Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here [Yellow Flame]

Pink Floyd

Wish You Were Here [Yellow Flame]

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  • Limited Edition
  • Reissue
  • Remastered
  • Yellow Flame vinyl
  • Transparent sticker on shrink wrap
  • Cardboard-style inner sleeve

Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here arrived in 1975 as the band's follow-up to the commercial juggernaut The Dark Side of the Moon. Rather than chase that album's accessibility, the band deepened their art rock approach, constructing a meditation on absence, commerce, and creative loss. The record marks a critical juncture in their catalog—more introspective and compositionally ambitious than their previous work, with a thematic coherence that rivals their most celebrated efforts.

The album opens with "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5)," an extended instrumental passage that establishes the record's elegiac tone through layered synthesizers and patient guitar work. "Welcome to the Machine" and "Have a Cigar" shift into sharper social critique, with the latter built around a deceptively breezy groove that undercuts its sardonic lyrics about the music industry. The title track distills the album's emotional core into four minutes of restrained power, while "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 6-9)" provides a lengthy denouement—the guitar lines and atmospheric texture creating space for reflection rather than resolution. Throughout, the production favors negative space and dynamic contrast over wall-of-sound density.

This 2025 remaster on limited-edition yellow flame vinyl restores the original stereo mix with contemporary clarity while preserving the album's architectural dynamics. The pressing arrives in a cardboard-style inner sleeve with a transparent sticker applied to the shrink wrap, and features etched runout codes across most sides. Sourced from the 2016 Pink Floyd Music Ltd master, it's pressed in the EU and represents the current definitive vinyl presentation of this essential work.


Title: Wish You Were Here
Artist: Pink Floyd
Label: Columbia
Style: Rock, Art Rock, Prog Rock
Product Type: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, Yellow Flame, 50th Anniversary
Country: Worldwide
Release Year: 2025
Barcode: 198029746310

Tracklist:

A1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5)
A2. Welcome To The Machine
B1. Have A Cigar
B2. Wish You Were Here
B3. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 6-9)

Factory sealed vinyl records are shipped exactly as received from distributors and are not opened prior to shipment. Because of this, seam splits or minor jacket wear may occasionally occur during transit.