What is Pink Floyd though? For the vast majority of casual listeners, Pink Floyd equals Dark Side Of The Moon. My father-in-law turned it off in disgust, saying “This isn’t Pink Floyd!” I once heard the band play it live on the radio – presumably from one of the only times it was played live. The orchestra must have wondered what on earth this long haired hippy was telling them to play. It sounds so wrong yet so right at the same time. I have Ummagumma, but I seldom listen to it, and the Syd Barrett albums don’t really float my boat either.Įverything about Atom Heart Mother is awesome, from the cover to the wicked Atom Heart Mother Suite that takes up the whole of the first slide, to the collection of random hippy-inflected songs on side two. It’s one of my favourites though, alongside Meddle and Obscured By Clouds. Of the Floyd’s run of albums primarily driven by Roger Waters’ songwriting ( Atom Heart Mother all the way up to The Wall), this was the one I discovered last. I’ll seek out more though, particularly as I remember that song on the Blades Of Glory trailer ( Sirius) to be more of that kind of synth-groove. The Floyd-esque side-two opener The Voice gets close, and Nucleus could have been recorded by French electronica duo Air, but the rest is more akin to Peter Gabriel-era Genesis, although slightly more radio-friendly. Most of the other material has nothing of the robotic funk of its title track. Not sure if I’m a fan of the band’s other work though. It’s definitely a master groove, built around heavy synths and featuring some lovely choral singing in the style of Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother suite ( a record Parsons also worked on). The groove, as it turns out, was the title song of th e Alan Parsons Project’s second studio album I Robot. About halfway through the film, there was a montage of music from the artists he released during his tenure at Arista, and I heard a massive groove. Aerosmith once sang ‘We all shot the shit at the bar / With Johnny O’Toole and his scar / And then old Clive Davis said / I’m surely gonna make us a star’ and so a made a point of learning more about him. I know they’re somewhat proggish, but I wouldn’t be able to spot a song on the radio.īut then I saw the documentary on Clive Davis, the famous record label head of Columbia and Arista, on Netflix. I know he had something to do with Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side Of The Moon, and that one of his songs is on the Blades Of Glory trailer. The Alan Parsons Project are a gap in my knowledge.

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