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Wish You Were Here (Music)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Wish You Were Here is the ninth studio album by Pink Floyd, released in 1975. The highly anticipated follow-up to The Dark Side of the Moon, it was made as both a harsh criticism of the music industry and a tribute to Syd Barrett, a previous frontman of the band who had been ousted in 1968 for drug abuse and mental decline.By 1974, Pink Floyd were the biggest band in the world and had no way to cope with the sudden explosion of fame. As a result, Wish You Were Here hinges on the concept of Artist Disillusionment, as it deals with the harsh realities of the corporate side of the music industry and the band's wishes for simpler days.The album came to be after Roger Waters became determined to keep the band together; as a result, he became responsible for most of the band's output during the 1970s. This, combined with his bandmates' escalating personal troubles that limited their ability to contribute, would end up resulting in Waters becoming more and more iron-fisted in his leadership, ultimately culminating in the chaotic production of The Final Cut in 1983 and Waters' departure two years later.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Barrett showed up during the mixing of the album, and his abnormal behaviour and dramatically changed appearance (having shaved his hair and eyebrows and gained considerable weight) brought Roger Waters and Richard Wright to tears. Some reports actually claim that this event occurred during sessions devoted to "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", the song explicitly paying tribute to Barrett, although recollections are hazy about specifically which songs were being worked on.Wish You Were Here was the band's first album to be released on their new U.S. deal with Columbia Records after what the band considered lackluster distribution by EMI's American division, Capitol Records. The band would remain on Columbia until 2000, when their rights to the post-The Dark Side of the Moon albums reverted to Capitol. Because of the Columbia deal, the album went on to become one of the first 50 titles to be released on the Compact Disc format on October 1, 1982. The launch was handled by Sony, who were partnered with Columbia's parent company, CBS, in Japan; Sony would buy out CBS's worldwide music division, and Columbia with it, five years later, forming what would ultimately become Sony Music. Like the other 49 albums included in the launch lineup, the original release was exclusive to Japan, though the master was reused for a 1983 CD reissue in Europe. Pink Floyd's back catalog overall would prove very popular on the format. In the wake of the 2012 sale of EMI, Sony now distributes Pink Floyd's entire catalog outside of the U.K. and Europe.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })The album was influential on the development of Electronic Music and specifically Synth-Pop, with its heavy use of synthesizers serving as a major influence on artists in these fields. Like its predecessor, the album was also a considerable commercial success from the get-go, topping the charts in the UK, the US, Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Spain, and going on to be certified diamond in France, septuple-platinum in Australia, sextuple-platinum in the US, triple-platinum in Canada, double-platinum in the UK, Austria, and Italy, platinum in Germany, and gold in Argentina, Greece, and Poland. The album still maintains high sales to this day; in 2018, it peaked at No. 32 on the Polish Albums chart.Wish You Were Here was supported by one single: "Have a Cigar".Preceded by The Dark Side of the Moon. Proceeded by Animals. | |
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Feelies: Vinyl copies came with a postcard of the diving man. | |
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The Blank: The back cover depicts a faceless man in the desert dressed in business attire and hawking Pink Floyd records. To add to the effect, the man's wrists and ankles (the only parts of his body that show besides his "face") are invisible, implying that on some level he doesn't even exist, which ties into the album's theme of absence. | |
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Visual Pun: The Hipgnosis cover art has many images regarding absence — a swimmer who doesn't make a splash, a flying veil covering a nude woman, and a faceless "Floyd salesman". The front cover also features a man on fire while making a business handshake, symbolizing him "getting burned" (read: getting an unfair or minimized result) by the deal he's making. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: Each of the "four elements" photos throughout the album art appears to affect the surrounding white border in some way: the "fire" photo on the front cover singes part of the border, the "air" photo on one side of the inner sleeve distorts the border, and the "water" and "earth" photos on the other side of the inner sleeve and the back cover (respectively) leak through cracks in the border. | |
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Mythology Gag: "Oh, by the way, which one's Pink?" in "Have a Cigar" was a real question by a music agent. | |
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Special Guest: Roy Harper sings lead on "Have a Cigar". | |
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I Am Not Shazam: Occurs in-universe in "Have a Cigar", where Roy Harper's sleazy record executive character offhandedly — and sincerely — asks the band "oh by the way, which one's Pink?" (referencing an in-joke among the band about the number of people they met who thought "Pink Floyd" was the name of a solo artist). | |
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Concept Album | |
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Concept Album: The album was inspired by Syd Barrett's decline, and the band's struggles with fame, fortune and the music business, the same business that would devour Syd in The '60s. | |
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Uncommon Time | |
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Uncommon Time: "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" features a rubatonote free time intro, followed by 6/8, 12/8, 4/4, 6/8 and 4/4 again. | |
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Elemental Motifs: The sticker on the album shrink wrap represents all four elements: fire, wind, water, earth. The photos on the cover can also represent the elements: the burning man (fire), the veil in the trees (wind), the diving man (water), and the faceless man in the desert (earth). | |
