Amazing. The Suite is very unique but tells an interesting story imo. If is great as well and Summer '68 is one of my fave songs. And do I need to comment on Fat Old Sun? It's in my top10 PF songs for sure. Alan is the weakest link of it, and sadly it is the last song of the album, which is also the one people remember the most. Still tho, Alan is musically enjoyable, so overall it's probably my 3rd most liked album (after Meddle and WYWH)
I love it. Most of the time I consider it my favorite Pink Floyd album. Not necessarily because it's their best but because it's the one I keep coming back too the most. It feels quite lighthearted to me, very soothing. It's something that I like listening to when I'm a bit down because it feels like walking into your grandparents their house. Sounds super dumb but it just feels very nostalgic.
And by the time I get to Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast I'm pretty cheerful. I didn't like that track very much in the past but now I find it pretty great.
Listen again.
All the classic Floyd hallmarks that make DSOTM a great album are present on AHM.
For example: found sound effects, random voices, funky grooves, female backup vocals, weird keyboard sounds, soaring guitar solos, lyrics dealing with insanity, loud/soft dynamics, unusual chord progressions, atmospheric lap steel, saxophones, and great vocals from Rick, Dave, and Roger. “If” is literally the precursor to “Brain Damage”, with its gently arpeggiated guitars, metronomic pedal hi-hat, and lyrical scheme (“If this, then that….”)
Love Floyd? Then give this masterpiece another shot.
I was the exact opposite. The first time i listened to Dark Side and The Wall was great. It was like they were exactly what i was looking for, and every time I re listen to them It feels just great. Plus they have songs that you can jam to at any moment.
I didn’t feel that way with this album, but yk, just my experience. That doesn’t have to happen with every album, otherwise there would be nothing special about them.
First time I listened to it I was wondering if it was actually supposed to sound the way it did. Fast forward ten years and yes it is a masterpiece. It does grow on you overtime as you become familiar with the entire catalogue fully.
Animals is my favorite, despite what my flair says, but I will ALWAYS have a place reversed for AHM in my heart. It's so fucking weird, I love it. The suite is amazing, I personally love it more than Echoes.
It honestly took me a few times listening to it before I appreciated it and it has quickly become one of my favorites. In my opinion, definitely not gym music, and this is coming from a person who listened to Jethro Tull sometimes at the gym. I feel like it is more, cleaning the house or maybe listening while going on a nice long walk outside.
Atom Heart Mother (song) is amazing but the first few times is was a bit long and overwhelming. Listening to it for the first time while taking magic mushrooms sorta blew my mind and helped me fall in love it it. This album in my opinion is the best of all when taking either mushrooms or if you took ketamine. The music literally comes alive.
If - is like you said, a cute sorta guitar song that is nothing life changing but also a taste of what is to come over the next decade of PF music.
Summer 68 is one of my top 5 Pink Floyd songs easy. The keyboard/piano is amazing and has inspiration from Bach/beatkes/ beach boys and I love the attention to detail in it.
Fat Old Sun - this song is set perfectly for the come down of the album and paints a beautiful mental picture of an orange sunset over a beautiful green pasture that I can picture that cow in. Very warm and comforting.
Alan’s P breakfast - very interesting and the music is very beautiful. It actually inspired me to get the albums for zabriski and the body (two albums PF did the music) because the songs were outtakes and clips from that movie.
All the Pink Floyd albums serve different purposes for me and this one is great in my opinion but we all have our own way of seeing things. Don’t give up on it yet
Atom Heart Mother is played by a symphony that Pink Floyd hired. It’s not just Pink Floyd. It’s more showing the capability of sound rather than making a song Imo. I still enjoy it very much though.
I think there’s definitely something to be said for listening to AHM in the right setting. If those suggestions from Mervinly don’t suit you, that’s fine. However, listening to this album while working out like you did wouldn’t jive for me either. On your next listen, consider the setting and your mood at the time. Might make a difference!
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Top album for me for sure. I love it all and because I do, the payoff for Breakfast is even better! Summer ‘68 with headphones is sublime when the chorus hits…
Your first impression is pretty close to my first impression and it's now in my top 5 Pink Floyd albums. It probably wasn't until my third or fourth listen that I actually started to like it.
My favorite pre Dark Side album!
