Atom Heart Mother
Atom Heart Mother is a 1970s progressive rock album by British band Pink Floyd. The album was recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, England. The album reached number 1 in the UK and number 55 in the US charts and went Gold in the US in March of 1994. A re-mastered CD was released in 1994 in the UK and 1995 in the US.
The original album cover shows a very ordinary cow standing in a very ordinary pasture, with no text nor any other clue as to what might be on the record.
The longest two tracks are a progression from Pink Floyd's earlier instrumental pieces such as A Saucerful of Secrets; the first is split into six parts and features a full orchestra and the second is an instrumental in three parts with sound effects and speech between each part.
Track listing
Atom Heart Mother has five tracks, of which the central three are relatively short songs:
- "Atom Heart Mother Suite" - 23:39
- "Father's Shout"
- "Breast Milky"
- "Mother Fore"
- "Funky Dung"
- "Mind Your Throats Please"
- "Remergence"
- "If" - 4:30
- "Summer '68" - 5:28
- "Fat Old Sun" - 5:23
- "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" - 13:00
- "Rise and Shine"
- "Sunny Side Up"
- "Morning Glory"
Personnel
Quotes
"Atom Heart Mother is a good case, I think, for being thrown into the dustbin and never listened to by anyone ever again! [...] It was pretty kind of pompous, it wasn't really about anything."
- - Roger Waters - Rock Over London Radio Station - March 15, 1985, for broadcast April 7/April 14, 1985.
