Atom Heart Mother Vs Echoes

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Tough one for me. I suppose I would have to go with "echoes" but it's close. I actually prefer the AHM album over meddle though. Barking dogs are ok but whiney ones aren't. ;)

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - November 08 2016 at 00:04

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AFlowerKingCrimson Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 02 2016 Location: Philly burbs Status: Offline Points: 16418	Posted: November 07 2016 at 15:35
	Tough one for me. I suppose I would have to go with "echoes" but it's close. I actually prefer the AHM album over meddle though. Barking dogs are ok but whiney ones aren't. ;) Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - November 08 2016 at 00:04

Kespuzzuo Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: September 13 2016 Location: Santiago Status: Offline Points: 652	Posted: November 07 2016 at 15:19
	Atom Heart Mother is the more experimental one. Echoes is easier to listen to, and because of that, it's more popular than AHM.

mechanicalflattery Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: August 08 2016 Location: Seattle Status: Offline Points: 1056	Posted: November 07 2016 at 15:12
	The first ten minutes of Atom Heart Mother suite basically changed my life. I guess everyone has at least one album that's just uniquely special to them. That's been AHM for me. Basically got me through high school. It's actually difficult to listen to these days because there's too many memories attached. Ditto for David Bowie's The Man Who Sold the World (which, in retrospect, is decent but hardly great).

Saperlipopette! Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: December 20 2010 Location: Tomorrowland Status: Offline Points: 10066	Posted: November 07 2016 at 15:08
	Echoes is a thing of rare beauty - predictable or not (I've never really thought about it that way)


hellogoodbye Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member VIP member Joined: August 29 2011 Location: Troy Status: Offline Points: 7251	Posted: November 07 2016 at 14:50
	ATM is not bad. Echoes is so predictable. .

dwill123 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: December 19 2006 Status: Offline Points: 4455	Posted: November 07 2016 at 14:33
	Echoes

Magnum Vaeltaja Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 01 2015 Location: Out East Status: Offline Points: 6777	Posted: November 07 2016 at 14:21
	AHM is my preference. Love the symphonic elements to it, and even during the more loose, "jammy" sections, there's still some structure to it that makes me appreciate it more than Echoes. I can definitely understand the appeal to Echoes, but the atmosphere just isn't there for me. Obviously it's not supposed to be an upbeat, "run & gun", firepower kind of track, but it seems kind of like Floyd just went for the lowest common denominator as far as making spacey music, as though they were in some kind of competition to write the slowest, most drawn out song they could.
	when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents

Bungalow Bill Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: February 06 2007 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 16	Posted: November 07 2016 at 14:18
	"Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air..." Echoes for me. Imho one of the most outstanding tracks of the entire PF catalogue.

dr wu23 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: August 22 2010 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 20491	Posted: November 07 2016 at 14:18
	Echoes.......Atom Heart has some nice parts but overall isn't as strong imo.
	One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin

Terrapin Station Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: July 23 2016 Location: NYC Status: Offline Points: 383	Posted: November 07 2016 at 14:02
	Both fantastic, but there isn't a Pink Floyd song I like better than "Echoes". There are some I like as well, but I'd rank "Atom Heart Mother" a bit below it.

DeadSouls Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: February 28 2016 Location: Chile Status: Offline Points: 4255	Posted: November 07 2016 at 13:33
	Echoes for me. I don't like the whole suite at all.

Scorpius Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 22 2016 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 281	Posted: November 07 2016 at 13:18
	Which of these to Floyd epics do you guys consider the superior track? I will always consider Echoes the superior, although Atom Heart Mother is an amazing suite. Echoes just has one of the best instrumental passages ever.