The title track echoes the mournful nature of Shine On You Crazy Diamond and deals with alienation and absence. Shine On You Crazy Diamond was Waters’ ruminations on Floyd founder-member Syd Barrett, while Have A Cigar and Welcome to the Machine were bitingly cynical songs about the music business and life within a very successful rock ‘n’ roll band. After the everyman concerns of The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here would be much more personal.
What the band did next was to reflect on the situation that they were in. Raving and Drooling and You’ve Got To Be Crazy were two new songs, intended for Wish You Were Here, but they were abandoned and would later end up on the Animals album, reworked and retitled. We started recording and it got very laborious and tortured, and everyone seemed bored by the whole thing.” Waters: “At the beginning of the Wish You Were Here recording sessions most of us didn’t wish we were there at all, we wished we were somewhere else… the band wasn’t together at all. An abortive attempt at recording tracks using bottles, rubber bands, and the like, during the winter of 1974.Īfter a few tracks Household Objects was put on the shelf (no pun intended) and when the band started recording again in January 1975, things were not working. Pink Floyd tried this with the Household Objects project. One option in this situation is to experiment with something so uncommercial that it will not bear comparison with what preceded it.
This is the situation Pink Floyd faced when it came to following up The Dark Side of the Moon. With boredom, exhaustion and with the inevitable fact that at the top there is only one direction in which to travel. You are at the top of the mountain and are struggling, mentally.
You’ve toured constantly for years and are exhausted. In Roger Waters’ words “every rock ‘n’ roll band’s dream”. A multi-million selling album that has taken on a life of its own.
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