OBSCURED BY CLOUDS

I'm the kind of person whose favourite albums are those that when he first listens to them, he doesn't really like it and think that it's boring; but will, in turn, listen to it many more times until he understands the music and can really appreciate it and connect with it. I don't know how many "kinds of people" there are like that, but that's what I do, and what this album is to me.

My favorite tracks on this album are "Obscured by Clouds", "Wots...uh the Deal", "Mudmen", "Childhood's End", and "Absolutely Curtains", pretty much in that order (although I really love all of these songs). "Absolutely Curtains" really stands out to me as the album's best, as it is the most different and spacy, and really fits into my type of genre. I even love the ending, where the New Guineau natives (or so I'm assuming) sing a song in their native language and style. I really think this album is great, but the reason I gave it only three stars is because, firstof all, it did take me probably a total of 8 or 9 times of listening to the entire album before I could really enjoy it (as I said earlier), so it probably wouldn't appeal to that much to other people, especially people that aren't floyd fans (but I wouldn't be expecting them to buy this album anyway). Secondly, the more rocking tunes in the album, namely "When You're In" (a follow up to "obscured by clouds"), "The Gold it's in The...", and "Free Four" just, musically, aren't what I appreciate Pink Floyd for. I want to give this album four stars; but for review purposes, I leave the bar at three.