MINTY TOPS = BRITISH 1972 ORIG = PINK FLOYD = OBSCURED CLOUDS Prog PSYCH WATERS
Sold Date:
June 28, 2015
Start Date:
June 23, 2015
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BEAUTIFUL 1972 BRITISH HARVEST RECORDS ORIGINAL!!! PINK FLOYD Obscured By Clouds
UK - HARVEST - SHSP 4220
FINAL COLLECTION COPY SCARCE and MINTY CLEAN Original 1972 BRITISH first pressing with special rounded corners custom textured cover ... getting hard to find especially THIS minty clean all over! Includes the original double sided photos inner sleeve with all the cool UK "Hipgnosis" designed Hardvest label progressive acts of the early '70s.. Obscured By Clouds bridges the gap between Meddle and Dark Side of the Moon and is one of the most underrated albums by Pink Floyd. Forget the fact that this was a film soundtrack: it stands completely on its own. It is, in fact, the last non-concept album that PINK FLOYD would produce until A Momentary Lapse of Reason. Therefore, what the listener ought to focus upon is the power of the music within: The theme of missing out on something and finding that from mystical sources is a perfect one for Pink Floyd – much more so than the less straightforward plot of ‘More’ where ‘Obscured By Clouds’ is a close cousin to ‘Wish You Were Here’ with its themes of travel, alienation and despondency (and especially the album covers of ‘people who aren’t there’ – on this album it’s more than just the valley that’s obscured). Although none of the lyrics used in the Floyd’s songs seem to having to do literally with the film, they are more or less all linked to this theme in some way. For only the second time on a Floyd album Roger Waters writes most of them too – in fact all but Gilmour’s song. ‘Burning Bridges’ is an Echoes-like pop symphony in miniature (whose melody is re-used in ‘Mudmen’) full of haiku-like metaphors for someone breaking out of their earthly bonds. ‘The Gold It’s In The...’ does at least start out following the film (and the possibility of a sudden gold rush), but Waters is in too much of a hurry to spoil the non-ending of the film and gets in a lyric about the joy and excitement of travelling to new places. ‘Wots...Uh, The Deal’ is an unusually ungrammatical title for a very poetic and curious song, one that pits the earthly necessity of having to earn enough money to pay for the spiritual things you discover. ‘Childhood’s End’ is a more paranoid song about losing your way in life and getting turned into a different person as an adult than the one you hoped to be when you were young. ‘Free Four’ is arguably the first autobiographical Roger Waters song, with the first mention of the death of his father in World War II (a conscientious objector forced to fight against his wishes and killed at the battle Anzio and gloomy references to the futile pointlessness of life when we’re all going to die some day anyway. Finally ‘Stay’ is an unusual story-song about the difference between a night before when the narrator falls in love with a groupie and she means everything to him and the morning after when he can’t even remember her name. Even this song is about identity, though, of ‘being there but not there’, of literally being ‘obscured by clouds’. Considering that the band only had two weeks to work on this project they nailed the key themes of the film pretty well and all the songs seem to fit together, somehow, much more so than on ‘More’ or even on a ‘proper’ non-soundtrack album like ‘Meddle’. Musicians for Obscured By Clouds : - David Gilmour / guitars, vocals Obscured By Clouds (3:05)
CONDITION: The cover: very delicate UK custom cover with rounded corners is really hard to find clean. Take note this is a top copy, rated M- hard to find any better ...there is a sharness about it, no bends,no writing and no split seams ... a final collection copy from 44 years ago The vinyl: all glossy on both sides M- so plays without audio problems, excellent sound sonics ...no groove wear ... clean UK Harvest labels
A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTION ! SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people... EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING All imperfections are noted both cover & record
One problem facing the Floyd, at the time, was that they’d already started work on ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ when they agreed to do the film and had indeed been playing the suite on the road for several months. The amazing thing is that ‘Obscured By Clouds’ manages to touch on almost all the themes of its better known twin (love, travel, money, religion, madness - of a sort) without stepping on the toes of any of the other songs. Indeed, it might be working on this album in such a sudden, uninhibited burst that helped shape Waters’ creative energy into what he really wanted to say. If there’s one song from the two albums that share their DNA, though, it’s ‘Time’ – the song full of ticking clocks reminding us to start living our lives instead of drifting through them because we only have a short time to be here (hence the French couple going out on their trek in the first place). One of the ‘Obscured’ songs – ‘Childhood’s End’ – even recycles the same clock-ticking drum pattern just to reiterate that point.
- Nick Mason / drums
- Roger Waters / bass, vocals
- Richard Wright / keyboards
When You're In (2:31)
Burning Bridges (3:30)
Gold It's In The... (3:08)
Wot's... Uh The Deal (5:09)
Mudmen (4:18)
Childhood's End (4:33)
Free Four (4:16)
Stay (4:07)
Absolutely Curtains (5:51)
