Always, literally always thought that Animals was the pinnacle of the Floyd oeuvre. I know that DSOTM is a perfect record, but perfection carries the seeds of its own destruction, Animals isn't perfect, but it is interesting, and acknowledges both new wave and punk whilst not straying too far from the thoughtful, angry, frustrated world view that Mr. Waters was imposing on the band. The perfect example of power and intensity without being loud or violent. They still sound vicious, but it is vicious to a purpose, to show the "Punk Elite" just how a person sounds when they are totally, TOTALLY fucked off with the status quo...Not with status quo...
Animals are as follows: pigs are people in charge, dogs are those the pigs use to maintain control, and sheep are the people living their lives at the rule of the pigs.
Dogs are the ruthless business men, something that Waters has said that is what he feels he is himself. Verse 1 is what it takes to be the ruthless business men, a dog. 2 tells of what it's like to be a dog. 3rd shows what happens eventually to the dogs after living their empty lives. 4th verse Waters sings from inside the mind and how the dogs feel about being a dog.
@PavlozKapeliz nah, you forget the real pigs are the rich that control the government. The government are more like dogs for the rich pigs, at least in my American Oligarchy. In a dictatorship/kingship you can say government are the pigs.
The bleak one beginning at ten minutes sharp? That one really paints a sense of run-down sorrow and grief, very concentrated - Gilmour has always been good at coming up with lyrical solos like that.
"He was broken by trained personnel", towards the end of the song, is an exquisitely quirky line - the placing of "trained personnel" at the stressed end seems to fight the beat - but Roger still pulls it off. :)
I found it interesting when I learned that drugs weren’t really a big part of this version of the band (post Syd). I remember when I discovered Floyd as a young teen just as I began to discover weed as well and I was hooked. I thought for years these guys were the stoner band of all stoned bands, because how else could they be this creative and create albums like this. Turns out you can be insanely creative without anything lol.
I was younger than that my sister brought it home. I stared at the album listening to it. Continuously with my jaw dropped people wonder why I’m a musical snob when you grew up with the greatest music ever written what the fuck do you expect?
Agree, but many of today's music pundits and the music business would have dismissed it as an "old fart commies' track" if the album had been a recent one. Today you're not supposed to be this acerbic, dark and unyielding in popular music - or this openly anti-capitalist, either.
I love this whole album. I remember buying it so many, many years ago--not when it first came out, but a few years later. It's still so relevant today. And their sound never ages.
There was a whole culture in the 1970s and early 1980s about 'building' your home stereo, piece by piece as funds allowed, reading equipment reviews, going to the local stereo store to listen to different components, always trying to upgrade the weakest link in your stereo system, rearranging your whole room to find the best position for the speakers, etc. And then the 'stereo chair'. It could be a bean bag chair, or a recliner, or whatever was comfortable, set right in the 'sweet spot' between the speakers, where the stereo image was *perfect* . And then turn all the lights out, so all you can see is from the blue or orange or yellow or red glow of the lights and meters on your stereo equipment. Then carefully drop the needle on your record player, turn the volume up, sit back, close your eyes, and take a trip to the land inside of your mind 👍😁
The first time I listened to this album in entirety was on an old school setup like that. I was 16 and had just discovered weed. Was hanging with a few buddies and we were absolutely ripped, I just wanted to lay down so we put this album on and turned on the black light and just went to another planet. I’ve been sober for decades now, but that moment is what got me hooked on that band, and I still enjoy it, even without an “enhanced” state of mind.
We had crappy cassettes until CD came, but did the same in the late 80's high school. 15 years old in 87 and my buddy across the street with a license and a car says, "you've gotta come down with me. I have something for you to try and something you need to listen too.". So I burned my first joint, or the sticks and bowls and bongs that circled the dining room table all night long. Then I heard Comfortably Numb for the first time. Bought The Wall the next day, but what is this with the prism? And Wish You Were Here. Bought them all. I come home from work at the grocery store one Saturday and from the basement I can hear my stereo cranking. I'm going to kill him! How dare my little brother step foot in my room let alone touch my sacred system. I storm up the stairs, through the kitchen, up the stairs to the 2nd floor, my bedroom is the first one. Burst into my bedroom and.... Dad turns to me, "What the hell is this!" Shine On .. is blasting. I sit down and as it ends, I ask if he's listened to this and hold it out. "Not yet, cool prism cover" I hadn't yet discovered Animals. My love for Floyd goes even deeper than the music because we lost him 4 years later and this was my fondest memory, experiencing Dad experience PF for the first time shortly after I did.
Still have my flagship Yamaha system from '79 (power amp, pre-amp, Dennon direct drive turntable, Nakamichi cassett deck , and yamaha tuner. All running through my Yamaha NS 10000M studio monitors. You are right, drop the tone arm on the vinyl, kick back and zone out!!! By the way I saw the Floyd in '77 at the old Cleveland Municipal stadium on this tour ( the In The Flesh Tour ) for this album release.....IT WAS EPIC!!!!!
I wore this 8-track out. Used to fall asleep to it with my headphones on, wake up hours later and the tape would be almost too hot to pull out of the player. A truly amazing album.
