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Atom Heart Mother (Domestic)

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I remember when I first bought this album (on vinyl) many, many years ago. I was just a teenager then and the only other Pink Floyd albums I owned were "The Wall", "Dark Side of the Moon", "Wish You Were Here", and "Animals." I thought Pink Floyd could do no wrong. Then I bought this album. "What the hell is this?" I said to myself after the first listen. I wanted to take the record back to the store for a refund. That was my initial reaction. Then I thought about it for a while and realized I should let it try to grow on me. Maybe I would get into it after repeated listens.

It worked...to some extent. "If" and "Fat Old Sun" are the highlights for me. Both songs were performed regularly by Waters and Gilmour on their solo tours, so they must not hate those songs that much. "Summer '68" isn't bad, either, but not one of Rick Wright's best. The bulk of the album belongs to the two lengthy, psychedlic experimental pieces "Atom Heart Mother" and "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast." "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast", other than some nice guitar work by Gilmour, just isn't very good. I suppose if you play the song in the morning while you're eating breakfast, it could work on some level as background music. "Atom Heart Mother," on the other hand, is a lot better, with some great musical bits scattered about what is basically a meandering piece. It's not bad, but it pales in comparison to what they would do for the next album, "Meddle."

Is it their worst album? No. I'd rank it higher than the "studio" side of Ummagumma, and the soundtrack album "More". But it is far, far from their best.

This is definitely one of Floyd's wierder albums, but the Atom Heart Mother Suite is one of the best pieces they ever wrote period! Most bands struggle to write more than 20 minutes of worthwhile music in their whole career. Pink Floyd managed to do it on a single album.

Even the psychadelic breakfast has its perks, strange as it may be.

"Atom Heart Mother", i think is brilliant. It uses things that can't be found on any other Floyd album.
1. Atom Heart Mother: The Best song the album and PF's longest song ever (Not Considering Shine on you crazy Diamond Parts 1 & 2) Its amazing, it barely has any fillers
2. If, isnt that great. Its boring, really. Just Arpegios.
3. Summer of '68, OMG that song is amazing, the 2nd best song on the album horns guitar bass drums keyboard
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