I first bought it around 1979, and listened to it incessantly, especially because the girl I was in love with at the time listened to it as well, and we both loved it. When she went to college a year later, she wrote me that part of the album had played on the radio on the way to the airport, and she felt like I was traveling with her.
That part of my love for it has passed, but there is something so specific about the mood of that album that works for me, that I will still listen to it now and again late at night.
I’m not much into the whole Syd Barrett mythology, but I do appreciate that the last notes of the album are a callout to See Emily Play.
I’m kind of terrible at listing desert island albums, or listing something that’s top 10 for me, but whatever the list, this one would be on it.
I do not have the personal connection you have to this but it was certainly an important album to me in the 70s/80s and I love it. Still do and always will. It’s a great album…Pink Floyd were epic. I know “Dark Side of the Moon” is their crowning achievement but this, I think, is right up there (personally I like this one better but close call…both are excellent).
ETA: Now I feel old.
I didn’t get it until 1986. I had to take what came on the radio before that.
The Album “Wish You Were Here” is 50 years old, but the song “Wish You Were Here” is only 34 years old. And boy, is it catchy.
Pink Floyd is releasing a 50th Anniversary box set with all kinds of demos and live recordings. In anticipation, they released one of the demos on Youtube, with Roger Waters on vocals for an early version of Welcome to the Machine. It’s pretty great - much more stripped down and somber than the finished track with David Gilmour on vocals. Well worth a listen!
I bought it as soon as it came out, when the cover was wrapped in opaque blue plastic and you couldn’t see the art until you bought it.
Intentionally or not, that’s similar to how the YouTube video @ShadowFacts posted proceeds.
I’ve had a Spotify rock playlist on in my car for the last week or so and every time Pink Floyd came up, instead of the actual album cover, it would display a black background with a description of the cover art “A White Brick Wall with Red Graffiti”, “A Prism Refracts Light into the Spectrum”, “Rows of Hospital Beds on a Beach”, and of course ”Two Men in Suits Shaking Hands, One on Fire”.
I had no idea what was going on until I Googled it. It’s a tribute to the original Wish You Were Here release, which was sold wrapped in black plastic with just a sticker indicating what it was.
Anyway, thought that was cool.
…with a new James Guthrie Atmos mix. Aw, man, now I have to buy the dang album again. 
Damn, $250 on vinyl. I’ll be going with some sort of FLAC I guess, if there is one.
First and only song I can play on guitar 
“Wish You Were Here” is by far my favorite Pink Floyd song. I love that song so much, it’s beautiful. Both music and lyrics. It’s sad and comforting at the same time.
I can play a few others, but that’s the first one I figured out for myself how to play.
“The weather is beautiful” preceded it by a good number of years. Hard to believe, in retrospect, that it took someone so long to come up with the second line on the postcard. 
I’m listening to it tonight. So are my neighbors.
There was a time when I was right out of high school when I had a single cassette tape in my car–it was a 90 minute Maxell tape where I recorded “The Dark Side of the Moon” on side A and “Wish You Were Here” on side B.
I just kept flipping that tape over and over as I drove. For months.
There’s not that many albums that could be enjoyed in that manner.