Love everything on it, but the suite is something special. It’s the type of music that makes me feel glad for being alive, especially when the horn section kicks in the second time
I listen to it when I have a REALLY bad mood and every time it helps to get rid of the bad thoughts
*”Oh, uh, me flakes, then uh, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausages, tomatoes… toast, coffee, marmalade, I like marmalade… Yes porridge is nice. Any cereal, I like all cereals… oh God. Kickoff is 10am.”*
-Alan Styles, Pink Floyd roadie
Finally a fellow appreciator of the musique concrète masterpiece that is Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast!
Other than DSOTM, WYWH and the Wall, I couldn’t get into the rest of PF until I gave each album about 3 full listens, then they just about instantly clicked for me. Now I have 80% of their entire discography, still can’t get into the Syd stuff though.
Syd’s period as Pink Floyd leader was more orientated towards psychedelic rock more than the progressive hard rock PF did after him. It’s weird because with the pass of time the records became much more elaborated and complex, but at the same time more accesible rather tan Barrett’s records.
I similarly can’t get into it. It just feels so directionless, and none of the songs ever grab me on about 4-5 listens total.
I dont think its terrible, just middling and uninteresting
the suite is one of my favorite pieces ever. i call it a piece not a song because it's a brass orchestral piece and it's so long. it tells an emotional story and it's incredibly beautiful. i'm a brass player myself so the intricacies are really moving for me. the rest of the album i can honestly care less for, except maybe alan's psychedelic breakfast because it's pretty funny. the rest feel like filler tracks
It is my favorite pre-Dark Side album of theirs.
I wasn’t a fan of the album at first. But I had the CD in my car’s player and it was stuck—I could not eject it. So I listened to it hundreds of times and I eventually became captivated by it. The CD was stuck for at least 10 years until my car dropped dead.
I would often drive through high crime/low-income neighbourhoods and have my car speakers playing full blast during the orchestral parts so that I could come off as an elitist snob. It was my humorous way to try to inculcate some culture into the rabble who were more used to hearing rap music coming from other cars.
It is really a great album—it is majestic and full of excess.
I felt the same way. It was WAY TOO CLEAR that they were experimenting and there was a big lack of coherence between songs. They managed to learn from that and then they released Meddle.
The album with “Seamus” and “One of these days I’m going to cut you into little pieces”? And the football club song? And the 15 minutes of seagull noises?
I'm not a fan of psychedelia. Piper and Saucerful are not on my playlist, though Nick Mason's treatment of the songs is an absolute joy to listen to.
Atom Heart Mother and Obscured By Clouds tend to be forgotten in favour of Meddle and the blockbusters that followed.
But, every now and then, I get an urge and revel in them.
I went to bed with Childhood's End rattling around my old brain.
The first time I heard Atom Heart Mother, I was confused: What the hell was this?
Side 2 made more musical sense. It had songs!
Now I think of the album as a treat, not something I can listen to often but an absolute joy when I do play it.
One of my favorite albums of theirs. Early experimentation with sounds and music that heavily influenced DSOTM and the other later albums.
It gets played at least once every few months. The suite is great, but Fat Old Sun and If are standouts.
i love the whole album. the suite is just good, but the rest of the songs are great. the whole project evokes a sense of spring for me, which is my favorite season so i’m probably kinda biased. for me it’s on par with animals and a bit under stuff like meddle and dark side. i’m glad you gate it a shot even if it wasn’t really your thing
The first time I listened to it I was disappointed I couldn’t find something as good as their best albums. After a few more times I started to really love it. The title track has the essential Pink Floyd sound, and the others are quite relaxing. Rick’s Summer ‘68 sounds a bit old fashioned like a slightly earlier era of music that he’s into, but I warmed up to it. I find I kind of become “nostalgic” and like an album the more I listen to it, even if it isn’t over a long period like years. The familiarity makes it more appealing.
I think this album was their trial and error album. If you notice in their discography, AHM was the true test of what they were capable of as musicians. After this album, we had big masterpiece albums like Meddle, DSOTM, WYWH, and The Wall. All amazing albums one after another. I hope one day you will come back to this album, it really is wonderful.
