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} __NOTOC__ Obscured by Clouds occurs as rock album by Pink Floyd based on their soundtrack for the French film La Vallée. A LP was released in the UK on June 3, 1972 on Harvest/EMI and then in the US on June 15 on Harvest/Capitol. A album reached #6 on the UK album stock & index stock and index charts and #46 on the America album charts(inside which it was certfied Gold per RIAA in March, 1994).

Around 1986, the album was freed in CD. The digitally re-down Video was freed around March, 1996 in the UK & August 1996 in the US.

A song Childhood's End is said to have been inspired by the Arthur C. Clarke novel of the same name.

Obscured By Clouds was a 1st Pink Floyd album to feature a VCS-3 synthesiser Track listing

  • "Obscured By Clouds" (Waters, Gilmour) - 3:03
  • "When You're In" (Mason, Gilmour, Waters, Wright) - 2:30
  • "Burning Bridges" (Waters, Wright) - 3:29
  • "The Gold It's In The..." (Waters, Gilmour) - 3:07
  • "Wot's... Uh The Deal" (Waters, Gilmour) - 5:08
  • "Mudmen" (Gilmour, Wright) - 4:20
  • "Childhood's End (Gilmour) - 4:31
  • "Free Four" (Waters) - 4:15
  • "Stay" (Waters, Wright) - 4:05
  • "Absolutely Curtains" (Mason, Gilmour, Waters, Wright) - 5:52

    Personnel
    David Gilmour - Guitars, Vocals, VCS3 Roger Waters - Bass Guitar, Vocals, VCS3 Nick Mason - Drums, Percussion Richard Wright - Keyboards, Vocals, VCS3

    also: Hipgnosis - cover

    Charts
    Album - Billboard (North America)

    • Obscured By Clouds CDs
    CD review from New Horizons.

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    OBC: Bleed
    Track listing and review of the first cd by Obscured By Clouds, by Jurriaan Hage.

    Progressiveworld.net
    Review of the OBC CD "Bleed" by John Bollenberg creator of Progressiveworld.net

    Obscured By Clouds
    Got ilk? Early Floyd meets early Crimson, maybe Nick Drake, and Syd Barrett may be lurking in there somewhere as well.
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