PINK FLOYD - "Atom Heart Mother" RARE 1970 QUADRAPHONIC LP Q4SHVL781

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Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother

Very RARE Quadraphonic version (1970) !!!
Stereo compatiable
COVER -Excellent / VINYL -Good Condition
Catalog Number Q4SHVL 781
Harvest label

Matrix numbers
QHVL 781 A-1
QHVL 781 B-2

Tracklisting

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The original album cover, designed by art collective Hipgnosis, shows a cow standing in a pasture with no text nor any other clue as to what might be on the record. Some later editions have the title and artist name added to the cover. This concept was the group's reaction to the psychedelic space rock imagery associated with Pink Floyd at the time of the album's release; the band wanted to explore all sorts of music without being limited to a particular image or style of performance. They thus requested that their new album had "something plain" on the cover, which ended up being the image of the cow. Storm Thorgerson, inspired by Andy Warhol's famous "cow-wallpaper," has said that he simply drove out into a rural area near Potters Bar and photographed the first cow he saw.[6] The cow's owner identified her name as "Lulubelle III".[7][dead link] More cows appear on the back cover, again with no text or titles, and on the inside gatefold. Also, a pink balloon shaped like a cow udder accompanied the album as part of Capitol's marketing strategy campaign.[8] The liner notes give a recipe for whole stuffed camel.

The album cover appears in Stanley Kubrick's film A Clockwork Orange. It is viewable on a shelf in the music shop scene.

The title track was to have been called "The Amazing Pudding", though Ron Geesin's original score referred to it as "Epic". Its name was changed after Geesin—who co-wrote the piece and arranged the orchestration on the recording—pointed to a copy of the Evening Standard (dated Thursday 16 July 1970), and suggested to Roger Waters that he would find a title in there. The headline was: "ATOM HEART MOTHER NAMED", a story about a woman being fitted with a nuclear powered pacemaker.[9]

The piece is a progression from Pink Floyd's earlier instrumental pieces such as "A Saucerful of Secrets" and even earlier, "Interstellar Overdrive". The "Atom Heart Mother" suite takes up all of side one, and is split into six parts, featuring a full brass section and choir which take most of the lead melody lines, while Pink Floyd mainly provide the backing tracks; a reverse of the 1960s pop music practice of using orchestration as the background, and putting the rock band in front. However, there is one section where a bluesy electric guitar solo by David Gilmour takes the lead.

Critical reaction to the suite has always been mixed, and all band members have expressed negativity toward it in recent times. But they appear to have been enthusiastic about the suite in the early 1970s, taking a full brass section and choir on tour just for the purpose of performing this piece; a move which caused the tour to lose money. A later arrangement without brass or choir, and pared down from 25 minutes to 15 by omitting the "collage" sections and closing reprise of the main theme, remained in their live repertoire into 1972, performed in concerts that also previewed The Dark Side of the Moon.

Side two opens with three five-minute songs: one by each of the band's three resident songwriters, and closes with a suite with sound effects primarily conceived by Nick Mason, but credited to the whole group (and based mostly on musical ideas by Gilmour). Therefore, this album's concept is similar to their previous Ummagumma album, in that it features the full band in the first half, and focuses on individual members in the second half. Roger Waters contributes a folk ballad called "If" . This is followed by Rick Wright's brass-heavy "Summer '68", a critique of the "rock 'n' roll" lifestyle that would soon become characteristic of Pink Floyd. Next is David Gilmour's "Fat Old Sun", for which a 15 minute extended arrangement spent two years as a key part of the band's live set, and is a staple of Gilmour's various solo tours.

The final track, "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast", is divided into three segments, each with its own descriptive title, joined by dialogue and sound effects of then-roadie Alan Stiles preparing, discussing, and eating breakfast. .

The original LP ends with the sound of a dripping tap which continues into the inner groove, and thus plays on indefinitely.

Gradings

Top & Bottom Edges:Excellent, Straight, clean and looking unworn.

Right Edge(s), and Type: Clean, mostly very sharp with barely any wear and both guaranteed untrimmed. Record entered on these edges.

Spine and Text: Excellent : solid and square with no wear, text is perfect and unworn, very bold and clear.

Corners:  All retain excellent to near mint shape.

The Inner Sleeve: Good

Vinyl Condition/Visual Grading: Very Good. very clean, shiny, intense black and quite solidly pressed.There are a few light scatches here and there ,but these don't impeed the sound quality :) 

Album Played For Grading: Yes. I play ALL records I offer before submitting to Ebay, also the record is played in its entirety unless clearly stated otherwise. I do NOT play snippets or joining grooves to check for sound quality and quietness – I play from the beginning to end in the studio to check , record is in excellent condition ,there are a few crackles here and there but overall sound quality is excellent ...

Sound Quality and Audio Grading: This plays up to its high visual grading with very little to fault . Strong, distortion-free sound, all frequencies are sharp and clear - sound quality is very high with a wide dynamic range and very full, detailed sound. Both channels here are clean and sharp, This record has been played very lightly and has been well stored and looked after within a non-smoking environment. Overall, this is a very fine copy – records, cover and inners – high recommendation is merited.

A Very RARE collectors item

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 Track IF has a skip on it ,noticed on second listening