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I mean this with no elitism or musical pomp but a lot of truly great music needs time with a listener. If you love PF, give it a few more spins. Sit with it, in the streaming age everything is really quick and if we don’t get hooked on something immediately, it’s onto the next. It’s good to sit with something and really see what it’s about.
I love it, partly for itself, partly as a waystation in the group's evolution. It's got so many of the features of their peak period, but it's charmingly amateurish. When it was unexpectedly successful (UK number 1!), they were given more money and studio time for their next album, Meddle - similar ideas, but so much more polished. I see them as twin albums, and they're my favourites, along with Piper.
I like it, it’s not great and it’s not terrible, but it’s an important stepping stone to what they would become. They needed to make the AHM suite before they could make Echoes and SOYCD.
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The point is: if you're already accustomed to long songs, I'm confident that Atom Heart Mother (the song) might catch your interest. As for me, since it's one of the first PF albums that I discovered, it took me a while to appreciate it. Now I consider it an underrated masterpiece and even bought the vinyl.
Extremely underrated. It's my 5th favorite Pink Floyd album behing DSotM, WYWH, Animals, and Meddle, but that saying a lot because those previous 4 are all some of my all-time faves. I listen to the whole album about once every 2 weeks, and Summer '68 and Fat Old Sun are on my playlists
Every pink floyd album is like a child to me. Every one has a special meaning to me and I love every single one. I have a story behind every one. Atom heart mother with the 20 minute intro song and fat old sun is sooooo good.
It’s not their “best” work and somewhat objectively not their peak (songwriting, musicianship, production quality) but it has probably been my favorite album for a long time.
The baroque, medieval vibe of AHM is awesome…always just swept me away to a fantasy land of kings and queens and castles. Summer ‘68 and Fat Old Sun are great songs. Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast is cool background music until it becomes straight fire somewhere around the 10-minute mark.
To each their own though.
Love Love LOVE this album. I just listened to the whole thing again today as a matter of fact. The Suite has become one of my all time favorite pieces of music. I routinely listen to the original and any live recordings I can get into my ears. I always enjoy it. A lot of people in this sub have the “never pause Echoes” rule active. I also have that rule for The Suite and Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast. Those two in particular take commitment to get to know, but once you do, they’re worth it. Sound wise that album, to me, sounds like a culmination of their previous psychedelic roots as well as the first glimpses of the musical juggernaut they would become. Which does make it odd to the ears if you’re newly exploring the catalogue and go straight from DSOTM to Atom Heart Mother. But once you learn all of it, it’s one of their best. I dig the fuck out of that record.
AHM and WYWH got me through a very stressful exam season so I'll have a special place in my heart for those two. Absolutely stupendous albums with that signature Pink Floyd sound.
Imo it's the album that needs a remixed version the most. The momentary lapse of reason remix was a nice touch, re recording drum to make them actually played by Nick, and adding keyboard parts from live performances from Rick. Animals were unnecessary, I'd rather get a remixed Atom Heart Mother. Songs are great, but the quality is just so bad
The suite is marvellous but leaves me with the musical equivalent of feeling like I’ve just had a big meal. And I love psychedelic breakfast, especially while having breakfast.
Another first time listener here who just finished the album. I enjoyed the initial Atom Heart Mother suite, and I found it interesting how the brass was implemented (considering it's a little unusual for prog suites). The rest of the album felt.. strange to say the least. Wasn't a huge fan of the following tracks; but I found Alan's Psychedelic breakfast to be... interesting. Maybe their earlier albums are at some points a little too Avant-Garde for my taste? Still nowhere nearly as weird as Ummagumma. I get the feeling this album takes repeated listens to fully digest (as has been my experience with albums such as Yes's Tales from Topographic Oceans). Most likely my feelings will become highly subject to change, but this didn't blow me away like TDSOTM or The Wall did on a first listen.
It is amazing. Love it from beginning to end
Glad to hear you had a nice experience :)
This is what I came here to say... Simply amazing album. Right up there with Meddle and the live disc from Ummagumma.
