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,
Wish You Were Here (Avril Lavigne song) the song was based on the lines "I can be tough, I can be strong/ But with you it's not like that at all" and talked about Lavigne's divorce. He further put the song in his list of "Possible future singles". On a more negative note, Mikael Wood of "Spin" magazine wrote that, in songs like "Wish You Were Here" and "Everybody Hurts", the "former brat-punk princess in dreary woe-is-me mode" can be found. According to Jonathan Keefe of "Slant" Magazine, this song, along with others from "Goodbye Lullaby", "mistake having a potty mouth for having an actual personality", stating