I totally forgot about 8 track heat used to wear mine out. all I had was my mom and dads eight tracks until I learn to record from the radio by putting tape over those two holes on top of the eight track cassette I recorded over John Denver and America, but later became a fan of America. Kind of sucks. it was the year of Rocky three eye of the Tiger was a radio I recorded that and long way home by Supertramp and Kris Kross run like the wind and Bob Seeger fire lake and brick in the wall by Pink Floyd It’s only forgot about eight tracks. I wish I still had them later I recorded Africa from Toto, Devil went down to Georgia,Foreigner Jukebox hero, a lot of memories attached I was a child of the 70s, but sadly I didn’t really discover Pink Floyd until the early 90s
@@jasonwalls1012 reminds me of my Dark Side of the Moon 8 track. I still remember exactly where the tracks change as though it was part of the song! lol
This is my favorite Floyd song. It’s just perfect. It’s got it all. Both David and Roger on vocals and both of them are just flowing with the lyrics. Great bass, great drumming, great synthesizers, and some of David’s greatest guitar work. This song could have been twice as long and you’d still want more.
@@danbardos3498 this is going into a time capsule so if civilization gets wiped out then in the distant future advanced aliens will visit this planet and dig it up, and they will listen in awe 🤟👽🤟
Dark, cynical, hopeless but otherwise epic, futuristic and bluesy song based on George Orwell´s novel. You guys really enjoyed every note of this masterpiece and I thank for it ;-)
That is a misconception because of someone who did a cartoon video to play along with the song. In fact it's about political scandal in Britain. For instance Mary Whitehouse was a corrupt politician that they refer to in another song on the album.
@@louise_rose It was (of course) Dr. Johnny Fever in the control booth at the time and “Big Guy”, (Mr. Carlson) just came in to say “hi Johnny, how’s it going”, or something along those lines, and Johnny had Dogs playing on the turntable. The entire scene didn’t take long and only the part where you hear the dogs barking was what was heard on the show. I remember it like it was yesterday. I absolutely LOVED WKRP! BTW, just for sh*ts and giggles, Team Bailey ftw!
absolutely! i never read it until i became a teacher and the one school i was subbing at had it. so i read it during lunch and my free period, and then finished it before i left to go home. very relative to our society today, especially knowing about what yuri bezmenov said about taking over the US.
My buddy and I used to cover this with me on acoustic guitar and him on keys, at happy hour. One guy came up to us and congratulated us - he had never heard anyone cover it. That was all we needed. This song is a masterpiece.
Imagine being a 16-year-old knucklehead in 1978 who had never heard much of Pink Floyd (yet), dropping acid for the very first time and listening to this album in a friends basement with all the lights off. We all just barely made it out of that experience without our minds being completely blown.
Brothers! Ya’ll ought sit down and listen and experience the album “Animals” as a whole piece. Well worth your time as musicians and fans of music! Cheers, guys!
Another great Floyd song that is longer and not played often is "Echoes". Hollywood, if you have never heard that one, that is another great option for a reaction video.
I love how Hollywood just KNOWS what's coming beat by beat even never having heard the song. He's learning and loving the band, and understanding what to expect from them. Dave sings the start of this song = melancholy about the situation, Roger sings the last half = bitterness about the life lead that's sadly ended.
In my top 5 PF songs! I was 18 in 1973 when a friend of mine handed me the headphones and said "listen to this!" It was DSOTM. I listen to the entire album and was blown away. It changed my view of music forever.
Went to a party once, just after this was released and which split inadvertently into two rooms. There was the loud music, loud people in one and then there were about 10 of us in the other listening to this and other pink Floyd albms all night. We just sat there tripping away to the music all night and we had by far the better night of the two rooms
At 14:19 the whole track comes to a full stop and we are left in a "cold outside" ambience for four minutes, with howling dogs in a back yard. In terms of rhythm or melody, nothing happens for the next four minutes, its all ambience. I remember hearing the album for the first time around 1980 and it was simply amazing that they had dared to defy normal song structures in such a blunt way - I think today almost no major band would have dared to do something like that. When Roger Waters and his band played the song on the 2000 tour (preserved on an excellent DVD) they staged a mimed game of poker during this passage, because obviously most of the band had nothing at all to play for those four minutes, :)
I first bought this album on 8-Track so I could listen to it in the 1966 Rambler that I bought for $250…life and music was awesome back then…still is…Respect…
I think as I get older Animals more and more becomes my favorite Floyd record and the one I play more than any other. This is the Floyd at the height of their powers. Killer Gilmour track with some of the TASTIEST guitar work you've ever heard, Waters dropping some INTENSE lyrical truth bombs, Mason with POWERFUL drumming and Wright holding it all together with synthy GOODNESS. It's mostly David with the lead vocals, but the last bit is Waters. I read this song as like you say someone buying into the corporate world and learning the ways to get ahead (and F over anyone around you) and then as they get older realizing that all of that hate and aggression they put out into the world will eat them from the inside out and they will die alone. You gotta be crazy ....
Those last vocal lines "Who was born in a house full of pain" are just mindblowing, heartbreaking, sublime and devastating. The lyrics in this song are among the best Roger ever wrote, and the guitar work is just soul crushingly beautiful. After you've heard this song 100 times and you memorize every single detail, every single string bend, every single word, it will never, ever leave you, and thats what makes Pink Floyd a timeless band. Great reaction dudes. Keep on going.
I’ve listened this song thousands of times in my life and it never dawned on me until just now that the final lyrics are about the subject failing to take responsibility for the miserable, selfish, depraved life he led. He claimed none of it was his fault because he was raised to be who he became. Not only that he was a good boy and did exactly what society told him to do. What a grave image to be “found dead on the phone”. To die alone having betrayed every single person he ever knew to the degree not one of them would answer his call. Thank you rappers react for letting me see this song through your eyes.