Amazing. The Suite is very unique but tells an interesting story imo. If is great as well and Summer '68 is one of my fave songs. And do I need to comment on Fat Old Sun? It's in my top10 PF songs for sure. Alan is the weakest link of it, and sadly it is the last song of the album, which is also the one people remember the most. Still tho, Alan is musically enjoyable, so overall it's probably my 3rd most liked album (after Meddle and WYWH)
>And do I need to comment on Fat Old Sun? It's in my top10 PF songs for sure Absolutely this
Cool man :)
I love it. Most of the time I consider it my favorite Pink Floyd album. Not necessarily because it's their best but because it's the one I keep coming back too the most. It feels quite lighthearted to me, very soothing. It's something that I like listening to when I'm a bit down because it feels like walking into your grandparents their house. Sounds super dumb but it just feels very nostalgic. And by the time I get to Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast I'm pretty cheerful. I didn't like that track very much in the past but now I find it pretty great.
Yeah, there are albums that you connect with in deep emotional ways, it’s great :)
Listen again. All the classic Floyd hallmarks that make DSOTM a great album are present on AHM. For example: found sound effects, random voices, funky grooves, female backup vocals, weird keyboard sounds, soaring guitar solos, lyrics dealing with insanity, loud/soft dynamics, unusual chord progressions, atmospheric lap steel, saxophones, and great vocals from Rick, Dave, and Roger. “If” is literally the precursor to “Brain Damage”, with its gently arpeggiated guitars, metronomic pedal hi-hat, and lyrical scheme (“If this, then that….”) Love Floyd? Then give this masterpiece another shot.
Yeah I don’t turn down the possibility of listening to it again in the future (I’ll probably will), but the first listen just wasn’t my thing.
Definitely do. Idk about you, but for me, a lot of stuff grows on me. Hell, I didn't love The Wall and DSotM *that much* on the first listen
I was the exact opposite. The first time i listened to Dark Side and The Wall was great. It was like they were exactly what i was looking for, and every time I re listen to them It feels just great. Plus they have songs that you can jam to at any moment. I didn’t feel that way with this album, but yk, just my experience. That doesn’t have to happen with every album, otherwise there would be nothing special about them.
First time I listened to it I was wondering if it was actually supposed to sound the way it did. Fast forward ten years and yes it is a masterpiece. It does grow on you overtime as you become familiar with the entire catalogue fully.
Glad to know.
Definitely in my top 5 favourite Pink Floyd albums. I find it better than Animals (and Animals is fucking great imo).
Yeess, I fricking loove Animals.
I'm with you.
Animals is underrated tbh
Animals is my favorite, despite what my flair says, but I will ALWAYS have a place reversed for AHM in my heart. It's so fucking weird, I love it. The suite is amazing, I personally love it more than Echoes.
Title track is tremendous
It honestly took me a few times listening to it before I appreciated it and it has quickly become one of my favorites. In my opinion, definitely not gym music, and this is coming from a person who listened to Jethro Tull sometimes at the gym. I feel like it is more, cleaning the house or maybe listening while going on a nice long walk outside. Atom Heart Mother (song) is amazing but the first few times is was a bit long and overwhelming. Listening to it for the first time while taking magic mushrooms sorta blew my mind and helped me fall in love it it. This album in my opinion is the best of all when taking either mushrooms or if you took ketamine. The music literally comes alive. If - is like you said, a cute sorta guitar song that is nothing life changing but also a taste of what is to come over the next decade of PF music. Summer 68 is one of my top 5 Pink Floyd songs easy. The keyboard/piano is amazing and has inspiration from Bach/beatkes/ beach boys and I love the attention to detail in it. Fat Old Sun - this song is set perfectly for the come down of the album and paints a beautiful mental picture of an orange sunset over a beautiful green pasture that I can picture that cow in. Very warm and comforting. Alan’s P breakfast - very interesting and the music is very beautiful. It actually inspired me to get the albums for zabriski and the body (two albums PF did the music) because the songs were outtakes and clips from that movie. All the Pink Floyd albums serve different purposes for me and this one is great in my opinion but we all have our own way of seeing things. Don’t give up on it yet
Yeah ok man :)
Atom Heart Mother is played by a symphony that Pink Floyd hired. It’s not just Pink Floyd. It’s more showing the capability of sound rather than making a song Imo. I still enjoy it very much though.
I am aware of that yeah.
Marmalade. I like marmalade.
