Pink Floyd, Roger Waters - Atom Heart Mother

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1	Atom Heart Mother: Father's Shout/Breast Milky/Mother Fore/Funky Dung/Mind Your Throats Please/Remergence
2	If
3	Summer '68
4	Fat Old Sun
5	Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast: Rise And Shine/Sunny Side Up/Morning Glory

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Original Release Date: October 5, 1970 Track Listing: 1. Atom Heart Mother: Father's Shout/Breast Milky/Mother Fore/Funky Dung/Mind Your Throats Please/Remergence 2. If 3. Summer '68 4. Fat Old Sun 5. Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast: Rise And Shine/Sunny Side Up/Morning Glory

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In the grand, color-bending tradition of psychedelic experimentalism, Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother takes as its title an inscrutable phrase and under the title launches a similarly inscrutable--or at least dense--musical concatenation. The title suite features French-horn-led brass melodies riffed on by David Gilmour's guitar and the rhythm section, all of which veers into choral passages that recall György Ligeti's vocal works and then almost atonal pulses of keyboards that mask reams of audio snippets swirling underneath. And then there's some moody folk from Roger Waters, an almost Kinks-ish rambler from Richard Wright, then more moody folk (this time from Gilmour) on "Fat Old Sun," and, to close, the spirited melodic runaround of "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast." There's a range of emotion here, from doleful to crazed to humorous (especially the dramatized comments on macrobiotics in the closer). Atom Heart Mother was a spotlight ahead for Pink Floyd, showing the extensions of form the band would engage in so successfully on Dark Side of the Moon just a few short years later. --Andrew Bartlett

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 4.94 x 0.45 inches; 3.85 Ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Capitol
SPARS Code ‏ : ‎ DDD
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ July 25, 2006
Label ‏ : ‎ Capitol
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000002U9W
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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L. Smith

Very Esoteric …. Grows on you.

Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2023

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You will need to spend some quality time with this one. The listening experience gets richer with each spin. Not the most accessible album but the rewards are there.

Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2022

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Atom Heart Mother is one of those special Pink Floyd albums that comes between the early Barrett and Dark Side. That is to say it’s like neither. Largely instrumental, and spanning genres, it’s a hard album to easily sum up. ‘If’, ‘Summer 68’, and ‘Fat Old Sun’ are the only vocal tracks and they are as brilliant as they are beautiful. In my estimation Atom Heart Mother shares a greater affinity to British folk and perhaps even more British indie from the 90’s on. It surely is not the psychedelic rock anthem laden Dark Side. In other words, the recommendation that if one likes Pink Floyd generally or their later 70’s material specifically then get AHM does not stand. That said, the reverse may be true. The same could be said of the Barrett era Floyd.

So yes, this is a great album of dreamy instrumentals, lovely pastoral English folk, and, as I believe, proto-English indie.

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Scott Hedegard

interesting transitional album

Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2013

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What exactly made the rock and roll of the mid 1960's to the late 1970's so exciting, experimental and sometimes monumental in scope, with masterpieces like "Pet Sounds", "Abbey Road", "Dark Side of the Moon", "Physical Graffiti", etc.? It's actually not a big mystery although one might think so. The secret was simple: the record executives of the big labels of the day were older, came from a different musical generation and to them all of these bands were over their heads, so they measured their worth by word of mouth, live gigs or just plain chance. Now, music is broken down, analyzed, categorized and beaten to death before it ever gets out. Bands are thrown into certain genres, never to stray. Hence, many fans have been suckered into this trap too, and have become ridiculously intolerant of their favorite outfits stretching creative boundaries, trying new looks or anything else. It's stupid, but society is oversimplified and demands strict regimentation while all the while deluding itself into thinking it's free thinking and lives on the "edge".
Which is why we'll never repeat the days of music taking chances like Pink Floyd's storied career, going from pure insane psychedelia with Syd Barrett to proto-industrial and jazzy on "Dark Side of the Moon" to paranoid and conceptual on "The Wall". Were Floyd to start today, they would not be allowed to move past their debut album's sound, or would do so at their own risk. "Atom Heart Mother" is not one of their stronger albums, and does not get mentioned as one of their essentials, but it is nonetheless an important developing stage for Pink Floyd.
Other bands, most notably Deep Purple, the Moody Blues and Frank Zappa had been toying with classical influences and to some that led to the bloated progressive music of Yes and ELP. However, while recognizing that classical music is the most influential form of Western music, it can be very dull and equally pretentious. Pink Floyd managed on "Atom Heart Mother" to avoid the dull stuff, and utilized orchestral instruments to a more psychedelic direction. The album thus contains some orchestration but also has plenty of what is becoming the more recognized Floyd sound, with Rick Wright's organ and David Gilmour stepping in more confidently as the master guitarist he is. A few quiet pieces separate the two larger movements, and the album ends with "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast", which is more sedate than the title might suggest, but still interesting in its merging of the musical instruments of the past with the sonic experimentation that defined the trippy music of 1970.
Hard core fans are advised to check "Atom Heart Mother" out, and new fans need to be cautioned that this is not what they may expect, as is the case with anything pre-"Meddle" era Pink Floyd. This CD falls just shy of where "Meddle" takes off. It's a good CD on its own, and very much shows the progress of one of the world's greatest bands of all time.

