FIRST TIME HEARING Pink Floyd- "Atom Heart Mother" (Reaction)
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- FIRST TIME HEARING Pink Floyd- "Atom Heart Mother" (Reaction) | An EPICLY intense dark chaotic song!!
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Well, apparently section 3 makes you cry... An intense chaotic reaction to an EPICLY intense dark chaotic song!! Thanks for watching! 🥰
No doubt...this is the best band ever
I can't believe what their brilliant brains came up with for all those years....thanks Nuno!
Nah. Genesis much better in all terms of music appreceation. Composition vise, lyrics vise, more technical players, more interesting decisions, and much much more why Genesis above Pink Floyd. I LOVE Pink Floyd but it's one of the most overrated band on the planet. In 70s there were many bands better than Pink Floyd
The introduction of the female voice is simply beautiful.
Yes! Sent my emotions over the edge....definitely one of the best elements of the song, along with all that stunning choir. Thanks for watching Tony..
Best band ever...easy
The year was 1972, and I was 17. The Atom Heart Mother Suite was my initiation into Pink Floyd's music. And my response to hearing it was eerily like your own description. Mind blown is such an inadequate description for what I felt. For me it trumped Echoes, which I heard later that week, and in many respects it still does.
I've never outgrown Atom Heart Mother. At 68, it is still as mesmerizing and enchanting as it was when I first heard it. The chaos, the building tension and peaceful resolution of this work is genius. Thanks for so eloquently putting into words what I've always heard and felt, listening to Atom Heart Mother. I'm ready to hear more of your reaction videos!
Hello! Thanks for sharing that story. Wish I could have seen you the first time you were listening. You probably had expressions similar to mine too haha...I really appreciate the compliment. Thank you so much for watching and commenting 😊✌
In those early years, Pink Floyd's genre used to be called, "Acid Rock" such a beautiful example! A saucerful of secret from Ummaguma is another one of my all time favorite
Perfect label! I saw a video on YT recently that showed how they created music in about 20-30 genres! Thanks so much for watching Novy...
Sadly Ummagumma is from the 60s.... but you could do the live tracks from Pompeii! Including Careful with that axe Eugene.
Yes, there are ways around, plus I see some of their 60s stuff is on 70s compilation releases....I will do a 60s week eventually!
they were drug free...that label is fake...
This was the music that you just laid back, closed your eyes and let the music take you away.
Yessss....
One Of The Bands Best Most Splendid Tracks...
Agree!
This is such a dynamic album. Definitely the title track is precursor to 'Echoes', which is their magnum opus IMHO. 😅 Summer '68 on there is probably one of my favorite Rick songs. Another one that was recorded in a Quadraphonic and the regular stereo format. Dave's guitar just sings on this song! Love every single note of this. There's some really great cover versions of this on CZcams worth investigating with the brass and choir as well. The band did play it mostly without the brass and choir on tour, and the "band versions" are awesome as well that was released on the Early Years box. 😊 Fun to watch your young mind being blown away by the early Floyd's material. As Obi-Wan would say "You've just taken your first step into a larger world." 😅 Enjoy and good luck!
Yes, hints of Echoes for sure... Good to know that '68 is a great one, I know others have mentioned it too, but Alan's b-fast...that title has me intrigued! Thanks so much for watching and for the comments my friend!
04:42, cuando david utiliza el slide en el diapason, es simplemente fuera de este mundo como un ser humano pude lograr conmover mi corazon con unas cuantas notas, no hay palabras para describir esas melodias con su fender..gracias por atom heart mother
¡Concuerdo completamente! Gracias por mirar
So pleased you've reacted to atom heart mother, its sublime
Thanks, loved it!
I never tire listening to this piece
I can now see why!
Mater piece.
Regards from Chile South America
YESSSS! Thanks so much for watching way over in Chile! Best regards... 🙂
Floyd Friday. Here i am. ♥🎼🎹🎸🥁🎶🎤🎵🎶
Woohooooo! 🥇 😁🤗🐄
hahahahahha so so silly!!!! That was a long video. Very Experimental
Yes! I gotta check if it's their longest song ever...I saw a YT video recently where they played every single PF song together, it was insane...I remember this one being one of the "last men standing" at the end....
