Our product to treat is a regular product. There is not the imitation. From Japan by the surface mail because is sent out, take it until arrival as 7-14 day. Thank you for you seeing it..Wish You Were Here is a song cycle dedicated to Pink Floyd's original frontman, Syd Barrett, who'd flamed out years before: two grimly funny songs about the evils of the music business ("By the way, which one's Pink"), and two long, touching ones about the band's vanished friend. The real star of the show, though, is the production: sparkling, convoluted, designed to sound deeply oh-wow under the influence--and pretty great sober too, with David Gilmour getting lots of space for his most lyrical guitar playing ever. And, though the album is big and ambitious, even bombastic, it somehow dodges being pretentious--the Barrett tributes are honest and heartfelt, beneath all the grand gestures and stereophonic trickery.--Douglas Wolk Review As the follow-up to the Floyd's iconic, record-breaking 1973 concept album The Dark Side Of The Moon, this album is often unfairly overlooked. With the benefit of hindsight, Wish You Were Here has the same faultless pacing and sequencing of its predecessor, but a more coherent musical narrative, structure and tone, as well as greater lyrical sophistication. Here, the 'concept' is more down-to-earth, since much of the record is an extended tribute to the late Syd Barrettthe genius behind their early works, who flew too high and burned too bright, becoming one of rock's most infamous drug casualties before Pink Floyd emerged from London's psychedelic underground scene to become one of the biggest success stories of the 1970s. It's also the last great album by a band that would produce something as adolescently puerile as The Wall by the end of that decade.Barrett is the subject of the epic 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond, parts One and Two' of which take up more than half the playing time and bookend just three other shorter tracks. Despite some questionable keyboard tones from Richard Wright, the majestically unhurried instrumental intro is a triumph of suspense. It's nearly nine minutes before Roger Waters starts singing and the effect is startling, as are the words: 'Remember when you were young/ You shone like the sun / Shine On You Crazy Diamond!/ Now there's a look in your eye / Like black holes in the sky'. It's debatable whether the 'iPod generation' will get all of the eerie, almost visual sound detail in the more melodramatic 'Welcome To The Machine', which presages some of the pomp of their later work. Guest vocalist Roy Harper is a gritty presence on the music industry-bating 'Have A Cigar' and the breathless title track finds Waters' lyrics at their most soul searching. Some may baulk at Dave Gilmour's long, bluesy guitar workouts, which form the backbone of 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' and crop up throughout the album. Hey, these were the dying days of prog. rock. Punk was just around the corner and it's easy to see why, but mid-seventies post-psychedelic angst seldom sounded so chilled. --Jon Lusk This link will take you offin a new window
