Submitter's probably the type of guy who thinks The Wall is Pink Floyd's best album.

Atom Heart Mother is one of Pink Floyd's best and most creative works, imho...

I love that album.

Every time I hear Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast I get so hungry.

There you go sigdiamond - you nailed it. Atom Heart Mother was among their best. But, then again, there's little of the Floyd I don't like. The Wall is probably my least favorite.

rancher: The Wall is probably my least favorite.

I like to refer to it as their "disco album". Why it enjoys such insane popularity is beyond my comprehension. It's like saying Emotional Rescue is the Rolling Stones' best album.

Meddle or GTFO.

May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits, subby.

Wait you mean Gilmour picked an album that was more of a collaboration instead of self masturbatory stream of Roger Waters whinning about his childhood? The hell you say

/-1 subby

Wrongmitter calls his radio station every day to request his favorite song, 'Money'.

How do you feel Subby, how do you feel Subby, how do you feel Subby?

Now that you look like such a fool.

Umm, subby, I think maybe you should understand that while the studio versions of the songs on Atom Heart Mother are rather tame and even boring, the versions that The Floyd were laying down on audiences in the 1970 - 1971 period were lengthier, spacier and more dramatic. They were very much a live band at that period, dedicated to giving their audiences a very unique experience.

The version of "Atom Heart Mother" from 9/16/70 is totally amazing, with a full choir and symphony onstage. I also suggest finding a good copy of Floyd from 10/17/71 in San Diego. Without any chemical enhancements, that show has taken me on a very enjoyable trip.

PS: that Idolator website blows monkeys. If that's any indication of what the hipsters are doing with their time and trust fund money, we're all fukked.

NuttierThanEver: Wait you mean Gilmour picked an album that was more of a collaboration instead of self masturbatory stream of Roger Waters whinning about his childhood? The hell you say

I like Atom Heart Mother. The title track is a little dated, but it has aged much much better than most other prog-rock suites. Try listening to an entire LP side of ELP's Tarkus instead sometime. And the Wright classic Summer '68 is something submitter is not fit to speak of.

/love getting up to Alan's Psychedlic Breakfast.

//"Marmalade, I life marmalade."

Never liked that album. I know at least a few people agree with me:


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.


Some of it now, like Atom Heart Mother, strikes me as absolute crap, but I no longer want or have to play stuff I don't enjoy.

- David Gilmour - November 1994


It's an averagely recorded album but a very interesting idea, working with Ron Geesin, an orchestra and the John Aldiss choir. Roger and I were quite friendly with Ron. I think I met him through Robert Wyatt. The thing that Ron taught us most about was recording techniques, and tricks done on the cheap. We learned how to get round the men-in-white-coats and do things at home, like editing. Ron taught us how to use two tape recorders to create an endless build up of echo. It was all very relevant to things we did later. Now I listen to it with acute embarrassment because the backing track was put down by Roger and me, beginning to end, in one pass. Consequently the tempo goes up and down. It was a 20-minute piece and we just staggered through it. On the other side, Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast was another great idea -- gas fires popping, kettles boiling, that didn't really work on record but was great fun live. I've never heard Roger lay claim to it, which makes me think it must have been a group idea.

- Nick Mason


"I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don't really think the attempt comes off that well,"

- David Gilmour - Rolling Stone Magazine - November 2001

i hardly even like you, i shouldn't care at all

The most blatant troll in a headline I have ever seen; the epic fail is you smitty and your halfazzed attempt.

Atom Heart is good music and The Wall and Money are overrated crap.

Re: the quotes from the band? Big deal. If they think it sucks so much how about refunding all the money they've made from it over the years?

sigdiamond2000: I like to refer to it as their "disco album". Why it enjoys such insane popularity is beyond my comprehension.

What's remotely "Disco" about The Wall?

It's like saying Emotional Rescue is the Rolling Stones' best album.

I don't agree at all. It's more like comparing Let It Bleed to Sticky Fingers. The Division Bell is more like Pink Floyd's version of Emotional Rescue.

"Summer '68." That is all.

/Drop disc, press play

sigdiamond2000: Why it enjoys such insane popularity is beyond my comprehension.

Because The Wall and DSOTM were classic rock radio staples before there was such a thing as classic rock radio. I remember the day The Wall was released. It was huge immediately. It also has it's own movie.

The Wall is a great record. A bit pompous perhaps, but so was Roger.

