Atom Heart Mother
| Atom Heart Mother | ||
|---|---|---|
| Album Cover | ||
| LP by Pink Floyd | ||
| Released | October 5 1970 | |
| Recorded | Abbey Road Studios 1970 | |
| Genre | Progressive rock | |
| Length | 52 min 44 s | |
| Record label | Harvest Records | |
| Producers | Pink Floyd, Norman Smith | |
| Professional reviews | ||
| Q | 4 stars out of 5 | December 2000 |
| Allmusic.com | 3 stars out of 5 | link |
| RollingStone review | Unfavourable | link |
| Pink Floyd Chronology | ||
| Ummagumma (1969) |
Atom Heart Mother (1970) |
Relics (1971) |
Atom Heart Mother is a 1970's progressive rock album by British band Pink Floyd. The album was recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, England. The album reached number 1 in the UK and number 55 in the US charts. A re-mastered CD was released in 1994.
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.
The longest two tracks are a progression from Pink Floyd's earlier instrumental pieces such as A Saucerful of Secrets; the first is split into six parts and features a full orchestra and the second is an instrumental in three parts with sound effects and speech between each part.
Track listing
Atom Heart Mother has five tracks, of which the central three are relatively short songs:
- "Atom Heart Mother Suite" - 23:39
- "Father's Shout"
- "Breast Milky"
- "Mother Fore"
- "Funky Dung"
- "Mind Your Throats Please"
- "Remergence"
- "If" - 4:30
- "Summer '68" - 5:28
- "Fat Old Sun" - 5:23
- "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" - 13:00
- "Rise and Shine"
- "Sunny Side Up"
- "Morning Glory"
Personnel
- David Gilmour - vocals and guitar
- Roger Waters - vocals and bass
- Richard Wright - vocals and keyboards
- Nick Mason - drums
- John Aldiss Choir - vocals
also:
- Alan Parsons - engineer
- Peter Bown - engineer
- Ron Geesin - orchestration and co-composition on title track.
Quotes
"Atom Heart Mother is a good case, I think, for being thrown into the dustbin and never listened to by anyone ever again! [...] It was pretty kind of pompous, it wasn't really about anything."
- - Roger Waters - Rock Over London Radio Station - March 15, 1985, for broadcast April 7/April 14, 1985.