I listened to that album recently: God, it's shit, possibly our lowest point artistically. > ".the long piece "Atom Heart Mother." That was a good idea but it was dreadful. Despite the fact that the album was commercially successful at the time, both Roger Waters and David Gilmour have run it down ever since. My benevolence towards Atom Heart Mother seems to run contrary to most fans' opinion and even to the artist themselves. This is also the era of Pink Floyd when I considered them to be an alternative jam-band / stoner-rock choice if you're tired of Grateful Dead but you're also not in a Deep Purple mood. It doesn't make my top-10 or anything, but I consider it a solid entry in the Pink Floyd canon at the time, "at the time" being Pink Floyd's earlier output (1965-1972, handily covered in the box set The Early Years). Very few of any of these images were produced.I have always loved Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother. These photographs were produced as signed, open editions and were only briefly available for sale as they were intended only for the anniversary celebration. In 2008, Storm and SFAE celebrated Pink Floyd's 40th anniversary with an exhibition of signed photographs of images that he had created for the band over the years both as a founding member of the design collective Hipgnosis, and as an independent designer with StormStudios. Still, nobody knows the nature of the link between sales and design, if one exists at all." - Storm Thorgerson The cow was, in fact, more eye-catching than I had ever dared imagine it was so different because it was so normal: so ordinary it stood out a mile.Atom Heart Mother was the big breakthrough in the UK despite the fact that the record company hated the cover. Not shocking, not mind altering, just unexpected. Photography by Hipgnosis."I wanted to design a non-cover, something that was not like other covers, particularly not like other rock or psychedelic covers – something that one would simply not expect. This was the front cover of Atom Heart Mother, Pink Floyd's fourth studio album, recorded at Abbey Road Studios.Image courtesy of Pink Floyd.
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