>On Jul 26, 9:34?am, Raja gmail.com> wrote:

>> These days even Pink Floyd members (Waters, Gilmour and Mason) dismiss
>> Atom Heart Mother as garbage. But, I always felt this was a very good
>> album, hugely underrated. Alan Psychedelic Breakfast is one of my
>> favorite instrumentals of all time. The title track is a bit overlong
>> but has a fantastic orchestral backing and great melody throughout.
>> The three shorter songs are good too with Summer'68 being my
>> favorite.
>>
>> Meddle is similar in structure to AHM but less risky IMO. And I prefer
>> Floyd when they do less safe stuff. Echoes is another great epic like
>> AHM suite but it seems again a bit overlong. It could be a nice 10
>> minute song or so. One of these Days does not match Alan Psychedelic
>> Breakfast by any means even though it is a good song. The shorter
>> songs have a problem of sounding a bit similar to each other. I like
>> Pillow of Winds the best of that lot.
>>
>> Going song by song...
>>
>> Echoes vs AHM - AHM wins
>> One of these Days vs Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast - Alan's Psychedelic
>> Breakfast wins.
>> A Pillow of Winds vs If - A Pillow of Winds wins
>> Fearless vs Summer '68 - Summer '68 wins
>> San Tropez vs Fat Old Son - Fat Old Son wins
>> Seamus is irrelevant and can be ignored.
>>
>> So my vote goes to AHM. Your thoughts?

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> AHM was a good album.
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> Meddle was a great one.
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> Echoes is awesome....especially at
>Pompeii.....