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Guest-Star Party Member: When it came time to record "Have a Cigar", Roger Waters and David Gilmour each did a solo attempt and a duet (available in the 2011 special edition) but were still dissatisfied — Waters' case is even attributed to him blowing his voice singing "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" — so they picked up Singer-Songwriter Roy Harper, who was also recording in Abbey Road and had Gilmour doing some guitar for him, to sing lead. Waters later regretted using a guest vocalist, thinking he should have sung the final version. Pink Floyd wouldn't have another guest vocalist until 2022, when Gilmour and Nick Mason reunited as Pink Floyd to record the charity single "Hey Hey Rise Up" around Ukrainian singer Andriy Khlyvnyuk's a cappella rendition of the Ukrainian patriotic song "Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow". | |
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Scenery Porn: The diving man photo was taken at Mono Lake, California, where the mineral content of the water resulted in the unusual rock formations. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: The original CD release in 1982 was highly atypical compared to the format's current-day standards. Rather than having each song be its own track, the CD sequenced each side as a twentysomething-minute track subdivided into the individual songs via index markers, a feature that was only supported on the earliest CD players. Reissues of Wish You Were Here since 1984 switched over to indexing each song as its own track, making the two-track version a coveted rarity among CD collectors. | |
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Freaky Is Cool | |
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Freaky Is Cool: "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" says this about Syd Barrett. | |
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Sampling: The "radio bridge" between "Have a Cigar" and "Wish You Were Here". | |
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Longest Song Goes First: The opening track, "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)", outpaces the closing track, "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX)", by just over a minute. | |
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Book Ends: Part I of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" starts off the album with a G minor chord fading in. Part IX fades out in G major to end the album. | |
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Vocal Range Exceeded: "Welcome to the Machine", where one line required trickery to achieve the right pitch. | |
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Man on Fire | |
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Man on Fire: The Hipgnosis cover has a picture of two businessmen shaking hands with one of them on fire, which is a visual metaphor for being "burned" in the music industry. It was recreated in the closing ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games, when after crossing a tightrope, a British man took the hand of a dummy in a business suit that then caught fire, while the song of the same name was being played below. | |
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Gratuitous Panning: The synth pulses throughout "Welcome to the Machine" pan from left to right ear and back. | |
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Epic Instrumental Opener | |
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Epic Instrumental Opener: There is nearly nine minutes of instrumental buildup (the drums and bass themselves don't enter until the 4-minute mark!) before the vocals enter in the first half of "Shine On". The second half has this too, with the vocals only entering at five minutes into the recording. | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Epic Rocking: The prize goes to "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", whose various sections add up to 26:01, making it the longest Floyd song ever. It was originally going to take up one side of the vinyl, before being split in two. "Welcome to the Machine" also qualifies for this as well, going for exactly 7½ minutes. | |
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Siamese Twin Songs | |
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Siamese Twin Songs: Taken to an unusually extreme degree on the very first CD release of the album, which sequences each side of the record into a single track. Each of these two tracks is, however, subdivided into the individual songs via index markers; reissues on the format since 1984 would instead feature each song as a separate track. | |
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Off with His Head! | |
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Off with His Head!: The concert animation/music video for "Welcome to the Machine" features a prominent scene where the mechanical abomination lops off a bystander's head, which is then shown decaying on the ground. | |
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Breather Episode | |
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Breather Episode: "Have a Cigar", an upbeat and comical piece placed after the dark and gloomy "Welcome to the Machine" and before the melancholically mourning "Wish You Were Here". Both "Welcome to the Machine" and "Have a Cigar" are critiques towards the music industry, but the latter does so in a more lighthearted manner. | |
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Dramatic Timpani | |
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Dramatic Timpani: During the synthesizer solo in "Welcome to the Machine". | |
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Deconstruction | |
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Deconstruction: "Welcome to the Machine" deconstructs The Man Is Sticking It to the Man by pointing out that for all their illusions of rebellion and "truth", rock stars and musicians ultimately become as big a cog of the corporate-driven music industry as the executives are. | |
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The Man Is Sticking It to the Man | |
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The Man Is Sticking It to the Man: Basically, the theme of "Welcome to the Machine". The band start out thinking they're edgy and rebellious, but the Machine is able to predict their every move and profit from it. | |
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Homage | |
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Homage: This album to Syd Barrett, particularly "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and "Wish You Were Here". | |
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Answer Song | |
