MINT PINK FLOYD WISH YOU WERE + STICKER Prog Psych

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MINT COLLECTIBLE VINTAGE PRESSING  IN SHRINK WRAP WITH BIG FLOYD STICKER                    

        WISH YOU WERE HERE

               Pink Floyd

                                      USA - COLUMBIA - BL33453

VERY CLEAN (minty clean) vintage collectible pressing ***STILL IN FACTORY SHRINK WRAP + very collectible BIG Pink Floyd sticker on outer cellophane  -- early pressings came with this sticker stuck only on the outer shrink wrap, when folks bought the record and tore off the shrink wrap -- there went the (rare) sticker making it very collectible nearly 35 years later after its release.

The album is, supposedly, a tribute to original Floyd guitarist Syd Barrett, who basically had a breakdown in the band's early days and has been rather reclusive ever since. The first hunk of "Shine On..." begins with a very lush sea of keys and a melodic and simple synth line on top. This leads to a very effective Gilmour guitar solo that blends into the lyric, about basically how bright Syd was and how he burned out too fast. The thing about Floyd is that their music is never the most technically challenging or complex in the prog world but it is almost always done in such a way that anything more complex would be overkill. "Welcome to the Machine" and "Have A Cigar" are both indictments of the music industry and how this biz side of things work (complete with the classic line "by the way, which one's Pink?") "Cigar" fades to where it sounds like it is playing on a very small transistor radio in the next room. The listener flips around and lands on the opening acoustic chords of "Wish You Were Here," still very distant sounding, and drowned out by a solo acoustic guitar line. Lyrically, "Wish" is one of my Floyd favs, an obvious attempt by Roger Waters to somehow express his desire to Syd that he could join in the success, both critical and financial, that the band was enjoying at the time while doing things on their own terms. It's really an ode to everyone who has ever been chewed up and spit out by the music biz. The album concludes with another long, mostly instrumental, "Shine On...". A bit of trivia: At the very tail end of the title track, if you listen really closely, you can hear three or four violin notes way in the background. Apparently the band hired some famous violinist Stéphane Grappelli to play on that track, but in the end they weren't wild about the result so they buried it so far back in the mix that it became mostly inaudible. Wonder how the song would have sounded with the violin...

     1.  Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-IV) — 13:32
2.  Welcome to the Machine — 7:33
3.  Have a Cigar — 5:25
4.  Wish You Were Here — 5:17
5.  Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts V-IX) — 12:29  

CONDITION: The cover is perfect, MINT in original shrink wrap PLUS the BIG Pink Floyd sticker on outer cellophane ...no bends, no split seams, no writing anywhere ...

The vinyl is all clean and shiny smoooth everywhere, M- top level

Comes with the original hard cardboard photo inner sleeve (mint)

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

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EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING

All imperfections are noted both cover & record