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About This Track
“Wish You Were Here” is the title track on Pink Floyd’s 1975 album Wish You Were Here. The song’s lyrics encompass writer Roger Waters’ feelings of alienation from other people. Like most of the album, it refers to former Pink Floyd member Syd Barrett and his breakdown. The main riff came to David Gilmour while playing his acoustic guitar in Abbey Road Studios. Gilmour then demonstrated the riff to Waters, who was impressed. They collaborated to complete the song, as Waters had already written some lyrics. In 2004, the song was ranked #316 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
In the original album version, the song segues from “Have a Cigar” as if a radio had been tuned away from one station, through several others (including a radio play and one playing Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony), and finally to a new station where “Wish You Were Here” is beginning. Gilmour performed the intro on a twelve-string guitar, processed to sound like it was playing through an old transistor radio, and then overdubbed a fuller-sounding acoustic guitar solo. This passage was mixed to sound as though the guitarist was sitting in a room, playing along with the radio; it also contains a whine that slowly changes pitch—emulating the heterodyne between two drifting AM radio signals.
The intro riff is repeated several times and reprised when Gilmour plays further solos with scat singing accompaniment. At the end of the recorded song, the final solo crossfades with wind sound effects (reminiscent of “One of These Days” from the 1971 album Meddle), and finally segues into the second section of the multi-part suite “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”.
In the original album version, the song segues from “Have a Cigar” as if a radio had been tuned away from one station, through several others (including a radio play and one playing Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony), and finally to a new station where “Wish You Were Here” is beginning. Gilmour performed the intro on a twelve-string guitar, processed to sound like it was playing through an old transistor radio, and then overdubbed a fuller-sounding acoustic guitar solo. This passage was mixed to sound as though the guitarist was sitting in a room, playing along with the radio; it also contains a whine that slowly changes pitch—emulating the heterodyne between two drifting AM radio signals.
The intro riff is repeated several times and reprised when Gilmour plays further solos with scat singing accompaniment. At the end of the recorded song, the final solo crossfades with wind sound effects (reminiscent of “One of These Days” from the 1971 album Meddle), and finally segues into the second section of the multi-part suite “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”.
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scientist4u wrote:
wish you were here , !!
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andyr1957 wrote:
great times with this one..:)
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wishma wrote:
wish you were here - this is only my fucking dream tonight.
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myoutlookonlife wrote:
goosebumps every single time <3
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ldy_vanilla wrote:
the world's most beautiful song...
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ravenclaw94 wrote:
This is one of their best songs.
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Dolphena wrote:
Wish you were here, yes I do.
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JuliaDetb wrote:
Wish you were here ♥ (8)
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oldiesfanjohn wrote:
So,so you think you can tell...Heaven from Hell...One of the best songs ever to come out of the 70s!
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CidaDuarteF wrote:
I l♥ve this s♥ng
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AshSmith79 wrote:
One of the all time greats :)
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Xylvanya wrote:
If you like ambitious and relaxing music, maybe it´s possible you like XYLVANYA: „Anxious“; „Beach II“; Regenbogen; „SA RIERA part I“, "Imperial Crown" „Climbing“ or „Ex-Mannequin“ or „Horizont (III) or "Gewitter-Regen" or "Erinnerungen an meinen Vater" or "Trust (Piano-Version)" or "Norwegen" or "Retrospective view" and many many more.....(all in all 6 hours of music, all songs free download) . Thank you for listening, support or feedback! Peace, Xylvanya
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Invincible638 wrote:
One of the most important songs to me.
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pukhli wrote:
A place to be.
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krzaczek5 wrote:
amazing
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MIKEH3875 wrote:
damn what a masterpiece
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ChrisTeam wrote:
This song is on the most played tracks of all time on last.fm list: The Stairway List
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madzia1006 wrote:
*_*
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Rauschgiftengel wrote:
How I wish, how I wish all people who I love were here, here still in my life.
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grn13 wrote:
HAAAAAAAPY NEW YEAR......
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