Pink Sequence #05: Atom Heart Mother
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Topic: Pink Sequence #05: Atom Heart Mother
Posted By: someone_else
Subject: Pink Sequence #05: Atom Heart Mother
Date Posted: June 16 2014 at 03:55
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This is a multiple voting poll. Pick your two favourites from this album. ------------- 
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: June 16 2014 at 04:34
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Atom Heart is a top 5 Floyd composition for me. More specifically, for the poll - Mother Fore is my fave section, of my favourite 'song' from the album, and Fat Old Sun (aka Sing To Me) is quite excellent too, a perfect Gilmour piece. |
Posted By: The Mystical
Date Posted: June 16 2014 at 05:41
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Summer 68 and Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast ------------- I am currently digging: Hawkwind, Rare Bird, Gong, Tangerine Dream, Khan, Iron Butterfly, and all things canterbury and hard-psych. I also love jazz! Please drop me a message with album suggestions. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: June 16 2014 at 05:52
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Atom Heart Mother and Summer '68. -------------
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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: June 16 2014 at 07:22
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Summer '68 Fat Old Sun It was quite hard for me to choose between Atom Heart Mother and Fat Old Sun. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: June 16 2014 at 08:08
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Atom Heart & Summer '68 My favorite Floyd album. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: June 16 2014 at 09:04
Same for me!
Especially I suggest the bootleg "Embryo San Diego, 1971", with the amazing 15 minutes versión of Fat old sun and Atom Heart Mother after it.
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irrelevant wrote:Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: June 16 2014 at 10:17
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AHM stands so far above the others it is the only I will vote for. Not that the rest of album is bad in any way 'cause it isn't. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: June 16 2014 at 14:04
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AHM and Summer'68. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: Imperial Zeppelin
Date Posted: June 16 2014 at 15:32
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Title track and Fat old sun. Surprised to see so much love for Alan's breakfast.
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: June 16 2014 at 15:38
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Title track & If ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: frankbostick
Date Posted: June 16 2014 at 16:11
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My favorite Pink Floyd album. AHM and Summer '68. |
Posted By: genbanks
Date Posted: June 16 2014 at 16:44
| Atom Heart...stunning long track. Followed by Summer 68. |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: June 16 2014 at 16:50
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Atom Heart Mother and Fat Old Sun, although I prefer the live expanded versions of the latter (up to 15 minutes). ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: June 16 2014 at 19:11
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If AHM ------------- |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: June 16 2014 at 20:49
| Atom Heart Mother and Fat Old Sun. Though indeed I like better the live versions of FOS, both the ones from back in the day as well as Gilmour's version on "Remember that Night" or "Live in Gdansk", in which he played the song in a more refined way. |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: June 17 2014 at 02:47
I prefer the Atom Heart suite without the orchestra and choir, the band alone did a wonderful job of the piece. Live In Gdansk is an essential part of Prog history..... |
Posted By: Watcher of the Sky
Date Posted: June 17 2014 at 04:57
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Far Old Sun bring me memories... I chose it of course ------------- Nous sommes du soleil |
Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: June 17 2014 at 07:51
I hate to be predictable but it has to be these two. AHM is a work of genius. Did you know the main them was originally Floyd's own take on a spaghetti western soundtrack (you can tell). It was one of the first prog epics and hugely influential. As the band said, they had to milk AHM to make Meddle. Funky Dung is my favourite part. A sign of things to come there. |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: June 17 2014 at 07:53
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it used to be the title suite as my favorite, but now that's 2nd in favor of what Gilmour wrote in if you know what im pointing towards....... okay fine, its Fat Old Sun, happy?
------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: snowsnow
Date Posted: June 17 2014 at 08:16
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Frankly puzzled for the love given to this album and in particular the title track - it is all over the place (IMHO). I'm sure the band have been critical of the album as well (unless I've dreamt that one up) Mercifully a great run of classic albums wouldn't be too far away. |
Posted By: Stool Man
Date Posted: June 17 2014 at 09:25
Back in the day, it was the first Pink Floyd album to be a Number One hit. Much loved then, and much loved now. There's nowt wrong with being all over the place. Prog is all over the place. ------------- rotten hound of the burnie crew |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: June 17 2014 at 09:32
This was right in the middle of their great run of classic albums: Saucerful of Secrets to Obscured by Clouds. Then they had a drop-off in quality with DSOTM.  ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: KingCrInuYasha
Date Posted: June 17 2014 at 12:42
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I guess my preference goes like this: If > Summer '68 > Atom Heart Mother > Fat Old Sun >>>>> Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast. I never was too fond of "Alan's..." It's not terrible, just kind of a letdown after the previous four tracks. Does anybody remember that wacky recipe that came with the CD? I lost mine.  ------------- He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball! |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: June 17 2014 at 13:03
My votes go to "... Breakfast" (I like an abundance of melody and rich harmony) and "Summer '68" (over the goofy title track). Always found "If" and "Fat Old Sun" to be boring compositions without any solid ideas, let alone a solid melody.
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: June 17 2014 at 22:03
I've only heard one version of the title track without orchestra... I think going only up to 15 min. It's still very nice, but I do prefer the version on the album. I love the interplay between the orchestra and the band, specially with Gilmour. |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 00:51
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^ Yeah, the band only versions were shorter. Still very effective. The longer Fat Old Sun versions were pretty dramatic, as were the longer Cymbaline workouts (almost lapsed into Careful With That Axe jamming). I love when they break-out into their spaced out oohs & aahs, just bliss...... |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: June 23 2014 at 04:54
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It's time to freeze the results: 1. Atom Heart Mother (34 votes) 2. Summer '68 (27) 3. Fat Old Sun (19) 4. Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast (12) 5. If (6) -------------
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: June 23 2014 at 05:02
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The results feel about right. The song 'If' is a relatively standard song, melodic and sensible, but no 'colour' to it. The album, as a whole, is quite a beauty. Oh how I wish dear Rick would've sung more in Floyd. Still, we have these AMAZING organ chords which are nothing but Rick's magic, and if one listens to some of Klaus Schulze's earlier work, can find those deeply, mournful organ chords which words can't explain....... |
Posted By: proggman
Date Posted: June 26 2014 at 14:17
Atom Heart Mother and Fat Old Sun.------------- When he rides, my fears subside. For darkness turns once more to light. Through the skies, his white horse flies. To find a land beyond the night. |
Posted By: Rick Robson
Date Posted: July 22 2014 at 09:07
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When it comes to one of the BEST rock bands of all times (Pink Floyd of course), this masterpiece reaches the holly heights of heaven! Just every single track could NEVER be left off it!
-------------  "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB |
Posted By: melotron98
Date Posted: July 22 2014 at 10:38
| Atom Heart Mother and Fat Old Sun. |