11/29/2023 0 Comments Atom heart mother album cover![]() The other suite is probably one of the most hated tracks from this band, probably because it recalls too much the echoes of Ummagumma, which frankly was a bad album.Īlan's Psychedelic Breakfast is indeed, as the title suggests, very psychedelic. The outro is also amazingly performed by Gilmour on the guitar and it brings you into another dimension. The lyrics are pure poetry and the atmosphere is very relaxing and of course, suitable for a summer day sunset. It is about the short love stories that the pianist experienced during Pink Floyd tours, meeting different girls in every town, the consequences of these affairs and the frustration that followed them, explicitly stated in the last strophe:įat Old Sun is another, underrated Pink Floyd song. This doesn't mean that the other songs can't compete with it, because Summer '68, Wright's composition, is a more complete song, concerning also drums, piano and trumpet in its accompaniment. If is an acoustic-guitar-lead ballad, with portions of slide guitar, whose lyrics, written by Waters, are probably the most touching on the album. The next three tracks are all slow and melancholic. It is chaotic, but this is its beauty, and it's only when after several minutes of chaos a voice shouts "Silence in the studio!" and the band starts playing the right tune, you really understand how exquisite this track is. The refrain is repeated three times, and on the way from one to another you will hear guitar and keyboard solos, drums, a choir shouting "Atom", or perhaps "Mother", or probably something else, and another dozen kinds of noises and sounds. Listening to this in 2014 could sound more like classical music (not of course throughout its whole length, but at least during the refrain), but at the beginning of the Seventies it was something revolutionary. The 23-minute-long title-track is an instrumental machine of psychedelia, with a confusing orchestral accompaniment. The title itself has apparently no meaning, and the fat cow on the cover seems to have no relation at all with the content of the album, but it is very efficient in capturing your attention while walking down the record store shelves. This is why the record is more like a compilation than a solid team-made album, but despite that fact the whole thing works better than you could expect. The only thing they needed to achieve this important goal for their career were ideas, and since there were none, all the members set to work on their own as they did in 1968 for A Saucerful of Secrets just to meet at the end and put together what they came up with.įive tracks were born eventually: two suites (written by the four members, putting together the more ideas they could) and three 5-minute-long songs (sung by their own composers). This is in fact the first album that sees them in the progressive rock scene, in which Pink Floyd will be absolute protagonists throughout the Seventies, still maintaining their space-rock and psychedelic roots. Indeed, it is, but the circumstances can explain why it is what it is.īefore 1970 Pink Floyd was known as a psychedelic and drug-orientated band, but the members didn't quite accept the impression that they were giving to the public opinion, as they announce during the interviews in the DVD Live at Pompeii: Director's Cut, so it was very important to blow away this "bad reputation" and start composing something more mature and original. Review Summary: Just as epic as its album art.Ītom Heart Mother is often regarded as conceptless, incomplete and disorganised.
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