Tribute to the melancholy

For, Wish You Were Here 'I always had a strange ambivalent: On the one hand, I admired the atmosphere, the emotional pathos, the spaciousness of this music, which has more than any other brought the reclusive lifestyle of my generation to express. She has accompanied me through very different stages of life - I remember, for example, about how I, Wish You Were Here 'heard in the hospital overlooking the drab courtyard and bare trees.
On the other hand I saw it more critical than what it is: a commercial, elegiac piece of music that shows Pink Floyd in a phase of perplexity. Technically and musically it brings no significant progress, but produces gorgeous, spherical, lifted, torn, versatile, mysteriously: one tribute to melancholy and sadness.
It facilitates access when opening up the texts: They deal with Syd Barrett, that his mental collapse in particular, and the music market with its hardships in general. PF (or Waters) meet the own disappointments, the ruins of her teenage dreams (, You were caught in the crossfire of childhood and stardom, blown on the steel breeze ... ').
My relationship with WYWH is therefore the an unhappy love affair, which corresponds to the structure of the plate well. In times of disappointment and reorientation I hear she likes when I'm fine, I avoid it. It belongs to me as my own broken dreams and hopes.
Musically, it starts with a twenty minute spheres sound of something Drive gets only gradually by bass and drums. , Shine on 'apparently carried on in a vacuum, beyond the tangible world. Each musician gets here the opportunity to his ability to compose to prove: beautiful synthesizer melodies (Wright), wonderful guitar solos (Gilmour), precision-simple bass work (Waters). Only let the little screaming for PF singing and lumbering drums to be desired. , Shine On 'is divided into two parts: The first derives WYWH a, the second press closes it off. The rest of the songs once again demonstrate the safety of the group in different styles: Electronics (Welcome To The Machine), funk-rock (Have A Cigar) and folk (Wish You Were Here). PF thus offer a good cross-section of the trends of the time and need to nowhere to hide.
I give the panel full marks, despite or perhaps because of their deep elegiac mood. Here a band had the courage to illuminate his own weakness and convincing display, no ifs or buts. Although the music was not so great as it is, that would already instill respect alone. This great music together, I can only be amazed and listen, and that already for several decades.