Pink Floyd - Animals (Poll and discussion thread)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DosQVZbySY0

uhhh and here's a fucking incredible contemporaneous show. pink floyd rules

this is the best or 2nd best floyd album

it's pretty easily their best imo but i've never been particularly into them

Dreary, turgid and insanely overrated is my verdict.

Much better than "The Wall" though.

Feel like they saved a lot of hooks til the end final 2 minutes of the songs:

Pigs: Gilmour's screeching solo over his disco bassline on a fretless
Sheep: Gilmour's catchy rockabilly outro
Dogs: Roger's proto-Wall "who was..." litany

wright's solo intro to "sheep" is fantastic though

That's the best part of the record.

"Sheep" is the best post-Barrett Floyd song full stop

thinking back at the time "wish you were here" was a letdown after "dark side of the moon". and "animals" another letdown after "wish you were here". but it still is a very good record. but my perception could well have to do with the fact that i always listened to "dark side of the moon" at my friend's house and never bought the record until much later. usually we listened to dsotm by candle light and/or at parties iirc. there was a certain mystery to it for me which stayed. and tom d. is right, this is much better as "the wall" which was the total final sell-out and complete rubbish. as with so many bands there was a peak with pink floyd and afterwards it all went down the hill. maybe the peak was even before dsotm but i don't think so. meddle has never really done it for me but must admit that i didn't listen to it a lot.

Definitely my favorite Floyd record.

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beginning to think Dogs is the best thing they ever did

it is!

Dogs rule!

Sheep too!

Dogs is indeed their best song! In a neat symmetry, Dogs of War is their worst song!

It’s funny how many times I’ve thought to myself “I’m a guy in a white collar job. There’s nothing interesting to write a song about.”

That's why we invented self-loathing.

Definitely some of the best Floyd lyrics too -- the way the first verse refashions cliches into new idioms that sound like cliches but aren't ("Sleep on your toes" "pick out the easy meat with your eyes closed" "you've got to strike when the moment is right without thinking")

And honestly probably Gilmour's bet soloing, and one of Nick Mason's finest moments too

Definitely some of the best Floyd lyrics too -- the way the first verse refashions cliches into new idioms that sound like cliches but aren't ("Sleep on your toes" "pick out the easy meat with your eyes closed" "you've got to strike when the moment is right without thinking")

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Also a great balance of lead vocal between Gilmour and Waters. You can't imagine them switching which verses they sing, even though it's the same melody.

I will never not stan for Dogs

we don't deserve Dogs

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This album on paper is the sort of thing I assume I'd hate but listening to it this year, just while doing mundane shit around the house, really hit me hard.

sheep 4 ever

When I reached a certain age of young adulthood, I started to think Pink Floyd's themes were a caricature of adulthood by people who had never really had to experience it, and started to think that it was music for moody 15-year-olds. But now as an adult I see that it's a caricature in the best sort of sense -- one that captures certain qualities and exaggerates them for biting effect.

dogs: perfect song
pigs: perfect song
sheep: perfect song
pigs on a wing: fitting that this extended meditation on alienation is bookended by a love song

Pigs and sheep are both v good songs but I can't imagine this record as one of the "big 4" without Dogs.

that's probably fair, i should've described "dogs" as the "perfectest song"

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at the risk of breaking up our harmony . . . pigs is less perfect than dogs and sheep

but i'm sure we can agree that they all rule

yeah, it's good but it sounds a bit like a very strong pre-Wall outtake or something.

idk man every time i listen to “pigs” i think “wow i love this song the bass is really good”

ha ha charade you are + that creepy harmony on “cryyy”... song is sick

i don't mean to suggest that it's not sick or doesn't rule

but i do suggest a line between it and some others

perhaps

i just have this experience listening to animals where every song comes on and it is the best song but y’all are right

ugh sorry for interrupting the infinite bradness

charade you are

Pigs seems more aligned with Have A Cigar, rather than with any track from The Wall.

My personal Rule of Rules is that the classic quartet rules, anything less does not.

Pigs could seem like merely a finger-pointing song, it's the bridge that really makes it transcendent and gives it universal significance.

It was a real coup to decide to split the weakest song in two; seeing as if you put both verses of Pigs On the Wing at the beginning or end, it would throw the entire record off balance.

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