Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here @FLAC

"Wish You Were Here" is a song cycle dedicated to Pink Floyd's original frontman, Syd Barrett, who'd flamed out years before. The real star of the show, though, is the production: sparkling, convoluted, designed to sound deeply oh-wow under the influence and pretty great sober too with David Gilmour getting lots of space for his lyrical guitar playing. And, though the album is big and ambitious, even bombastic, it somehow dodges being pretentious with Barrett tributes are honest and heartfelt, beneath all the grand gestures and stereophonic trickery.