the cover of 'Atom Hear Mother'

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- unchained - 04-30-2007 12:42 AM

Hi everyone,
I'm a PF fan, and I have a question about the album 'Atom Hear Mother' - its cover. Who designed it and did it hold specific meanings? Are there explanations from the band?

Thanks a lot!

Edited by unchained on April 30 2007,01:40

- Never Fear 33 Is Here - 04-30-2007 01:05 AM

Hey unchained, firstly welcome to PFO, enjoy yourself. Secondly, as for any PF cover I believe that they were all done by the one person, not sure on any meanings, due to my memory that resembles a siv (sp?) I at this moment can't remember the gentlemens name and don't have time to do a search as I have to cut up the chicken breast before my wife gets home. :;): And no that doesn't have some sick and twisted meaning behind it, I actually have to cut up the chicken for dinner. :D

Daniel

- Gilmour's Angst - 04-30-2007 10:44 AM

The cover of AHM was designed by Hpgniosis (can't spell it >_<) it's a company that is close now, but Storm Thurgonson was the main guy for there. He designed most of Floyd's album art. He went out somewhere and took some pictures of cows and I can't remember the reason why, but it's a different cover.

- IbanezIsTheColour - 04-30-2007 06:06 PM

In Inside Out there was an old picture of Rick Wright playing his trombone near a cow, which I think was the cow on the cover of AHM. As far as I know, there wasn't a specific reason the cover had to do with cows...I think it was just random, and the title has nothing to do with the music either.

And welcome unchained. :)

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- Superhuman - 04-30-2007 07:17 PM

I think they put the cow on it because they wanted something that had nothing to do with the album

- unchained - 04-30-2007 11:49 PM

thanks folks ! Hpgniosis ...really a difficult name...

I think the album cover has nothing to do with the music too, which, in my opinion, is most of the PF covers.

Never Fear 33 Is Here [B]...may be you are a good chef, haha

- Never Fear 33 Is Here - 05-01-2007 12:16 AM

Ha ha, my Wife would love that but I seldom cook because I despise it. :;):

- Khaz - 05-01-2007 03:50 AM

I think Storm was told to go out and take some random pictures then the band chose the one they wanted. Also Storm did all the album cover artwork except for: The Wall (Gerald Scarfe), The Final Cut (Waters) and The Piper at the gates of Dawn.

- unchained - 05-05-2007 03:41 AM

Storm Thurgonson, interesting guy, hehe~

- unchained - 05-05-2007 03:48 AM

Never Fear 33 Is Here Wrote:Ha ha, my Wife would love that but I seldom cook because I despise it. :;):

despise? oh~ what about a saucerful of secrets?

- RADAR_Brian - 05-05-2007 06:13 AM

The original album cover shows a very ordinary cow standing in a very ordinary pasture, with no text nor any other clue as to what might be on the record. This is, in fact, due to the psychedelic-"space rock" imagery associated with Pink Floyd at the time of the album's release; the band wanted to explore all sorts of music without being limited to a particular image or style of performance. They thus requested that their new album have "something plain" on the cover, which ended up being the image of the cow. Storm Thorgerson, inspired by Andy Warhol's famous "cow-wallpaper", has said that he simply drove out into a rural area and photographed the first thing he saw. The cow's name is Barnhill III. The cover has been spoofed on the blink-182 album Dude Ranch and the Cattle Decapitation album Humanure.

-wikipedia

- Never Fear 33 Is Here - 05-05-2007 06:33 AM

unchained Wrote:
Never Fear 33 Is Here Wrote:Ha ha, my Wife would love that but I seldom cook because I despise it. :;):
despise? oh~ what about a saucerful of secrets?

What about it? I am confuzed.................My head hurts. :Oo:

- Kimbers Sheep - 05-05-2007 11:30 AM

The cow's name was not Barnhill, it was Lulubelle III, not sure where wikipedia got that info

- RADAR_Brian - 05-05-2007 11:46 AM

You could always buy it:

http://www.stpaulsgallery.com/ProductDetails.aspx?ProductsID=28

- Jintzey - 05-05-2007 12:19 PM

Kimbers Sheep Wrote:The cow's name was not Barnhill, it was Lulubelle III, not sure where wikipedia got that info

LMAO Barnhill? There's a testament to Wikipedia's accuracy.

