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I'm a lazy musician. Interested, but not devoted. The only "instrument" I put any appreciable practice into is Rock Band drums, because the game is good at tricking me into thinking I'm way better than I actually am. >:)
But in spite of my problem, the one song I never get bored of practicing on guitar (real guitar) is Wish You Were Here. I don't know what it is about the song, but every time I learn a new section it's like discovering Pink Floyd all over again. It's immensely satisfying.
For your listening pleasure, I'm going to give you the same assignment I was given a few years ago: listen to this song—with headphones—and try to keep track of everything you hear. My assignment was to map the full five minutes out on paper, but since you're auditing, I don't care how far you go. ;p
The song is way more complex than I noticed in my first casual listen. I loved this song before getting that homework assignment, but it wasn't until after repeated careful listening that I came to appreciate how carefully crafted it is. (You won't pick up on a lot of it in the YouTube mix, though.)
Neither Amazon nor iTunes seem to have the MP3 for this one, which if true is understandable given how the album was definitely meant to be listened front to back. In that spirit, I'll also link to the album on Last.fm.
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