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M. Carson

The ingredients are all lined up

Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2015

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Looking back with 20/20 hindsight at what was Pink Floyd at the time of this release and what they were evolving into and even what they eventually became at the end in a way effects my ability to judge this album. I was too young to know the band when it was released so judging it as a "stand alone album from an up and coming "psychedelic British rock band during the British Invasion" is not possible for me. I have always been able to listen to this album and the next minute listen to The Wall or DSotM. What I like about listening to this album decades after it's release and once I could practically recite all albums from DSotM onward is the ability to catch a "fleeting glimpse" of the amazing journey that was to start for the group in a few years. Splashes of brilliance in music and lyrics, maybe not quite perfected. Riffs and notes that sounding like haunting foreshadowing to the next decade. With the wisdom of hindsight, I sort of consider this the first of three albums of the journey to greatness following the departure of Sid and the discovery of their new path and identity. Is it their best work...no. Would I recommend to someone unfamiliar with Floyd...no. Is every song memorable, again no. But it does fill in a slot in their progression nicely and you can almost FEEL the 1960's going on as changes in both music and the process of recording music were occurring daily. I think of it this way....its like baking a cake. This album was all the ingredients laid out on the counter. Meddle was the batter, all the elements present and mixed together, everything is there in the bowl and it's delicious (and sometimes who doesn't like the batter more than the actual cake). DSotM was the cake, perfectly baked, amazing and worth the wait. (Yes I know I skipped Obscured by Clouds, and it could fit into the narrative ok, but for me AHM fits it a bit better). So enjoy it as part of the journey you take with Floyd if you like them from the beginning to the end and this is a journey you wish to take. This is an album where the pieces are all together if you listen, just not quite assembled in the way they will be later when super stardom struck. They could not have made their "masterpiece" albums without making this one first as they learned, grew and experimented and you can almost feel those things happening.

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paul vrablic

great older floyd

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2023

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own it on vinyl but now I can listen to it while traveling

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chiquinho

Disco maravilhoso

Reviewed in Brazil on January 14, 2023

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Um dos meus discos favoritos do Pink floyd, excelente gravação, um clássico,entrega rápida e disco veio perfeito....adorei.

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gordo tavares

dentro do prazo

Reviewed in Brazil on March 8, 2020

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produto chegou de acordo com o combinado, otima qualidade. valeu

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Cosima

Genial

Reviewed in Germany on June 10, 2023

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Der wichtigste Punkt. Pink Floyd niemals auf CD oder anderen digitalen Medien hören. Pink Floyd funktioniert nur auf Vinyl und dann auch nur auf hochwertigen Anlagen bzw Anlagen aus den 70ern und 80ern. Ein hochwertiger Plattenspieler mit einem guten Tonabnehmersystem ist Pflicht (ein Billigplattenspieler klingt eher nach Kofferradio als nach gutem Sound und macht die Platten auch kaputt), dafür bekommt man auch authentische Musik, die an Qualität nichts zu wünschen übrig lässt.
Höhepunkt, der Titeltrack von 23 Minuten. Einfach nur genial.

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Victor

A snapshot of evolution

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 25, 2021

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Even the band themselves do not claim to look back on this album with great affection. Yet it does demonstrate an important landmark in the band's development, not least because it attained their first UK number one album. The brass and choir arrangements (accredited to Ron Geesin) complement the themes, which were often played on tour by the four members themselves, without the brass or choir. There is a natural progression between Ummagumma, this and Meddle. For example, Echoes (on Meddle) would probably not have been composed with AHM coming before hand. The one paradox to me is the Summer '68 was the only track on the album never performed live. Fat Old Sun was performed live, often as a 15 minute opus, rather then the lightweight ditty on the album.
As something of a fanatic, I look at this album as snapshot of evolution and certainly one exemplifying a highly creative episode within my favourite period of the band's development 1969 to 1971.

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Roberto

Ottimo

Reviewed in Italy on June 2, 2023

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Bellissimo disco in vinile. Chi ama i Pink Floyd non può non avere anche questo Lp.

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