"Atom Heart Mother" is a six-part suite by progressive rock band Pink Floyd… Read Full Bio ↴"Atom Heart Mother" is a six-part suite by progressive rock band Pink Floyd, composed by all members of the band and Ron Geesin. It appeared on the Atom Heart Mother album in 1970, taking up a whole side of the record. It is Pink Floyd's longest uncut piece (the later "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", though longer, was split among two sides of Wish You Were Here.) Pink Floyd performed it live between 1970 and 1972, first touring with a brass section and choir, and later without.
Recording began with the drum and bass parts, recorded in one take for the entire suite, resulting in an inconsistent tempo throughout the song.
The song was the last Pink Floyd composition which was credited as being co-written by someone outside the band prior to 1979 (not counting Clare Torry's contribution to "The Great Gig in the Sky", for which she has been retroactively given credit due to a settlement with Pink Floyd).
Stanley Kubrick wanted to use this track for his film A Clockwork Orange; however, the band refused permission on the basis that Kubrick won't utilise it entirely. Two copies of Atom Heart Mother were in the music shop scene. Kubrick got later asked by Rogers if he can use audio samples of HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey but denied it for fear it'll open up for other people to use the sound samples.
When Roger Waters heard David Gilmour playing the guitar parts for this track, he said that he thought it sounded like the theme song from the western film The Magnificent Seven.
The working title for this piece changed a few times during the composing and recording process. When the first main theme was composed, David Gilmour called it "Theme From an Imaginary Western". The first working title for the six-part piece was "Epic", written in Ron Geesin's handwriting at the top of his original score. Later it was changed to "The Amazing Pudding." (This was used as the title of an independently produced Pink Floyd fanzine which ran from the mid '80s to the early '90s.) In July 1970 it was called "Atom Heart Mother". The title was decided when Ron Geesin pointed Roger Waters to an edition of the Evening Standard (dated 16/7/70) and told him that he would find the song title in the newspaper. Waters saw an article about a pregnant woman who had been fitted with a heart pacemaker. The headline was "ATOM HEART MOTHER NAMED".
Recording began with the drum and bass parts, recorded in one take for the entire suite, resulting in an inconsistent tempo throughout the song.
The song was the last Pink Floyd composition which was credited as being co-written by someone outside the band prior to 1979 (not counting Clare Torry's contribution to "The Great Gig in the Sky", for which she has been retroactively given credit due to a settlement with Pink Floyd).
Stanley Kubrick wanted to use this track for his film A Clockwork Orange; however, the band refused permission on the basis that Kubrick won't utilise it entirely. Two copies of Atom Heart Mother were in the music shop scene. Kubrick got later asked by Rogers if he can use audio samples of HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey but denied it for fear it'll open up for other people to use the sound samples.
When Roger Waters heard David Gilmour playing the guitar parts for this track, he said that he thought it sounded like the theme song from the western film The Magnificent Seven.
The working title for this piece changed a few times during the composing and recording process. When the first main theme was composed, David Gilmour called it "Theme From an Imaginary Western". The first working title for the six-part piece was "Epic", written in Ron Geesin's handwriting at the top of his original score. Later it was changed to "The Amazing Pudding." (This was used as the title of an independently produced Pink Floyd fanzine which ran from the mid '80s to the early '90s.) In July 1970 it was called "Atom Heart Mother". The title was decided when Ron Geesin pointed Roger Waters to an edition of the Evening Standard (dated 16/7/70) and told him that he would find the song title in the newspaper. Waters saw an article about a pregnant woman who had been fitted with a heart pacemaker. The headline was "ATOM HEART MOTHER NAMED".
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@mckjimmy3802
True.
You had a group of students, wacked on LSD .
Some of there best stuff came from this.
Yes only the true fan ,can really appreciate the master peice this musicianmastership this really is.
Roger was bent on Syd being xbetter.
But all in all sid barret was pink floyd
@axelenriquechavezbarajas1647
Long story: I remember knowing my entire life that Pink Floyd were this legendary band but never listened to them even though I already was a fan of bands like Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple back then when I was young. Then, five years ago, my older brother introduced me to The Great Gig in the Sky and I immediately fell in love with it. Now hyped because of it, I tried to listen to the rest of Pink Floyd but, at the beginning, I even didn't quite like masterpieces like The Dark Side of the Moon, so I forced myself to listen through their Dark Side of the Moon-later discography until one day they became an acquired taste, and Iittle by little I started to become more and more obsessed with them until they truly became my all time favorite band.
I only ever listened from Meddle to their later albums and was disappointed that I considered myself a big fan but never listened to their early psychedelic albums so I ventured myself to listen to them, but I must admit that, until this date, I'm not a fan of those.
Just a couple of days ago I ventured myself again to listen to those early albums (without success, again), and even though I know I should have already heard this song in my past expeditions through their early years, only now I'm learning to value it.
It's a masterpiece. I can't believe I didn't like this song earlier, but it's such a joy right now to know that, after years of thinking that I already heard all Pink Floyd's best masterpieces, I'm once again discovering a new masterpiece, and the joy of having it stuck in my head, playing it every 23:42 minutes, and trying to create a short movie out of it in my mind every time I hear the song.
Cheers to every fan out there and hope someone feel related to this acquired-taste story.
@lvcja444
I am currently listening to this masterpiece for the first time in my life and let me tell you, i feel like my great adventure with Pink Floyd is just about to begin.
@AfricaShock
Don't miss "Echoes" as well then
@_karla._
Have fun on your Journey :)
@soonerfan0161
Echoes and Dogs will blow your mind man
@parsareshite1
Enjoy your adventure and please remember to listen to Syd Barret's contribution.
@martinrasinger6306
You should listen also the albums "The Dark Side Of The Moon" and "Wish You Were Here"
@gianfrancoludovisi9539
Roger Waters said in an interview, that this album is horrible; at that time they haven't good ideas anymore. It's absurd, this is a true masterpiece
@klausschumacher7126
Gilmore didn't like it....
@user-gw1ic1hi9q
היו שבעים לאחר הצלחת הצד האפל של הירח
@mckjimmy3802
True.
You had a group of students, wacked on LSD .
Some of there best stuff came from this.
Yes only the true fan ,can really appreciate the master peice this musicianmastership this really is.
Roger was bent on Syd being xbetter.
But all in all sid barret was pink floyd