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Rating: - One of the only 'rock' albums to stand up to classical music

You can understand why the band members don't seem to like this one - technically it's not the greatest recording ever to be made, and the latter half still harks back to the days before the band were forced to write 'real songs' to support their experimentation.

But in the title track there is a genuinely successful attempt to write a modern classical piece - strewth! Whilst other bands were chucking on strings and stuff to standard rock/pop songs, Atom Heart Mother's a genuinely progressive piece of music that rises and falls at all the right moments and is the perfect companion to a dark room and a few Whisky Macs.

I hated it when I first heard it, then rediscovered it ten years later. It's that sort of record.

Rating: - Amazing psychadelia for those who like it.

The first (eponymous)track of this highly underrated album is mindblowingly diverse and intriguing. You sense the song develop and change as it goes on, and there are moments of sublime and pure Pink Floyd in it's midst - surely music at it's best. The combination of brass and choral music make it a unique combination, which makes you think of a combination of Carmina Burana and that classic moment in Shine On You Crazy Diamond. It is this that makes it my favourite song in the whole of the world - ever. Possibly equalled only by classic moments in Shine on, Echoes and Saucer Full Of Secrets. The rest of the album is also good, but seems to me to be a slight descent from pure Music, to just good tunes. However, it is worth buying just for the title track, so from one Pink Floyd fan to another - happy listening.

Rating: - Moo, broom-broom, 'silence in the studio'!

Atom Heart Mother must surely stand out as one of the most daring and unusual albums not only in the Pink Floyd stable, but in the history of rock and roll. At the time of its release the Floyd were hailed as new classissists and one can easily see why. The addition of the Alan Aldiss choir, a brass section, more farmyards sounds than on Sgt Peppers and of Ron Geesins input make this album stand out and it is a great indicator of what was to come. Although some pieces sound thrown together (i.e. Alan's Pschedelic Breakfast) the whole hangs well and is probably the only Floyd/Waters album which has a sense of humour!

Rating: - The experimental album that spawned a thousand others.

This album deserves it's place in rock and roll history simply for the T-shirt it spawned, featuring the cow on the front and the words ATOM HEART MOTHER on the back in huge black letters. Not only is this album a picture of Pink Floyd developing and experimenting with their music, this is also an example of a group of young men developing and experimenting with life and trying to find themselves. Roger Waters' song 'If' is a prime example of this. (Remember worldwide success and fat loads of cash were just around the corner). There are some great moments on this album, but if you really want to surprise yourself, listen to Atom Heart Mother and The Chemical Brother's 'Exit Planet Dust' album straight afterwards. The similarities are spooky...

Rating: - Interesting indicator of future greatness

It would hardly be accurate to suggest the Atom Heart Mother stands next to the colossal masterpieces that followed it, but, despite Roger Water's dismissal, it still remains, both as a fascinating stage of a journey from the flawed, vital psychedelia of Piper to the astonishing and incomparable Dark Side, and as a musically and lyrically ambitious and rewarding album in its own right, a worthy member of the Floyd Canon, which, from the extraordinary opener which runs from stark and lilting violins to dissonant musique concrete, through Wright's Beatles-esque stomp Summer of '68 and Gilmour's fragile, pretty Fat Old Sun, to Wright's delightful maritime piano on Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast, a track that yields the phrase 'marmalade, I like marmalade; marmalade, I like marmalade' which I am reliably informed was on every cool kid's lips in 1969, provides the attentive and patient listener with an often sensitive and never less than fascinating musical experience, which is after all what you would expect from the greatest band ever, even when in their formative tentative years: roll on Meddle! ... all one sentence; not bad, eh?

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