01	Obscured By Clouds						03:07
	02	When You're In						02:29
	03	Burning Bridges						03:31
	04	The Gold It's In The...						03:09
	05	Wots...Uh The Deal						05:11
	06	Mudmen						04:22
	07	Childhood's End						04:36
	08	Free Four						04:18
	09	Stay						04:08
	10	Absolutely Curtains						05:52

Performers
David Gilmour : Guitar, Vocals
Nick Mason : Drums
Roger Waters : Bass, Guitar, Vocals
Richard Wright : Keyboards, Vocals

Production Credits
Pink Floyd : Main Performer, Producer


Pink Floyd - Obscured By Clouds

Release Date: 1972

Track Listing
1) Obscured by Clouds [instrumental] (Gilmour/Waters) - 3:05
2) When You're In (Gilmour/Mason/Waters/Wright) - 2:31
3) Burning Bridges (Waters/Wright) - 3:30
4) The Gold It's in the... (Gilmour/Waters) - 3:08
5) Wot's... Uh the Deal (Gilmour/Waters) - 5:09
6) Mudmen [instrumental] (Gilmour/Wright) - 4:18
7) Childhood's End (Gilmour) - 4:33
8) Free Four (Waters/Wright) - 4:16
9) Stay (Waters/Wright) - 4:07
10) Absolutely Curtains [instrumental] (Gilmour/Mason/Waters/Wright) - 5:51

Member: Son of Nothing

This might be the candidate for the most underrated album ever (or at least from a popular artist). Pink Floyd abandoned the real progressive leanings of Atom Heart Mother & Meddle and went for a set of brilliant songs that have been accused of being close to those found in their breakthrough album, Dark Side of the Moon. Well, to be fair, this album stands very well on its own and in my opinion, tops the mighty DSOTM, even though it was a rushed affair for Barbet Schroeder's 1972 movie, La Vallee.

The album starts with two nice instrumentals and progresses to the beautiful melody, "Burning Bridges", where Gilmour and Wright trade vocals in a superb way. Truly transcendental. "The Gold it's in the..." is a straightforward rocker with trademark wailing guitars. Gilmour gives one of his best soothing vocal performances in the 'cream of the crop' acoustic tune, "Wots...Uh the Deal". This is one of the Floyd's best songs and that includes all of their outrageous previous compositions. Only "Green is the Colour", from the 1968 film soundtrack More, is more beautiful (an unintentional pun). "Mudmen" is a spacey and dreamy instrumental which leads to Gilmour's "Childhood's End". The song shows Gilmour's maturity and his lyrics are really nice. An interesting thing to note is that the song ends with "So the song will end" much like DSOTM's Time ("The time is gone...The song is over...Thought I'd something more to say"). "Free Four" is vintage Roger with its death obsessed lyrical content. The lyrics are fabulous and the upbeat vibe suits the depressing content in the song brilliantly. "Stay" is probably Rick Wright's best contribution to the Floyd along with Atom Heart Mother's "Summer 68", Saucerful of Secrets' "Remember a Day" and Division Bell's "Wearing the Inside Out". He literally pleads in a gorgeous vocal performance aided by terrific songwriting. This tune has to be heard to be believed. The album concludes with the aptly titled, "Absolutely Curtains", which ends with tribal sounds which are a bit too long in duration.

Overall this album has nice guitar licks and a pleasant yet hauntingly sad atmosphere. If you're tired of DSOTM, The Wall or WYWH which are overplayed everywhere around you, get this one and float downstream. Highest recommendation for an album which I believe, didn't even go gold in the U.S.!