Atom Heart Mother
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Atom Heart Mother
Atom Heart Mother is the fifth studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd. It was released by Harvest on 2 October 1970 in the UK, and by Capitol on 10 October 1970 in the US. It was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London, England, and was the band's first album to reach number 1 in the UK, while it reached number 55 in the US, eventually going gold there. -Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
(1970) Atom Heart Mother is a step headlong into the last century and a dissipation of their collective talents, which are considerable . . . If Pink Floyd is looking for some new dimensions, they haven’t found them here.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
Some pieces of the group's future successes might have been in place, but Pink Floyd were clearly still struggling with ordering them into a coherent whole.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
Mason and Waters played the entire 23-minute, side-one-encompassing, fascinatingly episodic title track in a thrilling, one-take burst of rhythm brilliance.
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All Music
Atom Heart Mother will largely be for cultists, but its unevenness means there's also a lot to cherish here.
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Sputnik Music
The fun thing about such a varied, crazy album is that you won't get bored of most of it any time soon. And remember, love all your children equally... or at least pretend to.
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Paste Magazine
“Atom Heart Mother”—all six movements—at the very least shows the band developing and entertaining new ideas, consciously moving away from the space rock label they’d been saddled with.
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IGN
Not Pink Floyd's best effort, but still a trippy escape.
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Louder Sound
It had a cow’s arse on the cover and a track sampling their roadie cooking bacon, but the wild genius of Pink Floyd’s psychedelic art rock made Atom Heart Mother their first No. 1.
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Record Music Reviews
Although it is mellow and unpolished, it is important to recognize that it is the first Pink Floyd album that contains all the key elements that would create their signature sound, so its place in the evolution of Pink Floyd is unparalleled and the album should not be overlooked.
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Telegraph
Here the orchestral instrumentation's sheer sonic bombast met the power of a tasty recurring riff and soared.
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Countdown Kid
Although the soundscapes on 1970’s Atom Heart Mother were as hypnotic as ever, the songs still seemed to be lacking any kind of deeper meaning amidst all the ambiance. So while there are no out-and-out embarrassments on the album, there is also nothing that leaves an impact too far past its time on the speakers.
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The Pink Floyd Fandom
This album is unique and a "must" for any serious Floyd fan. For those who know Pink Floyd solely through lyric dominated albums such as "The Wall" and later "dehydrated" Floyd albums, however, it may come as something of a shock.
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Psychedelic Sight
One of the band’s most-debated works, a sprawling suite that’s by turns exhilarating, monotonous, hypnotic, pretentious and primeval.
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Robert Christgau
Yeah, they do leave the singing to an anonymous semi-classical chorus, and yeah, they probably did get the horns for the fanfares at the same hiring hall. But at least the suite provides a few of the hypnotic melodies that made Ummagumma such an admirable record to fall asleep to.
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Best Shot Whisky Reviews
One excellent and one at least interesting suite plus three quality Pink Floyd Songs. I give this Album a very solid 8 and can't understand why the band with the exception of Richard has become so negative about this album. Atom Heart Mother makes for a very relaxing listen after a hard day's work. Try it out!
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Kinston
“Atom Heart Mother” isn’t the greatest album Pink Floyd ever made, but it should be interesting to those who only know the band for the six or seven songs classic rock radio plays on a continuous loop.
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Expose
While Atom Heart Mother remains a decidedly minor Pink Floyd opus (significantly, the group chose to omit it from the Shine On box set), the brave, if inflated, experimental spirit displayed here provides a striking contrast to the space-rock Barnum & Bailey the group has become.
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John McFerrin Music Reviews
Ultimately, it comes down to this - this album is a FUN listen. Clumsy, but ultimately better for it.
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