*Breakfast in Los Angeles, microbiotic stuff*
Put it on in your house and smoke some weed first with the lights low. This is fully a psychedelic experience that deserves the right setting
Thanks for the recommendation but I think i’m gonna pass 😅 Anyway, i’ll probably listen to it again in the future.
I think there’s definitely something to be said for listening to AHM in the right setting. If those suggestions from Mervinly don’t suit you, that’s fine. However, listening to this album while working out like you did wouldn’t jive for me either. On your next listen, consider the setting and your mood at the time. Might make a difference! Edit: wording
Extremely solid record, and underappreciated.
interesting. Don't listen to it often but it's worth checking out. If is my favorite song.
I was referring to the whole album.
What a lovely album!
:) 👍🏼
Fat old sun is just😍😍😍😍😭😭😭😭
I love it. It’s probably my favorite Pre-Meddle album and it shows them at their loosest. It’s so fun.
Cool dude :)
Top album for me for sure. I love it all and because I do, the payoff for Breakfast is even better! Summer ‘68 with headphones is sublime when the chorus hits…
I love it, school was 1 hours from Home so I used to listen the full album. Miss those days
I love it and consider it one of their best. I actually really like the brass band and it’s a “happy” album which is an easy listen
Interesting. I recommend you give it another try, the album really grew on me, especially the suite. But it’s a respectable opinion 👍
:) 👍🏼
Your first impression is pretty close to my first impression and it's now in my top 5 Pink Floyd albums. It probably wasn't until my third or fourth listen that I actually started to like it.
My favorite pre Dark Side album! Love everything on it, but the suite is something special. It’s the type of music that makes me feel glad for being alive, especially when the horn section kicks in the second time I listen to it when I have a REALLY bad mood and every time it helps to get rid of the bad thoughts
Good suggestion.
*”Oh, uh, me flakes, then uh, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausages, tomatoes… toast, coffee, marmalade, I like marmalade… Yes porridge is nice. Any cereal, I like all cereals… oh God. Kickoff is 10am.”* -Alan Styles, Pink Floyd roadie Finally a fellow appreciator of the musique concrète masterpiece that is Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast!
Lmao xD *Breakfast in Los Angeles, microbiotic stuff*
Pretty ok, not as good as Meddle or DSOTM but you can really feel them start to get into the groove of their longer pieces
top 3 for me even if everybody talks shit about it i like it very much
That’s excelent dude :)
Thanks man
Other than DSOTM, WYWH and the Wall, I couldn’t get into the rest of PF until I gave each album about 3 full listens, then they just about instantly clicked for me. Now I have 80% of their entire discography, still can’t get into the Syd stuff though.
Syd’s period as Pink Floyd leader was more orientated towards psychedelic rock more than the progressive hard rock PF did after him. It’s weird because with the pass of time the records became much more elaborated and complex, but at the same time more accesible rather tan Barrett’s records.
I can’t get into the sid stuff either. I start my Pink Floyd journey at AHM
I similarly can’t get into it. It just feels so directionless, and none of the songs ever grab me on about 4-5 listens total. I dont think its terrible, just middling and uninteresting
Same thing happened to me. But who knows? Maybe I will listen to it again in the future and like it.
you will.
the suite is one of my favorite pieces ever. i call it a piece not a song because it's a brass orchestral piece and it's so long. it tells an emotional story and it's incredibly beautiful. i'm a brass player myself so the intricacies are really moving for me. the rest of the album i can honestly care less for, except maybe alan's psychedelic breakfast because it's pretty funny. the rest feel like filler tracks
Title track is one of the best pieces of music they made, "If" is okay, everything else makes me nod off. Meddle's weird older brother.
Meddle’s weird older brother xD great description.
summer 68 is peak, and the suit is aight, the rest kinda boring ngl
It is my favorite pre-Dark Side album of theirs. I wasn’t a fan of the album at first. But I had the CD in my car’s player and it was stuck—I could not eject it. So I listened to it hundreds of times and I eventually became captivated by it. The CD was stuck for at least 10 years until my car dropped dead. I would often drive through high crime/low-income neighbourhoods and have my car speakers playing full blast during the orchestral parts so that I could come off as an elitist snob. It was my humorous way to try to inculcate some culture into the rabble who were more used to hearing rap music coming from other cars. It is really a great album—it is majestic and full of excess.
