Atom Heart Mother (studio album) by Pink Floyd

Atom Heart Mother by Pink Floyd
Year: 1970
Overall rank: 564th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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78/100 (from 1,246 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1970 (20th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (131st)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (564th)

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Atom Heart Mother is ranked 8th best out of 37 albums by Pink Floyd on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Pink Floyd is The Dark Side Of The Moon which is ranked number 2 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 72,076.

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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.9/100, a mean average of 76.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.0.

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85/100
From 12/27/2023 20:54
All the songs on this album are very good. It's not among my favorites from the band, because there are others that I like even more. However, it is a very well done job, with very few low points and many successes. Perhaps it would have received greater recognition if Pink Floyd hadn't released Meedle and The Dark Side Of The Moon shortly after.
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65/100
From 01/13/2023 19:18
With Pink Floyd's 1970 album "Atom Heart Mother" you sense a group that has not quite found a direction after the loss of songwriter Syd Barrett, who had to left the group in 1968. As songwriters, there are signs that both Gilmour, Waters and Wright are growing as songwriters, but it is especially in the instrumental area that "Atom Heart Mother" shows signs of what would come later of great albums.
The long 23-minutes title track suite, is in many ways akin to the long tracks on "Dark Side of the Moon" and "Wish You Were Here". The composition is almost symphonically built up around a very strong horn which is presented early, and which along the way is touched upon several times. And in its full extents is repeated towards the end. There are many different parts, some of which are subdued and melodic, while others are more harsh and noisy. The whole group is credited as writers of the track, just like the somewhat trippy final track "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast", which is also an extended track with a running time of 13 minutes.

Waters, Gilmour and Wright deliver one song each as solo-writer. Personally I find Wright's "Summer 68" the most interesting. This is almost classic Pink Floyd of the psychedelic period with Barrett. Also Gilmours near folky "Fat Old Sun" is quite solid, while Waters’ "If" is somewhat dull.

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80/100
From 10/10/2022 14:43
The last track is actually quite bad, that´s a shame, cause I really like the rest of the album, specially the symphoinic first half
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80/100
From 09/06/2022 17:15
Great record
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70/100
From 06/29/2022 22:24
This album is the beginning of the new era for Pink Floyd, changes their sound a little bit for the 70s one especially on songs like If and Fat Old Sun. Suite has better and worse moments, it could been shorter, next 3 tracks are great and the last one is weird in a bad way.
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70/100
From 06/20/2022 08:47
This is a very elongated and drawn out record by Pink Floyd where the strongest moments are found in the middle three songs. The opening and closing track are a prime example of the group being overly focused on trying to be too experimental and in the process they lose the song altogether along the way. There are some great guitar moments on the opening track that do make it decent but the last song is just pointless in my opinion. Both of these tracks make the record far longer than it needs to be and are just a waste when they clearly demonstrate they can still make top quality music. This is evidenced in the three other songs which I think are fantastic and if they made a whole record of that it would be very strong. They are short and sweet and have some brilliant instrumental moments on them. They are the only reason I come back to the record. Overall, this isn't a bad Pink Floyd album but there is room to be improved and it isn't as good as their other work.
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95/100
From 01/23/2022 21:10
I'd like to say my favourite PF album if was not for Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast... unfortunately the lowest point of the band. The suite is something unbelievable.
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85/100
From 01/20/2022 21:41
The forgotten and ignored Floyd. This deserves much more accolades than it gets. There's a couple of places where they go off on experimental noise segments that let it down a fraction but overall it rightly holds it's place in the magnificent Floyd canon. Deserves to be placed higher than some of their albums ranked above it.
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60/100
From 01/08/2022 13:49
Love Floyd - took a long while to get this album though. I enjoy it but it isn't he Floyd I love.
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From 01/05/2022 16:38
Aunque muchos reniegan de él, este me parece el mejor disco de Pink Floyd hasta que llegaron Dark Side y Wish You Were Here.
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