I love Pink Floyd more and more , now that we went back into time!!
We time travel so much, we should be getting frequent flyer points!!!
Another heart felt reaction! Imagine hearing this at 15 for the first time in an "altered state". Not exactly Lynyrd Skynyrd or Ted Nugent! I still have the vinyl!
Thanks Jim! I can't even imagine the experience of hearing that while "altered"...insanity!!
04:42 cuando david utiliza el slide en el diapason, es simplemente fuera de este mundo como un ser humano pude lograr conmover mi corazon con unas cuantas notas, no hay palabras para describir esas melodias con su fender..gracias por atom heart mother
It is the precursor of Echoes and Shine on….
Pink Floyd definitely learnt me to appreciate avant garde and outside the box music
Great one my friend!! This is indeed a masterpiece. DSOTM was my very first PF album, but this vinyl was soon added to my vinyl collection, as are many others. Definitely the precursor to Echoes, which I must admit I prefer of the two. I’m always awaiting my Pink Floyd Friday….. just like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get! Happy Weekend 🐄
Thanks! So true, but you know whateva you get, it's gunna be good!! Cow on, bud! 🙂 (2 reactions tomorrow...)
A slow burn, patience required. A bit psychedelic, a lot of acid rock here, definitely a reflection of the era...I always thought this was a nod to The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album.
Hello. Yes, kind of new territory for me....Never heard Sgt. Pepper before, well at least not most of it!
So many dissonants. Superb guitar and violin. Wow indeed.
An interesting reaction to PF in their post-Barrett, pre-Dark Side years. David Gilmour said that Echoes (you've done it twice) was the 'turning point' where it all came together.
Thanks mark!
Grand funk railroad. Inside looking out. 1971 live. These 3 guys are going to rock you. Peace ✌️
This is the PF I love, prog plus psicodelic, this is my number 1 PF song along Echoes, amazing... Brandon, are u ready for "One for the vine" ? 🙃
I dunno LOL, but it's happening in 15 minutes!
Other than the choirs vocal harmonies, there are only 4 words spoken in this song, a heavily distorted Nick Mason's voice says "Silence In The Studio" near the end of the suite.
That was a very thourough reaction and review, Bro!
This suite is like a Soundtrack to a movie that needs to be filmed
Keep up growing PF
Peace!
El Charlie
Thanks so much C! Yes, very soundtrack vibes.. Tons more Pink Floyd ahead... Peace! 🙂
Always loved Atom Heart Mother. There's an open air live version from the 70s on CZcams in B&W. Also: a French cover version live by conservatory students in Paris, which is adorable with fitting visuals.
There are (mainly bootleg) live versions of this without the orchestra and choir. Although good, those versions just serve to emphasise what a great job producer Ron Geesing did (mostly in the absence of the band members). A lot can be said about the sound quality which sounds strangely muted and less than perfect. But the entire thing is a masterpiece.
Re-watching this. Forgot you’d done it. Superb album. Brilliant song. I hear echoes of Echoes but this is more satisfying for me. Is Ummagumma within your timeframe? The live performances and David’s first big song “The Narrow Way” are amazing I think 🎉
Waouh... You did it... It's so rare to find a reaction on that track... If there were only one track I could bring on a desert island, that would be it, my favorite ever... A classical reactor said the band had recorded its part on the classical part, which is quite rare, usually, it's the contrary...
What else to add, you said everything, as usual, with your feelings, so clever and interesting... Thanks 🤗
Love from France 🇫🇷😘
So glad I did it finally!! Glad you enjoyed...much love back from the US 💙
Keep on digging deep. Awesome work, my friend 👏
Happy Friday/Saturday Pierre! Thanks, super long songs are a little challenging to react to for a few reasons, so I appreciate that.. ✌
Thanks for a great reaction!!
You're welcome Robert!
The band Magma is worth a listen. They invented entire alien languages and civilizations to base their music around. It really sounds like nothing else.
Gracias solo un poeta como voz dijo lo que yo quería decir de Argentina fanático a morir de pink floyd
So cool you did this one and your reaction is awesome! I figure you like the three first tracks of side b too.
