Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
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Free Music Review: Searching for identity
Hit: 3 Stars
3 1/2
Captures Floyd beginning to merge their psychedelic pathos with more constructed orchestrations, this splendid combination with next year's Meddle feels like a great double-disc (after all, many themes from the bloated Classical homage title track do reappear on the equally extended Echoes). Still, Beatles-channeling and all, Atom Heart is a worthy pre-DS addition.
Free Music Review: Experimental and excellent
Hit: 5 Stars
This is definitely one of Floyd's wierder albums, but the Atom Heart Mother Suite is one of the best pieces they ever wrote period! Most bands struggle to write more than 20 minutes of worthwhile music in their whole career. Pink Floyd managed to do it on a single album.
Even the psychadelic breakfast has its perks, strange as it may be.
Free Music Review: perfect in every way
Hit: 5 Stars
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.
Free Music Review: underrated album
Hit: 5 Stars
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.Free Music Review: 3.5 Stars
Hit: 4 Stars
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.