has never wowed me like other prog epics. I always find myself bored listening to it. The guitar work is phenomenal, and it builds wonderfully at points, but at other points, I just find myself wanting to listen to anything else on the album.

Everything else? Fantastic. This was my first Floyd album and it got me into them big time. I'd say even though it's not a 5-star album, I would call it essential, both due to the quality of the songwriting and the overall importance of it. Plus, it has my favorite album art of all time!

Oh, and as of this writing the album has 777 rating and 77% of them are 5 stars. Just wanted to make a note of that.

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