Spinning Today - What Are You Listening To Right Now? (Part 3)

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Label: Mercury – 6641 799
Format: 3 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country: UK
Released: May 1978
Genre: Rock
Style: Hard Rock, Prog Rock

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[Pigmy Pony]

Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother. As if it needed saying.



Side one is making this my favourite Floyd album, for now. Of course it might all change next week

[Pigmy Pony]

With my annual rally & custom bike weekend less than 3 weeks away, I need to get my rock head on in preparation. So I'll start with this:

[Macca]

Wasn't that keen on this originally but is growing on me:



'The album features a lot of synth-keyboard sounds and a twenty-piece orchestra on some of the tunes. The music website CD Shakedown thinks the album is not rock and not blues, but full-on contemporary pop music.Rolling Stone calls the album's material a "loosely themed soul-song cycle in the tradition of Marvin Gaye with effective modern contexts"'

[Barry]

I have neither heard it, or heard of it, but from your quoted description it sounds ghastly.

[Macca]

I have neither heard it, or heard of it, but from your quoted description it sounds ghastly.

You know how you can get coffee table books? Well it's like coffee table music. That's the best way I can describe it.

[Pigmy Pony]

Wasn't that keen on this originally but is growing on me:



'The album features a lot of synth-keyboard sounds and a twenty-piece orchestra on some of the tunes. The music website CD Shakedown thinks the album is not rock and not blues, but full-on contemporary pop music.Rolling Stone calls the album's material a "loosely themed soul-song cycle in the tradition of Marvin Gaye with effective modern contexts"'

Apparently he was aiming to produce the saddest record ever made...

A quick read up, and I see Eric co-produced with Simon Climie (of Climie Fisher fame, "Love Changes Everything", I think I have an album of theirs here, belonged to my ex). One critic described listening to the album as being "like watching a film you admire, but wish would hurry up and end", and was also widely criticised by others, though it was one of his most commercially successful albums

[Barry]

Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother. As if it needed saying.



Side one is making this my favourite Floyd album, for now. Of course it might all change next week

It's one of my favourite PF albums. In some ways I prefer it to DSOTM ( ). And Side one is my favourite of the two. I saw PF perform AHM at the Bath Festival in '72 (?), complete with a military brass band.

On Side two I used to get annoyed with the last track: 'Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast'; especially the end with the dripping tap. This is cut into the locked groove, and on my copy there was no tell-tale 'click' where the spiral groove joins the locked groove. This usually meant that often after dozing off (after a late night session, complete with an accompanying 'splif') I would awaken to the sound of the wretched tap dripping!

[Barry]

You know how you can get coffee table books? Well it's like coffee table music. That's the best way I can describe it.

"Coffe table music" - what a fabulous description!,

[Dom66]