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Rating: - Don't let the cow put you off.

Probably, the lightweight out of all floyd albums, because it isnt dark in anyway, but it showcases happiness. Well one negative is it starts off with a 25 minute orchaestra instrumental piece, but it gets better, a lot better. 'If' is a sad little song from roger, may it be a past regret about a girl i dont know, but the lyrics will move you. Summer '68 what can i say? Beautiful, the track of the album, Richard Wright works it out on this track, he really does, 'I've had enough for one day', lyric of the album i say. Then Fat Old Sun, another gorgeous little piece, It proves Pink Floyd dont have to be dark to be good. But the last track, is well, a reminder of Ummagumma i guess, so be thankful its the last track, because you wont be listening to it often. Next to Meddle, this is probably the only one that shows a lighter side to the band, thats what makes it of a certain quality.

Rating: - A different album

This is a bit different album from Floyd. It has five tracks starting with the title track. The title track is a 23 min. long song with several different elements. It starts in true Pink Floyd manner with a fade in noise and some cymbal tapping and the goes over in a bit chaotic trumpet sound and then straitens out into a nice trumpet piece witch last for about 20 sec. Before the chaos returns, and then the trumpet piece comes back a couple of times. Through the song you will find everything from weird sounds to nice quiet bits of music and great guitar work from Gilmour. Near the end you will also get a choir piece that goes great with the rest of the song. It is a weird track but if you enjoy A saucerful of secrets, you will enjoy this one to, but if you don't like the long early tracks from Pink Floyd you will not like this one either. The next track is If. If is a quiet bit made and song by Waters and it is a lovely great of music with some guitar solos between the acoustic rhythms. "Summer of 68" is my favourite song from Wright. It has a quiet and calm verse but a great trumpet and piano ref. in-between. It is not like anything else I have heard from Floyd or anything else for that matter. The last normal track is Gilmour's Fat Old Sun. It is also found on the best of and it is really a great song. Calm guitar and a nice lyric about the greatness of summer I think. The final track is the strangest song from Floyd ever if we don't count Ummagumma. It is to weird to describe but defiantly not something I play a lot but every man his taste.

All in all I really like the album, not on my top tree Pink Floyd album list but it has a rightful place in any Floyd CD collection!

Rating: - The Floyd's Legendary COW Album...!

For me this is the first truly great Pink Floyd album. Admittedly, it lacks the intelligence, cohesion and structure of the later, more polished endeavours such as Dark Side, Wish You Were Here and Animals, though it does more than make up for this in elements of style, originality and charm.

The album is structured into two parts. Part one is taken up by the 23-minute long orchestral piece Atom Heart Mother, which in true classical fashion is broken down into a number of distinctive movements that allow for further instrumentation to be introduced. Here we have the familiar Pink Floyd instrumental line up of bass guitar, lead guitar, organ and drum-kit happily jamming away behind a sonic wall of operatic backing vocals, sound-effects, string arrangements and more importantly, a full salvation-army brass band.

Part two of the album works in a similar way to their over-indulgent previous release Ummagumma, in that it includes three solo compositions from Waters, Gilmour and Wright, before climaxing with what amounts to little more than an audio-collage. The three songs by the divided members are all very strong, with Waters and Gilmour experimenting with sub-Dylan folk sounds, unlike Wright, who turns in an admirable attempt at Sgt Pepper-era Beatles pop.

These first four songs are all excellent in their own right, though the baffling textures and false starts of the previously noted closing number (the wonderfully titled Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast) often overwhelms the album’s gentle intimacy. That said... this is still a great work. It misses out on classic status by a very narrow margin, but still deserves attention from the more serious musical devotees.

Rating: - You'll either love it or you'll hate it....

When I first listened to this album i was listening to a friends scratched cd. To start with i thought this was part of the music, then i realized it wasn't. Having bought my self a new copy i only knew 'If' in full, and the main part of Summer '68. I really wanted to hear it all properly , and am very glad i bought it.

The title track, yes its long, yes its weird in places, but ultimately its fantastic music. A great horn-based tune that merges into a haunting , chilling choral passage. Later come some strange sound effects that seem to go on forever the 1st time you hear them, but soon blend in. The 'remergence' section , where the first theme comes back is rounds off the song well.

I was instantly taken with 'If'. Its a very beautiful, slow, gentle song- simple chords, simple words, but they make a great song.

As the other reviewers seem to be in agreement with, Summer '68 is a very good track, and yes one of R.Wrights best. The trumpet passages do relate to the tune of the first song, and provide comtinuity when you feel the album hangs only loosely together.

Fat old sun is mellow , and a good tune disguised with Gilmours slightly strange vocals

Alans pyschadelic breakfast, apart from anything else, is one of the best titles of a song ever, and is a curious selection of sounds and good tunes- if you feel it detracts from the album, you're taking it far too seriously.

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned that you get a recipe with the album. Yes, it is a bit of a ridiculous concept, and they're hardly pratical recipes , but again it adds to the fun, and as the band states it had nothing to do with the music so it was included. Similar to the fantastic cow on the cover and obscure title they are irrelevant to the music itself, but make this Pink Floyd album a very attractive package

Rating: - Pink Floyd at their most experimental

This album was named in a radio studio after a newspaper headline, and I think it's this sort of off-the-wall thinking and on-the-spot decision making that helped Pink Floyd create such an original and experimental record in "Atom Heart Mother".

I believe that The Atom Heart Mother Suite is one of the greatest musical works of the late 20th century, it is impossible to explain what "type" of music this is. French Horns blast out a powerful, almost dark main theme at intervals with members of Pink Floyd joining in in their traditional styles. Richard Wright's keyboard is very prominent in this piece, taking the lead in "b. Mother Fore". The brass section interject a lot with crazy (no other word to describe it) blasts of random music which work extremely well. The choral sections are also brilliantly sung, singing such bizarre lyrics as "Rappatika!" and "Fzzzzzzzz" with such conviction...

The other tracks are all superb also, Roger Water's "If" which is a forebearer of his later work, with well thought-out lyrics and a simple melody line.

Richard Wright's greatest Floyd moment then happens, with the brilliant "Summer '68" in which he shows off his pianistic abilities to their full, again with huge brass interludes and a trumpet solo, as well as a great sing along chorus "How do you feel... feel... feel... etc..."

David Gilmour's "Fat Old Sun" is a classic Floyd track (much better than any of Gilmour's later efforts), it paints a picture of Britain in the summer, more specifically at sunset. A great solo and brilliant vocals.

As for Alan's Psychadelic Breakfast, this piece of music is less music than muzac, but brilliant all the same. I refer to it as "muzac" because there is no better piece of music to have ever been created to eat your breakfast to. Just try it, your breakfast will taste 10 times better.

All in all, this is my 3rd favourite Pink Floyd album, only beaten by Animals and Darkside. If you want some of the most original music ever composed, buy this album

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