WISH YOU WERE HERE

The Best Pink Floyd album by a extremely large margin. Shine on You crazy diamond is a peach of a track and possibly in my top 100 prog songs of all time. I'm not Floyds biggest fan as anybody reading my critique of their music in comparisson to the true masters of prog rock, Genesis & Yes. I suppose they are always classed as space rock - but this CD takes floyd into symphonic prog territory. I am not particularly fond of "Have a cigar" nor "Welcome to the Machine" and thus this CD has lost a star. I do like "Wish you were here" but I love "Shine on" especially the start and the nice simple but effective guitar & synth. It is spoiled a bit by the female harmony (USE MELLOTRON) and the saxophone and again that stops this from gaining 5 stars. I do so love the synth right at the end though. FOUR STARS !