10 Perfect Rock Albums That Everyone Hated Making
2. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
There's always a bit of a mixed blessing when you make one of the biggest albums of your career. You might want to soak up the success for all it's worth, but there's always that one thought in the back of your mind, wondering if you'll ever be able to top what you've already done. And when that previous success is as big as Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd returned to the studio as wounded dogs.
From the first few recording sessions, these guys were not on good terms with each other, barely speaking to each other outside of the studio and not being that cordial during the recordings either. Seeing how the industry shook them up for the past few years, Wish You Were Here is a more heartfelt dissection of what the music industry does to you, from trying to feed the machine to reminiscing about their time with former member Syd Barrett before he was driven out of the band via madness.
Having not appeared on a Floyd album in years, Syd's presence is on every single track on this record, including one spooky recording session where Syd paid the band visit, being completely bald and barely saying a word before walking out of the studio again. Though this was not the kind of thing you'd expect out of the band that made Dark Side, this was never meant to be a proper follow up. Their first masterpiece dealt with what modern life can do to you, and this is the record where you start to take a closer look at what that version of modern life is.