Still the best music produced during the rock n roll period
Purchased this music CD for our 21 year old son who has a great appreciation for really good music. The music being produced since 1995 is a "joke" and our son knows that. He fully appreciates the genius of late 60's, 70's and early 80's musicians who knew how to write not only the music but also the lyrics. This album was a landmark album and still better music to listen than anything on the public airways today.

One of the best records ever released
Pink Floyd are an all-around amazing band. There is nothing quite like them. And with members such as Roger Waters, Dave Gilmour and Richard Wright, the group made some of the best records of the late 1960s and 1970s.

'Wish You Were Here' is my personal favorite Pink Floyd record. While not as musically complex as 'Dark Side Of The Moon' and nowhere near a 'Wall' type of album, it is one of those timeless classics.

'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' was written as a tribute to original guitarist and vocalist Syd Barrett, who passed away in 2006. The song is divided into parts, which makes the song even more interesting. And some of Gilmour's best guitar work is on that song.

'Have A Cigar' features Roy Harper on the vocals. It's a pretty good song, and Harper proves he can sing progressive rock.

And of course 'Welcome To The Machine' and 'Wish You Were Here' rank as some of PF's all-time best songs.

Overall, if you've never listened to 'Wish You Were Here' and you really enjoyed 'Dark Side Of The Moon,' 'The Wall' and 'Meddle,' or you are new to Pink Floyd's legendary music, than buy it. It's a masterpiece.

Highly recommended for anybody who enjoys great music. A classic. ENJOY!!!

Another master piece
What is the only way to continue impressing the world after the succes of The Dark Side of the Moon? With another master piece. "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" is a song that deserver the descrition of "sonic cathedral". And "Wish You Were Here" contains the best Gilmour's guitar riff.

Pure Magic...
This album is by far my favorite Pink Floyd release. Each track is a kind of magic that words cannot describe. Have a Cigar, Shine On You Crazy Diamonds, Wish You Were Here, Welcome to the Machine. Each track really conveys the magic that Pink Floyd experienced during this time, perhaps even more than DSoTM.

If you're new to Pink Floyd, this album and DSotM should be a must buy. They're on iTunes and the Amazon MP3 store as well, if you disdain physical media. But, as with the music, there's something magic about owning the physical product in your cupboard. I highly recommend this album, perhaps just as much as Abbey Road and the White Album by the Beatles. These albums will go down as some of the best humankind has ever produced.

One for the Madcap
This album is basically a period of great catharsis. Syd barrett had sunken deeper into his drug-created
psychosis ("Now there's a look in your eyes/Like black holes in the sky"), and all members of The Floyd
hurt because of their fallen friend.
Waters dedicated Wish You Were Here to Syd. All of the songs and music was a personal tribute to the Madcap; this set was Waters's own want to tell Barrett's story, and every note of this great session (like Dark
Side of the Moon before it) drew a grave, yet proper and provocative, portrait of the man whose entire body
of work was the main blueprint for acid and space rockers everywhere.
This set was Waters's answer to "Oh, by the way,/ which one's pink?"