" Floyd's one of the greatest bands ever." Well surmised, my brother. And you both are so correct on your comments on Pink Floyd's "take your time" manner of writing songs. As a teen of the 70's, I learned to slow my "fast paced brain" down partly by listening to -- and learning to listen BETTER to -- PF's albums. As well as the albums of Yes, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Jethro Tull , etc. Another great reaction, guys. Keep on r'actin . Oh -- don't fret it, Hollywood ... all true Pink Floyd fans , myself included, not only get where you are coming from, but we have BEEN where you're at ... rabid [ no pun intended ] Pink Floyd fans.
My favorite Pink Floyd album. I listen to Dogs about once a week on the way to work (I'm actually listening to the whole album, but it's only a 20 min. drive). So cool to see others reacting to it for the first time!
I love how you guys really groove and feel the music. You're one of the few reaction channels that I've seen that really get into the music, physically.
from Wikipedia: Fitting into the album's Orwellian concept of comparing human behaviour to various animals, "Dogs" concentrates on the aggressive, ruthlessly competitive world of business, describing a high-powered businessman. The first two verses detail his predatory nature-outwardly charming and respectable with his "club tie and a firm handshake, a certain look in the eye and an easy smile", while behind this façade he lies waiting "to pick out the easy meat...to strike when the moment is right", and to stab those who trust him in the back. Subsequent verses portray the emptiness of his existence catching up to him as he grows older, retiring to the south rich but unloved: "just another sad old man, all alone and dying of cancer", and drowning under the weight of a metaphorical stone. The final verse explores a number of aspects of business life and how it compares to dogs, for example taking chances and being "trained not to spit in the fan", losing their individuality ("broken by trained personnel"), obeying their superiors ("fitted with collar and chain"), being rewarded for good behaviour ("given a pat on the back"), working harder than the other workers ("breaking away from the pack") and getting to know everyone but spending less time with family ("only a stranger at home").
Its wonderful to hete you guys talking and loving pink Floyd as you say they are unique a one of an experience s journey thanks guys for your comments on one of yhe best bands in the world
Great to hear fellow Floydians experience one of their classics for the first time for 17 minutes! The good news is you will enjoy it even more the second time! If you haven't heard it yet you must check out the wistful "High Hopes" which is the last song from their last proper album. A fitting way to bow out.
Are you talking about the one from Australia? Their Name escapes me but if so they actually are very good, sometimes in life we have to settle for cover bands I hope you have a great time! Years ago a group I volunteered for did the phones on a PBS fundraiser event where they featured this band, that's how I heard of them and if it's the same one I actually was impressed by them😊 and if memory serves me correctly they have Pink Floyd's stamp of approval for putting on an excellent show up to their standards so don't let anyone make you feel bad for being excited to go and check it out, it's all about great music in the end✌
The GOATs always include social commentary as a hallmark of their music. Pink Floyd is easily one of my favorite bands, up there with Rage Against the Machine.
Great reaction . Definitely in my top five Pink Floyd tracks this one. Always used to be very underrated song , In my opinion. These guys are absolute geniuses.
David Gilmour was the first rock artist to use the talk box, and he also is the master of taking 1-4 notes, and just touching your spine with each one. He has direct touch to his guitar neck and our expanse into nirvana.
The album cover is Battersea power station, now a shopping complex. Wikipedia: Battersea Power Station is a decommissioned coal-fired power station located on the south bank of the River Thames in Nine Elms, Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It was built by the London Power Company (LPC) to the design of Leonard Pearce, Engineer in Chief to the LPC, and CS Allott & Son Engineers. The architects were J. Theo Halliday and Giles Gilbert Scott. The station is one of the world's largest brick buildings and notable for its original, Art Deco interior fittings and decor. The iconic red telephone box was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, one of the architects.
Morning guys! Pink Floyd is a trip upon a trip into a trip and beyond! Gotta love pink Floyd ❤️❤️❤️💯 loved seeing y'all enjoy yourselves enjoy your trip but also lost myself on my own,hard not to lol. We all went somewhere today lol🔥❤️💯🤓
I love Dark Side of the Moon, but I've found myself visiting Animals more over the years, that and Wish You Were Here. Along with The Wall, that is the big four of the genius that is known as the Floyd.
Great reaction gents!! My #1 off Animals (masterpiece of an album), and definitely in my top 5 Pink Floyd songs (Echoes being #1). Just LOVE this song! Dave's voice, guitar is sublime. Rick's keys - amazing, Roger's lyrics - on point! Difficult to name many other bands that had a 3 (to 4 if you count The Wall) -album run of perfection!! Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, Animals - I could put any one of them on and be a very, VERY satisfied individual! Cheers.
Hollywood, you said Floyd's music is like watching a movie. There's a specific track called "echoes", idk if you guys have listened to yet or not, but that's one that I can see a story in my head when I listen to it. Would be really interested to discuss with you what you "saw" while listening to that track.
I really appreciate you guys, most haven't figured out that albums like Dark Side, Animals and The Wall are start to finish, songs blend one to another. The Wall is famous for the "blends" containing backround audio such as TV shows and movies, for example Gunsmoke, Gomer Pyle, the Battle of Britain, and others.
