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Much like the band's double album Ummagumma - which was released a year earlier - Atom Heart Mother is structured such that one half of the record features tracks that contain the full band, with the other half focusing on individual members. Although it does sprawl around somewhat, the 'Atom Heart Mother Suite' manages to stay interesting and relevant throughout - an impressive feat for a nearly 24-minute-long track, it has to be said.

Father's Shout, for example, is a progressive piece that impresses with its dramatic use of a brass section and a cleverly utilized Hammond organ by contrast, the psychedelic groove of the Funky Dung section is propelled forward by none other than the use of an (oddly spooky) choir and David Gilmour's trademark sustain notes alongside a mellotron. The Suite comes in six parts - all of which have the benefit of diverse and strangely intriguing titles: namely Father's Shout, Breast Milky, Mother Fore, Funky Dung, Mind Your Throats Please, and Reemergence - with each section having a distinct mood and feel to it. The opening 'Atom Heart Mother Suite' turns out to be an incredibly focused and well-written piece of lounge music - despite the band's claims to the contrary. Indeed, across the years there has been more than a sack-full of derogatory comments from several former Floyd members on the state of their fifth-ever studio effort the most colourful of them are 'Atom Heart Mother is a good case, I think, for being thrown into the dustbin and never listened to by anyone ever again!' (Roger Waters, circa 1985) and 'God, it's s**t, possibly our lowest point artistically' (David Gilmour, in Mojo Magazine, circa 2001).īut in all honesty, Atom Heart Mother is seriously not that bad - not by any stretch of the imagination in fact, it's probably better than your average band's shot at a fifth album. However, in the case of Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother, the band in question is probably just being a little too hard on themselves. When a band goes on record to say that an album of theirs sucks, it's usually a warning worth taking heed of - and certainly as close as one can get to a absolutely honest, sentiment-free critical appraisal. For those who know Pink Floyd solely through lyric dominated albums such as 'The Wall' and later 'dehydrated' Floyd albums, however, it may come as something of a shock.Review Summary: Pink Floyd's hidden gem - The Dark Side of the Moo.

This album is unique and a 'must' for any serious Floyd fan. The music is not as strong as the title track, but there is that certain 'something' about it (and the album as a whole) that keeps me coming back for more. The album concludes with 'Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast' another instrumental suite punctuated by sound effects and a backround voice. In my opinion these songs are all stronger then the short songs from Meddle. 'If' is memorable as Water's first 'list song' and includes possibly his first references to insanity : 'If I go insane, please don't put your wires in my brain', and 'Fat Old Sun' is a beautiful sleepy Guilour effort. While none of them can be described as 'high impact' songs, all three have a haunting simplicity and the best lyrics up to that point. Side 2 of the lp consists of three songs, 'If', 'Summer of '67' and 'Fat old Sun' written by Waters, Wright and Guilmour respectively. The musical themes themselves are both noble and grand in nature and the Suite is, quite simply an astonishing piece of music which is comparable to such modern classics as Holst's 'The Planets'. Whereas Echoes was built largely on the quality and texture of sound itself, beginning with that repeated and distorted keyboard note, AHM is based on musical themes which are repeated and developed in the classical style throughout the piece.

Apart from its length and the fact that it is largely instrumental, it bears little resemblance to 'Echoes' from the 'Meddle' album. The album opener, 'Atom Heart Mother Suite' (side 1 of the lp) is a 23 minute epic. This is largely due to the influence of Ron Geesin who co-wrote the title track and the use of brass instruments and a choir to add texture and colour to the sound. Something of an enigma among their work, this is the one Floyd album which doesn't have the trade mark 'Pink Floyd Sound' be it the cosmic / nursery rhyme feel of the Syd Barrett era or the tight, lyrics dominated Roger Waters era. Atom Heart Mother Album Review By James Caulfield'Atom Heart Mother' - best album title and containing the best song title ever : 'Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast'!

Atom heart mother suite