I like some of the bluesy parts of AHM, but the song is way too long and the title melody is pretty boring. The song ends with reappearance of the title melody that goes on until the end. These sounds are really superb and one wonders where they got such samples in the year 1970! This part of the song nods to all those who criticized the band for concentrating on spaced out music rather than their bluesy roots, but at least this noodling is interesting. When the song reaches its second half, a cacophony of some really weird sounds comes rolling in and suddenly the listener is thrown into another world. The orchestra is soon replaced by the band themselves, playing stripped down mellow blues with a cool ensemble of vocalists joining into the mix. The song starts with a loud orchestral melody that sounds as if it were ripped off from some kind of spaghetti western or a cold war drama. The first track just happens to be the 23-minute epic title track, which literally takes up the entire first half of the whole album! The name of the track, which was randomly picked by Roger Waters, is taken from a newspaper article about a woman who got a pacemaker to stimulate her heartbeat.
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