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Song of the Day #5,423: ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)’ – Pink Floyd

Continuing my look at 1975, first by counting down my own top albums of that year.

#2 – Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here

It might be nostalgia that has this album so high on this list, but who am I to argue with nostalgia? After all, as Mad Men‘s Don Draper famously said, nostalgia is a “twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone.”

Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here is the album I most associate with my high school years. And like Draper’s slide carousel, the album is a time machine. It teleports me back into the body of a 16-year-old kid bonding with new friends over old music.

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Song of the Day #5,053: ‘Lost for Words’ – Pink Floyd

When I saw that Pink Floyd’s The Division Bell came out in 1994, I couldn’t resist making it one of my featured albums.

Like most high school boys of my generation, I was a huge Pink Floyd fan. I knew most of their albums by heart, especially the run between 1971’s Meddle and 1983’s The Final Cut. By muscle memory alone, I can still sing or air guitar along to every note of Wish You Were Here, Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall.

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Song of the Day #4,277: ‘The Final Cut’ – Pink Floyd

I slotted Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut in the #11 spot on my list of the best albums of 1983 because it has been so far off my radar for so long that I couldn’t justify it cracking the top ten.

If I’d made this list in 1990, this album might have occupied the top spot. That’s in part because I hadn’t yet discovered many of the albums to come on this list. But it’s mostly because Pink Floyd meant the world to me when I was in high school.

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Song of the Day #4,109: ‘Breathe (In the Air)’ – Pink Floyd

The last 1973 album among my personal favorites is Pink Floyd’s classic The Dark Side of the Moon. This is, of course, one of the most celebrated and beloved albums of all time.

In terms of sales, Dark Side is fourth on the all-time worldwide list, having sold more than 45 million copies while spending over 900 weeks on Billboard’s Top 200. It’s really pretty amazing that an album full of sound effects and instrumentals, and so few traditional songs, is nestled among Michael Jackson’s Thriller, The Eagles’ Greatest Hits, the Saturday Night Live soundtrack and Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours as one of the most popular albums of all time.

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Song of the Day #3,817: ‘The Great Gig in the Sky’ – Pink Floyd


Few films in recent years have received as much lavish praise as Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma. A compilation of critics’ top ten lists has it in the #1 spot with a 200-point lead over the next title. It has been repeatedly called a masterpiece and even, by more than a few writers, one of the greatest films ever made.

Can any movie possibly be worthy of all that hype? Can Roma live up to those expectations?

My answer: It doesn’t, until it does. And then it somehow surpasses them.

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