'' is a
1970 Progressive Rock album by British band
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 pregnant woman with an atomic pacemaker with the headline "ATOM HEART MOTHER." 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 "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 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 " 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.
#"
Atom Heart Mother " - 23:39 (Gilmour/Mason/Waters/Wright/Geesin)
- "Father's Shout"
- "Breast Milky"
- "Mother Fore"
- "Funky Dung"
- "Mind Your Throats Please"
- "Remergence"
#" If " - 4:31 (Waters)
#"
Summer '68 " - 5:29 (Wright)
#"
Fat Old Sun " - 5:24 (Gilmour)
#"
Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast " - 13:00 (Gilmour/Mason/Waters/Wright)
- "Rise and Shine"
- "Sunny Side Up"
- "Morning Glory"
- David Gilmour - Vocals , Guitar , bass on "Fat Old Sun" and "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" (Morning glory), drums on "Fat Old Sun"
- Roger Waters - vocals, Bass , acoustic guitar on "If", tape effects, tape collage
- Richard Wright - vocals, Keyboard s, orchestration, bass on "If"
- Nick Mason - Drums , percussion, tape edits, tape collage, additional engineering on "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast"
also:
Atom Heart Mother is a good case, I think, for being thrown into the Dustbin and never listened to by anyone ever again! {Link without Title} It was pretty kind of pompous, it wasn't really about anything.
: - Roger Waters - ''Rock Over London'' Radio Station -
March 15 ,
1985 , for broadcast
April 7 /
April 14 ,
1985 .
-
Billboard (North America)
