One thing that I always loved about Pink Floyd is that they knew how to make an album. The Beatles seemed to grasp the concept at the end of their reign, with gems like Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Abbey Road. Cohesive pieces of art that acts as a whole unit, even though each individual song can stand on its own merits. These are the types of albums you just smoke a blunt, sit back in silence, listen to and allow yourself to be bathed in a musical masterpiece. That is how I view Wish You Were Here, just one really song that, even though you could break it up into five parts, why would you?
It’s difficult to describe everything that’s amazing about this album, but I’ll try to touch upon a few subjects. First of all, the songs are superb, which I guess is really all there is to make a good album. The mood throughout this song is fairly consistent in some aspects, but is radically different in others as the style from song to song is distinguishably different enough to make it not seem redundant. Each song has its own, rather slow, crescendo that peaks within the context of the song, but also exists in a general crescendo that the album takes as a whole. Finally, they employ a large scope of instruments that give an eery but extremely cool sound to the album as you constantly encounter new sounds. You’re kept on your toes in some ways and mellowed out in others.
As I said before, when you listen to this song just smoke a blunt, sit back in silence and bask in its greatness.
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