The big 4, DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, WISH YOU WERE HERE, ANIMALS and THE WALL are unmatched works of art. Ethereal, mysterious and aurally orgasmic (no, not orally, but pun intended)
I've been knee deep in some of the heaviest mushroom trips you can imagine and this whole album is riding it's hard to comprehend what this song does when you your down the rabbit hole. It's amazing
At last! Before you reacted to this, my favourite Floyd song, you mentioned Sheep and the brilliant way the vocal extends into synth in exactly the same key, virtually indistinguishable. I'm glad you loved Dogs, it is a friggin' masterpiece. So many guitar styles from Gilmour.
Animals, in my opinion, is the PERFECT album. So glad to see you all reacting to this and I love your passion in the commentary. Keep up the great work, guys!
So the first time I saw Pink Floyd was when they toured the Animals album on 7/3/77 at MSG in NYC. They played all of Animals, all of Wish You Were Here and for the encore Money and Us and Them from The Dark Side of the Moon. A great laser and multi media show with a giant inflated Pig which moved around the arena, they blew my 16 year old mind up 🤯
Animals is my favorite Pink Floyd album. Saying that I love all Pink Floyd albums. They are my favorite group of all time. That is saying a lot because I am Canadian and a big Rush fan as well.
Nothing else has made me feel like listening to Pink Floyd. Most incredible music ever made. At this point in american history it's the only thing that makes me comfortably numb.
If you react to Pigs (Three Different Ones) listen to the 2018 remix which brings the bass (played by Gilmour as well) and the drums to the front. Gilmour also plays through a Heil Talk Box and the outro solo is one of his best. A true master.
Gilmores guitar work on Dogs is unworldly. It is supposed to sound like you are drowning 'dragged down by the stone' and that exactly what it purveys. I know people love his solo in Comfortably Numb but this is my personal favorite Gilmore song. I think it was Dave Mustain who said Gilmore can get more sound out of one note than most players get out of the whole fret board
Animals was a Pink Floyd masterpiece. I’m going back to the 70’s. Who’s with me?
If I can skip the part where I was a stringy haired, pimply, ball of awkwardness, then sure I’ll return with you.
Always, literally always thought that Animals was the pinnacle of the Floyd oeuvre. I know that DSOTM is a perfect record, but perfection carries the seeds of its own destruction, Animals isn't perfect, but it is interesting, and acknowledges both new wave and punk whilst not straying too far from the thoughtful, angry, frustrated world view that Mr. Waters was imposing on the band. The perfect example of power and intensity without being loud or violent. They still sound vicious, but it is vicious to a purpose, to show the "Punk Elite" just how a person sounds when they are totally, TOTALLY fucked off with the status quo...Not with status quo...
Oh hell yeah I think I was in 8th grade man my favorite album
far out man
One way ticket first class please to 1970.
Animals are as follows: pigs are people in charge, dogs are those the pigs use to maintain control, and sheep are the people living their lives at the rule of the pigs.
...until the sheep decide not to anymore.
Didn’t you hear? It was on the news. The dogs are dead. You’d better go home and do what you’re told. Stay out of the road if you wanna grow old 👍
Dogs are the ruthless business men, something that Waters has said that is what he feels he is himself. Verse 1 is what it takes to be the ruthless business men, a dog. 2 tells of what it's like to be a dog. 3rd shows what happens eventually to the dogs after living their empty lives. 4th verse Waters sings from inside the mind and how the dogs feel about being a dog.
Government, police/army, middle class (are they still out there?) and poor. George Orwell was very direct 'bout that.
@PavlozKapeliz nah, you forget the real pigs are the rich that control the government. The government are more like dogs for the rich pigs, at least in my American Oligarchy. In a dictatorship/kingship you can say government are the pigs.
One of the greatest songs ever brought to the human experience.
One of my favorite Gilmour hair raising solos.
Which one? Lol
The bleak one beginning at ten minutes sharp? That one really paints a sense of run-down sorrow and grief, very concentrated - Gilmour has always been good at coming up with lyrical solos like that.
@@matthewburkart7718was about to ask the same thing lol
Lets give props to Richard Wrights fantastic keyboard work here.
“And it’s too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around”. Waters may be the most underrated lyricist ever.
I think you are correct. His politics drive me nuts but the man was and is a genius 🤷✌️
"He was broken by trained personnel", towards the end of the song, is an exquisitely quirky line - the placing of "trained personnel" at the stressed end seems to fight the beat - but Roger still pulls it off. :)
@@richardcarle786yeah, the dude comes across as a complete prick, but DAMN what a song writer!
He’s not underrated.
Imagine being 13, and receiving this album from your 18 year old brother for Christmas 1977, weeks after discovering weed.
I was 16 when first hearing this. God I want too be young again.
I found it interesting when I learned that drugs weren’t really a big part of this version of the band (post Syd). I remember when I discovered Floyd as a young teen just as I began to discover weed as well and I was hooked. I thought for years these guys were the stoner band of all stoned bands, because how else could they be this creative and create albums like this. Turns out you can be insanely creative without anything lol.
I was younger than that my sister brought it home. I stared at the album listening to it. Continuously with my jaw dropped people wonder why I’m a musical snob when you grew up with the greatest music ever written what the fuck do you expect?
I got this at 13 . It was one of the first 4 LP's I bought myself . I must have played it 500X the first month !
Nice present
My favorite Pink Floyd album. One of the most scathing commentaries on and of our society EVER. The mucisianship is the sonic icing on the cake.