Glad I finally got to it. I see you mentioned this song/album several times in the past! Thanks for watching and for the compliment. I know I'll hear the whole album eventually...
@Retro Reactions I believe this is the album where Gilmour discovered what he could and where he and Wright started being this amazing duo.
@@retroreactions.... I think I have an idea what you like about music and this appeared to fit the bill.
Throwing a curveball here, I'd recommend the group Renaissance. They were stunning in the 70s. With a great great female lead vocalist. Ashes are burning is a nice start.
Nice, never heard of them, adding to list! Thanks
Oh I see that Goyta recommended them as well...
You sure heard with out metals, and chores, NBC 1971
Glad I browse your channel a lot. This is a stunning piece of work. They lost some tapes due to incompetence and as such Rog and Nick recorded their parts together, in one take. Often derided this again is proof that there was much life before the bombast and gloom. Some amazing individual performances here ❤
I love the whole piece, but especially Funky Dung; it's amazing. The dialogue between the guitar and organ send shivers down your spine and when that train screeches past at the end, it gets the hairs on your arms standing to attention.
On side two, Sumer '68 is one of the anthems of my teenage years. I was 16 when I first heard it.
The whole album really is an avant-garde masterpiece.
Thanks for eating to this.
You're welcome! Thanks for sharing and for watching!
Just fyi, if you can believe it, David Gilmour actually thought this album was trash, lol. He didn't think they had found their bearings. I think it was just another stepping stone to greatness they were. These guys were sooo ahead of their time and I can personally put a great memory to every album! To me, they can't be beat.
Can't comprehend why they don't like it, especially Atom!!!
One of my favourites. At times I think it's their best work. Period. But then there's Shine on you crazy diamond parts 6-9. And so many other stuff.
Oh my love runs DEEP for Shine on 6-9!!
I love this one. So experimental. The brass, the voices, the cello, that unmistakable Gilmour guitar, and I like when those nascent ideas that show up later in Echoes emerge here and there.
Recording began with the drum and bass parts, recorded in one take for the entire suite, resulting in an inconsistent tempo throughout the song. Roger Waters and Nick Mason had to play for twenty-three minutes straight. (Wk)
(Did you smoke a doob before this one? 😆) 🤘🖖
LOL, don't do that, but I can only imagine the sonic insanity while listening to PF on green.....
13:07 - 10 - 'from horse to motorbike'...Perhaps a bit of the history of human transportation over surface land, in a nutshell ? that's my guess, but it's anyone's guess as what's it's got to do w/ the rest of the tune, truth be told I never really figured it out why they included it..indeed random and freaky. But the whole tune is a dieppe and powerful journey for sure.
Thinking of McCartney's recently released "underdubbed" mix of Band On the Run without the orchestration, it would be interesting to have an "underdubbed" version of this. As i understand it, Floyd recorded the band parts and then basically walked away, leaving it in the hands of Ron Geesin. IMO he made a wonderful job of it. But i'd love to hear the raw material he had to work with.
What a trip this whole album is..... Real good acid ❤
Cool, I will be hearing the rest for sure, thanks Billy
Pink (Beethoven) Floyd
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I was 23 when Pink Floyd brought this to Manchester UK. (i'm 74 now). It was Mindblowing. Different instruments seeming to come from the 4 corners of the Theatre as the quadrophonic system kicked in. They also played Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast and milk being poured on a bowl of "Rice Crispies", surrounded by microphones had the snap, crackle & pop sounds spinning around the auditorium. Sadly the album version couldn't replicate this and this track, in my mind is the most disappointing of all album tracks but Atom Heart Mother is my best!
Thanks for sharing! Would have loved to hear them play this one live!
Hai fatto una stupenda scelta Brandon.
First off, cu doz to you Brandon, your summery of that was inspired. You’ve got a phenomenal ear and really feel the music. Describing that kind of genius Art, I could never do, with your eloquence.
This track represents the full circle of musical appreciation for me. When I first heard it as a teen in the eighties, I found it so far from the Pop scene which I was devoted to, that I couldn’t even recognise it as music! I just heard the most horrid noise.
