'If', 'Summer '68' and 'Fat Old Sun' are quiet accoustic numbers which are pleasant enough but very, erm, pastoral? 'Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast' is, well, Alan cooking and having his breakfast and occasi onally musing about things interspersed with musical interludes. Containing horns, orchestration and a choir (amongst other things), the band almost seem to be playing second fiddle during much of it, but Richard Wright and Dave Gilmour do manage a nice spot of interplay during the centre section. Not only is the title track (occupying half the album) unlike any other Pink Floyd track, but it's not like anything else, ever.

My first reaction on hearing it was bafflement. Straightaway I'll say that I would like to award this album 4/5, but I'm only too aware that many people will hate it. If someone only knows Pink Floyd by their radio songs, they probably wouldn't guess any of these individual songs were Floyd. I believe any of the three songs could have been released as singles at the time of the original release of the albumn. Gilmour plays this on his solo tours in a little different arrangement, and that is also amazing, but the original recording is my favorite. Will put me in a good mood no matter what my day has been like. If one wants music to be visual and to escape into, this is the piece. Gilmour's song 'Fat Old Sun', is amazing. Wright's song 'Summer of 68', has great instrumental and seems very biogr aphical of what Rick may have gone through during their 2nd US tour in the summer of 68. Roger's voice is soft on this piece, unlike the harder vocals that he is traditional known for. Water's song 'If', is a beautiful piece of music about self analysis. My favorite part is the three 5 minute songs that were written by each of the principal song writers, Waters, Wright and Gilmour. The six part Atom Heart Mother and the three part Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast are the bookends for this recording. There are two, traditional long instrumental pieces.

Even though, most of Pink Floyd's records are meant to be listened to from start to finish to get the full sense of what they were meaning, this CD is not like that. Most consider this to be the worst of the 14 original recordings of Pink Floyd.

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