Just brilliant favourite album ever
Agree, but many of today's music pundits and the music business would have dismissed it as an "old fart commies' track" if the album had been a recent one. Today you're not supposed to be this acerbic, dark and unyielding in popular music - or this openly anti-capitalist, either.
Ah, yes-one of so many masterpieces. Genius. Brilliant. Classic. Masterclass in musicianship. You just can't get any better than PF.
Dark, angry, brutal and brilliant. This is a pinnacle for Pink Floyd.
I love this whole album. I remember buying it so many, many years ago--not when it first came out, but a few years later. It's still so relevant today. And their sound never ages.
There was a whole culture in the 1970s and early 1980s about 'building' your home stereo, piece by piece as funds allowed, reading equipment reviews, going to the local stereo store to listen to different components, always trying to upgrade the weakest link in your stereo system, rearranging your whole room to find the best position for the speakers, etc. And then the 'stereo chair'. It could be a bean bag chair, or a recliner, or whatever was comfortable, set right in the 'sweet spot' between the speakers, where the stereo image was *perfect* .
And then turn all the lights out, so all you can see is from the blue or orange or yellow or red glow of the lights and meters on your stereo equipment.
Then carefully drop the needle on your record player, turn the volume up, sit back, close your eyes, and take a trip to the land inside of your mind 👍😁
The first time I listened to this album in entirety was on an old school setup like that. I was 16 and had just discovered weed. Was hanging with a few buddies and we were absolutely ripped, I just wanted to lay down so we put this album on and turned on the black light and just went to another planet. I’ve been sober for decades now, but that moment is what got me hooked on that band, and I still enjoy it, even without an “enhanced” state of mind.
We had crappy cassettes until CD came, but did the same in the late 80's high school. 15 years old in 87 and my buddy across the street with a license and a car says, "you've gotta come down with me. I have something for you to try and something you need to listen too.". So I burned my first joint, or the sticks and bowls and bongs that circled the dining room table all night long. Then I heard Comfortably Numb for the first time. Bought The Wall the next day, but what is this with the prism? And Wish You Were Here. Bought them all.
I come home from work at the grocery store one Saturday and from the basement I can hear my stereo cranking. I'm going to kill him! How dare my little brother step foot in my room let alone touch my sacred system. I storm up the stairs, through the kitchen, up the stairs to the 2nd floor, my bedroom is the first one. Burst into my bedroom and.... Dad turns to me, "What the hell is this!" Shine On .. is blasting. I sit down and as it ends, I ask if he's listened to this and hold it out. "Not yet, cool prism cover"
I hadn't yet discovered Animals. My love for Floyd goes even deeper than the music because we lost him 4 years later and this was my fondest memory, experiencing Dad experience PF for the first time shortly after I did.
Heaven on Earth......those were the day's.
Still have my flagship Yamaha system from '79 (power amp, pre-amp, Dennon direct drive turntable, Nakamichi cassett deck , and yamaha tuner. All running through my Yamaha NS 10000M studio monitors. You are right, drop the tone arm on the vinyl, kick back and zone out!!! By the way I saw the Floyd in '77 at the old Cleveland Municipal stadium on this tour ( the In The Flesh Tour ) for this album release.....IT WAS EPIC!!!!!
This sounds like I was born in the wrong era 😢
This album is a full play front to back every time, especially on road trips! LOVE this song and album!
Pink Floyd never grows old . I'm so going to build a time capsule and put EVERY Pink Floyd album in it.
Should take you about a half hour….why bother….look where you posted this…a visual time capsule.
From my favourite Floyd album...such a banger!...& cried in January when my dog died.
I wore this 8-track out. Used to fall asleep to it with my headphones on, wake up hours later and the tape would be almost too hot to pull out of the player. A truly amazing album.
I totally forgot about 8 track heat used to wear mine out. all I had was my mom and dads eight tracks until I learn to record from the radio by putting tape over those two holes on top of the eight track cassette I recorded over John Denver and America, but later became a fan of America. Kind of sucks. it was the year of Rocky three eye of the Tiger was a radio I recorded that and long way home by Supertramp and Kris Kross run like the wind and Bob Seeger fire lake and brick in the wall by Pink Floyd It’s only forgot about eight tracks. I wish I still had them later I recorded Africa from Toto, Devil went down to Georgia,Foreigner Jukebox hero, a lot of memories attached I was a child of the 70s, but sadly I didn’t really discover Pink Floyd until the early 90s
My sister's Pinto, driving me to Kinder in 1977-78.
@@jasonwalls1012 reminds me of my Dark Side of the Moon 8 track. I still remember exactly where the tracks change as though it was part of the song! lol
Didn’t it change tracks mid song at least once. I didn’t own it, but an uncle did and I remember that for some reason.
@@MagooTheHappyHustler maybe it was this one I remember doing that. One thing I hated about 8 tracks
This is my favorite Floyd song. It’s just perfect. It’s got it all. Both David and Roger on vocals and both of them are just flowing with the lyrics. Great bass, great drumming, great synthesizers, and some of David’s greatest guitar work. This song could have been twice as long and you’d still want more.
I dont care what anyone says, pink floyd will still be big in 30 years.
maybe 90 years
Without a doubt!
Maybe centuries
All time great. So long as civilization lasts that is.
