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| Album
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| Released:
10 October 1970 |
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| Recorded:
March – August 1970 |
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| Genre:
Progressive rock |
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| Length:
86:11 |
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| Label:
Columbia (EMI) (UK) |
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| Tower/Capitol
(U.S.) |
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| Producer:
Pink Floyd/Norman Smith |
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Background
Atom Heart Mother is a 1970 (see 1970 in music)
progressive rock album by Pink Floyd. It is named
after its title track, which was originally titled
"The Amazing Pudding". The song's name
was changed after the band came across a newspaper
article about a woman with an atomic pacemaker
with the headline "Nuclear drive for woman's
heart." The album was recorded at Abbey Road
Studios, London, England. It reached number 1
in the UK and number 55 in the U.S. charts and
went Gold in the U.S. in March of 1994. A re-mastered
CD was released in 1994 in the UK and 1995 in
the U.S.
The original album cover shows a very ordinary
cow standing in a very ordinary pasture, with
no text nor any other clue as to what might be
on the record. This is, in fact, due to the psychedelic-"space
rock" imagery associated with Pink Floyd
at the time of the album's release; the band wanted
to explore all sorts of music without being limited
to a particular image or style of performance.
They thus requested that their new album have
"something plain" on the cover, which
ended up being the image of the cow. Storm Thorgerson,
inspired by Andy Warhol's famous "cow-wallpaper",
has said that he simply drove out into a rural
area and photographed the first thing he saw.
The cow's name is Lulubelle III.
The longest two tracks are a progression from
Pink Floyd's earlier instrumental pieces such
as "A Saucerful of Secrets"; the Atom
Heart Mother suite is split into six parts and
features a full orchestra while there are three
distinct segments of "Alan's Psychedelic
Breakfast" which are joined by dialogue and
sound effects of then-roadie Alan Stiles preparing,
discussing, and eating breakfast.
The original LP ends with the constant sound of
a dripping tap in the inner groove. Also included
are three five-minute songs: one by each of the
band's three resident songwriters. Roger Waters
contributes a folk ballad called "If"
which he would play frequently at live shows in
support of his Radio KAOS album. This is followed
by Rick Wright's brass-heavy "Summer '68",
a critique of the "rock 'n roll" lifestyle
that would soon become characteristic of Pink
Floyd. Finally, there is David Gilmour's "Fat
Old Sun", which spent two years as a key
part of the band's live set and is a staple of
Gilmour's various solo tours.
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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