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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