Atom Heart Mother is a minor entry in the Floyd catalog. The best part of that record is the cover.



Floyd didn't touch that AHM stuff much after 1977 for a reason. I think Roger has played If a few times at his shows.

I would much prefer hearing Meddle performed live anyway.

BTW, AHM doesn't suck.

It just looks really small considering the records that followed it.

Meddle · The Dark Side of the Moon · Wish You Were Here · Animals · The Wall

The video is from 8/8/70 at the St. Tropez Music Festival, about 2 months before the release of the record. The section beginning at 7:00 until the end of this clip got increasingly groovy with each live outing, IMHO.

In addition to this video, about 30 minutes of audio exists from this show, including 14 minutes of AHM and 11 minutes of "The Embryo", with snippets of another couple of tracks.

Gilmour also ripped out some amazing live solos on "Fat Old Sun" during that period.

Read the article, subby.

Ron Geesin, the co-writer is staging this show and merely invited David to play. David isn't doing anything at the moment so he agreed to appear at one of the 2 shows.

It's not like David was sitting around thinking 'Gosh, I sure would like to play one of Pink Floyd's albums live with a copy band. I know! I'll do one of the albums I hated so much that I didn't include it in our first box set!"

Personally, I think Atom Heart Mother is pretty awesome. But what do I know? I also like The Wall and very much enjoy Roger's concepts and songs once he took over the writing chores.

Want to see something really cool? Check out this performance of The Atom Heart Mother Suite.
Link

Atom Heart Mother isn't half as good as the Rolling Stone's worst album.
Atom Heart Mother isn't half as good as Nickleback's worst album.
Atom Heart Mother is Pink Floyd's WORST album.
Atom Heart Mother is responsible for every lame pyschedic wankery ever put to vinyl.
Atom Heart Mother is crap.
Crap. crap. crap. crap. crap. crap. crap. crap. crap. crap. crap.

Valdes, either your troll-fu is exceptionally weak or you've gone too far in a bid to prove your point. That said, despite its obvious flaws, point taken - you dislike Atom Heart Mother.

I thought there was a tribute band called "Atom Heart Mother". You know, like Doors' tribute bands named "Riders on the Storm", and Kajagoogoo tribute bands named "Too Shy".

Atom heart mother? meh. aside from the post WALL album, this is one of the least interesting, along with "MORE" "Obscured by clouds" and the uneven "ummagumma"

Aside from "animals" which is a bit of a snooze fest, everything else is brilliant

/syd barrett FTW

subby only likes Floyd songs subby hears on classic rock radio.
WYSP - Howard Stern all morning - Classic rock 'n roll all day.

HappyHarryHardOn: Aside from "animals" which is a bit of a snooze fest, everything else is brilliant

Which songs dont you like on Animals? That is my favorite Floyd album.

I have an Atom Heart Mother cycling jersey.
Sometimes drivers MOO at me.
So I yell "MOO YOU" back.

MLKtheIV: Valdes, either your troll-fu is exceptionally weak or you've gone too far in a bid to prove your point. That said, despite its obvious flaws, point taken - you dislike Atom Heart Mother.

Nah, he's just pissy that he's not getting enough attention from bagging on Radiohead anymore.

NightOwl2255
Thank you for those quotes...
I was gonna quote the 1994 Gilmour quote myself...

For a while it was one of my fav. Floyd albums... it's still in the top five now...
their 1969-1971 ["Ummagumma" to "meddle"] period was full of win.
[I'm not much of a fan of "Obscured by Clouds"].
Out of the 1973-1982 era, I like "Animals" and "the final cut" the best...
I listened to "DSOTM" too much and now think it's a little bit overrated and overplayed now... [but i still think it's pretty darn good]
"Wish You Were Here" is still pretty good... a very melancholy and sad and cynical album...
"the Wall" is great, but has a bunch of filler pieces, but I somehow cannot imagine the album without the filler tracks...
great concept, great execution, just a little too long....
[and to think, "the wall" was going to be a three disc set!!!]

/ "Piper" and "Saucerful" are in a league of their own... great 60's Psych / Rock albums on their own...
// is "Saucerful" a 'space rock' album? or another rock/psychedelic PF album? [i've heard "space rock" bantered about in various articles/books regarding early pink floyd... i don't know if it's an adequate or true label or not...]

