Then here's another part of the meal preparation, only this time, we can also hear Alan's inner voice speaking, and then we get a second instrumental. There's one minute of "kitchen sounds" and then a quiet instrumental is played. It starts with Alan, the Floyd's roadie at that time, walking into his kitchen in the morning and preparing his breakfast. Entitled "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast," this song is even more avant garde than the title track. The last track on the album is probably my favorite. "Fat Old Sun" ends just at the moment when Gilmour begins to play an awesome guitar solo, which always makes me mad, since I've heard few live renditions of this one and the solo at the end is really good. But easily the most poppy and pathetic song Floyd has ever committed to tape comes on the fourth song, "Fat Old Sun." It's a short song filled with memories of a perfect day in the countryside and it's further proof that the band's guitar player David Gilmour just shouldn't write words for their songs, rather choosing to concentrate on the music instead. The song is about the musician's life, being always on the road doing gigs and hooking up with a crowd of groupies along the way.the lyrics are fine and Wright's voice is funny too. It's one of the few songs Wright has ever done for Pink Floyd and it's actually pretty fine. "Summer 68" is a catchy, fast and happy pop tune written and sung by Richard Wright, the band's keyboard player. The words are quite good, but Roger Waters would have to wait until Dark Side of the Moon before he would write an accomplished set of lyrics. "If" is a quiet poem sung to a mellow guitar melody. The rest of the album is totally different especially the tracks "If" and "Summer 68," which contrast greatly with the first composition by being rather wimpy pop tunes. It's nice, that the band tried to put orchestra together with their own music, but I think this wasn't the ideal outcome. I like some of the bluesy parts of AHM, but the song is way too long and the title melody is pretty boring. The song ends with reappearance of the title melody that goes on until the end. These sounds are really superb and one wonders where they got such samples in the year 1970! This part of the song nods to all those who criticized the band for concentrating on spaced out music rather than their bluesy roots, but at least this noodling is interesting. When the song reaches its second half, a cacophony of some really weird sounds comes rolling in and suddenly the listener is thrown into another world. The orchestra is soon replaced by the band themselves, playing stripped down mellow blues with a cool ensemble of vocalists joining into the mix. The song starts with a loud orchestral melody that sounds as if it were ripped off from some kind of spaghetti western or a cold war drama. The first track just happens to be the 23-minute epic title track, which literally takes up the entire first half of the whole album! The name of the track, which was randomly picked by Roger Waters, is taken from a newspaper article about a woman who got a pacemaker to stimulate her heartbeat.
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