 Wish You Were Here (1975) [ larger cover art ] |
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Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught on the crossfire of childhood and stardom,
blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter,
come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!
You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision,
rode on the steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions,
come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught on the crossfire of childhood and stardom,
blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter,
come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!
You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision,
rode on the steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions,
come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!
| Poacher (Brighton, UK) | Posted: May 12, 2013 - 01:44 oilydwarf wrote: Trouble for the youth of today is sorting out the sh**e from the good stuff, there's just so much mediocre tat that gets pedalled to distract them. I've tried with my two children but they are lured away by the nonsense that their friends listen to. Am working on them subliminally, playing them RP whilst they sleep!! Any suggestions from other parents welcomed! I have three kids from 19 to 29 and all through their upbringing (from when they were born) I purposely played everything and anything to them, a rich variety rather than just what I like (although what I like is actually a rich variety). I have forced nothing on them and let them make their own choices. The important thing for me was to open their ears to variety and so they decide what they like - or not. Its been interesting, one currently loves their warehouse drum and base and another old school rap and the oldest listens to everything - like me. But they all have a great grounding in styles and they all dip into all kinds of musical history - often using YouTube. The common denominator between them is they listen to no modern mass overproduced 'chart' twaddle at all. . . and this extends to most of their friends too. So my job is done, they bring music to me now and ask if I have heard this or that and we dip into each others digital music archives, new and old. |
| j1sey | Posted: Apr 26, 2013 - 06:02 nothing gets better than this! reminds me of sitting back between a pair of Bose 901s.... |
| Grammarcop (A mitten surrounded by ice) | Posted: Apr 24, 2013 - 04:11 oilydwarf wrote: Trouble for the youth of today is sorting out the sh**e from the good stuff, there's just so much mediocre tat that gets pedalled to distract them. I've tried with my two children but they are lured away by the nonsense that their friends listen to. Am working on them subliminally, playing them RP whilst they sleep!! Any suggestions from other parents welcomed! Two suggestions: First, have it on as background noise in a central part of the house. They'll pick up bits and pieces. My kids love the shallow pop that they hear on the radio, but I watched with amazement the other day as my younger daughter strolled through the kitchen singing "Wish You Were Here." Second: Challenge them to listen to a song and then have them compare it to what they are hearing on the radio today. I was in the car with one of the daughters recently when "Brass In Pocket" came on the radio. I asked her to compare the desperate emotion in Chrissie Hynde's voice to the AutoTuned music she hears today. She got it. We as "old people" are never going to win the battle. All we can do is hope the next generation can discover deeper, richer, more rewarding music on their own. Best wishes. |
| oilydwarf | Posted: Apr 24, 2013 - 03:51 Boy_Wonder wrote: It's worn well... but I doubt it would have the same effect on my son, who's the same age (ish) now as I was when this came out. I know it's all been said before but with the massive amounts of media that the current generation are exposed to from a huge variety of sources, I just don't think that they make the same connections to music, films, books, whatever, that we did way back then - no sitting in bedrooms listening to this on headphones when meant to be studying! Trouble for the youth of today is sorting out the sh**e from the good stuff, there's just so much mediocre tat that gets pedalled to distract them. I've tried with my two children but they are lured away by the nonsense that their friends listen to. Am working on them subliminally, playing them RP whilst they sleep!! Any suggestions from other parents welcomed! |
| mojcamojca77 (Idrija) | Posted: Apr 24, 2013 - 03:42 TerryS wrote: Proof that music combats Alzheimer's: I remember in whose bed I first heard this track when it was a new release.  |
| LucidDreamer (Derby City) | Posted: Apr 17, 2013 - 19:01 Right, now I have to turn off Radio Paradise and go listen to the whole 'album'... |
| TerryS (Another SW) | Posted: Apr 17, 2013 - 18:53 Proof that music combats Alzheimer's: I remember in whose bed I first heard this track when it was a new release. |
| PhoenixArtDj (Star Idaho) | Posted: Apr 17, 2013 - 18:44 Bill you magnificent bastard! As the crescendo to a sting of magnificent songs, you lay this one on us. This is why I'm happy to make you my every-day D-J. Shine on all you crazy's out there. |
