I think I first latched onto it - like many, I guessing - as a result of its connection with William Friedkin's "The Excorcist" (though its appearance in the occult classic is incredibly brief, serenading Elen Burstyn as she wanders through Georgetown on Halloween) and was sucked in by its signature melody. Oldfield's classic, by contrast, could be the most UN-Punk Rock album ever (actually, I cited Yes' Fragile of this very title a while back) given its artistic ambitions and attention to crystaline perfection (Oldfield has since lamented the inclusion of one or two wrong notes struck during the proceedings of the album, which I doubt I'd ever be able to pick out). Appended with the more conventional tracks ("Fat Old Sun", "Summer `68"), it has the edge on Oldfield for accessibility, but the sprawling, side-filling title instrumental remains as equally ambitious.if a bit flawed (particularly the very-early-70's vocal freak out bit). I could be wrong on this, but I recall reading somewhere that Kubrick had wanted to use some of Atom Heart Mother in A Clockwork Orange. It was released by Harvest and EMI Records 2 October 1970 in the UK, and by Harvest and Capitol on 10 October 1970 in the US. There was a brief albeit misguided point in my life where I truly believed that Pink Floyd were incapable of making a bad album, resulting in my furious championing of the bovine-adorned opus that is Atom Heart Mother. Atom Heart Mother is the fifth studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd. Obviously, Oldfield's is the more celebrated of these particular two (most folks might sooner pit Bells against, say, Dark Side or Wish You Were Here), but I find these albums technically the most simillar, so take yer pick.
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