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Originally Posted by Howard the Duck
...and despite what people say about Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast, i think it's ok
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^ This is actually one of my favourite Floyd tracks. Alan Parsons did a good job of blending sound effects and music; the way the striking of a match leads into one instrumental section is like a trial run for
Money, while the inconsequential conversational snippets set a relaxed mood and highlight the rhythms of natural speech. The band`s playing, Rick Wright`s especially, is low-key but exquisite in each of the little sections, which work rather like
etudes in classical music. For me this is a song that kind of washes over you - you barely notice it, but you always fell better after hearing it.
In comparison
Summer`68 may be layered, as RMR mentions, but for me it all comes crashing in at once in a clumsy fashion, making this a very strident, disjointed song. And on an album that is otherwise very innovative, the "ba-ba-ba" Beach Boys vocals seem old-fashioned and out of place to me. While RMR was skipping
Breakfast, this is the track that I routinely skipped !
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Originally Posted by wiggums
Good review, but Fat old sun is a great gem as well!
Atom heart Mother is one of my favorites. Summer '68 and Fat Old Sun are me and my girlfriend's favorites to listen to together.
Atom Heart Mother itself however, is just amazing for me to listen to.
And Alan's breakfast is great fun as well.
How they members ended up hating it, I'll never know.
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^ Yes, wiggums, I love
Fat Old Sun too and don`t understand why Waters and Gilmour now trash this album. To me this remains one of their creative peaks. With the title track and elsewhere, they were breaking new ground, taking risks and striding way ahead; not only of other bands but of their own previous albums. When they moved on to things like
Meddle and
Dark Side they started back-peddling and playing it safe instead.