Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother is one of my all time favorite albums. It’s absolutely unbelievable to me that members of Pink Floyd now hold the album in such low regard. Some quotes (from Wikipedia):
Atom Heart Mother is a good case, I think, for being thrown into the dustbin and never listened to by anyone ever again! [...] 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.
Some of it now, like Atom Heart Mother, strikes me as absolute crap, but I no longer want or have to play stuff I don’t enjoy.
- David Gilmour – November 1994I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don’t really think the attempt comes off that well.
- David Gilmour – Rolling Stone Magazine – November 2001
Stanley Kubrick wanted to use Atom Heart Mother in his A Clockwork Orange soundtrack, but wasn’t able to because he wanted to be able to “edit” the songs. Here’s the opening of A Clockwork Orange set to Atom Heart Mother:
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