Obscured By Clouds : Pink Floyd.

Some nice tracks on it, my favourite being Burning Bridges. It's about a three star for me too. 

^And what's wrong with the Gilmour albums?

^I don't hear to many people beat up on More so that was refreshing. Viva la difference!

my other least favorite album of theirs, but only in second place (originally first though). Wot's... Uh the Deal? is good but the first two tracks i now feel like are even more so. i may need to revisit the whole thing again.

The perfect bridge album to DSOTM. It helped that album become what it did.The bands more melodic epic stuff was just around the corner but songs like " Childhood's End" The titled track....chilling! "Stay" and " Wots Uh The Deal" mainly involved in the musical evolution to DSOTM or should I say revolution?

A bit of a resting point between Meddle and Dark Side of the Moon, which I should value 4 stars. I have listened to it a few times lately.

Great record !

Edited by tamijo - February 03 2015 at 06:40

someone_else wrote: Best tracks: Obscured by Clouds, Stay and Absolutely Curtains.

I forgot to mention best tracks for me: "Burning Bridges", "Wot's ... Uh The Deal", "Mudmen", and "Absolutely Curtains". The rest I also really like, just not as much. A very consistent album. ... That's right, I said it.

tamijo wrote: Regarding connections, I have always seen some connection between Obscured and Wright's "Wet Dream" from 1978.

Namely ... ? You can be vague, doesn't matter.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - February 03 2015 at 11:10

Obscured By Clouds recalls a strange experience for me. The way I went about listening to it was ..I suppose, strange to me , but yet not generally strange and still probably common for most proggers in 1978. I was on the road in 78' with a band that would travel up and down the East coast of the U.S. , but also invade the geographic scope of certain states where your time spent in a specific state in order to do that..meant the band setting up camp, usually the countryside, comfortable old stone house ..a hundred years old..for about a period of 5 to 6 months while the band used the western section of the state as a springboard, getting maybe 1 day off to relax in the house. I shared a room with the drummer. I had insomnia and he didn't. Fortunately he was a heavy sleeper and playing Jethro Tull material seemed to knock the wind out of him by 3 Am. As he slept, I played 2 particular albums throughout the night: Tales Of Mystery & Imagination By Alan Parsons and Obscured By Clouds ...Pink Floyd. Arriving to the house every night after a gig and listening to Obscured By Clouds in front of a fireplace was a beautiful mindset. "Free Four" was my favorite track and I personally related it to Syd Barrett's state of mind, although I have never confirmed if the piece was truly about him. "Childhood's End" has the most amazing intro. It's like an Electronic soundscape. It's a haunting/beautiful song that is timeless. Sometimes Roger Waters comes across as being hard on himself. He is either embarrassed by his previous works..or just displeased that his growth period with the early Floyd had to be his recorded history. All of his negative comments directed toward Atom Heart Mother are harsh, sarcastic, and insulting to the max. I wonder what he thinks of Obscured By Clouds? The album has a perfectly fine flow ..all on it's own..and shouldn't constantly be pegged as one of the earnest cream of the crop products to be the premature developmental writing stages for Dark Side Of The Moon. Meddle and Obscured By Clouds were a leap into a different stage of writing. It was developing over a period of time on Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother, but didn't make that structure unite with the band until Meddle. This is all very true, but Obscured By Clouds can also stand alone as an album of strange haunting melodies and hypnotic style chord progressions that were not as dominating  on D.S.O.T.M., W.Y.W.H., Animals...because the usage of sustaining keyboard soundscapes didn't leave room for slow melodic chord strumming which was previously featured on Meddle. Observation here is based on how they changed their sound along with their structure. D.S.O.T.M. adapted a total synth sound ..amongst other newly discovered keyboard settings played by Rick Wright. Obscured By Clouds is rare and interesting for that reason.   

Yes, the more I think of this album, the more I think.........
Obscured-When You're In,-Burning Bridges-Mudmen-Childhood's End-Stay and at least, the first half of Absolutely Curtains.   Yeah -so what, at least a 3.5 rating for me.............