WISH YOU WERE HERE

There's nothing to discuss about the music quality contained on this CD, it's everything already said before! You know: this is a great stuff, mindblowingly tunes, soft passages, subtle arrangements... highly reccomended and whatever you want. So, we are only going to discuss the absence of the fifth star in my rating.

I'll try to explain my reasons why I have little problems with this album. Let's see: first of all, it should be released before Dark Side Of The Moon to be a masterpiece, hehehe.......

Second, this is not an album that has SONGS in specific.... it's mainly a conceptual album, not as its predeccessor, which has clear songs. What does it mean and implies? More studio improvisation. And you know what? It could be even boring if the musicianship aren't quite skillful in their respectives instruments. That's it.

A third point is that simply I cannot get into acoustic Pink Floyd (Eg.: self-titled track). If you ask me for the highlight on this CD, I'd say "Welcome to the Machine", which has a great dramatic atmosphere. The opening & closing track (united by the same concept) are awesome and fantastics as you can get, but as I said before, I'm not into Floyd epic/jamming/improv (I explained the reason why)... I mean I like it, but I don't LOVE it.

IMO it's enough to face that Dark Side Of The Moon was the only real masterpiece from this band. In the other hand, WYWH is more comparable to its succesor Animals, which has the same "format" (five songs and a lot of long improv stuff). Well, I've just said all this and I hope I didn't make too many enemies because of this review... So, give another half star :)