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ALBUM: Obscured By Clouds Lyrics
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Absolutely Curtains
Burning Bridges
Childhood's End
Free Four
Mudmen
Obscured By Clouds
Stay
The Gold It's In The...
When You're In
Wots...Uh The Deal
Obscured By Clouds Reviews
NOT their best
As with all Pink Floyd albums of the early 70's, the instrumentals are the best part of Obscured by Clouds. The first two tracks set up a really oppressive mood, while "Mudmen" exercises emotions in a way simillar to "The Great GIg in the Sky." "Absolutely Curtains" is the best song on the album, though. It creates a really creepy atmosphere, then mixes in a chant done by a New Guinean tribe. While all these instrumental masterpieces are great, the regular songs just don't cut it. "Burning Bridges" is a boring, less passionate version of "Mudmen." "Free Four," and "The Gold It's In The..." are way too poppy for their own good. "Wot's...Um The Deal" is a tiring repeat of "Brain Damage" (which was already written when the Floyd recorded this, while "Stay" is a sad attempt by Rick Wright to write another great emotional song like "Summer '68" The only song with lyrics worth listening to is "Childhood's End," but "The Narrow Way" and "Fat Old Sun" are still far superior Gilmour efforts. I wouldn't reccomend that new Floyd fans eager to hear early songs that weren't on Echoes buy this. Instead, get More, Ummagumma, or Atom Heart Mother.
Floyd's most successful film score
Pink Floyd released their eighth album(overall) Obscured by Clouds in June of 1972. The album was a soundtrack to the French film La Vallee, which was directed by Barbet Schroder. OBC was the band's second film soundtrack for Schroder, their first was the 1969 movie More. I first heard and obtained a copy of this album when I was 11 years old on cassette and I now have the remaster on CD and the sound on the remaster is like night and day(it buries the cassette and original CD). This album was the album released before 1973's The Dark Side of the Moon and was the band's first ever US Top 50 disc peaking at a respectable #46 and eventually went Gold(in 1994). The album was produced by Pink Floyd themselves and was recorded in a week at the Chateau D'herouville(a/k/a the Honky Chateau as Elton John called it) in France in late February of 1972. The album kicks off with the title cut(featuring excellent synth work from both keyboardist Rick Wright and bassist/vocalist Roger Waters and slide guitar from guitarist/vocalist David Gilmour) which then segues into When You're In(with excellent drumming from drummer Nick Mason). Those two tracks were staples of Floyd shows in 1973 on the Dark Side tour. Burning Bridges follows and has a great vocal from Gilmour and Wright and is a great tune. The Gold It's In The... is a hard rocker with some great guitar work from Gilmour. Wots...Uh the Deal follows and is a great song with excellent keyboard work from Wright and great vocals and guitar work from Gilmour. Next is an instrumental version of Burning Bridges entitled Mudmen which is in a different tempo than Burning Bridges. Side two kicked off with Childhood's End(one of Gilmour's best songs ever). Next is Free Four was Waters' first song mentioning the word run which would appear more dominantly on future Floyd albums, it also talks about war and death for the first time and those subjects would appear more dominantly on The Wall and The Final Cut. Free Four was the first Floyd track which got substantial airplay on American rock radio. Next was Stay, which had an excellent vocal from Wright. The album closes with the atmospheric instrumental entitled Absolutely Curtains which features synthesizer work from Gilmour, Waters and Wright and percussion work from Mason and the New Guinea tribe, from the actual La Vallee film itself, conclude this track. Highly recommended.
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I actually give this album 10 stars. Why this album does not get more acclaim is beyond me. I couldn't phathom a Pink Floyd collection without this album. My favorite tracks: "Burning Bridges" and "Mudmen"-both romantic and soulfull! "Mudmen" is a track that continues the tune originated in "Burning Bridges" but is essentially a bluesy guitar solo by Gilmore. I Love You Dave!
This CD is a must buy if you like Pink Floyd
I wanna make this short and sweet but its is too good to do that. This album is so great. If you have any interest in Pink Floyd Get this album. No one really thinks of this album and it is very underrated.
1.Obscured By Clouds- instrumental but very good
2.When You're In - instrumental, and a good one again
3. Burning Bridges - sounds like something from dark side of the moon, good song
4. The Gold It's In The... - If you want a faster song by pink floyd this is the one. My 2nd fav song on on album
5. Wots...Uh The Deal - MY favorite song ,the lyrics to this are so amazing,this track is some of Pink Floyds best work.
6. Mudmen -instrumental, very cool
7. Childhood's End - this is another track thats sounds like it's from dark side of the moon.
8. Free Four - this is 3rd favorite song, really good song, good lyrics
9. Stay - a good song
10. Absolutely Curtains - this song i dont care for much but the other tracks make out for it
Must buy
5 stars.
classic
...for the instrumentals alone!
this is a great floyd cd.it's weird how the instrumental tracks actually outshine the ones with vocals,however.any fan of pink has to hear the song "mudmen"-one of the most relaxingly uplifting songs ever by anybody.it's just an all-around classic pink floyd cd with no filler cuts,and no egotistical crap.
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
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