Now in my early 50s I’ve been listening to it this year, the song effects me equally profoundly but for the polar opposite reason. I’m struggling to comprehend how mere humans can create incredible, imotional and spiritual moving Art.
Gilmour is god of guitar, and I love the solos on this as much as any he’s done. Pair him Richard Wrights keys and I can’t hold on to my hat!
Thank you, Sir Brandon. 👍🎸🤘
Thanks my friend for sharing. Love hearing others' experiences with these bands! We have excellent taste!!
Fun Fact: Atom Heart Mother was not originally divided into separate movements, but, the record company wouldn't pay them for an album with only 5 songs, so, they named the separate movements to be paid for a full LP.
Wow, thanks!
I don't think they used any actual digital synth until Meddle & Obscured by Clouds, just various analog generators. Ron Geezin's contribution to this album is huge. The section right after the quiet announcement part reminds me of nuclear radiation glowing poisonously.
Nice description and thanks for the info. Appreciate you stopping by to watch today!
If you go through their catalog starting with their 1st album you willthere are progressions in their music abilities. By the time they got the dark side of the moon they had it down. My 1st experience was About as mind blowing as it was when I heard Led Zeppelin's 1st album. Being a teenager in the sixties was an amazing musical the goal experience. I saw Pink Floyd 1971 University of Toledo field house. Their album medal came out the day before And they played echoes totally amazing. Peace ✌️
Thanks for sharing... Peace!!
Thank you Brandon for recognizing what a masterpiece this is. I can't understand why Rogers Waters and I think even David Gilmour said this album was a failure and they don't like it themselves 🤷
They should be extremely proud of this masterpiece!!
One of the contenders for 'their magnus opus', if you ask me. Weird, melodic, daring, out of the box (even today) and downright absolutely beautiful. Better than Echoes or Shine on.
It's going to be one of my all around PF faves for sure once I've heard everything!
This was actually a bunch of music "bits" that they didn't know what to do with. It was pulled together by Ron Gisson - without him AHM would not be what it is. He always resented that they didn't acknowledge his contribution.
Orchestral arrangements were done by Ron Geesin, a Scotsman who liked to experiment with sounds. Together with Roger Waters, they recorded (in the same year) a soundtrack to a documentary movie called "The Body" (and released that music as "Music From 'The Body'"). Funny, Pink Floyd didn't like this record, to put it mildly. :-) Admittedly, Side B is not nearly as good as the title track. :-)
Ah, so it's side B that Roger is embarrassed by?
I love the album. But although it was commercially successful on release, the band - particularly Roger Waters and David Gilmour - have expressed negative opinions of the album. "A really awful and embarrassing record," said Waters. Ron Geeson, whom they met through Rolling Stone, composed the orchestral parts. And John Alldis, whose choir performed, also conducted the orchestra.
Hmm, well I can't fathom in my mind how this song can be seen as awful and embarrassing. But to each their own I guess. I clearly loved it. Do you have a favorite song from it?
This album was my own introduction to Pink Floyd. Not directly, though I'd heard the name of the band and seen that weird cover in record stores (just a Holstein cow in a pasture and no lettering at all, WTF???), but many people here were introduced to Pink Floyd in the same way.
At the time, the most popular evening news TV show here used the catchy middle section of "Summer '68" (another track in this album) --- when you get to it, it's the "paa, paa-paa" part --- to introduce their sponsor (a bank) in a vignette in the beginning. It was a very advanced graphics animation for the time ---1972, when this album was 2 years old (but record releases took some time to arrive here back then), and I was 11. When those visuals were combined with that music, it was really powerful, despite being in black and white and only lasting 30 seconds. It didn't even look like a commercial. So, everybody rushed to the record stores (how I miss them!) to ask for "the news show song", took the cow record home, and were surprised by THIS! And by then it was too late, they'd been sucked into the Pink Floyd rabbit hole, never to have a "remergence"... It was the same with me.
