Aside from the great music, the packaging of WYWH is amazing. It was shrink-wrapped in black plastic with the robot hands sticker on the front (below) and that iconic sleeve we’re familiar with wasn’t visible until you got it home and ripped off the shrink-wrap and threw it away (a big mistake in retrospect when you look at today’s resale value of an original in black shrink-wrap)
Inside was and inner sleeve, plus the “diving man” postcard thoughtfully presented (in the UK at least) with “pinked” edges (geddit?)
Probably my favourite Floyd LP. There’s so much going on there, especially on the Roy Harper track.
this might help
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My favourite PF album. I queued outside Boots (a queue of just me) waiting for it to open to get my copy on the day of release. Turned out they weren’t expecting a delivery till the next week. When my Dad heard the first part of “Wish you were here” he took the record back to the shop because he thought the sound was faulty. True story. They told him the band was a bit weird so it was probably intentional
I have a similar story. You know that part at the end of Have A Cigar, where it goes into the title track? It sounds like the sound is being sucked up through a hole.
I was playing that track one day and my mate’s girlfriend walked into the room and said “Is there something wrong with your record player? The sound has gone all weird”
I was listening to the first Roxy Music album today – anyone reckon that Rog and the boys had been listening to the opening bars of The Bob, just before they got the idea for the opening bars of Welcome to the Machine?
There are some great moments but it pales in comparison to Dark Side Of The Moon. It just sounds like a mid-Atlantic, blues-based rock album with none of the mystery, innovation and conceptual coherence of Dark Side. A great case in point is Shine On You Crazy Diamond which, apart from the great opening riff, is just a bunch of blues solos one after the other. It could easily have appeared on a post-Waters Floyd album, and those are hardly regarded as classics. In my opinion, they were at their most interesting playing live between More and Obscured By Clouds (especially Atom Heart Mother era), but then managed one perfectly realised album in Dark Side.
I bought the CD (the 2011 remaster) last week and it has been on pretty constant repeat ever since. I even turned the lights off and lay on the sofa to listen when I got it home, and that’s something I wouldn’t do for any record which hadn’t been a teenage favourite.
I like The Wall, but I have to be in the right frame of mind to listen to it all the way through (even then I have to resist the urge to skip clunkers like Vera and the Trial…)
The Wall starts off strong and contains some great moments, mostly by Gilmour. But it gets way too pompous, operatic and overblown by sides 3 and 4 (the “Vera” track is a case in point).
I still have a copy of the 1980 track-by-track interview that Roger Waters did for Radio 1 on release of The Wall and even back then I felt the entire concept was massively self-indulgent and wanky. All that stuff about him (Waters) spitting on fans and feeling alienated from his audience was just too precious. Please, spare me your private school angst and self-awareness.
Seconded on all points. I must dig out that interview – I think I dubbed it from cassette to MD “for posterity”! I must have thought that the cassette would self-destruct!
Twang says
Master, and indeed, Piece.
SixDog says
Toss up between WYWH and Meddle
Jackthebiscuit says
Good call 6D, for me its either WYWH or Animals.
Chrisf says
One of my favourite albums – not just of Pink Floyd but of all time. I still play it regularly.
Johnny Concheroo says
Aside from the great music, the packaging of WYWH is amazing. It was shrink-wrapped in black plastic with the robot hands sticker on the front (below) and that iconic sleeve we’re familiar with wasn’t visible until you got it home and ripped off the shrink-wrap and threw it away (a big mistake in retrospect when you look at today’s resale value of an original in black shrink-wrap)
Inside was and inner sleeve, plus the “diving man” postcard thoughtfully presented (in the UK at least) with “pinked” edges (geddit?)
Probably my favourite Floyd LP. There’s so much going on there, especially on the Roy Harper track.
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timtunes says
It was the second album I bought, a couple of years later in 1980 but it was that packaging – and stickers I think? – that drew me in
duco01 says
It took me a long time to work out that the four quadrants of the front sticker represented earth, fire, water and air.
James Blast says
this might help
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James Blast says
No, that won’t!
this…http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b268/Sunburst369/The%20Pink%20Floyd%20WYWH%20Logo_zpswsuxc68p.png
James Blast says
still nup!
