Atom Heart Mother

From Pink Floyd

Title: Atom Heart Mother
Artist: Pink Floyd
Released: October 10, 1970
Total Length: 52:44
Label: Harvest, EMI (UK) Harvest/Capitol, Capitol (US)

Contents 1 Track Listing 2 Review 3 Credits 4 Info

[edit] Track Listing

1. Atom Heart Mother (23:39)
   • "Father's Shout"
   • "Breast Milky"
   • "Mother Fore"
   • "Funky Dung"
   • "Mind Your Throats Please"
   • "Remergence"
2. If (4:31)
3. Summer '68 (5:29)
4. Fat Old Sun (5:24)
5. Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast (13:00)
   • "Rise And Shine"
   • "Sunny Side Up"
   • "Morning Glory"

[edit] Review

• Song Rating: 3.4 / 5
• Overall Rating: 3 / 5
• Best Song: Fat Old Sun

[edit] Credits

• David Gilmour - vocals, guitar, bass on "Fat Old Sun" and "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" (Morning Glory), drums on "Fat Old Sun"
• Roger Waters - vocals, bass, acoustic guitar on "If", tape effects, tape collage
• Richard Wright - vocals, keyboards, orchestration, piano
• Nick Mason - drums, percussion, tape edits, tape collage, additional engineering on "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast"

with

• John Aldiss Choir - vocals
• Alan Parsons - engineer
• Peter Bown - engineer
• Ron Geesin - orchestration and co-composition on title track.
• Alan Stiles - voice on "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast"
• Abbey Road Session Pops Orchestra - brass and orchestral sections
• James Guthrie - 1994 remastering

[edit] Info

• The original album cover shows a very ordinary cow standing in a very ordinary pasture, with no text nor any other clue as to what might be on the record. This is, in fact, due to the "space rock" imagery associated with Pink Floyd at the time of the album's release; the band wanted to explore all sorts of music without being limited to a particular image or style of performance. They thus requested that their new album have "something plain" on the cover, which ended up being the image of the cow. Storm Thorgerson has said that he simply drove out into a rural area and photographed the first thing he saw. The cow's name is Lulubelle III.
• The longest two tracks are a progression from Pink Floyd's earlier instrumental pieces such as "A Saucerful Of Secrets"; the Atom Heart Mother Suite is split into six parts and features a full orchestra while there are three distinct segments of Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast which are joined by dialogue and sound effects of then-roadie Alan Stiles preparing, discussing and eating breakfast as the acid starts to take over. The musical gestures and "mental sound track" that Alan narrates, co-mingled with sounds of preparing the meal in the latter song give an almost visual, humorous representation of the feeling of the first glint of the halluciongen, to which the song's title refers, as he goes through his normal routine.
• Atom Heart Mother reached number 1 in the UK and number 55 in the U.S. charts and went Gold in the U.S. in March of 1994. A re-mastered CD was released in 1994 in the UK and 1995 in the U.S.
• The album is named after its title track, which was originally titled "The Amazing Pudding". The song's name was changed after the band came across a newspaper article about a pregnant woman with an atomic pacemaker with the headline "ATOM HEART MOTHER."