When it was released in 1975, expectations were high for Wish You Were Here, the follow-up to 1973's now-iconic Dark Side of the Moon. Decades later, Wish You Were Here is considered to be not just one of Pink Floyd's best albums but one of the most important albums in rock history; however, that's not what critics thought when they first heard it.
"From whichever direction one approaches Wish You Were Here, it still sounds unconvincing in its ponderous sincerity and displays a critical lack of imagination in all departments," the magazine's review complained.
"'Shine on You Crazy Diamond'" is initially credible because it purports to confront the subject of Syd Barrett, the long and probably forever lost guiding light of the original Floyd," the review stated.
'Wish You Were Here' is now considered one of Pink Floyd's best albums
Of course, history proved the critics wrong...and then some. At the time of this writing, Wish You Were Here's title track has been streamed nearly 1 billion times on Spotify, and in the years since its initial release, even the critics have changed their tune (Rolling Stone, for example, has included the album on not one but three different "greatest albums of all time" lists, and Ultimate Classic Rock deemed it the second-best Pink Floyd album (after Dark Side of the Moon).
Clearly, Pink Floyd knew what they were doing all along...it just took the critics a little while to catch on.
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