Wish You Were Here
Discussion
- b_side79★ 95/4/2026
Love how Mason barely plays anything for the first 3 minutes and then absolutely drives the song.
- GilmourDream24★ 105/4/2026
My dad played this album when I was six. Took me twenty more years to understand it.
HiddenChannel25★ 105/4/2026Wait what version are you listening to? Mine sounds different on Apple Music.
- EchoesEdith★ 85/4/2026
For my money, the most cinematic four minutes Pink Floyd ever cut.
cassette_6315★ 85/4/2026Yes! And that's why I keep coming back to this album.
- FloydHead★ 105/4/2026
The drum tone on this record is a master class. Mason never gets enough credit.
- ChromeHumanoid★ 105/4/2026
I keep thinking the second solo is the climax, but no — it's actually the breakdown around 4:30.
- pulse_listener_915/4/2026
My dad played this album when I was six. Took me twenty more years to understand it.
- octopus96★ 95/4/2026
Roy Harper crashed the session and changed the song forever. Total accident.
ChromeHumanoid★ 105/4/2026Ha, I always thought I was the only one who heard it this way.
- MoonRisingFan52★ 105/4/2026
Compare the studio mix to the 1994 Pulse mix and tell me which is canon. I dare you.
EclipseRoar★ 95/4/2026Same — discovered it through a friend in college and never looked back.
- VinylVortex★ 75/4/2026
Genuine question: is this song actually about who I think it's about?
ObscuredByClouds76★ 105/4/2026Hard agree. The album sequencing carries this entire track.
- DailyFloydReviewer★ 105/4/2026
Funny how a song this gentle ends up being the loudest thing on the record. The sparseness is the whole point.
About this song
Wish You Were Here is about the detached feeling many of us float through life with.
Source: www.songfacts.com ·Songwriters
David Gilmour, Roger Waters
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