Floyd fans: Your opinion of Atom Heart Mother?

probably one of my fave PF albums, but gawd, i haven't listened to them since highschool

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A little note about "Fat Old Sun," I read somewhere that it was Gilmour's first real guitar solo and completely written out beforehand. Makes sense really...

see i LOVE If. i really never had a problem with it at all, maybe b/c i never compared it to later floyd/solo work. actually it's kind of a highlight for me.

the title track is rather mindblowing. and summer '68 is just catchy beautiful gory goodness. this brings me back to highschool soooo much.

i like it too, but it's somewhat hit and miss. most of the highlights are to be found in the suite, while the 3 tracks in the middle are pretty enough, but fairly basic and by the numbers. well, 'summer '68' is admittedly an uncharacteristic pink floyd song, and does some interesting stuff.

the psychedelic breakfast thing is simply an experiment gone awry. though an interesting concept, to be sure

i think i'm a fan of it. i have v. fond memories, at least. i mean it's definitely basic, but i appreciated the throwaway of it. it was literally filler, which was fine with me.

Strange coincedence, I was thinking of "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" the other day.

see, i think of it often enough to feel like it was a worthwhile recording of something. esp. cuz i'm a big fan of marmalade, and i can sort of relate to the stream of consciousness about wanting to have some =)

hahahah

'marmalade, i like marmalade'

alan seems pretty cool

haa yah

Damn it, I wish I able to go to this:

Those who have bought tickets for the Sunday evening Atom Heart Mother concert, being held at London's Cadogan Hall on June 15th, will have an added bonus to what already promises to be a very special event.

We've now had it confirmed by his manager that David Gilmour will be making a guest appearance at the show helmed by his old friend Ron Geesin. He'll be performing on the epic 1970 track, alongside the Italian band Mun Floyd, cellist Caroline Dale (who has worked with David before), the brass ensemble, and the 40-strong chorus Canticum, all of whom will be playing the piece in front of a rapt audience!

The pair of Atom Heart Mother concerts (on Saturday June 14th at 7:30pm, and Sunday June 15th at 7pm) kick off the 2008 Chelsea Festival in style. Ron Geesin, the co-composer of AHM, will recreate Pink Floyd's iconic 1970 album - their first number one album and first Gold record. The performances will also feature archive material from the original recording and other music by Ron, including new scores created specially for the occasion.

fuck

Certainly the weirdest thing I listened to incessantly when I was 15 (1977 that is). Music with sound effects was the wickedest thing ever back then.

this was the last floyd album I ever bought, I even got More and Obscured by Clouds before this; in fact, I only got this in the past five years or so. I find it just a really weird album as a result.

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classic cover

Have loved this record for almost 30 years now.

"Marmalade, I like marmalade".

this rules!

The end section of "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" is one of the most uplifting pieces of music in their whole catalogue. Bravo, Rick Wright!

weird album.

Last time I played this album (about three years ago), I hated side one so much. It has permanently left a mark on my brain.

I should give it another chance, I suppose.

There's parts of this album I like, but I've never been into the whole thing.

Obscured By Clouds, though - now we're talkin'!

Turrican otm. Obscured by Clouds rules.

Apart from the boring Roger Waters' song... the third album in a row where you could make this statement.

I think more and more that Obscured may be the album of theirs that ages the best (I love pretty much everything they've done, so not getting into what's best). That opening krautrock track is pretty timeless.

The Complete Zabriskie Point bootleg thing is the one I listen to the most these days.

Giving this another chance, I still find side one a bit tedious. Some sections are so great, they stick out so much, it's almost an insult to the surrounding parts (mostly thinking of Gilmour's first solo here). I don't have a problem with orchestral accompaniment, it's just that the brass arrangements sound so out of place and incongruent with the rest of the band. I don't know, maybe I prefer strings. I have similar issues, on a much smaller scale, with 'Summer '68' as well.

'If' and 'Fat Old Sun' are slow and dreamy — really the best this album has to offer.

It's a mixed bag. I prefer Meddle.

i love side one of atom heart mother, but a lot of this is because i am a big ron geesin fan. i think his brass/choir arrangements are endearingly daffy. so many bands of this era when they went orchestral wanted to make a Big Sweeping Serious Statement (stuff like Ars Longa Vita Brevis- yuck!), and floyd went in the opposite direction with geesin. mind you it's also a perfectly good song, if a bit thin on the ground, live without the orchestra- lovely haunting wordless vocals from gilmour/wright. (the montreux soundboard is a good boot to seek out.)

side two is, well, just not as much fun for me! the third part of "alan's psychedelic breakfast" is lovely and all, but the thing as a whole comes off as more throwaway fluff like on the studio side of ummagumma. "fat old sun" is great but, like many songs of the era, was way better live when it turned into this great 15 minute jam.

i wish they'd done more of obscured by clouds live. in '73 they did obscured by clouds/when you're in as another killer 15 minute jam, and they did some really nice versions of "childhood's end" in late '72 and early '73, oh, and i think gilmour did a splendid "wots uh the deal" on his '06 solo tour, but that's really about it for the album. fucking shame.

I haven't heard it in a while but I remember thinking the BBC In Concert version of the title track was much better than the studio version - but then all of the tracks from that session are better than the original versions.

this is sort of like zappa if he was blissed out and not sarcastic

I like the Rice Krispies bit

"Rice Krispies bit, I like the Rice Krispies bit"

not a bit of it impressed me after another listen!

I bought this on LP in the late 80s and always thought the whole thing sounded muddy. When I finally heard the 2011 CD edition, it is a completely different (and much clearer) mix!

But I can't find any corroboration online that there are two different mixes of this album. You can hear the difference in the bit in the suite (about 19:00) where Mason says, "Silence in the studio!"

LP: voice pans right to left
CD: voice stays slightly left

Anyone know what I am talking about?

it’s fun, the opening track is a bit ridiculous

There's a new box set, for those who like such things. Terribly timed though

Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother will be released December 8th as a special package in a 7-inch gatefold sleeve: the album on CD and a Blu-ray featuring footage of AHM performed at Hakone Aphrodite Festival, Japan in August 1971 (originally part of The Early Years box set). The… pic.twitter.com/FITvBFVCI0

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