| coloradojohn (A Mile High and then some, Cherry Creek, Denver) | Posted: Apr 10, 2013 - 21:28 If ever a group could hope to capture the quantum nature of being, if ever one could paint a portrait of such an enigma as Syd, this'd be IT! |
| Boy_Wonder (Bath, back in the UK) | Posted: Mar 25, 2013 - 05:16 Mind you.... there's still some around... hope it's washable!!  |
| Boy_Wonder (Bath, back in the UK) | Posted: Mar 25, 2013 - 05:12 It's worn well... but I doubt it would have the same effect on my son, who's the same age (ish) now as I was when this came out. I know it's all been said before but with the massive amounts of media that the current generation are exposed to from a huge variety of sources, I just don't think that they make the same connections to music, films, books, whatever, that we did way back then - no sitting in bedrooms listening to this on headphones when meant to be studying! |
| notfadeaway (earlybob land) | Posted: Mar 23, 2013 - 16:31 nice introductiion to Jazz! |
| MojoJojo (Indianapolis, IN USA) | Posted: Mar 23, 2013 - 16:29 Goosebumps!  |
| kcar | Posted: Mar 17, 2013 - 07:55 Lazarus wrote: I be here! Love this song! Hope you are having a marvelous evening... Romeo and Juliet JULIET: Way too long since I've seen any Shakespeare. One of my fave Floyd songs... Lazarus, are you collecting new names? |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Mar 10, 2013 - 10:51 Limpopoking wrote: Begs the question... what on gods grey earth are they doing on RP?????????? One person's Godlike is another's Sucko-Barfo, even for 'classics'. A statement of the bleedin' obvious which, sadly, has to be made time and again on these boards. They've as much right to be on RP as Floyd fans, and indeed I congratulate them on their iconoclasm, even as a Floyd fan myself. |
| Radioguy-ce | Posted: Mar 10, 2013 - 10:48 Wow. Just posting on Facebook that PFs Dark Side of the Moon album turned 40 this year and that their very first song "Arnold Layne" was released 46 years ago today. Then Bill plays this one as I was posting. Deja Vu.... |
| Limpopoking (The Parish of St. Alfonzo) | Posted: Mar 10, 2013 - 10:44 DanO-1 wrote: 56 1 votes for this! 56 lunatics among us.  Begs the question... what on gods grey earth are they doing on RP?????????? |
| Limpopoking (The Parish of St. Alfonzo) | Posted: Mar 10, 2013 - 10:41 Wow!!!! I consider myself hugely privileged to have grown up with this. |
| SanFranGayMan (San Francisco) | Posted: Feb 13, 2013 - 22:53 Thank you for this. Reading the lyrics reminds me of the fragility of Being. As well as the brilliance of those who can so express it so tenderly, so honestly, in their musicality-and their appreciation of Syd. These authors of this embrace our humanity-and were good enuough to share it. ambrebalte wrote: Melting is a comfortable state with Pink Floyd. When it comes to music, I never can make a decision on the style of music I like most. There are moments which differ in mood and harmony. An indication to a favoured one would be "At any time, in extreme moments, or peaceful days, early mornings or lucid nights, in my teens or my old age" - Shine On You Crazy Diamond is one of them. Songwriters: WATERS, ROGER / GILMOUR, DAVID JON / WRIGHT, RICK Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun. Shine on you crazy diamond. Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky. Shine on you crazy diamond. You were caught on the cross fire of childhood and stardom, Blown on the steel breeze. Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger, You legend, you martyr, and shine! You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon. Shine on you crazy diamond. Treatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light. Shine on you crazy diamond. Well you wore out your welcome with random precision, Rode on the steel breeze. Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, You piper, you prisoner, and shine! Nobody knows where you are, how near or how far. Shine on you crazy diamond. Pile on many more layers and i'll be joining you there. Shine on you crazy diamond. And we'll bask in the shadow of yesterday's triumph, And sail on the steel breeze. Come on you boy child, you winner and loser, Come on you miner for truth and delusion, and shine! |
| Scorpiol13 | Posted: Feb 07, 2013 - 13:00  Epic Floyd!! Brilliant!! Shine on Syd, you remain a crazy, brilliant, shining diamond in the rough among a sea of ordinary rocks...now taking your proper spot shining among the stars above, illuminating the heavens for all eternity! |
| rascal (Toronto) | Posted: Jan 19, 2013 - 22:11 Boz Scagg's, Duane Allman "Loan me a dime" |
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Jan 19, 2013 - 22:04 horstman wrote: Romeo, Romeo, Where art thou Lazarus? I be here! Love this song! Hope you are having a marvelous evening... Romeo and Juliet JULIET: |
| SensorJ | Posted: Jan 19, 2013 - 22:03 F'n genius |
| horstman (Syracuse, New York) | Posted: Jan 13, 2013 - 15:15 Lazarus wrote: Love this song... this whole album is fantastic... Romeo, Romeo, Where art thou Lazarus? |
