Is Atom Heart Mother a bad recording, or do I need to demand a refund?

Question

I just bought Atom Heart Mother from Circuit City. The music's enjoyable, but the constant popping and interruptions are getting very irritating. They seem to be very prevalent in Fat Old Sun. Is this normal, or do I need to get a new disk?

Answer 1

There must be something wrong with the disk. There shouldn't be any noise like that out side of frying bacon. Unless somehow you got your hands on some ghetto copy, like a used, burned-from-vinyl replicant. My copy on vinyl sounds perfectly fine, although the studio production is not up there with DSOTM or even Meddle. My ears may be getting old but I would say exchange it and see what happens.

Answer 2

Atom Heart Mother is loaded with lots of crackling noises during Alan Psychedelic Breakfast and Fat Old Sun has ambient noise in it just as Grantchester Meadows did on Umma Gumma. Atom Heart Mother is a really ambitious attempt to create an orchestra in the countryside effect and Pink Floyd were still having to record on a budget so the results aren't the highest fidelity.

For me it was a matter of time before I appreciated AHM. About a year in fact and that was back when records crackled and popped on their own. The Suite is annoying if you aren't in the mood and you can hear that they were beginning to experiment with found sounds and backgrounds that would later be integral to Dark Side of The Moon and The Wall.

It can't hurt though to exchange it for a replacement just to be sure it hasn't picked up added noise. I know that you can stream AHM on Musicnet and that might be a good way to compare.

But if you don't have it yet I'd exchange AHM for either Ummagumma or Meddle.

Still that Cow on the cover makes folks want it. It is one of the greatest Album Cover pics, that Cow. Go figure?

Hope that helps

Answer 3

I have not got any theory what the cow potential the two. LOL Mq - i admire the three shorter songs "If", fat previous sunlight and Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast ( i admire Gilmouur's guitar on that final one). MQ2 - i admire the cow as hide paintings - It suits with the bands cutting-area nature MQ3 - third in the back of "desire You have been right here" and "Meddle" - dark section could be 4th MQ4 - i'm a huge fan of purple Floyd BQ - they are honestly suitable 10 in line with hazard as intense as 6 or 7. BQ2 - Nope I grew up in the era of peculiar band names such as "Frijid purple" and "the electrical powered Prunes" so I knew it replaced into in simple terms a band's call. BQ3 - A mom Kangaroo and slightly one BQ4 - Nope - the international will end sometime despite the fact that it fairly isn't any longer incredibly bvecause somebody anticipated it. i've got not got faith in predicting the destiny. BQ5 - i've got faith an Asteroid or in line with hazard the sunlight going super nova would be the top of Earth.

Answer 4

GET A SO NEW DISK