WISH YOU WERE HERE

Pink Floyd

Psychedelic/Space Rock

4.64 | 4644 ratings

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What do you do after suddenly finding your nice avant garde progressive rock band being played by the masses? What do you do?

In addition to going back to your roots and writing a long extended piece (Shine On You Crazy Diamond), you also look seriously at your industry and your role in it. And those are the songs that stick with me.

Welcome to the Machine - how your audience's hopes, dreams, and aspirations are affected by the media (which includes popular music)

Have a Cigar - on how little knowledge or love of the arts you'll find in the corporate board rooms which are so necessary for mass production and marketing of music

I also enjoyed the rest of the album, but I'm not going to go on to vast lengths about it.

I do want to add that great music doesn't require vast technical skills. Sometimes, playing the right note at the right time is all that's needed. Pink Floyd is a master at choosing the right notes. None of the members of Pink Floyd feel the need to show off their technical prowess. They just play the right note at the right time.

More power to them.

| 5/5 | 2006-5-14

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