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Posted: November 08 2016 at 02:33
I'm not a Pink Floyd fan ( nor of psychedelic space-prog ), I really have some restrictions in relation to majority of his albums. However, Pink Floyd has at least 3 albums which I consider great: "Meddle", "Dark Side..." and "Wish you are here". These are ( in my opinion ) 5 stars albums !
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Posted: November 08 2016 at 03:37
I prefer "Sah Sah SAH SAH SAH HISSSS BRRRRRRRRRRR ROPBEEP!" to lyrics about an Albatross. I think the main riff is more heroic than the one Lloyd-Webber stole and altered slightly. So a post in support of a vote for Atom Heart Mother. It can't be talked down any lower for me from my third favourite Pink Floyd album. All time favourite album it makes me think when I listen to it, however!
I prefer "Sah Sah SAH SAH SAH HISSSS BRRRRRRRRRRR ROPBEEP!" to lyrics about an Albatross. I think the main riff is more heroic than the one Lloyd-Webber stole and altered slightly. So a post in support of a vote for Atom Heart Mother. It can't be talked down any lower for me from my third favourite Pink Floyd album. All time favourite album it makes me think when I listen to it, however!
Those lyrics sound like an early attempt to speak Kobaďan after two coffee .
Edited by someone_else - November 08 2016 at 04:24
These days I'd most likely go for Atom Heart Mother, but I love both. There is something strangely enamouring about Floyd's early 70s work that really speaks to me - a wafting psychedelic ambiance that many since have tried replicating yet never succeeded in. Atom Heart Mother though remains unparalelled when it comes to the two - mostly because it is nigh on impossible to reproduce. Echoes has been covered by many different bands (Crippled Black Phoenix fx just released "their" take on it - which it really isn't as they basically just are playing the tune as close to the real deal as possible.), whereas AHM seems rather overlooked in that department. I blame Live at Pompeii....and the fact that AHM needs a deranged choir, half a symphony orchestra and some way of mixing different sounding music bits with the accompanying clatter in a live setting to work...or indeed a way of overriding all these facets. Like doing the choir bit with steel drums and a squeeky toy.
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Posted: November 08 2016 at 16:14
I like Atom Heart Mother, it's a fun experiment, it has pretty good parts but has a bit of a patchwork feel to it. Echoes is totally organic, absolute music, when I listen to it there's nothing else in the world. Second to none.
Gonna have to go with Echoes. I still remember the first time I heard that eerie middle section. And then the following build-up that leads back into the reprise. Simply stunning! AHM is pretty good too, but it didn't have that profound emotional impact on me when I first heard it. Echoes all the way!
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Posted: November 08 2016 at 20:00
AZF wrote:
I prefer "Sah Sah SAH SAH SAH HISSSS BRRRRRRRRRRR ROPBEEP!" to lyrics about an Albatross. I think the main riff is more heroic than the one Lloyd-Webber stole and altered slightly. So a post in support of a vote for Atom Heart Mother. It can't be talked down any lower for me from my third favourite Pink Floyd album. All time favourite album it makes me think when I listen to it, however!
Echoes lyrics are not about an Albatross. You need to pay much more attention to lyrics if you really think so.
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Posted: November 08 2016 at 20:05
Atom Heart Mother, i simply love that composition together with Alan's Psychodelic Breakfast, the perfect intro and perfect end to the perfect album. I really like Echoes too, but i can't abandon Atom Heart Mother.
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