The shared frustration with Atom Heart Mother spawned an equally strong desire to create something better, so they resorted to a methodology that many artists have applied over the centuries when the desire to create is hampered by an imagination stuck in neutral. Nick Mason revealed his understanding of the pre- Meddle imbalance in group dynamics when he remarked that “David certainly has a great deal of affection for this album, which for him contains a clear indication of a way forward.” Starting from scratch made it possible for David Gilmour to participate as an equal partner rather than the substitute they brought in to fill the Syd Barrett gap.
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They needed to hit the reset button, make a clean break from the Syd Barrett era and allow the full capabilities of the post-Syd configuration to emerge. I think we were scraping the barrel a bit at that period.”īorrowing a line from Bob Dylan and applying it to a completely different context, “When you ain’t got nothin’ you got nothin’ to lose.” Finding themselves bereft of ideas was the best thing that could have happened to Pink Floyd at that point in time. We didn’t know what on earth we were doing or trying to do at the time, none of us. I’m not playing that rubbish.” David Gilmour also described it as rubbish, adding, “We were at a real down point. here’s a million pounds, go out and play ‘ Atom Heart Mother,’ I’d say: ‘You must be fucking joking. Roger Waters: “If somebody said to me now, ‘Right. All the band members hated Atom Heart Mother.Engineer John Leckie recalled, “There was no record company contact whatsoever, except when their label manager would show up now and again with a couple of bottles of wine and a couple of joints.” The commercial success made the suits at EMI happy and more willing to give the band the time and resources needed for the next album. fans loved Atom Heart Mother and made it the first Pink Floyd album to top the charts the album also sold well in Europe. My sense is that the positive vibes were the direct result of two contrary perceptions of Atom Heart Mother: Kindle Edition.Ĭreating and maintaining a “relaxed and quite loose” vibe was no small feat, given that Pink Floyd entered the studio with no idea of what they wanted to record and faced a heavy concert schedule that frequently interrupted the recording process. Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd (Reading Edition) (p. Certainly, compared to its predecessor, Atom Heart Mother, Meddle seems refreshingly straightforward. It is relaxed, and quite loose, and ‘Echoes’ has, I think, lasted well. As Atom Heart Mother had been a bit of a sidetrack, and Ummagumma a live album combined with solo pieces, Meddle was the first album we had worked on together as a band in the studio since A Saucerful Of Secrets three years earlier. Overall, the whole album was immensely satisfying to make. Nick Mason confirmed Corgan’s impression in his band bio, Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd: It’s really on that record that you hear a band fusing and synthesizing something that’s never been really recreated. they really sounded like a band unsure of where to go,” said Billy Corgan in his induction speech welcoming Pink Floyd into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That hardly qualifies as a ringing endorsement, as Pink Floyd could have put out an album consisting of forty minutes of silence and it would have been better than the Meddle cover. For a more insightful evaluation of the album’s value, I’ll turn things over to Billy Corgan:Īfter Syd went wherever Syd went. “I think Meddle is a much better album than its cover,” opined team member Storm Thorgerson. The team at Hipgnosis did own up to their questionable judgment. I guess there’s always one baboon proctologist in every crowd. Let’s have a show of hands-how many of you would want to spend more than five seconds looking at a baboon’s anus? Okay. I have no evidence to back it up, but as I’m always in search of a silver lining, I can easily imagine that the electric ear-and-nose-hair trimmer was invented by a Pink Floyd fan who spent hours gazing at the cover of Meddle.Īt least we were spared the original concept of a close-up of a baboon’s anus. If I encountered such an ear during foreplay, you can bet your bottom dollar that my tongue would beat a hasty retreat. It’s supposed to be an ear underwater soaking up waves of sound. Yes, even the guys who designed the cover thought it was crap.
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