![]() The cover was designed by Hipgnosis, and was the first one to not feature the band's name on the cover, or contain any photographs of the band anywhere. Ron Geesin, who had already influenced and collaborated with Roger Waters, contributed to the title track and received a then-rare outside songwriting credit. A remastered CD was released in 1994 in the UK and the United States, and again in 2011. It was released by Harvest on 2 October 1970 in the UK, and by Capitol on 10 October 1970 in the US.It was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London, England, and was the band's first album to reach number 1 in the UK, while it reached number 55 in the US, eventually going gold there. It was the most thrown-together thing we’ve ever done.Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother - PFRLP5 - Cover Book Fold - LP RecordĪtom Heart Mother is the fifth studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd. Pink Floyd would make better albums, but it remains the apotheosis of their experimental era – or as guitarist David Gilmour later described it, “Our weird shit.” Revisiting the album now is like entering a parallel universe inhabited by epic orchestral suites and songs created from the sounds of boiling kettles and frying bacon. Here you’ll find the earliest known recording of the AHM suite, plus filmed performances from Hyde Park and St Tropez, and much more besides.īut in 2016, Atom Heart Mother is probably better known for the cow than the music. Pink Floyd’s gargantuan seven-volume box set, The Early Years 1965-1972, dedicates an entire volume, Devi/Ation, to Atom Heart Mother and the Zabriskie Point soundtrack that inspired its title track. ![]() Now, it seemed, they could do so without including their name or the album title on the cover. ![]() EMI’s powers that be already knew that strange-sounding hairy rock groups sold lots of records. Three months later, Atom Heart Mother became Pink Floyd’s first No.1 album. ![]()
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