- Grguitarfreek100 - 05-05-2007 01:09 PM

Khaz Wrote:I think Storm was told to go out and take some random pictures then the band chose the one they wanted. Also Storm did all the album cover artwork except for: The Wall (Gerald Scarfe), The Final Cut (Waters) and The Piper at the gates of Dawn.

and those covers all blew.

- RADAR_Brian - 05-05-2007 10:12 PM

Perhaps what is scarier than Wikipedia's inaccuracy is that you actually knew the correct name of a random cow on a 30 year old album cover. :)

I kid.

- IbanezIsTheColour - 05-05-2007 10:44 PM

Well assuming you guys are right I edited the page so now it does say "Lulubelle III"...I couldn't sleep at night knowing that wiki was wrong :ghostface:

- unchained - 05-06-2007 12:45 AM

RADAR_Brian Wrote:The original album cover shows a very ordinary cow standing in a very ordinary pasture, with no text nor any other clue as to what might be on the record. This is, in fact, due to the psychedelic-"space rock" imagery associated with Pink Floyd at the time of the album's release; the band wanted to explore all sorts of music without being limited to a particular image or style of performance. They thus requested that their new album have "something plain" on the cover, which ended up being the image of the cow. Storm Thorgerson, inspired by Andy Warhol's famous "cow-wallpaper", has said that he simply drove out into a rural area and photographed the first thing he saw. The cow's name is Barnhill III. The cover has been spoofed on the blink-182 album Dude Ranch and the Cattle Decapitation album Humanure.

-wikipedia

thank you, but can you tell me from which wiki website did you get these results? :)

- unchained - 05-06-2007 12:55 AM

Never Fear 33 Is Here Wrote:
unchained Wrote:
Never Fear 33 Is Here Wrote:Ha ha, my Wife would love that but I seldom cook because I despise it. :;):
despise? oh~ what about a saucerful of secrets?
What about it? I am confuzed.................My head hurts. :Oo:

I mean...I just wanna say cooking is something enjoyable, really~~

- Metabog - 05-06-2007 02:51 AM

Roger discusses this in the documentary that's on the DVD for The Wall (movie). I actually got an ideea to write a book that's based on something similar to this, and I plan to start writing as soon as I have time. Damn I wanted to post in the skinheads thread, ignore this.

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- Never Fear 33 Is Here - 05-06-2007 04:03 AM

unchained Wrote:
Never Fear 33 Is Here Wrote:
unchained Wrote:
Never Fear 33 Is Here Wrote:Ha ha, my Wife would love that but I seldom cook because I despise it. :;):
despise? oh~ what about a saucerful of secrets?
What about it? I am confuzed.................My head hurts. :Oo:
I mean...I just wanna say cooking is something enjoyable, really~~

The ONLY thing I like about cooking is that it usually means that I get to eat. :;):

- RADAR_Brian - 05-06-2007 06:39 AM

Well... I went to wikipedia.com and typed in atom mother heart.

Here's the link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_Heart_Mother

- TheGnome - 05-11-2007 12:38 PM

yes. I've just looked on the internet and saw that the aritst of the most of the pink floyd's album ist "hipgnosis" -storm thorgerson.
you can also see his other works and found out some interesting thing about making pink floyd's albums cover on
http://www.stormthorgerson.com/

:)

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- iamthescarecrow - 05-19-2007 01:57 AM

Gilmour's Angst Wrote:The cover of AHM was designed by Hpgniosis (can't spell it >_<) it's a company that is close now, but Storm Thurgonson was the main guy for there. He designed most of Floyd's album art. He went out somewhere and took some pictures of cows and I can't remember the reason why, but it's a different cover.

the spelling is hipgnosis. they comprised of storm thorgeson and aubrey powell. you may also like to know storm was a childhood friend of dave and company :)

- Comfortably9Numb - 06-03-2007 03:24 PM

Kimbers Sheep Wrote:The cow's name was not Barnhill, it was Lulubelle III, not sure where wikipedia got that info

dearest god kimbers....how do u know the COWS NAME!?!?!...u know everything :D
hammers