ATOM HEART MOTHER

Before everything, LITERALLY everything, happened to Pink Floyd, there was this: Atom Heart Mother, a confuse album, with no kind of concept or cohesion in the composition. However, each piece is, by itself, good.

Atom Heart Mother is the 24 minute epic, an orchestral composition, and it's generally very very good, it has a multiple sections, and all of them are marvelous, this is without a doubt magnificent, and a great reason for hearing the album. This is followed by 3 much more conventional pieces, very simple, very smooth and good overall, "If" is my favorite, but "Summer '68" lyrics are so terrible they almost make this song un-enjoyable.

"Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" is one of the biggest FAILS I ever heard, it's not much psychedelic, it sure is breakfast though! It's basically a man talking about his breakfast ("Marmalade, I like marmalade) and sounds of preparing a breakfast, and then, from nowhere comes instrumental pieces with absolutely no sense, completely off the song, and are a little ridiculous, which makes this song a little boring because of its 13 minutes.

Overall "Atom Heart Mother" lacks cohesion and maturity, but it is still a very enjoyable effort.