Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album) still sounds unconvincing in its ponderous sincerity and displays a critical lack of imagination in all departments." However, Robert Christgau wrote in "The Village Voice": "The music is not only simple and attractive, with the synthesizer used mostly for texture and the guitar breaks for comment, but it actually achieves some of the symphonic dignity (and cross-referencing) that "The Dark Side of the Moon" simulated so ponderously." He later wrote: "My favorite Pink Floyd album has always been "Wish You Were Here", and you know why? It has soul, that's why – it's Roger Waters's lament for Syd, not my
Wish You Were Here (Mark Wills album) of one million copies. The title track, which was the third release, became Wills's first Number One hit on the country charts in mid-1999. "I Do (Cherish You)" was later covered by 98 Degrees on their album "98 Degrees and Rising", from which it was also released as a single. Wish You Were Here (Mark Wills album) Wish You Were Here is the second studio album of American country music artist Mark Wills. Released on May 5, 1998, on Mercury Nashville Records, the album produced four singles on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts,