15 year old me couldn't listen to 5 minutes of this. 54 year old me loves it like a lost treasure.

Atom Heart Mother is underrated, especially by people who just want people to watch Pulses live video. This was Pink Floyd trying something different. I applaud you venturing down this path.

@greystone7001

3 жыл бұрын

unpopular opinion: PF 70s concerts>Pulse

@greystone7001

3 жыл бұрын

Dark side live at wembley is a thousand times better than the pulse version love how they extend ACYL and MNY

@tedgrowney8981

3 жыл бұрын

@@greystone7001 I'm so tired of people wanting a reaction to the Pulse concert. That was not the real Pink Floyd. Of course there was no Roger Waters, but there was also like 15 musicians on stage. Just not Floyd. Sorry.

@tedgrowney8981

2 жыл бұрын

@@greystone7001 pulse concerts were not real Floyd. Can’t figure out why some don’t know that. I pretty much despise The Pulse concert videos because all I see are 80’s mulletted versions of what they think Pink Floyd was. The 80’s destroyed many good rock bands and they were not an exception. And don’t get me started on how many musicians had to be on the stage at one time.

Saw them play AHM live in 1970. 8,000 stoned hippies and the fug was so thick it was hard to see the stage. Awesome experience!

Probably my favourite Pink Floyd album and I play it again and again. I have been fortunate to see Pink Floyd live twice - the first time they played Echoes as an encore (a 23min encore) and the second time was The Wall.

The first time I listened to that track, I felt in love with it... Thanks for your beautiful reaction, love from France 🇫🇷😘

I think this is my favourite piece of music from PF. I've never got tired of it and it still gives me goose bumps. I've never done any of those things you suggested to this album. I was perhaps too young when this came out, but I was once surprised to hear it playing in a motorway toilet (or rest room as you might say) and it caused me to linger longer than I normally would have. I read that the title 'Atom Heart Mother' was inspired by a news article about a mother with a nuclear powered heart (or pacemaker) who gave birth.

Great great choice Sir. Thank you so much for your comments too. Spot on ... :^)

@SoulTrainBro

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you kindly

@alexanderkuczyk7391

3 жыл бұрын

@@SoulTrainBro anytime , enjoy watching your reactions on one of the greatest gifts to us . Music. You do a great job on reviewing them too. How about some more Stones. I know of two you did. Sticky fingers and Tattoo you. How about Exile on Main Street and/or Some girls

This is the first Pink Floyd album I listened to in 1970 (Was 16) it holds a very special place in my heart. Listen two out of three ain't bad is all I''m saying.

As a kid I was in university on the far side of my country. I finished my final exams for the year with a terrible terrible heavy flu. I could barely stand. I got to the train settled in and started playing this on my walkman. I ate a half a pack of codine & paracatamol and basically nodded out. When it came time to change side on the tape I noticed my nose was bleeding fairly steadily. That was an unusual journey.

The band themselves didn't care too much for this album and stated they were surprised how well received it actually was with the fans.

I really dig what you are doing. Taking a deep and thoughtful dive into this music instead of emoting to a single 'greatest hit'. I've been checking out a lot of reaction/review channels and yours is a much needed approach! That being said, I got a special album to recommend for a 'full album reaction' request - Big Star's "Third/Sister Lovers". It's a shambling wreck of orchestral power pop from Memphis. A front runner for the most tragic record of the 70s. Plenty of critical acclaim and 10 out of 10 ratings but I'd love to see your take on it. Otherwise, just want to say thanks for digging in to so many great records. Cheers!

Dave Gilmour's recording studio are just along the road from me! Medina studios, Hove, England.. hove is the next town from Brighton, which is along the South Coast of England

AHM was, as PF called it, "A soundtrack for a movie that never was"

@BombshoeBuckaroo

3 жыл бұрын

The working title, I believe, was “Themes from an Imaginary Western.”

This album peaked at #1 in the UK.

Legendary record, starting from the unique cover.

OMG , i loved .Atom Heart Mother is god ,David Gilmour is god ,Pink Floyd is god of music.

I have been requesting atom heart mother not realizing you already reviewed it. And what a day to discover it. Have everything Floyd recorded listen to it all countless times but for what it is atom heart mother is my go-to for relaxation and lamenting. It seems my brain was taking a chemical trip the first time I heard it. Lol Atom heart was Pink Floyd's first experimental Dabble in quadraphonic sound. I've heard most all their songs a few thousand times and probably a couple hundred through headphones. If I'm in the house I can take the phones or leave them. If you have a decent surround sound try listening on that the music will still be centered within your head but you'll have more presents around you and you will feel the music. Right now it's 1:30 p.m. I am drinking a chocolate coffee vodka while smoking a stogie after a couple hits. I'm watching 17 deer trying to forge in my pasture under 2 in of snow which is still coming down. The scene is as cerebral the music. I always considered this LP country or nature anyway despite it being orchestrated. Just my personal interpretation. I never considered this LP to have any other meaning other than it was Alan's psychedelic Acid trip in an English Countryside Farm. 🤠🐂🏞️🛩️

@Ozarkprepper643

2 жыл бұрын

In regards to your question first time I heard it I'm sure I was tripping. I'm probably a half a dozen times on shrooms. And then since I toked for decades it goes without saying. And even though I have been self-employed or a contractor, there was nearly 20 years in Aerospace and government research where sobriety was a must. The whole LP like many other Floyd songs is on the thumb drive for when I'm flying this side one Echoes and Metal and Interstellar space travel get played a lot when the flying 1000ft. AGL. And yes in the early days if you wanted to get laid it was this LP, or suffer through Rod Stewart.🙄 LOL don't tell my old lady though🤫. I have had a blessed relationship for decades.👍😉

You should react to their whole pulse concert

Definetaly works well with a good indica,at bedtime.

