Then, on the second side, Roger Waters, David Gilmour, and Rick Wright have a song apiece, winding up with the group composition “Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast” wrapping it up. Still, it may be an acquired taste even for fans, especially since it kicks off with a side-long, 23-minute extended orchestral piece that may not seem to head anywhere, but is often intriguing, more in what it suggests than what it achieves. If anything, this is the most impenetrable album Pink Floyd released while on Harvest, which also makes it one of the most interesting of the era. It was the most thrown-together thing we’ve ever done.Appearing after the sprawling, unfocused double-album set Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother may boast more focus, even a concept, yet that doesn’t mean it’s more accessible. Pink Floyd would make better albums, but it remains the apotheosis of their experimental era – or as guitarist David Gilmour later described it, “Our weird shit.” Revisiting the album now is like entering a parallel universe inhabited by epic orchestral suites and songs created from the sounds of boiling kettles and frying bacon. Here you’ll find the earliest known recording of the AHM suite, plus filmed performances from Hyde Park and St Tropez, and much more besides.īut in 2016, Atom Heart Mother is probably better known for the cow than the music. Pink Floyd’s gargantuan seven-volume box set, The Early Years 1965-1972, dedicates an entire volume, Devi/Ation, to Atom Heart Mother and the Zabriskie Point soundtrack that inspired its title track. Now, it seemed, they could do so without including their name or the album title on the cover. EMI’s powers that be already knew that strange-sounding hairy rock groups sold lots of records. Three months later, Atom Heart Mother became Pink Floyd’s first No.1 album.
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