> 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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