For the record (no pun intended), like every parent of every generation before and after her, my mom always complained of the music I listened to, saying "that's not music, that's just noise!" But she always made an exception for Pink Floyd. She never got to the point of listening to the records herself or knowing names of albums and tracks, but she was always happy when I put Pink Floyd to play, and she said "THAT's music!" She also excepted some Queen songs, and she loved "You Take My Breath Away" (from "A Day at the Races", and a song that I never understood why it's not very popular, as it's among Queen's most beautiful works).
Now I've read Nick Mason's memoirs, and they don't have good memories of this album. In fact, they all hate it! Everything that could go wrong when recording it went wrong, in one of the most perfect examples of Murphy's laws at full throttle. Plus, the album was thrashed by contemporary critics, though it sold well and sent Pink Floyd up a new level in popularity and earnings. Even today, it receives mixed reviews. But I loved it from the beginning, and I still do!
Fun fact: there is a rare bootleg of even rarer Pink Floyd B-sides and unreleased tracks, and it's called "The Dark Side of the Moo"... 😂😂The cover is a deliciously Instamatic-quality picture of another Holstein cow in a pasture.
Thanks for sharing your story. I would have been like you and loved the album from the start back then I think...
The studio version of this is almost insufferable, but the April 1970 live performance in San Francisco is what I consider to be one of the top 5 live music performances in history. The BBC studio live version is also near the top.
one of,if not their most ambitious pieces of music. ironically even though it's a fan favorite,the band members (roger especially) didn't really like it. somewhere on you tube there's a video of an orchestra and choir doing this live. i wish i could remember the name of the video,but it's definitely worth searching out.
You can imagine it as an action adventure film that can play out differently each time. For example the group assembles and agrees to go on the expedition, and the mystery is examined. They travel to a strange land and encounter forest elves, and are taken before the council where they must prove themselves. Then as they travel on a disagreement arises between the keyboard and guitar, and the guitar leaves the group. Next they encounter a hostile tribe and are in big trouble, but the forest elves suddenly arrive and rescue them. But one of the group is severely injured in the battle and possibly dies. Then they travel through a creepy land where they face many more troubles and are at their lowest. Then the guitar returns for the grand finale, possibly being revealed as the main villain all along. Or whatever!
Wow, that's an amazing interpretation! I can tell you have a creative mind....Thanks for sharing that and for watching. I will have to see what story I come up with next time I listen to this...🙂
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Amazing music!
good idea to have listened to the other albums before this one because less easy to access..mother fore has always been one of my favorite songs much better for me than the vocalizations of gilmour during the concerts before the recording of the album...
Hi fifi...Yes Mother Fore is PERFECTION for me! Thanks for watching...
After watching a Pink Floyd historical documentary, this album did really well in England, but it was one of the band’s least favorite song and album. I myself find it another great piece from the Floyd library. Gotta love the brass !
Yes! I always gush over strings, but the brass sounds and melodies were impeccable here! Thanks for watching Tom
History has been kinder to AHM than any of the four members were. While they hated it, it was important in that it got them further away from becoming just a film soundtrack band.
Fah
See co ba
Nee toe
Ka ree lo, yea
Sa sa sa sa sa, fss
Drr bo ki
Rapateeka, dodo tah
Rapateeka, dodo cha
Ko sa fa mee ya
Na pa jee te fa
Na pa ru be, mm
Ba sa coo, ba sa coo
Ba sa coo, ba sa coo
Oooooo
Ku-ku loo, ku-ku loo
Yea yea yea um
Hm ku-ku loo you
Too boo coo doo
Foo goo hoo joo
Loo moo poo roo
Ooooooo oooo
First off thank you.
I've been watching just trying to remain silent but I couldn't let this one pass. And that's why it's my go to song. I've listened to this side thousands of times over the decades.
Over and over in the beginning as you could let the lp repeat.
The other side probably less than a hundred. It does almost seem backwards as it ends with Alan psychedelic breakfast but if you ask me he started the breakfast that way.lol
Now if I have any credibility after this song. It's 180 and the other direction but it's just as fantastic and the one that got me hooked on Pink Floyd to begin with. That was the first song I heard of theirs Interstellar Overdrive. It's off Piper at the Gates of Dawn in 67. Some of the other songs on that album likely aren't reviewable here. Lol
You can at least listen to it then make up your mind whether to post it.
