(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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