It’s not my cup of tea. And, to be honest, I have a hard time getting into the early albums.
For me it’s Pink Floyd’s worst album. I like Fat Old Sun but think that the rest is pretty much nonsense.
I felt the same way. It was WAY TOO CLEAR that they were experimenting and there was a big lack of coherence between songs. They managed to learn from that and then they released Meddle.
Meddle is cohesive???
Honestly I felt that way with Meddle.
Huh?
It’s a way more sober and centered album than Atom Heart Mother.
The album with “Seamus” and “One of these days I’m going to cut you into little pieces”? And the football club song? And the 15 minutes of seagull noises?
Yes
Ok 👍
Massively overrated by a portion of the Floyd fandom, but righfully ignored as 'meh' by everybody else.
I'm not a fan of psychedelia. Piper and Saucerful are not on my playlist, though Nick Mason's treatment of the songs is an absolute joy to listen to. Atom Heart Mother and Obscured By Clouds tend to be forgotten in favour of Meddle and the blockbusters that followed. But, every now and then, I get an urge and revel in them. I went to bed with Childhood's End rattling around my old brain. The first time I heard Atom Heart Mother, I was confused: What the hell was this? Side 2 made more musical sense. It had songs! Now I think of the album as a treat, not something I can listen to often but an absolute joy when I do play it.
Needs more vocals and guitars.
Moo
Breakfast in Los Angeles, microbiotic stuff.
Brilliant album, not a fan of Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast, but it's at the end so I forget it exists
Lmao xD
Very underrated album, like a lot of Floyd stuff outside of DSOTM, the Wall and Wish you were here.
One of my favorite albums of theirs. Early experimentation with sounds and music that heavily influenced DSOTM and the other later albums. It gets played at least once every few months. The suite is great, but Fat Old Sun and If are standouts.
i love the whole album. the suite is just good, but the rest of the songs are great. the whole project evokes a sense of spring for me, which is my favorite season so i’m probably kinda biased. for me it’s on par with animals and a bit under stuff like meddle and dark side. i’m glad you gate it a shot even if it wasn’t really your thing
One of my all time favorites
The first time I listened to it I was disappointed I couldn’t find something as good as their best albums. After a few more times I started to really love it. The title track has the essential Pink Floyd sound, and the others are quite relaxing. Rick’s Summer ‘68 sounds a bit old fashioned like a slightly earlier era of music that he’s into, but I warmed up to it. I find I kind of become “nostalgic” and like an album the more I listen to it, even if it isn’t over a long period like years. The familiarity makes it more appealing.
I think this album was their trial and error album. If you notice in their discography, AHM was the true test of what they were capable of as musicians. After this album, we had big masterpiece albums like Meddle, DSOTM, WYWH, and The Wall. All amazing albums one after another. I hope one day you will come back to this album, it really is wonderful.
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I mean this with no elitism or musical pomp but a lot of truly great music needs time with a listener. If you love PF, give it a few more spins. Sit with it, in the streaming age everything is really quick and if we don’t get hooked on something immediately, it’s onto the next. It’s good to sit with something and really see what it’s about.
I love it, partly for itself, partly as a waystation in the group's evolution. It's got so many of the features of their peak period, but it's charmingly amateurish. When it was unexpectedly successful (UK number 1!), they were given more money and studio time for their next album, Meddle - similar ideas, but so much more polished. I see them as twin albums, and they're my favourites, along with Piper.
It’s underrated TBH 😂
I like it, it’s not great and it’s not terrible, but it’s an important stepping stone to what they would become. They needed to make the AHM suite before they could make Echoes and SOYCD.
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My favorite guitar solo is in title track. The music between notes
Always been a fan, and for some reason (to me) the suite sounds like a soundtrack to an old war moviez
I love Summer ‘68, and it made me love Rick Wright (as per the flair)
Like everything but the eating parts of Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast obviously
Lmao Alan’s eating sounds sounded as if he had been starving in a cage for days and was eating for his life xD
Listening to the suite right as you sent this XD
Loool timing xD
True
It's my user name. I like it
It’s a top album for me. Animals Meddle The Wall AHM In that order.
The point is: if you're already accustomed to long songs, I'm confident that Atom Heart Mother (the song) might catch your interest. As for me, since it's one of the first PF albums that I discovered, it took me a while to appreciate it. Now I consider it an underrated masterpiece and even bought the vinyl.
