1. When You're In is a typical Obscured by Clouds song: solid, enjoyable, but unable to compete with a heavyweight like
Wish You Were Here.
2. Fun fact: when I was growing up, I believed (as well as many other people not very well versed in English names for animals) that Pink Floyd was named after
this... but nope, it turns out it's about two obscure bluesmen. Learning this was both disappointing (for obvious reasons) and just surprising, because PF is not Led Zeppelin, and those influences are relatively well-hidden in their wide-ranging oeuvre (Seamus being one of few exceptions, but I'm trying to forget about poor Seamus and it's cruel, cruel elimination). All of which is a long-winded way of saying that I was delighted to discover Biding My Time, which is as straight-forwardly bluesy as Pf can get. That being said, it's an easy
Childhood's End vote for me. PF was better at prog-rock than they were at blues, as it turns out.
3. Party Sequence is barely a song... not that
Interstellar Overdrive couldn't have beaten it if it were, but you know.
4. As much as I have a fondness for Obscured by Clouds the album, Obscured by Clouds the song is kinda meh.
Nobody Homes is a classic The Wall track, simple but powerful.
5. The Gnome is wacky fun, but
The Great Gig in the Skyis magnificent.
6.
Free Four was on Works and automatically has sentimental value for me because of that. Also, it's up against what's more of a bridge in between Another Brick in the Wall parts than a whole song, so yeah.
7. This is the Obscured by Clouds spotlight round huh ? Well,
One of These Days (also on Works, and probably my first favorite PF song) it's going to get cut into little pieces.
8. Don't Leave Me Now is one of those The Wall tracks that loses quite a bit outside of its context. It holds up fine still, but
If is just lovely and wins this one easily.