ATOM HEART MOTHER

With Atom Heart Mother Pink Floyd seem to continue the journey that began with the studio section of Umma Gumma. Of course the most tedious aspect of that double album was it's studio cuts. But Pink Floyd were still regrouping at this stage but for me Atom Heart Mother is a needless exercise in way too much cerebral over indulgence that goes beyond a progressive experiment. Experimental but unfocused and for the most part hurried and some of the suites are way over long for comfort and it is hard to see the direction as to where the Pink Floyd were actually going at this stage as they continually thrashed out loose, inconsistent and at times unsympathetically overwhelming music. Some of the orchestration was interesting to me on the extremely infrequent occasion, but even playing it now it comes over rather annoying and seriously irrelevant, luckily they had reduced the boredom and were produced some good cutting tunes by the time Meddle, which was released the following year, hit the shelves. "Alans Psychedelic Breakfast" is interesting as it is simply not interesting on any level, nor is it a major psychedelic experience though at first I did find it a tad amusing but now I feel nothing, or at best very little, and could live happy if I never have to listen to it or talk about it ever again. This may have seemed clever for a transient moment as the sixties came to a close through a haze of dope and LSD now its just another Pink Floyd album filler and a needless example of Waters, Gilmore, Mason and Wright being naïvely obnoxious.