@@danbardos3498 this is going into a time capsule so if civilization gets wiped out then in the distant future advanced aliens will visit this planet and dig it up, and they will listen in awe 🤟👽🤟
Dark, cynical, hopeless but otherwise epic, futuristic and bluesy song based on George Orwell´s novel. You guys really enjoyed every note of this masterpiece and I thank for it ;-)
That is a misconception because of someone who did a cartoon video to play along with the song. In fact it's about political scandal in Britain. For instance Mary Whitehouse was a corrupt politician that they refer to in another song on the album.
…….70’s When you sat down and listen to the whole album ! Over and over !
11:10 The way you both started swaying the same exact way without ever looking at each other was insane.
Have to do "Pigs" next.
Fun fact: They used this song in an episode of WKRP in Cincinnati.
Dr. Johnny fever knew his music!
Big guy: “DoI hear dogs?”
Johnny Fever: “I do”
WKRP was a FANTASTIC show!!
BOOOGERRRR
That's so odd - I remember that series and I would never have thought they'd choose something this heavy and gritty.
@@louise_rose It was (of course) Dr. Johnny Fever in the control booth at the time and “Big Guy”, (Mr. Carlson) just came in to say “hi Johnny, how’s it going”, or something along those lines, and Johnny had Dogs playing on the turntable. The entire scene didn’t take long and only the part where you hear the dogs barking was what was heard on the show. I remember it like it was yesterday. I absolutely LOVED WKRP! BTW, just for sh*ts and giggles, Team Bailey ftw!
(20:33) "Man... Floyd's one of the greatest bands, ever..."
Uhh... yep! That's a big 10-4 👍😁😎
Dogs is my favorite song on Animals, love this album . , its about the book Animal Farm, that everyone should read.
had to read that book when i was about 12 or 11! that book was good once I found out the meaning of the book when i got older!
absolutely! i never read it until i became a teacher and the one school i was subbing at had it. so i read it during lunch and my free period, and then finished it before i left to go home. very relative to our society today, especially knowing about what yuri bezmenov said about taking over the US.
My buddy and I used to cover this with me on acoustic guitar and him on keys, at happy hour. One guy came up to us and congratulated us - he had never heard anyone cover it. That was all we needed. This song is a masterpiece.
Would love to see a clip of that :)
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"And in the end you'll pack up, fly down south, and hide your head in the sand. Just another sad old man, all alone and dying of cancer."
Roger Waters had obviously been to Florida when he wrote that
The last verse of this song is the best piece of music EVER!
Imagine being a 16-year-old knucklehead in 1978 who had never heard much of Pink Floyd (yet), dropping acid for the very first time and listening to this album in a friends basement with all the lights off. We all just barely made it out of that experience without our minds being completely blown.
I was there. 😅
Me too.
Oh, to be 16 again✌️.
Shit will change you
Me in 2006 or so LOL
this is probably my favorite pink floyd album. either animals or wish you were here. both albums are flawless from start to finish.
Couldn't agree more. Those are my two favorite Pink Floyd albums as well. In fact my favorite albums of any artist.
Brothers! Ya’ll ought sit down and listen and experience the album “Animals” as a whole piece. Well worth your time as musicians and fans of music!
Cheers, guys!
"Animals" is Pink Floyd's MASTERPIECE ALBUM....and that's a huge statement. It's been my favorite Floyd album since 1977. ANIMALS FOREVER 😄
That final verse is great, every time, just great.
I'm 69 so thanks for taking me on that trip.. back into time. Cheers 🍻
Another great Floyd song that is longer and not played often is "Echoes". Hollywood, if you have never heard that one, that is another great option for a reaction video.
I love how Hollywood just KNOWS what's coming beat by beat even never having heard the song. He's learning and loving the band, and understanding what to expect from them. Dave sings the start of this song = melancholy about the situation, Roger sings the last half = bitterness about the life lead that's sadly ended.
I've listened to this work of art a thousand times & I still get goosebumps. So amazing!
My favorite album. My favorite song. Thanx for the reaction! ❤
o boy one of my fav album thx you guys reacting to this love how you guys cover all kind of music!!!!😎🤘👏
In my top 5 PF songs! I was 18 in 1973 when a friend of mine handed me the headphones and said "listen to this!" It was DSOTM. I listen to the entire album and was blown away. It changed my view of music forever.
Fucking masterpiece!!!! A really timeless experience!
My favorite track the solo always punches me in the chest
Everything about this journey and song is incredible 🤘🤘 love Floyd. I'd say do Run Like Hell next for a different vibe
❤this song!😊
Went to a party once, just after this was released and which split inadvertently into two rooms. There was the loud music, loud people in one and then there were about 10 of us in the other listening to this and other pink Floyd albms all night. We just sat there tripping away to the music all night and we had by far the better night of the two rooms
At 14:19 the whole track comes to a full stop and we are left in a "cold outside" ambience for four minutes, with howling dogs in a back yard. In terms of rhythm or melody, nothing happens for the next four minutes, its all ambience. I remember hearing the album for the first time around 1980 and it was simply amazing that they had dared to defy normal song structures in such a blunt way - I think today almost no major band would have dared to do something like that. When Roger Waters and his band played the song on the 2000 tour (preserved on an excellent DVD) they staged a mimed game of poker during this passage, because obviously most of the band had nothing at all to play for those four minutes, :)
I first bought this album on 8-Track so I could listen to it in the 1966 Rambler that I bought for $250…life and music was awesome back then…still is…Respect…
YEAH!! 🤘🏽🤘🏽 This whole album is f*cking amazing. I hope you continue with Pigs and Sheep. They're hard as a mf and every bit as great as this one.
