SilverainTR: Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother (1970)

"This album seems to be loved or hated by Pink FLOYD fans.Experimental music will do that,and surely the english long suite "Atom Heart Mother" and the 13 minute album closer "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" are experimental in nature and can be a challenging listen to say the least. "Atom Heart Mother" is one of the few PINK FLOYD tracks to have mellotron played on it.

ots of orchestration to afford the first hour and a half before drums and french horn come in.It starts to go like Pink FLOYD after 4 minutes.Synths,guitar,organ and a female vocal melody create a fantastic sound.Drums are back 9 minutes in as Gilmour fires off some rounds of guitar as organ plays on.This is one of my favorite passages of the album.Vocal melodies are second and french horns.There is a great full sound 15 minutes in followed by some experimental noises.We get the line back after 19 minutes and some violin melodies.Gilmour lays down some scorching guitar as horns play to end the song.For me the chorus and orchestration really works well on the title track,especially the vocal melodies.I really wish the following three songs that all remind me of the "Meddle" album.It's form of cool that apiece of these three tunes were each written and sung by a different member of the band."If" was a Waters' tune with gentle guitar and vocals.Nice."Summer'68" was a Wright tune about groupies.Piano,drums,horns and vocals in this fun and at times sixties sounding song."Fat Old Sun" is a Gilmour tune and a long time favorite of mine.The drums and guitar take on a greater role towards the end of the song.On "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" the real human "noises" are done by Alan their roadie as you can see him in the kitchen making breakfast.This goes on throughout the call in intervals.In between we get at first a guitar and piano melody until 3 1/2 minutes in.Later guitar,and so later still organ. I wish this book a lot (cows and all) and pass it a strong 4 stars. " Mellotron Storm - ProgArchives

- David Gilmour / guitars, vocals
- Nick Mason / drums
- Roger Waters / bass, vocals
- Richard Wright / keyboards, vocals

Additional musicians:

- Ron Geesin / orchestrations
- John Aldiss Choir / vocals


1. Atom Heart Mother (23:51)
a) Father's shout
b) Breast milky
c) Mother fore
d) Funky dung
e) Mind your throats please
f) Remergence
2. If (4:24)
3. Summer '68 (5:26)
4. Fat old sun (5:17)
5. Alan's psychedelic breakfast (12:56)
a) rise and shine
b) sunny side up
c) morning glory


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