The reason people think up things to call experience is because it's so much easier to handle words. They can sterilize anything, keep us clean. Then we can start dumping on them saying they weren't nearly as great as we thought they were.)ĭefinitions are wonderful. Nevertheless they are in that league that we usually reserve for those we think of as being authentically great. Pink Floyd has not yet arrived at that stage of critical acclaim to warrant the general populace thinking up new ways of thinking about their kind of music. The result is a sophisticated and progressive use of the medium, concocting a blend of musical forms that reaches itself into a new synthesis for which new definitions are inevitably thought up. (Definition: Floyd is that group which makes fullest and most imaginative use of the electronic medium as it is coupled with the rock impulse. The selections on the second side also are noteworthy, especially "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast." Electronic devices stand side by side with fine work on standard rock instruments. The title number, which occupies a full side, is a six-movement gem with an assist from the John Aldiss Choir. Pink Floyd continues their inventive ways with this latest set. If Pink Floyd is looking for some new dimensions, they haven't found them here. Once I got over that, though, it was the same insubstantial melange as the rest of the record. I couldn't believe it to be part of the record. I was listening through earphones, and so three-dimensional and realistic were the sounds that I took off the phones to see who was breaking in. The part is not the music, but the integrated Arising and Breakfast sounds. The only redeeming feature on this side is the last cut, "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" and then only partially so. "If" is English folk at its deadly worst. But, as a whole it's awful schmaltzy and a little vapid. And, there are sounds that draw pictures. As Impressionism, it's occasionally effective, but on a very imitative level. ![]() It turns out to be an Impressionist orchestral sketch of (I think) a morning that includes some rock elements. The best that can be said for it is that it's craftsmanlike and that in spite of its many parts, it's an entity. They use orchestral elements and a choir. Their last album, Ummagumma, while a bit bit drawn-out, had all their best elements.Ītom Heart Mother is a step headlong into the last century and a dissipation of their collective talents, which are considerable. Pink Floyd used sounds no one else thought of and could make them lyrical besides. Most other groups, when they thought in terms of electronics, thought only of painful feedback. And their music, if it wasn't memorable, reached into the limits of their experimentation. Their use of a third, rear, sound source anticipated quadraphonics. Their work in the electronic capabilities of rock was more advanced than most people recognize. At one time, Pink Floyd was far-out, freaky even.
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