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Answer Song: The Title Track appears to be one to "Jugband Blues" off of A Saucerful of Secrets, the band's last album with Syd. "Jugband Blues" opens with the lines "it's awfully considerate of you to think of me here/and I'm much obliged to you for making it clear/that I'm not here," while the chorus of "Wish You Were Here" starts "how I wish/how I wish you were here," indicating the band's unfulfilled wish to be able to perform with Syd again like they used to. | |
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Animated Music Video | |
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Animated Music Video: Gerald Scarfe's concert animation for "Welcome to the Machine", detailing a mechanical monster violently overtaking a landscape, was repurposed later on as the song's official music video. | |
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Ur-Example: "Welcome to the Machine" is one for industrial songs, released the same year Throbbing Gristle (which featured Hipgnosis member Peter Christopherson) formed. | |
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So What Do We Do Now? | |
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So What Do We Do Now?: Pretty much the state of mind of the band just before and during the early sessions. | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal: "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" has a couple of lines in this vein: | |
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Epiphora | |
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Epiphora: The verses of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" follow up each line with the title phrase. | |
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Fun with Acronyms | |
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Fun with Acronyms: "Shine On You Crazy Diamond". | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The classical music heard during the intro of "Wish You Were Here" is from Symphony No. 4 in F minor by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The black shrink wrap on the first pressing of the album was inspired by the U.S. version of Roxy Music's album Country Life being packaged the same way to cover up the two scantily-clad women on the cover; David Gilmour and Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera were personal acquaintances. The faceless man on the back cover was influenced by René Magritte. The radio intro to "Wish You Were Here" recalls John Cage's "Imaginary Landscape No. 4 (March No. 2)" that involved twelve radios being tuned. | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: The faceless man in the desert is a reference to a magazine◊ ad◊ for a French soft drink that the band did. | |
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Music Is Politics | |
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Music Is Politics: "Have a Cigar" is about record company pressure to have a hit album. | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: "Have a Cigar" is sung from the perspective of one. "Welcome to the Machine" is also sung from that point of view, although this one is more in the style of The Devil Is a Loser. | |
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Limited Lyrics Song | |
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Limited Lyrics Song: "Shine On You Crazy Diamond". The first part has less than three minutes of lyrics in a song over 13 minutes long. The second part is about 12:30 minutes long and only has a minute's worth of lyrics. | |
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Everything Is an Instrument | |
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Everything Is an Instrument: The intro to "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" was done with the old "wet fingertip on the wine glass" trick, massively overdubbed. The sound was a remnant of an aborted album concept called Household Objects, in which objects found around the house would be used to sound like the band's own instruments. The project was abandoned after several weeks of work yielded little results, though of two completed pieces, "Wine Glasses" was included in the 2011 Immersion Box Set version of Wish You Were Here. | |
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Manchild | |
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Manchild: "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" affectionately describes Syd Barrett as a "boy child." | |
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Animal Motifs | |
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Animal Motifs: "Wish You Were Here" | |
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The Devil Is a Loser | |
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"Welcome to the Machine" is also sung from that point of view, although this one is more in the style of The Devil Is a Loser. | |
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Biting-the-Hand Humor | |
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Biting-the-Hand Humor: They really let the music industry have it on "Welcome to the Machine" and "Have a Cigar", both written from the perspective of Corrupt Corporate Executives eager to lure in young talent with empty platitudes, false promises, and glimpses into an insidious agenda of control. | |
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Sanity Slippage Song | |
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Sanity Slippage Song: "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" was about (the now late) Syd Barrett's mental collapse that led to his reluctant ousting from the band. He showed up at the studio by sheer coincidence while the rest of the band was working on the album, and no one recognized him for a while. | |
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Fading into the Next Song | |
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Fading into the Next Song: The whole album, basically. The only exception is between "Welcome to the Machine" and "Have a Cigar", a result of that being the point where Side A of the LP version ends and Side B begins. As a result, the shift between those two songs is unusually abrupt when listening to the album on CD or digitally. | |
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Alternate Album Cover | |
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Alternate Album Cover: Cassette, 8-track, and early European CD releases used the handshake logo from the sticker that was affixed over the black shrink wrap on the first vinyl pressings, with a white or black background depending on the country. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: "By the way, which one's Pink?", a lyric from "Have a Cigar" based on a question that was so frequently asked of the band by naive press that it became an in-joke. | |
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