Pink Floyd - Obscured By Clouds POLL

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I'm guessing there aren't many mostly vocal albums where an instrumental is contender for best track. I voted for it too.

Secretly one of their best albums, this.

yes and also

'The Gold It's In The...' shows a route the Floyd very rarely went down, but they pull it off so fucking well.

^yes

like when they casually invented stoner metal for 3 minutes with The Nile Song then never went back to it

Checking out the slight remix of this on Spotify –1972 OBFUSC/ATION – I’m struck by what an easy listen this is, in a way that very few of their other releases are. Relieved of Waters weighty concepts, they are wonderful texturalists and lovely slight songwriters.

The title track/When You’re In are great. But also, the record ends on a recording of an tribal shanty of some sort?

Most of all, things like Burning Bridges and Stay make me think that perhaps the biggest tragedy of Richard Wright dying early is that he and Gilmour never got a chance to make a duo record in their 60s once these records had established some retrospective hipster cred.

Agree. Burning Bridges is maybe the best Gilmour/Wright harmony duet they ever recorded.

Stay is kind of awkward, I wonder if it was (musically) their attempt at an Al Green ballad? Let's Stay Together came out three months before they started recording. I usually like Wright's singing but he seems uncertain of how to phrase Waters' lyrics. Gilmour should have switched off the wah-wah pedal as well. This is one Floyd song someone else should revive.

for a long time i conflated this record with meddle. they both begin with menacing, synth-y instrumentals and they end with crowds of people chanting. the grab-bag feel of the track listing, the novelty songs. blurry covers with circular patterns.

It's really hard to make it out, but the cover is a picture of someone sitting in a tree. Occasionally it snaps into clarity for me, but most of the time I can't see it.

Also, if you stare past the cover, you'll see a 3D sailboat.