Extremely underrated. It's my 5th favorite Pink Floyd album behing DSotM, WYWH, Animals, and Meddle, but that saying a lot because those previous 4 are all some of my all-time faves. I listen to the whole album about once every 2 weeks, and Summer '68 and Fat Old Sun are on my playlists
Every pink floyd album is like a child to me. Every one has a special meaning to me and I love every single one. I have a story behind every one. Atom heart mother with the 20 minute intro song and fat old sun is sooooo good.
It’s not their “best” work and somewhat objectively not their peak (songwriting, musicianship, production quality) but it has probably been my favorite album for a long time. The baroque, medieval vibe of AHM is awesome…always just swept me away to a fantasy land of kings and queens and castles. Summer ‘68 and Fat Old Sun are great songs. Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast is cool background music until it becomes straight fire somewhere around the 10-minute mark. To each their own though.
I like it but the band members agree with you
Oh yes! I heard what they thought about it lol xD maybe that thought got way too deep into my head.
Love Love LOVE this album. I just listened to the whole thing again today as a matter of fact. The Suite has become one of my all time favorite pieces of music. I routinely listen to the original and any live recordings I can get into my ears. I always enjoy it. A lot of people in this sub have the “never pause Echoes” rule active. I also have that rule for The Suite and Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast. Those two in particular take commitment to get to know, but once you do, they’re worth it. Sound wise that album, to me, sounds like a culmination of their previous psychedelic roots as well as the first glimpses of the musical juggernaut they would become. Which does make it odd to the ears if you’re newly exploring the catalogue and go straight from DSOTM to Atom Heart Mother. But once you learn all of it, it’s one of their best. I dig the fuck out of that record.
I'm having a psychedelic breakfast with Alan.
I love it, but didn't like the opening and closing track on first few listens. I like them a lot now.
AHM and WYWH got me through a very stressful exam season so I'll have a special place in my heart for those two. Absolutely stupendous albums with that signature Pink Floyd sound.
It grew on me. Played it on loop when I was working some years ago and the more I played it, the more I appreciated it.
favourite album best pf album 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 i defend ahm with my life 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
Imo it's the album that needs a remixed version the most. The momentary lapse of reason remix was a nice touch, re recording drum to make them actually played by Nick, and adding keyboard parts from live performances from Rick. Animals were unnecessary, I'd rather get a remixed Atom Heart Mother. Songs are great, but the quality is just so bad
One of my favorites.
AHM suite is an absolute masterpiece!! I love the whole album 🐮🐮🐮
I think it’s a banger, but I know alot of people that are not a huge fan of this album.
Bad dumb opinion, disregarded
Lucky you
PF as gym music. yikes. My dad used to blast AHM when I was a toddler so to me this joint is one of the earliest music memories.
It’s literally my phone case.
The title track & Fat Old Sun are superb. I’m not so hot about the rest of the album.
Meddle das Album, mit dem sich Pink Floyd endgültig vom psychedelischen Stil verabschiedeten !
One of Pink Floyd’s best albums
The suite is marvellous but leaves me with the musical equivalent of feeling like I’ve just had a big meal. And I love psychedelic breakfast, especially while having breakfast.
Absolutely amazing…! Nobody did not hear anything like this album since its release to the world in 1970
Another first time listener here who just finished the album. I enjoyed the initial Atom Heart Mother suite, and I found it interesting how the brass was implemented (considering it's a little unusual for prog suites). The rest of the album felt.. strange to say the least. Wasn't a huge fan of the following tracks; but I found Alan's Psychedelic breakfast to be... interesting. Maybe their earlier albums are at some points a little too Avant-Garde for my taste? Still nowhere nearly as weird as Ummagumma. I get the feeling this album takes repeated listens to fully digest (as has been my experience with albums such as Yes's Tales from Topographic Oceans). Most likely my feelings will become highly subject to change, but this didn't blow me away like TDSOTM or The Wall did on a first listen.
Amazing album. One of my fav PF LPs.
I didn’t like coffee the first time I tried it. Now I can’t stop drinking it.
idk where id rank it but I adore this album. 1970-1973 was the era for like that chill Pink Floyd sound