Quite sure I've never seen you make more notations for any review.
This particular sweet is covered by many orchestras and chorus combos. Trinity Orchestra comes to mind and they will play it note for note. And I can't think of the other Orchestra I believe it's French but it's on my other Ozark Channel hidden somewhere in the Pink Floyd chaos.
also in there you will find a video clip of them experimenting with both music and acid and Frank Zappa uncomfortably they're teaching them how to make new sounds. that's right at the time Frank Zappa was in front of everyone. no Studio would give him the time and day so he had his own Studio. It's an interesting clip but you'll have to look as I don't maintain my site but it should be there.
there's also a non-musical clip there with them sightseeing.lol
One day if we all make it that far one of the grandchildren or great-grandchildren will probably finally open up some of the rare Pink Floyd albums in the library. I have them all. The rare ones have never been opened.
with all that I don't consider Pink Floyd my favorite group I don't have a favorite. My taste runs from classical to Country.
And each genre has its own outstanding artists with their own style. There's no singular great in anything. Human that is.lol
yeah you don't have to review watching an orchestra perform it. but you will never see happier musicians singing or playing anything as you will when they perform this song. they're all feeling they are something Beyond just the music.
And when the grand piano player stands up and starts plucking the strings within the sound box of the piano to create some of these sounds. Oh Yeah!
take care friend. I'll be watching just quiet.
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Hello! Thanks for sharing all that wonderful info. Love hearing personal stories...I will check out that orchestra... Thanks as always for watching and you take care, till next time 🤠✌
This is such a strange album, and the title track particularly. Not well revered by the band members, or the critics, but I remember the first time listening to it and asking myself WTF is this? So many strange things going on. Does it all work? No. But the level of experimentation they were trying to do make it worthy. I think they actually har a ballet perform during this at some point!
I love this, but PF did not, I’m with Jim, imagine hearing this for him 15, I was 14,in my school uniform, completely in another planet& the start of my Floydian life, brilliant ❤
They were practically banned in Britain at this time for being a danger to the minds of youth. They had to hang out in France most of the time LOL!
Haha really? Was it the horse, the cow or the guitar that was going to poison these kids' minds? 🤣🤣
If Pink Floyd were as big as the Beatles were, then, I wonder if they'd have been banned?
@@retroreactions.... A hit piece was wrote about them and then conservative govt people went after them. They could only appear on French television. Notice french television produced Live at Pompeii.
Wow...
Did Beatles get banned?
Try some ELO Electric light Orchestra
Hello Sharon! Thanks for watching...I have actually done several ELO reactions! Love them and they will be a regular band on the channel...I want to hear it all!!
Oh yessssss, the early (not the very early) Pink Floyd! You chose the most demanding work of the band in this phase. “Atom Heart Mother” has some very good moments (the horn section's basic riff is terrific) but it's just about ten minutes too long. The musical ideas are only enough for ten to twelve minutes of music. PF have always been known for their very broad and finely worked out melody arcs. Clearly one of the great strengths of the band. However, "Atom Heart Mother" seems a bit too static at times. Sometimes really tough. As I said, the piece is just too long. Waters and the orchestra arranger Geesin probably intended to sound like Varese, Cage or Hindemith. The piece received mixed reviews at the time. Some saw it as a "big and mature composition," others as a "boring and unattractive mélange of Aaahs and Ooohs!" The truth lies, as always, in the middle.
Brandon, please consider checking out some solo Roger Waters from the late 80s. There was a moment back there during the sweeping political changes in Europe when Roger felt a tinge of optimism about the world and wrote about it in a song called "The Tide is Turning" (studio version). Powerful moving melodic.. hear for yourself why so many Floyd fans consider him the creative and spiritual essence of Pink Floyd... and for all their bickering, inspired his bandmates to true greatness.
OK, added to list...tons of stuff I haven't gotten to...guess I better go for years here ha!
Yea that’s a weird one
Haha, indeed....and I love weird!
David Gilmour reacted "a load of rubbish. We were at a real down point ... I think we were scraping the barrel a bit at that period" and "a good idea but it was dreadful..." - I very much disagree.
Same here!!