Pink Floyd Music:

Atom Heart Mother Track Listing:
1. Atom Heart Mother: Father's Shout/Breast Milky/Mother Fore/Funky Dung
2. If
3. Summer '68
4. Fat Old Sun
5. Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast: Rise and Shine/Sunny Side Up/Morning ...

Atom Heart Mother Reviews:
Fascinating
2005-09-22 - I don't have anything against long compositions and/or extended solos. Provided, that is, that you actually have something to say. But listening to Atom Heart Mother is like listening to somebody who takes an hour to explain to you that 1+1=2. Fascinating, indeed.

Great early Floyd classic gets the royal gold treatment!
2003-12-29 - This MFSL gold CD of this classic Pink Floyd album is spectacular!!! This is the best this album has ever sounded!!! A treat from start to finish!!! This early album from Floyd proves they had a lot more to offer than just "Dark Side Of The Moon!!! A very underrated album it's cool to hear the group use horns and choirs!!!Truly remarkable!!! A+

Ultimate psychedelic fantasy
1999-06-29 - While many consider Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall as the pinnacle of the Pink Floyd enigma, Atom Heart Mother was the album that, while retaining the wash of Sixties psychedelia, began to experiment with themes and concepts. The title track, intended originally as the theme for a western, is a massive undertaking of production and arrangement. Though it sounds sloppy by today's standards, for 1970 it was far ahead of its time. It moves through the various sections seamlessly, creating a mood of temporal dislocation. The cello parts are particularly fascinating-this is the only piece of music that has ever made me cry, it was just too beautiful to stand. Images of earthen pleasures and astral journeys to where stars have no names, this song represents an extraordinary talent for leaving the right spaces between the notes. "If", the second track, offers an almost pure and innocent look at the fear of oncoming madness ( a fear which would be later realized). The song is very laid back and touching. "Summer `68" is somewhat cheesy at times, though the trumpet sections are full of repentant anguish at succumbing to the pleasures of flesh (a groupie). Very bouncy, but still manages to be dark and Floydian. "Fat Old Sun" is my favorite of this album. Though badly recorded and mixed, the images of freedom in childhood, blissful endless summer where the twilight is eternal is about as mellow as you get. The guitar solo at the end is killer (listen to the bass line-its one of Water's best). "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" is kind of silly, though the voice of Alan making breakfast on morning glory seeds is just perfect. The song is somewhat rushed, but the last segment, Morning Glory, is fantastic. Can't even describe the feeling it gives me. Although flawed at times, Atom Heart Mother still stands as one of the most innovative albums ever written. The ultimate psychedelic fantasy.

Love the psychedelic stuff!
1999-06-18 - Great psychedelic, DIY rock symphonies from the Floyd, before the band got huge. UMMAGUMMA's just as great, too. This experimental stuff is great, and other bands like Can, Faust, Magma, Soft Machine, are worth checkin' out too.

Unique and Priceless
1998-06-13 - Pink Floyd have done with the Atom Heart Mother Suite what no one before or since has: combined psychedelia, rock, classical, and choral themes into a single 23:00 opus. Masterfully executed.