>On Jul 26, 6:33 pm, Tracy_Bar...@frontiernet.net wrote:

>> On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:50:19 -0700 (PDT), Paul gmail.com>
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>>>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.

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>>>> 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.

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>>>> Going song by song...

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>>>> 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.

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>>>> 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.....

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>> Or, even better when I saw them in 1973...  they performed not only
>> "Echoes", but DSOTM.  What was neat about this is that although the
>> album was out in the market, I had not heard it yet.
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