The opening 'Atom Heart Mother Suite' turns out to be an incredibly focused and well-written piece of lounge music - despite the band's claims to the contrary. Indeed, across the years there has been more than a sack-full of derogatory comments from several former Floyd members on the state of their fifth-ever studio effort the most colourful of them are 'Atom Heart Mother is a good case, I think, for being thrown into the dustbin and never listened to by anyone ever again!' (Roger Waters, circa 1985) and 'God, it's s**t, possibly our lowest point artistically' (David Gilmour, in Mojo Magazine, circa 2001).īut in all honesty, Atom Heart Mother is seriously not that bad - not by any stretch of the imagination in fact, it's probably better than your average band's shot at a fifth album. However, in the case of Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother, the band in question is probably just being a little too hard on themselves.

When a band goes on record to say that an album of theirs sucks, it's usually a warning worth taking heed of - and certainly as close as one can get to a absolutely honest, sentiment-free critical appraisal.

Review Summary: Pink Floyd's hidden gem - The Dark Side of the Moo.

Roger waters on atom heart mother