The longest studio track the Floyd released, this one alternately feels like it could stand to lose or gain several minutes. #85: Atom Heart Mother (Father's Shout / Breast Milky / Mother Fore / Funky Dung / Mind Your Throats, Please / Remergence) (23:31) This one was criminally underrated when I did this ranking. Whoops, forgot this for a few days again. Not knocking them, I like pieces of Ummagumma and how odd they were around this time period, but it's just sorta funny. They had 10+ minute solo pieces that dabble around with Experimental and Avant Garde subjects, and then turn around and do the same thing again, but as a group this time, and then they add a orchestra to it, only to hate it more than Ummagumma.

When you look at a band like Yes, and their double album of nothing but epic pieces that made barely any points, it shows just how good Floyd were at writing epics.Īnd I always found it funny how the entire band hated Ummagumma, and then they did something like this right after it, and also hated it. They took Echoes, Shine On, and Dogs, and made their point through the entire course of those songs. But like I said, I guess this was a good learning experience. I believe if this had been cut to 13 or 14 minutes, with the 'Alright, we're getting to the point now' parts being kept, the song would have went over far better than it did. I won't say that it needs to have vocals and lyrics, but since this is a 24 minute long piece, having some vocals in it could have kept it more interesting over the course of the song. Without this learning curve, Echoes may not have turned out to be as good as it was.īut parts of this song feels like it drags on. This is their first epic, so I absolutely applaud them for trying. I might get some shit for this, but, oh well.

Pink floyd - atom heart mother songs