meaning of ’atom heart mother’
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Topic: meaning of ’atom heart mother’
Posted By: jitu
Subject: meaning of ’atom heart mother’
Date Posted: July 22 2005 at 08:26
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i love 'atom heart mother' suite , it reminds me of rainy cloudy days, could anybody tell me what is the meaning of it?
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 22 2005 at 08:30
You know what...I do know, I just can't remember at the moment! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Cluster One
Date Posted: July 22 2005 at 08:50
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There is no actual meaning to Atom Heart Mother. The band just came up with the name after seeing an article in the newspaper entitled "Mother Receives Atomic Heart" or something to that effect (can't remember exact headline). They thought it was an intriguing title. The name of the album also has nothing to do with with the cow on its cover (Lulubelle III), which was the brainchild of Storm Thorgerson. ------------- Marmalade...I like marmalade. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 22 2005 at 08:53
^ Yes thats what I forgot! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: July 22 2005 at 09:47
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Love Funky Dung ... ------------- "Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer. "No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
Posted By: Rust
Date Posted: February 13 2006 at 16:59
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The song reminds me of a war in the middle ages between two groups. The defenders in a castle and the invaders trying to break through. The main theme especially reminds me of this. The main theme also strangely reminds me of a blimp flying through the air, sometime in the twenties when they were more common. I guess I just have an overactive immagination. ------------- We got to pump the stuff to make us tough from the heart Its astart What we need is awareness we cant get careless Mental self defensive fitness Make everybody see in order to fight the powers that be |
Posted By: SirPsycho388
Date Posted: February 13 2006 at 17:08
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Thanks for that Cluster One. I never knew the meaning but i figured there had to be something deep that Floyd would have thought of. I find it funny that I'm completely wrong - that there's nothing at all to it! ------------- Strangers passing in the street by chance two separate glances meet and I am you and what I see is me. And do I take you by the hand and lead you through the land and help me understand the best I can |
Cluster One wrote:Posted By: dave-the-rave
Date Posted: February 13 2006 at 17:29
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Floyd were getting labeled with the "space music" tag, and Waters, I think,
wanted to get away from that. They were looking for an image for the album that was not suggestive of sci-fi, technology, etc, but rather more down to earth. Thus, the cow. |
Posted By: Derraine
Date Posted: February 13 2006 at 17:40
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To me, AHM evokes a distant, dark and frightening country. The brass fanfares, menacing atmosphere, and the title, as much as anything, always put me in mind of old Soviet Eastern Europe. ------------- Witness the man who raves at the wall! |
Posted By: Nils_B
Date Posted: February 13 2006 at 18:16
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itīs dark, hard, from outerspace, trippy and beautiful. SILENCE IN THE STUDIO ! |
Posted By: frippertronik
Date Posted: February 13 2006 at 19:44
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ATOM HEART MOTHER IS THE STORY OF A COW WITH SUPER-POWERS..... THAT'S ALL THE STORY ------------- a plague of lighthouse keepers |
Posted By: Mharo
Date Posted: February 13 2006 at 20:12
I guess the opening sequence of Live At Pompeii must have crushed all their dreams of ever being able to get rid of the "space" label. ------------- Suritis: The Remembering. Hopefully we should appreciate that given points in time are not so significant as the nature of what is impressed on the mind, and how it is retained and used. |
Posted By: stan the man
Date Posted: February 13 2006 at 20:14
atom heart mother reminds me of waking up in the morning or eating something good like donuts  ------------- true as a lobster in a pteredaktyl's underpants. 
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Posted By: Rust
Date Posted: February 13 2006 at 21:09
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Alan's Psycadelic Breakfast does the same image for me. I'm telling you people, the story is deffinetly about a blimp flying around in 1917 during WWI, it is going through an amazing adventure trying not to get shot down by German forces. ------------- We got to pump the stuff to make us tough from the heart Its astart What we need is awareness we cant get careless Mental self defensive fitness Make everybody see in order to fight the powers that be |
Posted By: edible_buddha
Date Posted: February 14 2006 at 00:20
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Praise be..... Its the return of Udder Woman.... ------------- I really like this jacket, but the sleeves are much too long. |
Posted By: hawkbrock
Date Posted: February 14 2006 at 06:24
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AHM was so called becuase of the newspaper artice, but was named thus becuase they recorded a version for the BBC (rather good cut!) and didn't have a proper name, they had previously called it THE AMAZING PUDDING. Some bootleggers call the live renditions without the orchestra (Montreux Casino example, or KQED) as The Amazing Pudding. Although the orchestral version was deputed at the Bath festival 9black and white footage recently surfaced btw... get looking) still called 'under the tentative working title of The Amazing Pudding'. Hope this helps! ------------- 
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Posted By: Empathy
Date Posted: February 14 2006 at 10:42
Actually, that opening sequence is a relatively new addition, only available on the Director's Cut. ------------- Pure Brilliance: 
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Posted By: Rust
Date Posted: February 14 2006 at 16:26
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Yep, that directors cut opening ruined Echoes for me. I loved the orriginal with the slow zoom in of the colloseum. On the DC version, there is only about 5 seconds of zoom in, that it doesn't even sync up to the music. Just listen, there is Roger playing bass, but on the video he is not there, and the bass is still lying there. ------------- We got to pump the stuff to make us tough from the heart Its astart What we need is awareness we cant get careless Mental self defensive fitness Make everybody see in order to fight the powers that be |