Rocks In The Attic #1183: John Williams – ‘Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (O.S.T.On September 23rd 2016 this long awaited reissue campaign continues with the vinyl release of the classic album Atom Heart Mother.Rocks In The Attic #1184: Darry Hall & John Oates – ‘Whole Oats’ (1972).Rocks In The Attic #1185: Alex North – ‘Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (O.S.T.)’ (1966).Rocks In The Attic #1186: John Williams – ‘The Fury (O.S.T.)’ (1978).Rocks In The Attic #1187: Fountains Of Wayne – ‘Welcome Interstate Managers’ (2003).But as we all know, that isn’t true at all. What is Pink Floyd though? For the vast majority of casual listeners, Pink Floyd equals Dark Side Of The Moon. My father-in-law turned it off in disgust, saying “This isn’t Pink Floyd!” I once heard the band play it live on the radio – presumably from one of the only times it was played live. The orchestra must have wondered what on earth this long haired hippy was telling them to play. It sounds so wrong yet so right at the same time. I have Ummagumma, but I seldom listen to it, and the Syd Barrett albums don’t really float my boat either.Įverything about Atom Heart Mother is awesome, from the cover to the wicked Atom Heart Mother Suite that takes up the whole of the first slide, to the collection of random hippy-inflected songs on side two. It’s one of my favourites though, alongside Meddle and Obscured By Clouds. Of the Floyd’s run of albums primarily driven by Roger Waters’ songwriting ( Atom Heart Mother all the way up to The Wall), this was the one I discovered last.
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