The Pink Floyd albums on this page are listed by album name followed by country Here is a web-page with a gallery of album covers created by Hipgnosis They created a world that fans could enter into and lose themselves in, just like the music they were listening to. Their work was not just a complement to the music, but an essential part of the overall experience. Their innovative designs helped to define the visual style of rock music in the 1970s and 1980s. Hipgnosis was not just an art group, but a collective of artists who had a significant impact on the music industry. Hipgnosis disbanded in 1983, but their legacy lives on in the countless album covers they created. However, the rise of digital technology and the decline of album sales led to the group's decline. The group's success continued into the 1980s, with designs for bands such as Scorpions and Styx. The image became another iconic design and was later referenced in Gabriel's music video for "Sledgehammer." They designed the cover for Peter Gabriel's first solo album, which featured a photograph of Gabriel wearing a mask with only his eyes visible. Hipgnosis also worked with a number of other influential musicians, including Peter Gabriel, Black Sabbath, and Genesis. The image was highly controversial but helped to solidify the band's rebellious image. Another iconic design was for Led Zeppelin's "Houses of the Holy," which featured a group of naked children climbing on a rock formation. The design was so successful that it became synonymous with the band and their music. One of the group's most famous album covers was for Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon." The cover featured a prism refracting light into a rainbow, which became one of the most recognizable images in rock history. Their designs were highly detailed and often required extensive planning and preparation. The group's style was surreal and often incorporated elements of fantasy, science fiction, and the occult. The group's name, "Hipgnosis," was a play on the words "hypnosis" and "hip." They believed that their art had the power to hypnotize people and transport them to another world, which was reflected in their album covers. Hipgnosis worked with some of the most influential musicians of their time, including Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and Yes. The group was known for their innovative and creative album covers, which became iconic in the music industry. Hipgnosis was an English art group founded in 1968 by Storm Thorgerson, Aubrey Powell, and Peter Christopherson. Also the font-face/type has been printed with different variations.ĭifferences exist on the back cover of "Atom Heart Mother" where are that either one or three cows are on the album's back cover.Īlbum cover artwork was by Hipgnosis ( uncredited )
PINK FLOYD ATOM HEART MOTHER FULL ALBUM PRO
The surround sound information on this quadraphonic LP cannot properly be extracted by today's audio-video receivers using the Dolby Pro Logic setting.Ĭollecting the releases from different countries can be interesting, because the album front cover of "Atom Heart Mother" has been printed in different versions, some with the band-name and album-title on the cover, some without the band-name and album-title and some with only the band-name. There was also a release of the quadraphonic version in the UK in fully discrete 4-channel form on the "Quad-8" format, a 4-channel variant of the stereo 8-track tape cartridge. The quadraphonic mix was released on LP in a matrix format compatible with standard stereo record players. But, as a whole it’s awful schmaltzy and a little vapid."Atom Heart Mother" was the first Pink Floyd album to be specially mixed for 4-channel quadraphonic sound as well as conventional 2-channel stereo. And, there are sounds that draw pictures. As Impressionism, it’s occasionally effective, but on a very imitative level. It turns out to be an Impressionist orchestral sketch of (I think) a morning that includes some rock elements. The best that can be said for it is that it’s craftsman-like and that in spite of its many parts, it’s an entity. They use orchestral elements and a choir. Their last album, Ummagumma, while a bit drawn-out, had all their best elements.Ītom Heart Mother is a step headlong into the last century and a dissipation of their collective talents, which are considerable. Pink Floyd used sounds no one else thought of and could make them lyrical besides. Most other groups, when they thought in terms of electronics, thought only of painful feedback.
And their music, if it wasn’t memorable, reached into the limits of their experimentation. Their use of a third, rear, sound source anticipated quadraphonics.
Their work in the electronic capabilities of rock was more advanced than most people recognize.
At one time, Pink Floyd was far-out, freaky even.
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