Pink Floyd fans point to one album as having the band’s best ‘deep cut’ songs

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While they may have a discography full of all-time greats, Pink Floyd issued a few hidden gems and deep cuts worth hearing.

Fans believe they’ve found the best of the bunch too, and took to the r/PinkFloyd subreddit to share their thoughts on what may be the band’s best deep cut. While Ummagumma, The Final Cut, and A Momentary Lapse of Reason can be considered deep cuts compared with the success and staying power of The Wall and Wish You Were Here, this pre-The Dark Side of the Moon release has fans thrilled. Obscured by Clouds would release just a year before The Dark Side of the Moon and serves as the soundtrack to La Vallée. Pink Floyd were no strangers to soundtrack work, with another album, More, also used as a soundtrack. Meddle would also be used as a soundtrack album, while parts of The Dark Side of the Moon had been intended for a film but were instead used for their breakout 1973 release.

Fans believe Obscured by Clouds, their third soundtrack effort, is a deep cut worth hearing. One fan asked: “What’s your favourite ‘deep cut’ Pink Floyd track? Meaning the kind of song most casual Pink Floyd listeners would probably not be familiar with. Mine is probably Wot’s Uh the Deal.”

The top-voted comment credited Obscured by Clouds as the release with the best deep cuts from the band. A fan wrote: “Lot of love for Obscured by Clouds so far. Loving it. Childhood’s End and Free Four for me.” Another agreed, adding: “The entire Obscured by Clouds album. Definitely projects shades of The Dark Side of the Moon’s progressive tempo. That’s definitely a sleeper.”

Other users pointed to Jugaband Blues as one of the best, with one calling it a “haunting track” and “one of Syd [Barret]’s very best.”

In a four-star review of Obscured by Clouds, Cult Following praised the band for pushing through the burn out that came before Roger Waters and company rallied for The Dark Side of the Moon. It reads: “Obscured by Clouds still holds up. There is a slack sensibility to it, a sense of daringness not from trying to push for a new sound but from accepting the fundamentals of the soundtrack task at hand.

“Stay feels like an instrumental push in the right direction, a farewell to the sound which made Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother so invigorating. Obscured by Clouds’ closing track, the spaced-out Absolutely Curtains, is the fine line for Pink Floyd, where they touch on the everyday effectiveness of a slight, tongue-in-cheek development but pair it with an instrumental depth, a daring range, which pushes the band to that next level. This is an important step, a crossover moment for Pink Floyd, and it still shows.”