Art In It's Most Splendid Beauty
It's true Atom Heart Mother is quite artful and the art brings out a definate beauty. It took me a few listens to get used to the album but now it has become a floyd favorite for me. Listening to floyd from before 1970 and not liking it may drive you away from giving this album a chance. Don't be fooled this album is a true highlight in any collection.1.Atom Heart Mother-I enjoy instrumentals and I found this one trully interesting. I mean not many people can say i sat down and listen to a song that was a half hour long. One part leads into the next beatifully, and if you trully love pink floyd you will listen to this the whole way through.
2.If-Not to bad of a song. A typical Waters song I thought. The guitar is very nice and perfectlly played out. The lyrics are very pretty as well.
3.Summer of '68-I enjoy Wright's songs. They are peacful. This song is the definitive of that peacfulness. It puts you in a good mood.
4.Fat Old Sun-Ilove this song!! It was my first favorite on the album. It pictures a beautiful summer evening. This song also puts me in a good mood.
5.Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast-People conplain how they do not enjoy this one. The seperate peices are actually very good, it reflects the talent of the band as a whole.
This is a Pink Floyd album that can be enjoyed by Sid Barret Lover's and Post Dark Side of The Moon fans. I suggest you Pick it up.
One Of Pink Floyd's Best
I hold this CD up in the ranks with my other top Pink Floyd albums Animals, Meddle, Wish You Were Here, and More. Atom Heart Mother really shows how good the band could be without Syd Barrett and it really does show. Their musical talent of rock is mixed with an orchestra of instruments on many of the songs, which is a plus in this case.
1. Atom Heart Mother: Father's Shout/Breast Milky/Mother Fore/Funky Dung/Mind Your Throats Please/Remergence : Excellent Song, Great Chorus Instrumental, Interesting Guitar Work (On some parts reminiscent of "For Yasgur's Farm" by Mountain) 10/10
2. If : Very Mellow, Really showcases Water's voice which is usually used to a whinier degree in others. 10/10
3. Summer '68 : Great song, great transition from sort of mellow to the rocking chorus. 10/10
4. Fat Old Sun: Good guitar work, but mostly just guitar in this. 9/10
5. Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast: Rise And Shine/Sunny Side Up/Morning Glory : Interesting song, mostly kitchen sounds of breakfast, interesting when the music actually comes in also. 10/10
great pink floyd cd
this was yet another experimental album from floyd which in my humble opinion was also very much underrated and i still like it after owning this great cd after all these years.very highly recommended.
I fall asleep!
Yes I fall asleep BIIIIIIG TIME, can a pop record be indeed so boring? Yes it can!
This is UGLY, BAD, STUPID AND DUMB
An experience, to say the least
If you've only heard Dark Side of the Moon, the Wall, and Wish You Were Here, you aren't seeing all of Pink Floyd.
This album is best experienced by sitting through the whole thing in silence. If you're one who only likes to listen to one song at a time, you'll find this one hard to get into. The first song, Atom Heart Mother, is 25 minutes! It takes you on a crazy journey, starting off uneasy and moving into a mellow melody just as you're thinking you want to get up and switch the track. They keep this mood up throughout the album, setting up moods, then "harshening your mellow," then quickly returning to sanity just as you're not usre you want to hear any more.
Truly a masterpiece to be experienced as a whole!
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