Although probably ranked last on the album by most people, I still think it's a great song. And the transition from Acoustic to electric in this song was an awesome surprise.Īnd finally 'Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast' was a very interesting Instrumental on the album. 'Fat Old Sun' Is my favorite song off this album, it proves David Gilmour can be a great songwriter. 'Summer 68'' Is a song that really captures the brilliance of Rick Wright. 'If' is quite an interesting Roger Waters song, it's unlike other songs that feature his vocals and it's wonderful. 'Atom Heart Mother' is long, but a unique and great instrumental song. I think it's by far the best album of the experimental years. Hard to believe fewer than 2000 views on this.I gave the the album my first real listen through today. Starts a little shaky, if not out of tune, but stick with it. This would have been the technological height of pro-am video gear at that time, believe it or not. And no, this wasn’t shot with a Fisher-Price PixelVision camera (they weren’t on the market at that time) it was most likely recorded on Sony half-inch tape that was looped up on a reel to reel style stationary deck. This is certainly the most immediate record of a live “Atom Heart Mother” we have due to it being shot on video and not film to be sync’d up later. Geesin showed Roger Waters an article in the Evening Standard with the headline “Atom Heart Mother Named,” about a woman with a nuclear-powered pacemaker and they had their album title. They finally settled on a title on July 27th, 1970, the date of a BBC radio broadcast with John Peel who needed to call it something.

This Jperformance at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music isn’t the only live record of Pink Floyd playing their 1970 opus with a brass section and choir-they did this a few times-but it’s the first, when the suite was still apparently being called “Epic.” When they were composing what was ultimately to be called the “Atom Heart Mother” suite with Ron Geesin, Pink Floyd had several working titles, among them “Epic,” “The Amazing Pudding” and David Gilmour’s preferred name, “Theme From an Imaginary Western.”

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