And look what that experimentation yielded a couple albums later: Dark Side of the Moon, and all that came after. I see Pink Floyd as earnestly trying to experiment with music and explore new frontiers, exactly like Gilmour says they were doing. If they could only see the heights of insufferable pretentiousness yet to come in music culture in the 2000s, boy howdy! The usual rabble aimed at prog-rock bands the world over. And even Gilmour's criticism seems to sympathize. Here's the thing: Pink Floyd gets a bad rap for being pretentious and pseudo-intellectual. So he's willing to shrug and play it again, while denying all the time that he understands what all the fuss is about.
Meanwhile, even with Waters stating to the effect that he wouldn't perform the title track from this album for a million pounds cold, David Gilmour still took to the stage and performed the suite again in 2008. "Atom Heart Mother" sounds like we didn’t have any idea between us, but we became much more prolific after it." I listened to that album recently: God, it's shit, possibly our lowest point artistically. > ".the long piece "Atom Heart Mother." That was a good idea but it was dreadful. Despite the fact that the album was commercially successful at the time, both Roger Waters and David Gilmour have run it down ever since. My benevolence towards Atom Heart Mother seems to run contrary to most fans' opinion and even to the artist themselves. This is also the era of Pink Floyd when I considered them to be an alternative jam-band / stoner-rock choice if you're tired of Grateful Dead but you're also not in a Deep Purple mood. It doesn't make my top-10 or anything, but I consider it a solid entry in the Pink Floyd canon at the time, "at the time" being Pink Floyd's earlier output (1965-1972, handily covered in the box set The Early Years). LP - 180 Gram Vinyl - Stereo Remastered in Gatefold Sleeve.I have always loved Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother. '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.ĬD - The new discovery version presents the original studio album, digitally remastered by James Guthrie and reissued with newly designed Digipak and a new 12 page booklet designed by Storm Thorgerson. Pink Floyd offers a range of emotion here, from doleful to crazed to humorous (especially the dramatised comments on macrobiotics in the closer). 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'.
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 Gyorgy Ligeti's vocal works and then almost atonal pulses of keyboards that mask reams of audio snippets swirling underneath. In the grand, colour-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.
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This was the band's first recording with an orchestra, the title track 'The Atom Heart Mother Suite' taking up a full side of the original vinyl release. Pink Floyd's first UK number 1 album was released in 1970.
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