pink floyd atom heart mother mind your throats please meaning

During recording, the mental health of singer and guitarist Syd Barrett declined, so David Gilmour was recruited Barrett left the band before the album's completion. Wiki - ' A Saucerful of Secrets is the second studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 29 June 1968 by EMI Columbia in the United Kingdom and on 27 July 1968 in the United States by Tower Records. The stereo mix is probably better though but I'll reserve judgement until I hear a better-sounding disc than my vinyl-to-CDR transfer I currently own. The mono mix has never been issued on CD for some reason, but you can easily get it on vinyl. I enjoy this record more than either of his two solo LPs in fact. He comes up with one song and plays on others. Syd is not yet a ghost, as he would be on projects like Wish You Were Here, or The Wall. To rise from the ashes with an album this good after their leader's mental breakdown is a testament to their genius as an ensemble, and I use that word carefully because the dominance of Roger was only just beginning here, with Wright contributing two songs to Waters' three. Though I'm not one of those who subscribe to the view that their best era was pre- Dark Side, their run of records from '67 - '72 stands as some of the best consecutively-released LPs any band dealing in psych/prog were issuing. There's something about PF in the late sixties which is special. As it stands, for pure psychedelia, there are precious few superior records for that year.

Still easily their second-best '60s album, had this been their only recording, we'd be referring to it as a masterpiece.

I actually heard this before Piper when I was an up and coming Floyd neophyte and for many years considered it to be almost as good. The only other Floyd album containing contributions from Syd Barrett, however small.

Pink floyd atom heart mother mind your throats please meaning