Talk:Obscured by Clouds/GA1

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Reviewer: FunkMonk (talk · contribs) 09:04, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

• How can I resist? My favourite of the Pink Floyd soundtracks, will review soon. I don't think every single song warrants a stub, but that's not your problem... FunkMonk (talk) 09:04, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

I don't either, but I'm going to revisit that at a later date. I've struggled to find source material, and the article is a bit shorter than I'd have anticipated, but the general Floyd sources only give it a cursory mention. It is absolutely an overlooked gem in the Floyd discography. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 09:28, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

In that case, individual articles are even less warranted; if so little information is available, it should be concentrated here. FunkMonk (talk) 09:58, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

I agree with you, but if I'm going to get a repeat of this and this, I may lose the will to live :-/ Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 10:12, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

A Sisyphean task indeed, just had to make that joke... FunkMonk (talk) 10:19, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

• "designed by Hipgnosis" Do we know by who specifically? Storm Thorgerson perhaps?

It was Storm and Po. I've got another source and added a few other tidbits. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 09:41, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

Nice! FunkMonk (talk) 09:58, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

• "Barbet Schroeder" Could he be introduced (French director or some such)?
• "for La Vallée" State that it is a film, and what kind, perhaps (so we don't think it's a short film or such)?
• "they had agreed to do after More had become a success." Could one "had" be cut, maybe? Seems repetitive.

I've rewritten this portion which addresses all three above issues in one go. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 10:53, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

• "working on The Dark Side of the Moon at this point" Though this seems obvious, perhaps state this was a "regular" album?

I've copyedited this; I've said DSOTM is "another album" in this context and whether or not Obscured By Clouds is a "regular" album seems to be open to debate. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 10:53, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

• "Arthur C Clarke" C.?

Fixed Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 10:53, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

• Is there no more description of the songs themselves available?

I've dropped in an intro and reorganised the mention of the VCS3. The article said this is the second album to feature it, which is kind-of-correct as it had already been recorded for DSOTM by that point, but Obscure by Clouds was the first use of it to be commercially released. I've changed it to just "featured the VCS3" to avoid this.

• "was issued in the US only." Not stated in the article body.

D'oh, fixed Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 10:53, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

• Perhaps mention the name of the French studio in the article body as well?

Don't see why not Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 10:53, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

• Another quick one finished, so I'll pass this now. And thanks for deleting that malformed redirect I made! --FunkMonk (talk) 12:56, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

No worries, thanks for the review and a big shout out to JG66 for giving it a bit of a spit and polish too. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 13:00, 26 April 2017 (UTC)