If I’m skimping on the details its because I don’t see much of a theme in the music apart from a couple of the song titles, themselves rushed. The movie’s plot, as far as I know, is about some people who decide to decamp to New Guinea as part of some hippy ideal. Described by Nick Mason as ‘the first of the interruptions’ to the recording of Dark Side, was produced in the same way as More, with stopwatches recording sequences from the completed film and then recorded in two weeks, it has the sense of a throwaway, but it features one or two little gems. It’s a lost album, coming between Meddle and The Dark Side of the Moon and reaching none of either album’s heights. It is, in fact, a photo of a man swinging from a tree, blurred out of focus and recognition. This one, 1972’s Obscured By Clouds, has what looks like a load of bubbles on the cover. I mentioned elsewhere on this admittedly slow lane of the information superhighway that nobody I knew as a teenager had a copy of Atom Heart Mother, but at least people knew Pink Floyd had an album with a cow on the cover.
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