


Spoken Word in Music: "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast".Shaped Like Itself: During the "Atom Heart Mother" sound collage, a loud announcement declaring "This is a loud announcement!" can be heard.Scatting: The "Funky Dung" section in "Atom Heart Mother".Sampling: The gunnery and motorbike sounds on the album.Psychedelic Rock: "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast".However, the band members have often been critical of the title track. Roger Waters performed If on his early solo tours, and David Gilmour reprised Fat Old Sun for his 2006 On An Island tour. Once an Episode: "If", "Summer '68", "Fat Old Sun". The Atom Heart Mother suite became a fixture of Pink Floyd’s live set throughout 1970 and ’71, until deposed by their next side-long epic, Echoes.Ominous Latin Chanting: At around 13 minutes into the title track.Non-Appearing Title: The album title doesn't appear in any of the lyrics.Longest Song Goes First: The album kicks off with the Title Track, which takes up the entire first side.Nick Mason spotted a newspaper headline about a pregnant woman who had been fitted with an atomic-powered pacemaker. Line-of-Sight Name: How the album and the suite got its title.Granola Girl: In "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast", Alan jokes about the macrobiotic food popular among hippies in Los Angeles at the time.įrom your bed I gained a day and lost a bloody year.Instrumental: "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast", " Atom Heart Mother".Epic Rocking: The Title Track (23:44) and "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast".Book Ends: While the album itself lacks them, "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" begins and ends with a drip tap, which is cut into the run-out groove on the original vinyl so it will repeat endlessly on turntables without an auto return. Pink Floyd Released OctoAtom Heart Mother Tracklist 1 Atom Heart Mother Lyrics 65.3K 2 If Lyrics 65.2K 3 Summer '68 Lyrics 37K 4 Fat Old Sun Lyrics 34.3K 5 Alan's Psychedelic.Richard Wright - lead vocals, keyboard, organ, mellotron, piano.The title and album cover comes from a newspaper headline 'Atom Heart Mother. Emerging from the Syd Barrett-led 60ts phase PINK FLOYD started the new decade with the frankly bizarre 'Atom Heart Mother' a late 1970 album that signalled the new more Prog sound to come - but in 'Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast' held onto the lunacy of old. Roger Waters - lead vocals, bass, guitar, tape effects The parts are Fathers Shout, Breast Milky, Mother Fore, Funky Dung, Mind Your Throats Please, and the Reemergence.Nick Mason - drums, percussion, tape effects.David Gilmour - lead vocals, guitar, bass, drums, percussion."Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" (13:00?) note The dripping faucet that closes out the song is part of a locked groove on LP releases, which would technically make the song's runtime "however long it takes for you to lift the needle off the record if your turntable doesn't automatically stop when it gets to the end.".The album has major contributions from Ron Geesin, whom had previously worked with Roger Waters on the soundtrack for the documentary film The Body. Atom Heart Mother is the fifth studio album by Pink Floyd, released in 1970 through Harvest Records.
