Music CD - Pink Floyd: Atom Heart Mother

	Music CD: Atom Heart Mother Artist: Pink Floyd List Price: $17.98 Our Price: $7.99 Your Save: $ 9.99 ( 56% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Capitol
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Tracks: 1. Atom Heart Mother: Father's Shout/Breast Milky/Mother Fore/Funky Dung/Mind Your Throats Please/Remergence 2. If 3. Summer '68 4. Fat Old Sun 5. Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast: Rise And Shine/Sunny Side Up/Morning Glory
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0077774638128 Label: Capitol Manufacturer: Capitol Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Capitol Release Date: 1990-10-25 Studio: Capitol
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: perfect in every way Comment: Atom Heart Mother is an interesting album because it captures the turning point of Pink Floyd. The music contains the mysterious innovation and creativity of A Saucerful of Secrets (with some Kinks influences) but it *sounds* more like the laidback, bombastic Dark Side-era period of the band. I personally don't understand where ANY of the complaints are coming from that mention the album is loaded with too much pointless noodling. Where? Oh, you mean the sounds of bacon frying in a pan (with all the pops and cracks of the meat smoking- hey, that kind of precise detail is pretty darn cool!) Well I have news for you- that particular sound can only be heard in the final track (in the beginning of "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast") and that's about it folks as far as the "pointless noodling and effects" are concerned. The rest of the album is dominated with highly enjoyable, listenable and creative musical ideas. Track one, the title song (with its many various themes) is nearly 24 minutes long, and what exactly can you expect from THIS magnificent song? Besides sounding totally mysterious like a dark cloud is about to cover over the entire planet, it features such musical instruments as violins, keyboard swirls, dreamy/creepy guitar parts, loud and exciting drumming, and a female choir. Each theme blends perfectly into the next one. After THAT gigantic piece of beauty is over, you are then about to experience the softer, more pop/rock melodic side of the band. Do you like that song "Mother" from the Wall? If the answer is yes, then "If", "Summer of '68" and "Fat Old Sun" are certainly similar to that song in terms of melody and quiet atmosphere. However, "Mother" doesn't contain as much creativity by way of instrumental variety that these three tracks do. Listen carefully behind the vocal melodies and focus on each musical instrument. The music is so creative on this album you can just fall in love with what's going on in the background. The final track features incredibly beautiful guitar lines that slowly (but excitedly) drift and drift and DRIFT some more, and some good piano playing in the beginning. Simply put, a very colorful album all around. Customer Rating: Summary: underrated album Comment: This has been one of my favorite Floyd albums for many years.The title track is truly bizzare,smooth,funky,weird,and totally unlike anything else Floyd has done before or since.There are three songs written individually by the members.If,Summer68 and Fat Old Sun.These three songs sound more traditional with Gilmour's Fat Old Sun being the best.The album ends with an interesting but forgetable instrumental.This album is all about the title track for me and the rest is just an added bonus. Customer Rating: Summary: 3.5 Stars Comment: Ahh! Now we're starting to get into some serious Pink Floyd. At this point, Floyd has distanced itself from the great, early Syd Barrett material, and is closing in on Roger Waters's own greatness. I think of this album as the band's last, great experiment, before really finding their sound. Some "get" this album...most don't, as it can be rather inaccessible. Customer Rating: Summary: Amazing Comment: I have never done drugs. Honest. But this album made me hallucinate. Made the room spin. It was 1976, I was on a leather couch in my sister's apartment, alone, and put this record on. (They were on records back then.) Amazing. Groundbreaking. If you want to safely open your mind without chemicals, this is the way to go. Customer Rating: Summary: Pink Floyd's grand start to the 1970s 37 years on! Comment: Pink Floyd's fifth album Atom Heart Mother was released in October of 1970. Atom Heart Mother was one of the band's more daring to date and was one their best in their so-called transitional period. I remember first getting this on cassette tape from my dad in August of 1987 and was just in awe on how great this album was and still is today (I have the remastered CD now). Pink Floyd's history is really divided in five parts. First was the Syd Barrett era (1966-68), next was the transitional era (1968-70), then it was the classic Floyd era (1971-75), followed by the Waters era (1976-83) and lastly the post-Waters era (1987-today). Atom Heart Mother was recorded at Abbey Road Studios and was produced by Pink Floyd and engineered by Peter Bown and Alan Parsons. The album begins with the 23 and a half minute title cut which took up the whole of the first side of the original album and combined classical with rock with funk with avant-garde and was split into six parts(Father's Shout(with low E chord going into the track), Breast Milky (with the cello playing alongside Roger Waters' bass and Rick Wright's organ before giving away to some great overdubbed guitar work from David Gilmour and stellar drumming by Nick Mason), Mother Fore (which introduces us to the John Aldiss Choir), Funky Dung (my favorite section of the piece which combined David's guitar soloing with the choir doing some off-the-wall chants and worked excellent), Mind Your Throats Please(included some mellotron from Rick and tape effects which predates Dark Side) and the piece concludes with Remergence which was a summary of all of the parts of the album). The piece was written by all four Floyd members and Ron Geesin whom wrote the choral and orchestral parts on the track and worked with Roger on his solo debut Music From the Body. The second half of the album/CD contained three shorter tracks starting with Waters' ballad "If" which is a great song and he would subsequently play it live on his Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking and Radio KAOS tours. Next is Wright's "Summer 68" and is one of his best numbers. We then have the atmospheric Gilmour masterpiece "Fat Old Sun" which was his first song he penned lyrics for by himself and is a beautiful song. The song would be resurrected for David Gilmour's unplugged concerts in London in 2001 and 2002 which is documented on his David Gilmour in Concert DVD and played it on his 2006 tour which is on the Remember That Night DVD. The album concludes with the 13 minute instrumental "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" which is a homage to Floyd's then roadie Alan Stiles and a collage of music and sound effects like water dripping, eating food, cooking and mumbling (eggs, bacon, marmalade) all recorded in Nick Mason's kitchen. The song is split in three parts (Rise and Shine (which combined piano, hi-hat, guitar and organ), Sunny Side Up (which is all acoustic guitar and sounds like an early version of A Pillow of Winds which would appear on the band's next disc Meddle) and Morning Glory(which has the intro to Rise and Shine that gives way into a jam and concludes with the water dripping). Atom Heart Mother was a sign of great things to come for the band and was the band's second disc to crack the American Top 100 peaking at a modest #55 and eventually went Gold in later years. This was another stepping stone to the band's eventual world domination despite the fact that most of the band despise this album. This CD was digitally remastered by Doug Sax in 1994 and sounds better than the original CD issued by Capitol in 1987 by a longshot. Highly recommended! More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: In the grand, color-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. 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 György Ligeti's vocal works and then almost atonal pulses of keyboards that mask reams of audio snippets swirling underneath. And then 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." There's a range of emotion here, from doleful to crazed to humorous (especially the dramatized comments on macrobiotics in the closer). 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. --Andrew Bartlett