WISH YOU WERE HERE

With this album the band again focused heavily on the high-fi production sound - in which it excels. Pink Floyd took a great leap in modernizing their sound and preparing themselves for performing a stadion size version of progressive rock. The album is mostly dominated by slow-paced symphonic bluesrock in which the great melodic guitar leads by David Gilmour often take center stage. The middle tracks have a spacey electric feel and simple song structures as not to bother the listener with the by that time already decaying progressive rock appreciation. 'Wish You Were here' is a largely acoustic campfire song that has never particularly appealed to me. To me this album mostly sounds like radio friendly 'classic rock' (albeit quite tasteful) and calling it a progressive masterpiece wouldn't make much sense. Compared to the wildly creative avant-prog of 'Atom Heart Mother' or the 'Live at Pompeii' film this does very little to me.