If anything, this is the most impenetrable album Pink Floyd released while on Harvest, which also makes it one of the most interesting of the era. Buy the album Starting at $13.09Īppearing after the sprawling, unfocused double-album set Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother may boast more focus, even a concept, yet that doesn't mean it's more accessible. Meaning: with hindsight it's always easier.Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs. Well, 'you can look a cow in the ass' is an actual Dutch saying, translated literally. Too bad I don't have this first pressing from England anymore. It had been a long time since I listened to this music from Pink Floyd it remains special, with all those experimental sounds, subdued acoustic guitar work and grand orchestral arrangements. In the meantime I have the music on LP again, if only on a 'Hör Zu' reissue from Germany. In a fit of madness I traded all my LPs for CDs in the eighties, including "Atom Heart Mother". The sound of fried eggs, a simmering coffee machine on the song 'Alan's Psychedelic Breakfeast'. I once had it in my possession, purchased from my brother who didn't like the music. You can easily pay €300 for the original first pressing from England. There are now more than five hundred reissues of the LP, pressed all over the world. Lulubelle III is long dead, but she lives on through this cover art. After this album, Pink Floyd was no longer a local psychedelic rock band, but a big name in prog rock. "Atom Heart Mother" reached number one in England and topped the album charts worldwide. They both stand out and have helped the musicians to eternal fame. Surely no one has ever asked those questions about the album cover of, say, "Thriller", in which Michael Jackson looks towards the buyer of the album, stylized down to the last detail?! However different in appearance, these album covers have an important similarity. Why start an intellectual discussion about whether a urinal or a cow can be considered a work of art? Or about whether this is a cover or an anti-cover? It doesn't really matter. People are quickly inclined to look for a meaning behind everything. Ask a Dadaist "Why a cow?" And he will answer, "Why not?" And to the question "Why no title on the cover?" you will undoubtedly receive the answer "Why should it?". Dadaists see art in the everyday, such as the famous urinal by the French artist Marcel Duchamp. Like many artists of his time, he was heavily influenced by Dadaism, an art movement dating from after the Great War. Photographer Storm Thorgerson was a friend of theirs. The guys in Pink Floyd were experimenting wildly with drugs and groundbreaking music. Until Pink Floyd's album came out then she became world famous instantaneously. She was happily ruminating in the meadow, producing milk for humans. This social unrest completely passed by Lulubelle III. On the other side you had traditional, conservative England that only wanted to cling to their cup of tea with a touch of milk. London was turned upside down with all kinds of experimenting young people pushing their boundaries in art, love and music. England was in a major social crisis in the early 1970s. Long hair and a beard, and with a strange metal device in front of his eyes. She saw a strange dude standing in the meadow. "My goodness," Lulubelle III must have thought when she turned her head. He drove out of London in his little car one fine summer day and saw Lulubelle III standing in the meadow in the countryside. Who would have thought it would ever come to this in 1970? The cover was an idea of Storm Thorgerson of design agency Hipgnosis.
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