I think as I get older Animals more and more becomes my favorite Floyd record and the one I play more than any other. This is the Floyd at the height of their powers. Killer Gilmour track with some of the TASTIEST guitar work you've ever heard, Waters dropping some INTENSE lyrical truth bombs, Mason with POWERFUL drumming and Wright holding it all together with synthy GOODNESS.
It's mostly David with the lead vocals, but the last bit is Waters.
I read this song as like you say someone buying into the corporate world and learning the ways to get ahead (and F over anyone around you) and then as they get older realizing that all of that hate and aggression they put out into the world will eat them from the inside out and they will die alone.
You gotta be crazy ....
Those last vocal lines "Who was born in a house full of pain" are just mindblowing, heartbreaking, sublime and devastating.
The lyrics in this song are among the best Roger ever wrote, and the guitar work is just soul crushingly beautiful.
After you've heard this song 100 times and you memorize every single detail, every single string bend, every single word, it will never, ever leave you, and thats what makes Pink Floyd a timeless band.
Great reaction dudes. Keep on going.
I’ve listened this song thousands of times in my life and it never dawned on me until just now that the final lyrics are about the subject failing to take responsibility for the miserable, selfish, depraved life he led. He claimed none of it was his fault because he was raised to be who he became. Not only that he was a good boy and did exactly what society told him to do. What a grave image to be “found dead on the phone”. To die alone having betrayed every single person he ever knew to the degree not one of them would answer his call.
Thank you rappers react for letting me see this song through your eyes.
H6 I didn't know this song either. Thanks for playing it
We used to trip ballz almost every weekend. This album always made the rotation...... What a fucking ride!!!🤩
Aminals and Ummagumma were my Floyd tripping albums. Miss those those.
" Floyd's one of the greatest bands ever."
Well surmised, my brother.
And you both are so correct on your comments on Pink Floyd's "take your time" manner of writing songs. As a teen of the 70's, I learned to slow my "fast paced brain" down partly by listening to -- and learning to listen BETTER to -- PF's albums. As well as the albums of Yes, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Jethro Tull , etc. Another great reaction, guys.
Keep on r'actin .
Oh -- don't fret it, Hollywood ... all true Pink Floyd fans , myself included, not only get where you are coming from, but we have BEEN where you're at ... rabid [ no pun intended ] Pink Floyd fans.
Pink Floyd is ahead of their time, this time, and all time!
David Gilmour shows more emotion in 1 note than most bands do in an entire album
My favorite Pink Floyd album. I listen to Dogs about once a week on the way to work (I'm actually listening to the whole album, but it's only a 20 min. drive). So cool to see others reacting to it for the first time!
I love how you guys really groove and feel the music. You're one of the few reaction channels that I've seen that really get into the music, physically.
from Wikipedia: Fitting into the album's Orwellian concept of comparing human behaviour to various animals, "Dogs" concentrates on the aggressive, ruthlessly competitive world of business, describing a high-powered businessman. The first two verses detail his predatory nature-outwardly charming and respectable with his "club tie and a firm handshake, a certain look in the eye and an easy smile", while behind this façade he lies waiting "to pick out the easy meat...to strike when the moment is right", and to stab those who trust him in the back. Subsequent verses portray the emptiness of his existence catching up to him as he grows older, retiring to the south rich but unloved: "just another sad old man, all alone and dying of cancer", and drowning under the weight of a metaphorical stone.
The final verse explores a number of aspects of business life and how it compares to dogs, for example taking chances and being "trained not to spit in the fan", losing their individuality ("broken by trained personnel"), obeying their superiors ("fitted with collar and chain"), being rewarded for good behaviour ("given a pat on the back"), working harder than the other workers ("breaking away from the pack") and getting to know everyone but spending less time with family ("only a stranger at home").
My first husband played this album constantly for months on end!
Its wonderful to hete you guys talking and loving pink Floyd as you say they are unique a one of an experience s journey thanks guys for your comments on one of yhe best bands in the world
Great to hear fellow Floydians experience one of their classics for the first time for 17 minutes! The good news is you will enjoy it even more the second time! If you haven't heard it yet you must check out the wistful "High Hopes" which is the last song from their last proper album. A fitting way to bow out.
Seeing this song live for the first time next month by the worlds best Pink Floyd cover band
That’s a shame.
Are you talking about the one from Australia? Their Name escapes me but if so they actually are very good, sometimes in life we have to settle for cover bands I hope you have a great time! Years ago a group I volunteered for did the phones on a PBS fundraiser event where they featured this band, that's how I heard of them and if it's the same one I actually was impressed by them😊 and if memory serves me correctly they have Pink Floyd's stamp of approval for putting on an excellent show up to their standards so don't let anyone make you feel bad for being excited to go and check it out, it's all about great music in the end✌
The "he was" chanting section is my favorite piece of music of all time.
The GOATs always include social commentary as a hallmark of their music. Pink Floyd is easily one of my favorite bands, up there with Rage Against the Machine.
Great reaction . Definitely in my top five Pink Floyd tracks this one. Always used to be very underrated song , In my opinion. These guys are absolute geniuses.
David Gilmour was the first rock artist to use the talk box, and he also is the master of taking 1-4 notes, and just touching your spine with each one. He has direct touch to his guitar neck and our expanse into nirvana.
