Atom heart mother

didnt gilmour want to put fat old sun on echoes?

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It's not actually High Hopes at the beginning of Fat Old Sun (something to do with AHM being released 25 years earlier) but High Hopes does have similar bells as Fat Old Sun. Probably to do with High Hopes's theme of remembering.

I'd say the bells are VERY similar. Even the ambiental sounds seem to be the same! Or I don't hear very well...

Actually, I read that Gilmour subconcsiously borrowed many elements of "Fat Old Sun" from a Kinks song called "Lazy Old Sun." I haven't heard the Kinks song but it said to have borrowed the intro and outro of it as well as some of the overall tempo.

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Wow Gerald, your first post!

The bells are from the same sound effects tape because in 1970 when AHM was recorded, the sounds they used came from the library of tapes at Abbey Road.

During such sound effect splurges as DSOTM and The Wall, The Floyd (mainly Roger and Nick) made their own sound effects up.

Incidentally, the cash register they used for Money was bought by Abbey Road and is probably now an elaborate paper weight.

BTW, the sound effects tapes were not great in number. I think that birdsong on the start of Cirrus Minor is also played during Grantchester Meadows... and then is used on an alternative version of the Beatles song, Across The Universe.

It wasn't until the Floyd got into making their own that the catalogue increased.

Still doesn't explain why Dave used the bells with High Hopes. Nostalgia, perhaps?

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the guitar in that song sounds kind of like Clouds

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Isn't it "the ringing of the Division Bell"?

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I will show you how....

Sweet!

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I especially like how they break into the solo in 'Time' at the end of the organ/guitar blues jam. Quite tasty!

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Atom Heart Mother is a good album - the title track especially. The choral part is amazing.

From the memoirs of Lifemask:

Originally, I heard AHM on the radio late one night (one thing great about 1970s radio programming). I taped the broadcast with a little cassette recorder/microphone and later rang Double Jay (legendary Sydney radio station 2JJ on the AM band - now Triple J FM, and not so legendary). Some staff huddled around the telephone and upon a pretty decent listen told me that it was the Pink Floyd. Excellent.
By coincidence later that week, my enthusiasm for this 'new' piece of music did the rounds at school. A fellow there said that he had a copy of AHM and was prepared to part with it for a couple of dollars (fool!). Most excellent ... now I can play this new piece in stereo on my recently acquired Phillips micro stereo (seven kidney-rattling watts per side). Hunky dory. I pick up the vinyl at school, spend a further seven hours holding on to it until I can get it home for a play. That afternoon I arrive home - pee - then get to work. I pull the disc out of the sleeve, put it on the (plastic) platter and crank it up in the privacy of my room as I roll a ciggy. As the piece gets through a few toots of brass during AHM's introduction, I reach across to get an ashtray ... at the same time bringing a lamp crashing down upon my now unhappily spinning copy of Atom Heart Mother.
Bliss. I have a similar story concerning a copy of Tim Buckley's 'Greetings From LA', but that's another story. The up-side is that both incidents propelled me into a lifetime of anally rententive record care.
Chronic bed-wetting is a small price to pay for hi-fidelity.

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And you my love, won't you take my hand
We'll go back in time,
To that mystic land
Where the dew drops cry, and the cats meow
I will take you there
I will show you how....

love the CD and listen to it offen great period of the band

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