Atom Heart Mother Songs Ranked
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. A remastered CD was released in 1994 in the UK and the United States, and again in 2011. Ron Geesin, who had already influenced and collaborated with Roger Waters, contributed to the title track and received a then-rare outside songwriting credit. Although it was commercially successful on release, the band, particularly Waters and David Gilmour, have expressed several negative opinions of the album in more recent years. Nevertheless, it remained popular enough for Gilmour to perform the title track with Geesin in 2008. Here are all Atom Heart Mother songs ranked.
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5. Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast
“Brilliant. One of the best experimental pieces of music to date. Leave it to Pink Floyd to actually make such a zany concept come to life. The song is exactly as it says, it is a man (presumably Alan?) eating breakfast for approximately 10 minutes to some psychedelic rock. Genius.”
4. Fat Old Sun
“A keen listener will pick up that the bell sample used at the beginning of this track is the same one used at the beginning of High Hopes from The Division Bell. After the coincidental(?) sample, comes a catchy tune with great guitar work that is among the best on the album.”
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3. If
“Again setting the precedent for Meddle, If is the Atom Heart Mother equivalent of A Pillow of Winds. It’s a quiet and calm song about what it means to be a good person, and it is excellent. There is a sense of open-hearted honesty from Roger Waters that can only be seen on the bookending tracks of Animals and nowhere else.”
2. Summer ’68
“A song about fun in the sun with friends that does not sound like how you think it does. A fantastic, complex, piece that uses the orchestra from the title track to great effect. Not the best song on the album, but still a very good piece.”
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1. Atom Heart Mother
“The opening track is also the title track, and it is an epic track, both in length and quality. It is an instrumental piece that is comprised of some excellent melodies and some unique sound effects like motorcycles and strange chants. It follows a similar pattern to Echoes in that both songs start out and end with more vigor than there is in the middle of the song, but whereas the refrain of Echoes gives off an ethereal sense of longing, Atom Heart Mother comes back and brings a sound of triumphant joy. It may actually be the most uplifting song that Pink Floyd has made.”
