Talk:Obscured by Clouds

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[edit] Removed non-english content

Segunda trilha sonora do Pink Floyd para um filme de Barbet Schroeder. Com a fórmula de compor a gravar rápido se assemelhando a de More é possível traçar uma evolução clara da banda em apenas três anos. A superioridade do material salta aos olhos, bem como a maior consistência nos arranjos e segurança nos vocais, principalmente Gilmour, que também acaba se saindo melhor que a encomenda como letrista da boa "Childhood's End". Apesar de não trazer nenhum clássico da magnitude de "Echoes", por exemplo, o álbum conta com o grande triunfo da regularidade. A exceção do roquinho chinfrim "The Gold is in the..."existe um equilíbrio qualitativo capaz de garantir uma audição sem que se tenha que levantar a agulha ou programar as melhores no caso do CD. Merecem destaque as duas contribuições de Wright: "Stay" e "Burning Bridges", a belíssima "Wots...Uh the deal", uma ode ao prazer de viajar e a sardônica "Free Four", com Waters exorcizando mais uma vez o fantasma da morte de seu pai na guerra e quase detonando toda a atmosfera intimista. "Obscured By Clouds" apanha o Floyd em ponto de bala para Dark Side of the moon . Em tempo: quem procurar um filme chamado "Obscured By Clouds" não irá achar nada. A película de Schoreder sobre hippies franceses indo para Nova Guiné era, na verdade intitulada "La Valée".

this was already copied here but i took it off from the article.. i'm sure this portuguese content is interesting but it needs translation before inclusion.. --zen

[edit] Rolling Stone Link

This link is coming up blank when I try it. Anyone else having same problem? If no-one says to the contrary in next 2 weeks I'll delete it Martyn Smith 07:30, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

I zapped said link. If you look at the page history, you'll notice i fixed it first, but since even the working link had no actual review, i just took it out. --Alcuin 04:07, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sibilants

"in an interview that appeared in the "Director's Cut" edition of Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii, Roger Waters stated that early pressings of the album contained excessive sibilants in the vocal tracks, a problem that was corrected in later pressings." Wasn't Waters referring to early pressings of Atom Heart Mother? I'll go check the DVD when I get a chance. Dino246 15:37, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

My mistake. He was indeed referring to ObC. The reference stays. Dino246 (talk) 15:20, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] *Bad* POV . . . "Gilmour good, Waters bad, baaa."

The melody played in Wright's "Burning Bridges" is echoed later in "Mudmen" with David Gilmour's reconstruction of the song.

Gilmour's reconstruction of the song? Say what?? I don't hear Gilmour doing any "reconstruction", I hear him soloing while Rick, Nick, and Roger carry the song. "Mudmen" can't be said to be "reconstructed", anyway . . . It's just "Burning Bridges" in 4/4 instead of 3/4. That's all there is to it. It's still Rick Wright's music. Why on earth they decided to give Dave a credit for doing nothing more than his usual guitar work, I have no idea -- but remember, this was around the same time Roger Waters decided to give Nick Mason credit for "Speak To Me" on DSOTM -- a gift, for the sake of royalties. There's nothing you could actually call rewriting here.

Gilmour seemed to be the band's driving force behind this project.

Seems to you. And maybe many other people. But it's not a fact.

His lead guitar work is very prominent throughout the album, particularly on "The Gold It's in the..." which he sings himself.

"Which he sings himself"? You mean, as opposed to all those songs on which Roger and Rick held him down and poked him in the diaphragm until the right sounds came out of his mouth?

The song "Childhood's End" was credited only to Gilmour without his usual help from Roger Waters in the lyrical department, however Waters contributed the lyrics to all other songs. It is said to have been inspired by Arthur C. Clarke's novel of the same name, though this is not borne out by the lyrics.

That last statement's arguable, but whatever.

Roger Waters only wrote one song by himself . . . .

Aargh . . . while co-writing just about every other song on the album, you mean? Lord, the spin in here is making me DIZZY.

Roger Waters only wrote one song by himself, "Free Four," but his minimal songwriting did not go un-noticed.

Wait. Little Davy Gilmour writes a song by himself, and he's the "driving force", but when Mean Ol' Rog writes a song by himself, that's "minimal"? Excuse me, but WHOSE name is that, that keeps appearing in the songwriting credits to nearly every song on the album, again??

Do you like to tell outright lies, too? Or do you just confine yourself to massive distortion and intellectual dishonesty?

--63.25.8.245 (talk) 20:41, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reclassification-Quality

I have been bold and reclassified the article's quality. It would take a large stretch of the imagination to call this a stub. John Wormell (talk) 04:23, 22 May 2008 (UTC)