atom_heart_mother (30 novembre 2008 23 h 49) disait:
Si ça ne te parle pas, développe un peu ta culture musicale...
Je m'incline j'aurais du me rappeler de ce titre!
En meme temps quand je lis ca je me dit que peu etre pas apres tout
Atom Heart Mother is a good case, I think, for being thrown into the dustbin and never listened to by anyone ever again! [...] It was pretty kind of pompous, it wasn't really about anything.
- Roger Waters - Rock Over London Radio Station - 15 March 1985, for broadcast 7 April/14 April 1985.
Some of it now, like Atom Heart Mother, strikes me as absolute crap, but I no longer want or have to play stuff I don't enjoy.
- David Gilmour - November 1994
"What do you think of your early records like Atom Heart Mother and Ummagumma today?"
I think both are pretty horrible. Well, the live disc of Ummagumma might be all right, but even that isn't recorded well.
- David Gilmour - German news magazine "Der Spiegel" No. 23 - 5 June 1995
It's an averagely recorded album but a very interesting idea, working with Ron Geesin, an orchestra and the John Aldiss choir. Roger and I were quite friendly with Ron. I think I met him through Robert Wyatt. The thing that Ron taught us most about was recording techniques, and tricks done on the cheap. We learned how to get round the men-in-white-coats and do things at home, like editing. Ron taught us how to use two tape recorders to create an endless build up of echo. It was all very relevant to things we did later. Now I listen to it with acute embarrassment because the backing track was put down by Roger and me, beginning to end, in one pass. Consequently the tempo goes up and down. It was a 20-minute piece and we just staggered through it. On the other side, Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast was another great idea -- gas fires popping, kettles boiling, that didn't really work on record but was great fun live. I've never heard Roger lay claim to it, which makes me think it must have been a group idea.
- Nick Mason
At the time we felt Atom Heart Mother, like Ummagumma, was a step towards something or other. Now I think they were both just a blundering about in the dark.
- David Gilmour
I didn't have anything, really, to do with the start of Atom Heart Mother, and when I asked them what it was about, they said they didn't know themselves. It's a conglomeration of pieces that weren't related, or didn't seem to be at the time. The picture isn't related either; in fact, it was an attempt to do a picture that was unrelated, consciously unrelated.
- Storm Thorgerson - Guitar World - February 1998
"I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don't really think the attempt comes off that well,"
- David Gilmour - Rolling Stone Magazine - November 2001
'I wouldn't dream of performing anything that embarrassed me. If somebody said to me now: "Right...here's a million pounds, go out and play Atom Heart Mother", I'd say: "You must be fucking joking...I'm not playing that rubbish!". 'Cos then I really would be embarrassed.'
- Roger Waters - interviewed by Richard Skinner - BBC Radio One - originally broadcast: Saturday 9 June 1984
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