Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album) "It's an album I can listen to for pleasure, and there aren't many Floyd albums that I can." Gilmour shares this view: "I for one would have to say that it is my favourite album, the "Wish You Were Here" album. The end result of all that, whatever it was, definitely has left me an album I can live with very very happily. I like it very much." Pink Floyd and their manager Steve O'Rourke had been dissatisfied with the efforts of EMI's US label Capitol Records, and "Wish You Were Here" was Pink Floyd's first album with Columbia Records,
You Were Here was bumped when Rudy Giuliani's first post-9/11 appearance ran overtime. The album's title track is a tribute to her former Weeping Tile bandmate Joe Chithalen, who died in 1999. The Art Of Time Ensemble featuring Sarah Slean recorded a Roberto Occhipinti arrangement of "Lodestar" on their 2009 album "Black Flowers". The album was warmly received. "TIME" ranked "You Were Here" in its year-end Top Ten list, calling it the year's best debut album. "You Were Here" was named the 24th greatest Canadian album of all time in Bob Mersereau's 2007 book "The Top 100 Canadian Albums". Music critic Lisa M.