Fat Old Sun (track) by Pink Floyd

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Fat Old Sun by Pink Floyd
Year: 1970
From the album Atom Heart Mother (track #4)

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86/100 (from 275 votes)

     

Fat Old Sun appears on the following album(s) by Pink Floyd:

• Atom Heart Mother (track #4) (this album) (1970)

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Rating	Date updated	Member	Track ratings	Avg. track rating
90/100	4 days ago	Kettwig	14,994	92/100
85/100	08/24/2025 19:08	ExTeaSea	8,991	87/100
85/100	08/07/2025 03:32	alexandermause	13,906	85/100
75/100	06/29/2025 21:53	II	3,449	67/100
90/100	06/01/2025 19:23	Larynx	646	83/100

Rating metrics: Outliers can be removed when calculating a mean average to dampen the effects of ratings outside the normal distribution. This figure is provided as the trimmed mean. A high standard deviation can be legitimate, but can sometimes indicate 'gaming' is occurring. Consider a simplified example* of an item receiving ratings of 100, 50, & 0. The mean average rating would be 50. However, ratings of 55, 50 & 45 could also result in the same average. The second average might be more trusted because there is more consensus around a particular rating (a lower deviation).
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This track is rated in the top 2% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 85.6/100, a mean average of 85.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.0/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.9.

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From Fritz 11/01/2021 17:01

Top5 Gilmour solos, maybe top 3

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From Sonoffatboy 04/11/2018 00:04

One of the most criminally underrated Floyd Songs, from the bells to the solo, pure heaven

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From Mother Nature's Son 08/16/2015 16:24

This one always reminds me of The Beatles' "Long, Long, Long". For the most part an extremely quiet one, but beautiful.

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From PrinterCat 10/10/2014 22:28

I really like the rest of the album, but this I really couldn't get into.

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From arthur237 10/07/2014 18:37

Brilliant solo

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