Atom Heart Mother

{| align="right" border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width=225 style="margin-left:3px"\n!align="center" bgcolor="orange" colspan="3"|Atom Heart Mother\n|-\n|align="center" colspan="3"|\n|-\n!align="center" bgcolor="orange" colspan="3"|LP by Pink Floyd\n|-\n!align="left" valign="top"|Released\n|colspan="2" valign="top"|October 5 1970\n|-\n!align="left" valign="top"|Recorded\n|colspan="2" valign="top"|Abbey Road Studios 1970\n|-\n!align="left" valign="top"|Genre\n|colspan="2" valign="top"|Progressive rock\n|-\n!align="left" valign="top"|Length\n|colspan="2" valign="top"|52 min 44 s\n|-\n!align="left" valign="top"|Record label\n|colspan="2" valign="top"|Harvest Records\n|-\n!align="left" valign="top"|Producers\n|colspan="2" valign="top"|Pink Floyd,
Norman Smith\n|-\n!bgcolor="orange" colspan="3"|Professional reviews\n|-\n!align="left" valign="top"|Q\n|valign="top"|4 stars out of 5\n|valign="top"|December 2000\n|-\n!align="left" valign="top"|Allmusic.com\n|valign="top"|3 stars out of 5\n|valign="top"|link\n|-\n!align="left" valign="top"|RollingStone review\n|valign="top"|Unfavourable\n|valign="top"|link\n|-\n!bgcolor="orange" colspan="3"|Pink Floyd Chronology\n|-align="center" \n|valign="top"|Ummagumma
(1969)\n|valign="top"|Atom Heart Mother
(1970)\n|valign="top"|Relics
(1971)\n|} 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.

Table of contents

1 Track listing 2 Personnel 3 Quotes 4 External link

Track listing

Atom Heart Mother has five tracks, of which the central three are relatively short songs:

1. "Atom Heart Mother Suite" - 23:39\n#*"Father's Shout"\n#*"Breast Milky"\n#*"Mother Fore"\n#*"Funky Dung"\n#*"Mind Your Throats Please"\n#*"Remergence"\n#"If" - 4:30\n#"Summer '68" - 5:28\n#"Fat Old Sun" - 5:23\n#"Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" - 13:00\n#*"Rise and Shine"\n#*"Sunny Side Up"\n#*"Morning Glory"

Personnel

\n* David Gilmour - vocals and guitar\n* Roger Waters - vocals and bass\n* Richard Wright - vocals and keyboards\n* Nick Mason - drums\n* John Aldiss Choir - vocals also:\n* Alan Parsons - engineer\n* Peter Bown - engineer\n* Ron Geesin - orchestration and co-composition on title track.

Quotes

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"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."

\n: - Roger Waters - Rock Over London Radio Station - March 15, 1985, for broadcast April 7/April 14, 1985.

External link

\n* Lyrics and trivia\nCategory:Pink Floyd albums Category:1970 albums Category:Progressive rock albums Category:Fifth albums