The breakthrough success of Dark Side of the Moon made Wish You Were Here a crucial follow-up in strictly commercial terms. Further pressure came from it being Pink Floyd's first recording for a new label, Columbia. Yet the demands on the band only provided Roger Waters more fodder for his lyrics, which glanced at the band's roots as well as their new responsibilities. The mechanized throb of a VCS3 synthesizer, fed through a repeat-echo unit, signals the opening bars of "Welcome to the Machine," a diatribe against an industry more concerned with money than creative music-making. "Have a Cigar" further establishes Waters' contempt by bringing in singer Roy Harper to play the role of a "faceless suit," who none-too-innocently asks, "Which one's Pink?" The remaining songs indirectly look back to the first casualty of Pink Floyd's growing fame, the group's founder, Syd Barrett. The 20-minute-plus "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" has its roots in earlier pieces like "Atom Heart Mother Suite" and "Echoes." But rather than just another Floydian soundscape, its lyrics make it a paean to Barrett's genius and a requiem for his subsequent breakdown. The first five of the song's nine movements open the album with sax player Dick Parry wailing as effectively as he did on Dark Side of the Moon. The final four sections, which close the album, form a reprise that starts with the sound of wind and David Gilmour's guitar screaming and crying. The band then settles into a laid-back jam that ends with Richard Wright's billowing synth delicately fading out. The title track deals also with Barrett, as well as the tension the idealist Waters was feeling in battling the greed that surrounded the band's success. The themes of disillusionment planted throughout Wish You Were Here would eventually sprout full-blown on The Wall.

PINK FLOYD - Wish You Were Here [Experience Edition] (2011)

DISC 1 - Wish You Were Here (Digitally Remastered by James Guthrie)
01. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5)
02. Welcome To The Machine
03. Have A Cigar
04. Wish You Were Here
05. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 6-9)

DISC 2 - Previously Unreleased Live and Studio Recordings
01. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (parts 1-6) [live at Wembley November 1974, 2011 mix and previously unreleased]
02. Raving & Drooling [live at Wembley November 1974, 2011 mix and previously unreleased]
03. You’ve Got To Be Crazy [live at Wembley November 1974, 2011 mix and previously unreleased]
04. Wine Glasses [from the unreleased Household Objects project]
05. Have A Cigar [alternative version, previously unreleased]
06. Wish You Were Here [featuring Stephane Grappelli, previously unreleased]

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No worries Del... all sorted now mate.

Today pre Man City, a little Mahavishnu Orchestra, John Macluaglin played so fast the synthesisers that he had for each string of his guitar couldn't keep up!

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire

01 Birds Of Fire
02 Miles Beyond
03 Celestial Terrestrial Commuters
04 Sapphire Bullets Of Pure Love
05 Thousand Island Park
06 Hope
07 One Word
08 Sanctuary
09 Open Country Joy
10 Resolution

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Some Kings of Leon today..

Kings Of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak

01 - Slow Night, So Long
02 - King of the Rodeo
03 - Taper Jean Girl
04 - Pistol of Fire
05 - Milk
06 - The bucket
07 - Soft
08 - Razz
09 - Day Old Blue
10 - Four Kicks
11 - Velvet snow
12 - Rememo
13 - Where Nobody Knows

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Best song into ever Sweet Jane..

Rock n Roll Animal is a live album by Lou Reed, released in 1974. In its original form, it features five songs, four of which are Velvet Underground songs. They are all re-arranged into what would later be called a powerful glam rock set. The musicians were Pentti Glan (drums) and Prakash John (bass), Ray Colcord (keyboards), and Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter on guitars. (The two guitarists would later form the basis of the second Alice Cooper band, beginning on Welcome to My Nightmare, which also features Glan and John.)
The album was recorded live on December 21, 1973, at Howard Stein's Academy of Music in New York City.

Lou Reed - Rock and Roll Animal

Side one
No. Title Length
1. "Intro/Sweet Jane" (Steve Hunter, Reed) 7:55
2. "Heroin" 13:05
Side two
No. Title Length
3. "White Light/White Heat" 5:15
4. "Lady Day" 4:00
5. "Rock 'n' Roll"

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Paul Weller tonight, tomorrow the 6 nations start wooo, gonna smash the frogs.

Paul Weller - Illumination

Going Places
A Bullet For Everyone
Leafy Mysteries
written in the Stars
Who Brings Joy
Now The Night Is Here
Spring At Last
One X One
Bag Man
All Good Books
Call Me No. 5
Standing Out In The Universe
Illumination
Horseshoe Drama
Push Button, Automatic
Talisman

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