They turned to British avant-garde composer Ron Geesin, who’d done an offbeat side project with Waters. In 1970, Pink Floyd had been performing in concert an extended piece that would come to be variously known as “Theme From an Imaginary Western,” “Epic” and “Amazing Pudding.” Gilmour and Waters reportedly wanted to write a classically structured work around its themes, but came up frustrated. (Update: The album was rereleased as part of the 2011 Pink Floyd upgrades.) So of course plenty of Pink Floyd diehards love the “Atom Heart Mother” suite, all 24 minutes of it.
Rolling Stone agreed, calling the suite “awful schmaltzy” and “a step headlong into the last century … a dissipation of (Pink Floyd’s) collective talents.” Waters, creator of “ The Wall,” later suggested that the piece should “never (be) listened to by anyone ever again.” Guitarist David Gilmour called it “pretty horrible” - “absolute crap.”
Roger Waters picked up a copy of the Evening Standard newspaper, in which he found a story about a woman about to receive a nuclear-powered pacemaker.Īnd so we have “Atom Heart Mother,” one of the band’s most-debated works, a sprawling suite that’s by turns exhilarating, monotonous, hypnotic, pretentious and primeval. The year 1970 found Pink Floyd in search of a title for their latest musical exploration, a psychedelic suite of sorts.
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