| ambrebalte (Beijing most of the time - Wolxheim in France now) | Posted: Jan 13, 2013 - 15:11 Melting is a comfortable state with Pink Floyd. When it comes to music, I never can make a decision on the style of music I like most. There are moments which differ in mood and harmony. An indication to a favoured one would be "At any time, in extreme moments, or peaceful days, early mornings or lucid nights, in my teens or my old age" - Shine On You Crazy Diamond is one of them. Songwriters: WATERS, ROGER / GILMOUR, DAVID JON / WRIGHT, RICK Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun. Shine on you crazy diamond. Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky. Shine on you crazy diamond. You were caught on the cross fire of childhood and stardom, Blown on the steel breeze. Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger, You legend, you martyr, and shine! You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon. Shine on you crazy diamond. Treatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light. Shine on you crazy diamond. Well you wore out your welcome with random precision, Rode on the steel breeze. Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, You piper, you prisoner, and shine! Nobody knows where you are, how near or how far. Shine on you crazy diamond. Pile on many more layers and i'll be joining you there. Shine on you crazy diamond. And we'll bask in the shadow of yesterday's triumph, And sail on the steel breeze. Come on you boy child, you winner and loser, Come on you miner for truth and delusion, and shine! |
| cosmiclint (romeotuma's hotel room) | Posted: Jan 13, 2013 - 15:09 This is it. This is the one I'm bringing to the desert island  |
| hidey (NZ) | Posted: Jan 06, 2013 - 17:39 Totally colossal from Gilmour, Waters, Wright & Mason... Deeply evocative stuff!  |
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Jan 06, 2013 - 17:36 Love this song... this whole album is fantastic... |
| Somaosteo (Bendigo) | Posted: Jan 06, 2013 - 17:34 Younger Brother followed by Pink Floyd. It's really just one big long song then! |
| bentonian (Boulder, CO) | Posted: Jan 06, 2013 - 17:34 Listening to the opening 30 seconds pushed this one from an eight to a nine. |
| blotto (127.0.0.1) | Posted: Dec 19, 2012 - 13:41 I'm that way with a lot of PF songs, but this one especially. BGGA wrote: This is still, by far, one of my most favorite songs of all time. Not many songs will cause me to completely stop what I'm doing just to listen and allow myself to get lost, if only for the length of the song, the way this one does. |
| That_SOB (In at least 2 places at once) | Posted: Dec 19, 2012 - 13:39 I never tire of listening to this, one of the most creative pieces ever written. |
| wirefixer (Fullerton, CA) | Posted: Dec 19, 2012 - 13:38 On a contact high when I hear this work of pure genius! |
| wirefixer (Fullerton, CA) | Posted: Dec 19, 2012 - 13:38 On a contact high when I hear this work of pure genius! |
| wirefixer (Fullerton, CA) | Posted: Dec 19, 2012 - 13:37 On a contact high when I hear this work of pure genius! |
| NicJohn (Northern Michigan) | Posted: Dec 19, 2012 - 13:37 One of my top ten songs! GREAT guitar work! |
| MuzikLover | Posted: Dec 19, 2012 - 13:35 rockpommel16 wrote:  Absolutely! |
| sajitjacob (Christchurch NZ) | Posted: Dec 19, 2012 - 13:31 Oh my. |
| krysthal (43.70654 -79.39837 Toronto, Canada) | Posted: Dec 06, 2012 - 08:56 fuzzy wrote: In case any of you missed the significance of this picture, Syd Barrett (founding member of Pink Floyd and extremely significant central figure in the early years) showed up rather unexpectedly at Abbey Road studios during the mixing of the track "Wish You Were Here" from the same album. There is a lot more to the interesting life of Syd Barrett which you should be able to google quite easily, including (but you probably already know) "Shine On" is a tribute to Syd. |
| kobkob (alloney aba israel) | Posted: Dec 06, 2012 - 08:48 not bad , not bad at all |
| robotbass (Boston Area) | Posted: Dec 06, 2012 - 08:45 stunix wrote: thats the point, just me and the wife, she was getting beers and I took the picture. Looks like scotch would be more in order  |
| DanO-1 (Over a mile high, New Mexico) | Posted: Dec 06, 2012 - 08:42 fuzzy wrote: I don't get people who don't get Pink Floyd.  56 1 votes for this! 56 lunatics among us. |
| shellbella (so california) | Posted: Dec 06, 2012 - 08:38 I so love this song... May we all know a Crazy Diamond..... |
| stevendejong | Posted: Dec 06, 2012 - 08:36 drsteevo wrote: This song is time travel. Indeed. Indeed. |
| stunix (Narrowboat nr Caen Locks) | Posted: Nov 21, 2012 - 09:40 ajlept wrote: "Dudes! Get in front of the f*cking camera!" thats the point, just me and the wife, she was getting beers and I took the picture. |
| Papasmeg (Lille France) | Posted: Nov 18, 2012 - 04:57 It does not get any better than this................10 is nearly an insult. |
| Pedro1874 (Newton-le-Willows, England) | Posted: Nov 18, 2012 - 04:56 56 votes in the one column ROFL!  Dah dee da da - hearing those notes in a live concert and the crowd roaring ................ |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Oct 11, 2012 - 12:36 This song is soooo good it makes us tear our clothes off and dance... |
| rockpommel16 (rockpommel´s land...near the netherlands) | Posted: Oct 11, 2012 - 12:34 |
| pdjpirate (Near the Graveyard of the Atlantic!) | Posted: Sep 16, 2012 - 07:01 linzie wrote: Go ahead crazy people, find something wrong with this!!!
....lunatics Ditto!!! |