ATOM HEART MOTHER

From the pompous Cow Suite to Alan's marmalade toast, this might be the boys' trippiest output. This was in my mind the first of Pink Floyd's run of seven essential classic albums, ending with The Wall. This is a group effort for sure.

𝐀𝐭𝐨𝐦 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐞 - 23:51 The instrumentation on Atom Heart Mother Suite is top notch. The main theme draws you in from the beginning and after some amazing guitar playing by DAVE GILMOUR, a choir comes in and enhances the atmosphere. After 10 minutes, RICK WRIGHT shows GILMOUR back to the song and they battle it out while still keeping it professional. They are supported by the amazing rhythm section created by NICK MASON and ROGER WATERS. The choir comes back, this time with some goofy vocals to lighten up the atmosphere. After another blast of spectacular bombast, we are invited to listen to the precursor to the noise section of Echoes. I don't really understand the point of this section, it's kind of unpleasant. Maybe they wanted to build some tension before release (main theme)? Luckily, we get some fantastic violin playing afterwards, followed by some fantastic note bending by GILMOUR. This leads into the final burst of main theme-oriented bombast to wrap up the epic epic (yes, I meant to write "epic" twice). 𝟗,𝟓/𝟏𝟎 - absolutely essential prog epic, but was the noise section really necessary?

𝐈𝐟 - 4:24 Philosophical lyrics inspired by Rudyard Kipling, classical guitar and decent singing by WATERS. Slide guitar by GILMOUR. Nice melody. Good stuff. 𝟕/𝟏𝟎 - pleasant song, but not progressive.

𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 '𝟔𝟖 - 5:26 The cheerful melody in this song does a pretty good job disguising WRIGHT's quite sad lyrics. His vocals are also very good. The instrumentation is top notch as usual and the song shifts between mellow and bombastic à la Suite. This is a good representation of what this album is all about. 𝟕,𝟓/𝟏𝟎 - mellow - bombastic - mellow - bombastic.

𝐅𝐚𝐭 𝐎𝐥𝐝 𝐒𝐮𝐧 - 5:17 Harmless, mellow melody, lyrics, vocals and great electric guitar bit by GILMOUR. Rhythm section supports him. Funnily enough, this song reminds me more of the summer than the previous song. 𝟖/𝟏𝟎 - relaxing song.

𝐀𝐥𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭 - 12:56 I would pay good money to have some breakfast with Alan. Maybe spend a day with him. It seems like he doesn't have a single worry in the world. A cheerful chap he is. Well, maybe that's because of the acid. Probably. Anyway, I doubt the band was on acid recording this because this song is actually really well constructed and executed. The song is actually really calming. 𝟖,𝟓/𝟏𝟎 - a guy eating breakfast with some harmonious guitar in the background.

𝐀𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝟖/𝟏𝟎

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