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chilli ray virus says
My favourite PF album. I queued outside Boots (a queue of just me) waiting for it to open to get my copy on the day of release. Turned out they weren’t expecting a delivery till the next week. When my Dad heard the first part of “Wish you were here” he took the record back to the shop because he thought the sound was faulty. True story. They told him the band was a bit weird so it was probably intentional
Johnny Concheroo says
I have a similar story. You know that part at the end of Have A Cigar, where it goes into the title track? It sounds like the sound is being sucked up through a hole.
I was playing that track one day and my mate’s girlfriend walked into the room and said “Is there something wrong with your record player? The sound has gone all weird”
dai says
Two brilliant songs, not a fan of Cigar or Machine.
duco01 says
“Two brilliant songs, not a fan of Cigar or Machine.”
Yes, that’s how I feel, too.
fitterstoke says
I was listening to the first Roxy Music album today – anyone reckon that Rog and the boys had been listening to the opening bars of The Bob, just before they got the idea for the opening bars of Welcome to the Machine?
Black Celebration says
This really confused me for a moment. And then I realised that on here, we can take up a conversation that was last active 9 years ago. Wonderful.
Sewer Robot says
Yes, quite the James Blast from the past. And other names no longer here, but at least out there somewhere in meatworld
fitterstoke says
Any thoughts on the Bob/Machine conundrum? Just me? I’ll need to listen again, back to back, and see if I’ve really lost the plot this time…
Martin Horsfield says
There are some great moments but it pales in comparison to Dark Side Of The Moon. It just sounds like a mid-Atlantic, blues-based rock album with none of the mystery, innovation and conceptual coherence of Dark Side. A great case in point is Shine On You Crazy Diamond which, apart from the great opening riff, is just a bunch of blues solos one after the other. It could easily have appeared on a post-Waters Floyd album, and those are hardly regarded as classics. In my opinion, they were at their most interesting playing live between More and Obscured By Clouds (especially Atom Heart Mother era), but then managed one perfectly realised album in Dark Side.
Gatz says
I bought the CD (the 2011 remaster) last week and it has been on pretty constant repeat ever since. I even turned the lights off and lay on the sofa to listen when I got it home, and that’s something I wouldn’t do for any record which hadn’t been a teenage favourite.
Junior Wells says
Favourite for me. Surfboards skate boards and bongs era for me
Fin59 says
Sad to say The Pinks leave me cold but the title track of Wish is fabulous
Rigid Digit says
Definitely one of their best, if not THE best.
For me though, it ranks second behind The Wall
(there must be someone else in the world who thinks The Wall is PFs master work? No, just me then)
DogFacedBoy says
It’s my favourite Roger Waters solo album . Not that I’ve heard any others
Bargepole says
A strange description – always thought it was one of their most collaborative albums musically! But you really should listen to some solo Waters…
ruff-diamond says
I like The Wall, but I have to be in the right frame of mind to listen to it all the way through (even then I have to resist the urge to skip clunkers like Vera and the Trial…)
Johnny Concheroo says
The Wall starts off strong and contains some great moments, mostly by Gilmour. But it gets way too pompous, operatic and overblown by sides 3 and 4 (the “Vera” track is a case in point).
I still have a copy of the 1980 track-by-track interview that Roger Waters did for Radio 1 on release of The Wall and even back then I felt the entire concept was massively self-indulgent and wanky. All that stuff about him (Waters) spitting on fans and feeling alienated from his audience was just too precious. Please, spare me your private school angst and self-awareness.
fitterstoke says
Seconded on all points. I must dig out that interview – I think I dubbed it from cassette to MD “for posterity”! I must have thought that the cassette would self-destruct!
Bargepole says
The one that has aged best of their albums – still as listenable today as it was in ’75.
James Blast says
Meddle, Animals and side 2 of AHM are my most played. In that order.
fitterstoke says
Add Obscured by Clouds & the live album from Ummagumma and we have a meeting of minds, Mr @james-blast ….
Also find myself listening to naughty b–tl-gs from that 1969 to 1973 period….damn’ fine too….