Album of the day (#5306): Atom Heart Mother by Pink Floyd - Music

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Atom Heart Mother by Pink Floyd (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1970.
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Overall rank: 610
Average rating: 78/100 (from 1279 votes).

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

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II

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Album of the day? That's it. II've been wanting to listen to this album again for a long while. II'm gonna do it now.

II've been listening to Pink Floyd's albums: The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here & Animals. And for a very few times: Meddle & The Wall.
But eventually, Atom Heart Mother has become my absolute favorite Pink Floyd album! (considering II've been listening to their other music for so long, but who knows if my opinion will change in the future Think

)
This album has epic orchestration and melodies, and sounds quite ahead of its time in 1970 with this kind of production! Their albums since this one don't sound close to it.
The opening track "Atom Heart Mother Suite" is still one of the best compositions II've ever heard from Pink Floyd, even since when II only listened to it and not the rest of the album, and even after so many over 10 minutes epic long songs have somewhat aged kinda badly for me.
Summer '68 is epic! II like the switch from the beautiful-sounding piano in D major to the horns in D minor in the choruses. II would even say it's one of the best songs of all time.
Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast is not as bad for me as it has been critically-received. It has nice-sounding sections and the last part "Morning Glory" is amazing.

II guess II should listen to more symphonic prog albums from now on. But II wonder if at least one album sounds like Atom Heart Mother, since most prog albums of the 70s seem to have synths instead of real strings.

melisandre

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Yeah, good analysis from II Cool

I listened to this album and Umagumma for the first time yesterday and I liked them. It’s a shame that critics and the band themselves have given these records something of a hard time. Sure they are all over the place but they are interesting, at least, and have plenty of great moments. I haven’t listened enough to have settled my opinions on this band, but I’m enjoying their earlier stuff at the moment and also Barret’s solo albums.

Johnnyo

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II wrote:

Album of the day? That's it. II've been wanting to listen to this album again for a long while. II'm gonna do it now.

II've been listening to Pink Floyd's albums: The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here & Animals. And for a very few times: Meddle & The Wall.
But eventually, Atom Heart Mother has become my absolute favorite Pink Floyd album! (considering II've been listening to their other music for so long, but who knows if my opinion will change in the future Think

)
This album has epic orchestration and melodies, and sounds quite ahead of its time in 1970 with this kind of production! Their albums since this one don't sound close to it.
The opening track "Atom Heart Mother Suite" is still one of the best compositions II've ever heard from Pink Floyd, even since when II only listened to it and not the rest of the album, and even after so many over 10 minutes epic long songs have somewhat aged kinda badly for me.
Summer '68 is epic! II like the switch from the beautiful-sounding piano in D major to the horns in D minor in the choruses. II would even say it's one of the best songs of all time.
Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast is not as bad for me as it has been critically-received. It has nice-sounding sections and the last part "Morning Glory" is amazing.

II guess II should listen to more symphonic prog albums from now on. But II wonder if at least one album sounds like Atom Heart Mother, since most prog albums of the 70s seem to have synths instead of real strings.

Nice summation of one of my favourite Floyd albums. I’ll have a Think about 70’s prog with strings. There’s quite a few out there.

II

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Age: 100

Location: Questionmarkland. You ask: "Where is that land?" There is no answer. Only a ?

melisandre wrote:

Yeah, good analysis from II Cool

I listened to this album and Umagumma for the first time yesterday and I liked them. It’s a shame that critics and the band themselves have given these records something of a hard time. Sure they are all over the place but they are interesting, at least, and have plenty of great moments. I haven’t listened enough to have settled my opinions on this band, but I’m enjoying their earlier stuff at the moment and also Barret’s solo albums.

Johnnyo wrote:

Nice summation of one of my favourite Floyd albums. I’ll have a Think about 70’s prog with strings. There’s quite a few out there.

Thank you all Smile

Based on how troublesome was for Pink Floyd to perform the Atom Heart Mother suite live, seems like an orchestra wasn't as affordable and commercialable as the synths which were hyped and brand new to use in the 70's, and became a standard for prog music back then. Overall, the album was kind of a blueprint for the rest of the 70's for Pink Floyd to express their ideas more directly as much as possible, and perhaps critics found their ambitiousness overexcessive based on the jumbly grandoise longer than the average pieces and production.
Still despite all of this, this album manages to be an amazing experience Applause

II guess II should listen to some of their earlier stuff.