WISH YOU WERE HERE

Well, first of all, for me Pink Floyd is the best band ever, and WYWH is one of it's best albums. This album followed up the huge Dark Side of the Moon, and it was good cause Pink Floyd changed the rules in this album. The songs were entirely different from the ones which apeared at Dark Side, but they continued using some elements which are the trademarks of the floyd, an atmospherical guitar, lots of synthezisers, deep lyrics and weird sound effects. And they proved in this album that these elements are essential to their kind of music.

The album starts with the first part of the monstrous suite Shine On You Crazy Diamond. This is an fantastic song, with a long and calm introduction with wonderful guitars and keyboards, nice vocals and a terrific sax solo that closes the first part of the song. The album continuous with the innovative Welcome to the Machine. It's an innovative song, and it's really impressive, but I don't like it very much. It's too electronic for me. Have a Cigar changes the mood completely, as it is an very bluesy song. it's a great song with an wonderful guitar work and very good vocals (provided by Roy Harper, an guest star). The title song is next, and there isn't much to say about it, other than it's one of greatest hits of Floyd. The album comes to an end with the second part of Shine On You Crazy Diamond, which is basically instrumental, and it's much more darker than the first part. The whole thing come to an end just as it began, with an long and calm keyboard solo.

This album is perfect in every sense of the word, and even though I din't like Welcome to the Machine very much, I will give it a 5 star rating. Definetaly this album is a true prog masterpiece.