Небольшое алаверды о "золотой" Корове! 
Classical album, but taken from REAL MASTER, not like commercial CDs you can buy in CD stores ... (рецензия написана еще до выхода Ремастера Дага Сакса 1994 года, который совсем-совсем близко подобрался к MFSL, но на мой скромный взгляд, все равно уступает ему по мягкости и детальности. Послушайте акустическую гитару на IF или Fat Оld Sun!)
Atom Heart Mother UltraDisc II 24 karat Gold CD (UDCD 595)
In 1994, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab released the Pink Floyd album, Atom Heart Mother on UltraDisc II CD. This gold CD was pressed in the United States using the GAIN system.
Atom Heart Mother CD
MFSL UltraDisc II
Title: Atom Heart Mother (MFSL UltraDisc II)
Record Company: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Catalog Number: UDCD 595
Matrix Information:
Top: UDCD595 1C MFD BY JVC
Original Price: $24.99
Release Date: January 1994
Release Information: MFSL Original Master Recording. Gold UltraDisc II with the Gain System. 12 page booklet. Issued in a plastic jewel case that features the lift / lock system for holding the CD.
Description:
Cover: Picture of a cow. Across the top in gold it says Original Master Recording.
Label: Matte black label on a gold disk, with the label information etched out so that it appears to be written in gold.
At the bottom edge of the label, it says: Made in USA
NOTES:
[I]PINK FLOYD -- Atom Heart Mother (Mobile Fidelity)
In 1970, Pink Floyd released their fifth album, Atom Heart Mother. The title came from a headline bassist Roger Waters saw about a pregnant woman with an atomic-powered pacemaker. This was the band's first collaboration with studio wizard, Alan Parsons (who later engineered the classic 'Dark Side of the Moon' as well). When I did an A/B test between with MFSL's Anadisq II vinyl pressing and the recently remastered Capitol CD, the MFSL vinyl put Capitol's remaster to shame. It sounded warmer and much more natural.
On the side-long title track, the orchestra was rich and vibrant. Waters' bass on "If" is much deeper than the remaster. The album really shines on "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast". You can practically smell the eggs cooking when you hear the track. David Gilmour's acoustic guitar work on the cut is clear as a bell. One of the coolest things about MFSL's vinyl pressing of Atom Heart Mother is that it includes the dripping water runoff groove. On the original album, the last thing you hear as the album ends is the sound of water dripping. It didn't fade out like most albums would. If you had a manual turntable, the dripping would continue into an endless void until you actually lifted the needle from the record. Some things, you just can't do with CDs.
When Capitol reissued Atom Heart Mother on CD last year, it included the lyrics and new photos, but omitted the original inside gatefold cover art (included in MFSL's vinyl pressing). Unfortunately, it also included a lot of tape hiss. MFSL's vinyl pressing was breathtakingly quiet. Purely in terms of sound quality, the Anadisq 200 pressing can't be beat. The dynamic range and channel separation are excellent, as you'd expect. The bottom line here - if you want lyrics, new photos and tape hiss, pick up the Capitol CD. Otherwise, stick with the MFSL pressing.
© 1996 Steve Marshall
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Album Review:
Appearing after the sprawling, unfocused double-album set Ummagumma, Atom Heart may boast more focus, even a concept, yet that doesn't mean it's more accessible.
If anything, this is the most impenetrable album they released while on Harvest, which also makes it one of the most interesting of the era. Still, it may be an acquired taste even for fans, especially since it kicks off with a side-long, 23-minute extended orchestral piece that may not seem to head anywhere, but is often intriguing, more in what it suggests than what it achieves.
Then, on the second side, Roger Waters, David Gilmour, and Rick Wright have a song apiece, winding up with the group composition "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" wrapping it up.
Of these, Waters begins developing the voice that made him the group's lead songwriter during their classic era with "If," while Wright has an appealingly mannered, very English psychedelic fantasia on "Summer 68," and Gilmour's "Fat Old Sun" meanders quietly before ending with a guitar workout that leaves no impression.
"Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast," the 12-minute opus that ends the album, does the same thing, floating for several minutes before ending on a drawn-out jam that finally gets the piece moving.
So, there are interesting moments scattered throughout the record, and the work that initially seems so impenetrable winds up being Atom Heart Mother's strongest moment. That it lasts an entire side illustrates that Pink Floyd was getting better with the larger picture instead of the details, since the second side just winds up falling off the tracks, no matter how many good moments there are. This lack of focus means Atom Heart Mother will largely be for cultists, but its unevenness means there's also a lot to cherish here.
Enjoy! 
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including thanks to runo for help 
