But like I said, it's not all bad, and it helped the band figure out what worked and what didn't a year later they released the masterpiece Echoes, and shortly after that began work on Eclipse (what became DSOTM), both excellent long-form pieces in their own right. Anyways, Holy shit this track is instantly one of my favorites Everything, the guitar, the brass, the backing choir. Basically anything pre-meddle and Im familiar with a track here, a track there. Dont ask why, I have no good excuse as to why I havent listened to this album before. It just comes off sounding like a band that decided they wanted to do a side long "classical" piece and had no idea how to accomplish this, so they threw together whatever they could come up with and the result is a jumbled mess. Just listened to Atom Heart Mother Suite for the first time. That whole noise section after Funky Dung, the choral section, and the organ arpeggios right after the main theme all feel like filler to me. But it suffers for the same reason parts of Yes' Tales from Topographic Oceans suffers - in a nutshell, they were trying to stretch the piece out and added a bunch of filler to accomplish this. Same could be said about Atom Heart Mother in some parts near the end but Atom Heart Mother just does it for me a bit more. I'm not a fan, on the whole, although I think there are very nice passages contained within (The opening theme, the Funky Dung guitar solo, the closing section/coda are all nice). That middle section of Echoes is interesting to a degree and I love my long prog songs but sometimes there is a bit much.
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