Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here (Columbia)
Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, October 1975
Although Pink Floyd has always represented itself through album graphics, song and album titles, and stage presentation as working in the outer limits of the rock avant garde, the groups music and accessories have placed it much closer to Cinerama and Disneyland than to serious innovators; you might call that milieu ersatz avant garde.
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