Subby is a dumbass. Atom Heart Mother is brilliant. Even "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast"

I like AHM, but to me Animals is their best. The guitar rifts in Dogs gives me funny feelings in my stomach everytime I hear them.

Atom Heart Mother is a decent album, if a little too prog-rockish. I don't understand the hate that you guys are giving The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon. Sure, a lot of non-Pink Floyd fans love them, but that shouldn't be ground for hating them. Being popular is not grounds for being bad.

Full disclosure: my favorite PF albums in order:

Wish You Were Hear
Animals
The Wall
Meddle
Dark Side of the Moon

and most everything else just sort of wallows at the lower ends of their catalog.

And I totally forgot to throw Atom Heart Mother between Meddle and Dark Side of the Moon. Whoopsie.

/DSotM is still really good though

HappyHarryHardOn: this is one of the least interesting, along with "MORE" "Obscured by clouds" and the uneven "ummagumma"


ObC has one of my favorites on it - "Wots...Uh The Deal".

Gunny Highway: HappyHarryHardOn: Aside from "animals" which is a bit of a snooze fest, everything else is brilliant

Which songs dont you like on Animals? That is my favorite Floyd album.

by "a bit of a snooze fest" i didnt mean it to sounnd TOO harsh.. but I was re-listening to it recently for the first time in 10 years and i felt kind of bored with it, it just not as intense as Meddle, dark side, and wall for me ... a little more meandering maybe, they sound like they are a little bored maybe...

Creeping Malaise: HappyHarryHardOn: this is one of the least interesting, along with "MORE" "Obscured by clouds" and the uneven "ummagumma"


ObC has one of my favorites on it - "Wots...Uh The Deal".


yeah they all have some parts of worth.. Like "THE Nile Song" off of MORE is the hardest pink floyd song ever

HappyHarryHardOn: by "a bit of a snooze fest" i didnt mean it to sounnd TOO harsh.. but I was re-listening to it recently for the first time in 10 years and i felt kind of bored with it, it just not as intense as Meddle, dark side, and wall for me ... a little more meandering maybe, they sound like they are a little bored maybe...

Yea Animals has always been a Sunday morning hang over or Saturday night smoking album for me. Meddle is so intense it is unreal. I havent listened to it in years I am going to have to dig up my copy.

Eh, AHM kind of sounds like a hodgepodge of tracks they were kicking around with at the time. The 3 "real" songs (If, Summer 68, Fat Old Sun) are good, but the two longer tracks seems like sketches of where they'd go with DSOTM (the 3-D sound effects of Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast) and Meddle's "Echoes".

There really is no argument here only because it's obvious what the answer is. You like AMH, you like drugs. You like the other stuff... well, you like drugs too... nevermind.

*AHM

Wow, Farkers are pretty predictable.

AHM is dissed, so that means OBVIOUSLY the album subby likes is the Wall.

/not subby
//not an idiot, either

just for funsies, i'll chime in with the irrelevant favorite list.

in order (though due to my near absolute preference for most besides the wall there's a very small margin between each title):

Animals
Wish You Were Here
Dark Side of the Moon
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Ummagumma
Meddle
Atom Heart Mother
Saucerful of Secrets
The Final Cut
The Wall

Oh, and I LOVE obscured by clouds, meddle, and "More." Even the Relics collection. But AHM really is terrible. Beyond Saucerful of Secrets terrible.

Canadian Canuck: I love that album.

Every time I hear Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast I get so hungry.

That is the one and only song on the album I actually hate. Listening to other people chew food is the most nauseating thing in the world, imho.
But other than that, I love the album. I just get annoyed that I can't just put it on and play the whole the thing b/c when that song comes on it ruins it for me.

i like to pretend the final cut never happened, but the wall is a good album

thevza Fletcher Memorial Home is one of my favorite (top twenty, anyway) Floyd tracks. The album as a whole is a Waters wank fest, but that track is beautiful. No need to pretend The Final Cut never happened.

...lots of poo
...lots of poo

Atom Heart Mother IS a classic!

CarnySaur: I thought there was a tribute band called "Atom Heart Mother". You know, like Doors' tribute bands named "Riders on the Storm", and Kajagoogoo tribute bands named "Too Shy".

Congratulations! You win the official Music Nerd 'it made me laugh' award.

/Yaz woulda won it too
//P.S. Atom Heart Mother Suite rules and always has
///Musicians are notoriously bad judges of their own canons