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| ARTIST: | Pink Floyd |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Capitol |
| FEATURES: | Original recording remastered |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Pigs On The Wing 1, Dogs, Pigs (Three Different Ones), Sheep, Pigs On The Wing 2 |
| UPC: | 724382974826 |
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Pink Floyd at their best Fast becoming my favourite Pink Floyd album, Animals doesn't get the recognnition of DSOTM or Wall, or even Wish You Were Here, but it could be argued that it is the superior. Including some of the hardest rock the Floyd ever produced, it features Roger Waters at his most 'foul-mouthed', controversial best, as well as contributions from all the other members, with Gilmour at his best on guitar throughout the album (some breathtaking solos). It uses dogs, pigs and sheep as metaphors for people in real life. Dogs - the ruthless tycoon business-men who will do anything to get to and stay at the top. Pigs - rich and greedy hypocritical 'fat-cats' with no morals. Sheep - mindless followers who do whatever the next one says. 'Dogs' for mine is the best song, and up there in the top three of best ever Floyd songs, along with 'Echoes' and 'Shine On'. Waters lyrics are brilliant, such as: "And it's too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around", and "And when they turn their back on you, you'll have the chance to throw the knife in." 'Pigs' includes some viscious Waters' lines. Who else but Waters could write, "You radiate cold shafts of broken glass"?
Te album begins and ends with the short and appropriate 'Pigs on the Wing 1 & 2'. For the new Floyd fans, probably best to start with something like DSOTM before getting into something as heavy as this, but this is AWESOME.
Perhaps the most overlooked in Pink Floyd's catalogue
Animals did not become the mega-seller that The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here were. The sound of the album is not radio-friendly, 3 of the 5 songs are over 10 minutes long (the other 2 are 1.5 minute songs, both called Pigs on the Wing,bookending the album), and the subject matter is a lot more austere, cynical and dismal than almost any Floyd album before or since. As a result, Animals is a shamefully underacknowledged album, and does not get recognized as much as it should.
The lyrical content was obviously inspired by the George Orwell novel, Animal Farm, and attacked capitalism to the fullest (Roger Waters himself was being known as the 'dictator' of the band during this time. He is credited with writing all 5 of the sonbgs, except "Dogs," in which he shares credit w/ Dave Gilmour). It seperated humans as animals: pigs, dogs and sheep.
The first animal that is exposed on this album is the dog, on the 17 minute haunting opus "Dogs." Dogs are seen as corrupt, and greedy liars who get to the top by manipulation, and make endless profits from it, only to get what they deserve at the end ("Have a good drown as you go down all alone dragged by the stone"). The Enron scandal which happened not too long ago comes into play, but business corruption has been happening for centuries.
"Pigs" is next. Roger Waters tears into certain groups of people who try to shove their opinions down others throats. The third verse ("Hey you Whitehouse...") is an attack, not on the White House, but on Mary Whitehouse, who is pretty much the British counterpart to Tipper Gore, in terms of censorship.
"Sheep" is the final epic of the album, and the sheep are portrayed as gullable followers who cannot think for themselves. For me, many groups of people resemble that description, such as middle/high school students who succumb to getting into the latest trends only to fit in, the consequence being lack of accpetance or scorn by their peers. In the middle of the song, Waters gives a bizarre adaptation of a prominent segment of the Bible ("The Lord is my Sheperd").
Animals is a reflection of society that is still relevant to this day. Whereas Dark Side, The Wall, and Wish You Were Here were more personal albums (mostly dealing w/ the psychological decay of Syd Barrett), Animals is probably the most political and synecological of any Pink Floyd album. It's worth listening to, and occasionally it gets the honor of being my favorite Pink Floyd album.
Roger Waters is a genius, great album
This is a great album, the music is captivating and the lyrics are mesmerizing! A must have!