Record of the Week: Fat Old Sun

About this episode

The episode explores the production techniques and experimental nature of Pink Floyd's 'Fat Old Sun'.

Here's Record of the Week, where we listen to records that inspire us and made us wonder, how did they do that? This week: Fat Old Sun by Pink Floyd. John & Stewart hone in on production techniques used to create the piece, and dissect the wacky, experimental nature of this song in Atom Heart Mother in comparison to later Pink Floyd albums.

People in this episode

Hosts: John Agnello, Stewart Lerman

Topics covered

• music production
• Pink Floyd
• experimental music
• song analysis
• record inspiration

Keywords

• Fat Old Sun
• Pink Floyd
• music production
• Atom Heart Mother
• experimental music

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Pink Floyd

Books & works: Fat Old Sun, Atom Heart Mother

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