If you like this I strongly recommend Uriah Heep's Salisbury - there are certain similarities, and although I really like AHM, I actually think that the orchestration in Salisbury succeeds a little better.

first album with Gilmore so they are still showing a lot of influence from Syd Barrett . Listen to his work with Pink Floyd starting with the first to the last and you can hear him not going downhill but getting more and more out there. Syd bless his Heart is what we, at least in my area referred to in the 70's as "an acid casualty" (LSD, back then it was well, a lot different and more powerful than it is now) He was Genius but he was pushed over that thin line between Genius and Madness. Syd Barrett he released a bit of solo work after leaving Floyd too just do a search on him here you tube has the vids

@dago87able

3 жыл бұрын

It’s not Kat63, David Gilmour was in PF since their second album, released in ‘68 (A Saucerful of Secrets). This is from 1970.

probably the love-making LP of Floyd was their soundtrack to MORE. The getting-high album the studio Ummagumma. the Atom Heart Suite is neither suited to getting high nor love-making...it's like a classic journey, as you say cerebral, has more in common with Wagner's Ring or Beethoven's 9th than the psychedelic 60's.

another good thing about you reposting is that i get to hit like all over again.

@wesbeuning8927

3 жыл бұрын

....and to answer your question: thats a yes for me.

Definitely got high to it back in the day.

I'll hold my hand up and "Yes - all 3!" I love AHM, it's an integral part of my youth. I understand why a lot of people don't get it but, if you let the music take you it's utterly transcendent . A truly brilliant album.

I first heard Pink Floyd in '75 ( 'Dark Side of the Moon' ). Even though I own ALL of their albums & early singles......I rarely go back to listen their older work. Some of it sounds downright bizarre. 'Ummagumma' is one of those albums. But I love 'em all anyway.

Musica celestiale

welcome to the dark side of Pink Floyd. 'dark' in the sense that it's unknown to even many of their fans. i, like most, caught sight of them on the release of DSOTM. the really early stuff has fans of Syd's to give it air, while stuff like this remains in the shadows. you'll find that the second side is a bit different

@psychedelicpiper999

3 жыл бұрын

I still find the Syd stuff to be far more underrated than this.

Did you ever react to "Piper at the Gates of Dawn"? I know you researched Syd Barrett, but I don't think you ever actually heard his music. The best and most influential Pink Floyd album imo.

This is Pink Floyd looking for their sound, still undecided about exactly what they were looking to do, after the departure of their lead singer and main songwriter in Syd. They obviously did a better job on their next album "Meddle" and on "Echoes" in particular. Having said that, I do find this period a very interesting one for Pink Floyd. You can almost see them searching for that sound that made them the greatest band ever; and there's some brilliant moments in amongst this period.

Underrated Floyd album

I love Pink Floyd but this never appealed to me. I do enjoy side two though with Fat Old Sun.

The most psychedelic album ever

@65alef

3 жыл бұрын

Also progressive

@claudioferraro1652

3 жыл бұрын

Ummagumma is the most psychedelic one

@psychedelicpiper999

3 жыл бұрын

Nah, "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn". They never got as psychedelic without Syd Barrett. This is tame compared to the first album.

I’ve been a Floyd fan my whole life (52 years), and have never taken to this album. It’s just too avant garde for me. I enjoy Fat Old Sun and Summer ‘68, but the rest I find incredibly tedious, as if something is about to happen but never does. Apparently the band doesn’t dig it either, so I’m in good company. Every once in a while I put it on (last night for instance) expecting something different, but leave with the same reaction. At least my old vinyl will remain in pristine condition!

Easily one of my favorite albums. Summer '68 and APB for the win! I just hope the audio in your headphones was better than what is presented here, because it's pretty terrible man. So many of these reactions use youtube videos and the sound just sucks. Had to be said.

Congrats on getting through this mishmash. You just listened to a piece of music that not even band members, David Gilmour and Roger Waters, cared much for. I'm a huge fan of PF but cannot listen to this elongated mess. David Gilmour described Pink Floyd’s 1970 album Atom Heart Mother as “a load of rubbish... we were scraping the barrel a bit at that period.” His bandmate, Roger Waters, was no less harsh, later stating that if anyone was foolish enough to ask him to perform it now, he would tell them unequivocally: “You must be fucking joking."

@heliotropezzz333

3 жыл бұрын

This music is so fantastic and wonderful to my ear and to me it progresses coherently. It's not a mess. The band members lost control of it. It was taken over and finished by someone else. I think that's why they are not so keen on it. I never get tired of listening to it.

@chimaloo

3 жыл бұрын

To each their own, I adore this album

@kentclark6420

3 жыл бұрын

I agree with the chicken gallery. I loved this album from the first time. Especially this side, and the first song on the other side, (If).

@stevedickson4744

24 күн бұрын

Neil, let's see a link to your finest #1 records from the early 70's for comparison to this. Which world renowned Sympony Orchestra, and which Chorus appeared on your album? Will people still pay to see coverbands play your "masterpeice" 50 years after you wrote it ? ESAD !