Thx for this guys...I'm up late tonight...a real treat!
The album cover is Battersea power station, now a shopping complex.
Wikipedia:
Battersea Power Station is a decommissioned coal-fired power station located on the south bank of the River Thames in Nine Elms, Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It was built by the London Power Company (LPC) to the design of Leonard Pearce, Engineer in Chief to the LPC, and CS Allott & Son Engineers. The architects were J. Theo Halliday and Giles Gilbert Scott. The station is one of the world's largest brick buildings and notable for its original, Art Deco interior fittings and decor.
The iconic red telephone box was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, one of the architects.
Yes you nailed it about climbing that corporate ladder, and getting a pat on the back from your boss for being a good dog.
This whole album is full of great guitar work. Check out Pigs (Three Different Ones) and that solo at the end for some more
Morning guys! Pink Floyd is a trip upon a trip into a trip and beyond! Gotta love pink Floyd ❤️❤️❤️💯 loved seeing y'all enjoy yourselves enjoy your trip but also lost myself on my own,hard not to lol. We all went somewhere today lol🔥❤️💯🤓
I love Dark Side of the Moon, but I've found myself visiting Animals more over the years, that and Wish You Were Here. Along with The Wall, that is the big four of the genius that is known as the Floyd.
Great reaction gents!! My #1 off Animals (masterpiece of an album), and definitely in my top 5 Pink Floyd songs (Echoes being #1). Just LOVE this song! Dave's voice, guitar is sublime. Rick's keys - amazing, Roger's lyrics - on point!
Difficult to name many other bands that had a 3 (to 4 if you count The Wall) -album run of perfection!! Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, Animals - I could put any one of them on and be a very, VERY satisfied individual! Cheers.
Hollywood, you said Floyd's music is like watching a movie. There's a specific track called "echoes", idk if you guys have listened to yet or not, but that's one that I can see a story in my head when I listen to it. Would be really interested to discuss with you what you "saw" while listening to that track.
I really appreciate you guys, most haven't figured out that albums like Dark Side, Animals and The Wall are start to finish, songs blend one to another. The Wall is famous for the "blends" containing backround audio such as TV shows and movies, for example Gunsmoke, Gomer Pyle, the Battle of Britain, and others.
Quite simply one of the finest contemporary songs of the last century.
The big 4, DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, WISH YOU WERE HERE, ANIMALS and THE WALL are unmatched works of art. Ethereal, mysterious and aurally orgasmic (no, not orally, but pun intended)
Weird that they were all in the 70's
I've been knee deep in some of the heaviest mushroom trips you can imagine and this whole album is riding it's hard to comprehend what this song does when you your down the rabbit hole. It's amazing
At last! Before you reacted to this, my favourite Floyd song, you mentioned Sheep and the brilliant way the vocal extends into synth in exactly the same key, virtually indistinguishable. I'm glad you loved Dogs, it is a friggin' masterpiece. So many guitar styles from Gilmour.
Absolutely masterpiece ! And it never gets old . I still remember when I bought this album and Dark Side . I still get goosebumps .
Pink Floyd is an experience. Not simply music. It engages you completely. 💜🤘
Animals, in my opinion, is the PERFECT album. So glad to see you all reacting to this and I love your passion in the commentary. Keep up the great work, guys!
Animals. Best trip I ever had.
So the first time I saw Pink Floyd was when they toured the Animals album on 7/3/77 at MSG in NYC. They played all of Animals, all of Wish You Were Here and for the encore Money and Us and Them from The Dark Side of the Moon. A great laser and multi media show with a giant inflated Pig which moved around the arena, they blew my 16 year old mind up 🤯
Rush and Pink floyed are good friends..priceless.
Especially.alex lifeson and David gilmour
My favorite song on my favorite PF album. It never gets old and means more the older I get.
"Pigs (Three Different Ones)"
Thanks for the reaction. Floyd is medicine for what ails you. I listen to them every day.
Animals is my favorite Pink Floyd album. Saying that I love all Pink Floyd albums. They are my favorite group of all time. That is saying a lot because I am Canadian and a big Rush fan as well.
This was good to watch. Kudos for appreciating. This is top-tier best-ever Floyd. Many fans’ all-time favorite ❤
Nothing else has made me feel like listening to Pink Floyd. Most incredible music ever made. At this point in american history it's the only thing that makes me comfortably numb.
Wonderful to here you guys so appreciative of probably the best band in the world
You've just discovered a real masterpiece ❤ Thank you for sharing this moment with us ! Peace
Dark Side, Shine on, The Wall, Animals, Final Cut. all of them great
Loved your reaction video! Next song you guys should check out on the Animals is the song 'Pigs (Three Different Ones)'
If you react to Pigs (Three Different Ones) listen to the 2018 remix which brings the bass (played by Gilmour as well) and the drums to the front. Gilmour also plays through a Heil Talk Box and the outro solo is one of his best. A true master.
My favorite Floyd Album Masterpiece from start to finish!!! Great reaction and vibe guys!!!
Most people listen to Pink Floyd for the music. When you listen to the lyrics, IT GET SO MUCH DEEPER! And better!
Gilmores guitar work on Dogs is unworldly. It is supposed to sound like you are drowning 'dragged down by the stone' and that exactly what it purveys. I know people love his solo in Comfortably Numb but this is my personal favorite Gilmore song. I think it was Dave Mustain who said Gilmore can get more sound out of one note than most players get out of the whole fret board