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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: EMI Europe Generic
Salesrank: 151460
Released: April 7, 1999 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Obscured by Clouds Track Listing:
1. Obscured by Clouds [Instrumental]
2. When You're In
3. Burning Bridges
4. Gold It's in The...
5. Wot's...Uh the Deal
6. Mudmen [Instrumental]
7. Childhood's End
8. Free Four
9. Stay
10. Absolutely Curtains [Instrumental]
Editorial Review:
Commissioned as the soundtrack for Barbet Schroeder's 1972 film The Valley, Obscured By Clouds actually holds up rather well on its own terms. The title track is a trippy, cinematic instrumental that features some searing guitar work from David Gilmour, but full-fledged songs like "Free Four" (which sounds like a morbid inversion of Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky"), and the folksy "Wot's...Uh the Deal" are the real highlights of the set. Essentially a transitional work, Obscured By Clouds has long been dwarfed by Dark Side of the Moon, the album which came immediately after it. In fact, the funky "Childhood's End" and the ethereal "Burning Bridges" could well be dry runs for the Dark Side tracks "Time" and "Breathe," respectively. In all, it's a priceless snapshot of a band on the verge of immortality. --Dan Epstein
Obscured by Clouds Reviews:
classic 
2009-08-12 - Here we have Pink Floyd saying goodbye to cult band status, about to go to the Dark Side of........well, you know.
Obscured By Clouds is a soundtrack, the last album they made before becoming rock royality in 1973. They already did two other film scores-More and Zabriski Point- but this is the most fully realized, prepared for a movie called The Valley.
The disc starts with "When You Are In,' a guitar blaze, which kicks in when Nick Mason cracks his solid drum fill. There is a beatiful organ piece, and some wonderfully organic folk songs, such as "Childhoods End."
Speaking of ends, this soundtrack is far more song oritented than the avant gaurd jamming and suites they were making up to Meddle. Floyd streamlines their sound here.
But not in the way Dark Side Of The Moon is streemlined. That album is a model of slick 1970s studio production and mature progrssive rock. Obscured by Clouds still has accustic folk and soundscapes that work as songs, not just bridges between songs, which Floyd was about to do on Dark Side.
This album really is an ending: Pink Floyd becoming a progressive rock powerhouse and not a experimental art band.
It is Pink Floyd waving the 60s goodbye.
Why I love Pink Floyd!
2009-05-04 - This album is essential. "Stay" is by far one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs ever. Rick Wright and David Gilmour really shine and their voices and instuments blend in really well together to make this a more than a spectacular album. This album along with "More" and "Atom Heart Mother" are the most underrated Floyd albums and are my personal favorites.
I collect prog rock from the late 60's and 70's and this album ranks with the best of them.
Comfort and Roots burried, moving on.
2009-03-29 - This is the foundation of a new generation. Pink Floyd is a rhythmically based band, considering that their name is a derivative of two blues musicians. Since Floyd had relied so heavily upon Syd Barrett, rhythmically and lyrically, at some point they had to break away from that and create a new voice. In a way they do, and in a way they don't. In viewing albums after Syd Barrett's departure, one must remember the Floyd had to struggle to appease the masses of their fan base that had grown accustomed to their style with Syd Barrett, as a fore-front member, albums such as Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, the More soundtrack and Umma Gumma which Barrett hardly worked upon. So the lyrics may fall short, and the music may be suffering at this particular moment, but the band is still orchestrating the way it always has, whether the music accompanies, smoke, lights, or moving pictures. The important thing to realize is that this is a move into a different direction and that Pink Floyd is still innovating. It is like visiting a mortuary, as some of the sounds imitate what Barrett did vocally towards the end of this particular album, a mantra if you will of falsetto singing, but more melancholy. Gilmour is a replacement. He has to live in that position for the rest of time. He is more of a pop musician in approach, but was anything like this being done anywhere else in that decade quite like this, as far as pop was concerned? It is the hope of this review you find the answer to be a resounding no. It is pop music, and on another hand it isn't because by definition pop music is what is popular. Pink Floyd has always set itself apart, but has always been popular because of that.
Very Happy Customer
2008-12-14 - I was very happy with the item but the communication and delivery were really outstanding. I was very happy with my experience and would feel very good about buying again. The price was outstanding but I was shocked to see it in my mail box so fast. The packaging was top notch and just a very professional transaction and can't say enough how pleased I was.
there best
2008-10-07 - This cd is truelly this band's best, I wish they had migrated to Africa's BushBush after this, the world would have been a better Place.
Bridges burning, mudman, the gold its in the, wots the deal, absolutely curtains all songs are among my favorites as they out shine the ugly Side of the moon album and the atrocious animals and the wall/
Denise Whitlock, aged 11
