Comments for Pink Floyd, Atom Heart Mother

*1/2 Very poor attempt at combining orchestral arrangements with rock. Ugh. PRIME CUTS-- "Summer of '68" ain't bad. --J.Teel

Great album, whis is certainly not rated as high is should. The orchestral maneuvers are not perfect but that is what makes this good. Also melodies are touching in this album. IF and FAT OLD SUN are in the strange way simple and complex.

"Psychedelic Breakfast" is pretty cool. "If" is great. The 23 minute "Atom Heart Mother" suite is pretty cool if you like 23 minute songs. If not, this probably won't be one of your favorites.

This album is for Pink Floyd FANS only. Atom Heart Mother is the chief track of this album and sums up the Floyd for that era. This track IS the Pink Floyd. At the time of its release the musical style was unknown, the production innovative, and the start of a new PF era. This is the track to make or break any potential fan.

1.Mason/Gilmour/Waters/Wright/Geesin 2.Waters 3.Wright 4.Gilmour 5.Waters/Mason/Gilmour/Wright

Atom Heart Mother is such a lofty piece. J.Teel doesn't have much appreciation for it.Hey J.Teel you dont understand this album I guess.----Primal cuts what the hell. Are you suppose to be a critic?YOU give it *1/2 stars.Out of five? YOU sure didnt give them much credit J.Teel.

Summer of '68 rules all- great song followed by a great song as well. Rest is really good as well, but those are my two picks here. Still think it's a great album, I mean, few Floyd albums aren't.

The title cut is great. It`s an exiting way of doing music and the choir sequences are blissfull. Surely a high point in Pink Floyds carrier. However, I find the rest of the album quite boring.

Real classic rock! Hard to listen first time, but it sounds really great then.

The best fucking record put out by Pink Floyd! THe first Ochestration Album, too. It's a long instrumental, but it really kicks ass. IF is really good, and FAT OLD SUN is excellent. THis is Jimmy Page here, Pink Floyd fan for life.

Pretty funky cover uh. I like the choral bits and the blues part in between particulary. Check out the keyboard there !!! Hey, I got fat old sun live on some obscure cd. It lasts over 15 min. and boy do we miss the great stuff on the studio version. Where on atom heart mother it just fades away it changes dramatically in the live version in a instrumental part. Here the keyboard is the most dominant instrument, playing faster and faster. The other follow in their own special way. At the climax of this overwhelming part it breaks down into the main theme of the song, followed by one more couplet. Probably they could only put 45 min on a b-side of the album. Damned pitty. If only they dumbed 'if' for this treat.

I don't think J.Teel has good taste.Atom Heart Mother is a great album,as good as the Waters-era stuff,if not better.

I agree with Jimmy Page. If someone doesn't like this album, they havn't given it a chance. It is a strange way to arange music but once you get used to it you will find that it's what make the music special. It's way better than the Gilmore stuff.

This album takes the unfocussed sound experiments of Ummagumma and makes them into songs, it refines the lyricism of More, expands the symphonical compositional endeavours of Saucer and moreover recovers the crazy brilliance of the Syd Barret era. To top it all off, it brings magical rock unheard of at the time and is as diverse as hell, while still being tight and connected. The strange and somewhat rambling psychedelic breakfast must be seen as a humorous and yet also sinister encore where accidental sounds are beautifully interwoven with frail music: it pictures the morning after the nightly dreams of the songs that preceded.