Roger Waters despised "Mary Whitehouse" who was a morality hag in Britain in the 1970s who constantly condemned rock music, in much the same way Frank Zappa spoke out in Congress against the American version of Whitehouse, Tipper Gore and the PRMC ( Parents Music Resource Center) who sought to ban music based on lyrics.
this. they were talking about "Whitehouse", but not the American Whitehouse.. but, in the new version he's talking about trump. watch the live in mexico city. he's got trump pasted all over the place (anti trump). show his dick lol. smallest thing you've seen.
White House is referring to a woman in the UK named Mary Whitehouse... who tried to censure everything counter-culture in the UK/England... the pearl-clutching prude religious-right kind of person... that's why they say 'Mary you're really a treat' ... it's not about the US White House, but that's obviously a super-common misunderstanding.
Mary Whitehouse was an earlier UK version of Tipper Gore, to provide a US example, in that she wanted to promote censorship and ban anything she deemed offensive, same as what Tipper Gore and her cronies tried to do in the US in the late 80’s.
During the 2017 tour, he changed the meaning of the lyric. As soon as he sang that lyric, a big picture of the Whitehouse flashed on the backdrop. This was the anti-Trump tour
I'm 49 and listened to Pink Floyd since my school days. After Trump came along and ran for president, it dawned on me that "Mother" was a prediction. Very relevant imo.
Animal Farm by George Orwell was a banned book at my school, it's the first thing that made me question authority. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
@@himareiIm not gonna lie, I feel bad for anyone who feels as if they "got something" out of reading fiction about "totalitarianism" written by the snitching, racist, sexist, hitler-sympathizing antisemite Orwell. I am not normally one to bash on authors but god Orwell was really such an awful human being, just all around, nothing redeeming about him at all, not to mention the fact that Lenin, Marx and Engels all wrote wonderful works on the nature of authority and the state way before, especially Engels 'On Authority' and Lenin's 'State and Revolution'.
The meaning behind Animals :- Concept. Loosely based on George Orwell's political fable Animal Farm, the album's lyrics describe various classes in society as different kinds of animals: the predatory dogs, the despotic ruthless pigs, and the "mindless and unquestioning” herd of sheep.
Thank you for listening to this song Aileen, it´s the first time i hear it after... well i´ll tell you my story. I had a friend, pretty older than me, i was a teen and this guy already had two kids, he kinda introduced me to a world of music, bands like Van Halen and, well, Pink Floyd. Fast forward many years, his kids grew up and i started playing music with them. My friend, their dad, was so happy because he basically had his own band. He was the one who bought me my first drum kit. We played Pink Floyd a lot, and Pigs was the most difficult song we mastered. Playing that song with them was so special, and i, while playing, always looked at him to get feedback, and he was flying in bliss. Well, he got ill, and sadly, he passed away some months ago. We never played together again. Listening the song with you brought me all those memories, it´s sad but also i am so happy to have lived that with my friend David. Thanks.
Love the emotions you show verbally and non-verbally. I saw Pink Floyd live on the Animals tour and it was incredible! It was outside in a stadium and I was right up against the stage in front of David Gilmour. The most incredible guitar work I have seen live. This was in 1977 and I was 17. I still get chills thinking about it!
"Halfway through the song, David Gilmour uses a Heil talk box on the guitar solo to mimic the sound of pigs. This is the first use of a talk box by Pink Floyd" - wikipedia
This is Floyd's take on famous author George Orwell's "Animal Farm", which compares farm animals (pigs, dogs, sheep, etc.) to humans and their politics. Orwell also wrote the dystopian classic "1984".
I’ve only ever heard a handful of Pink Floyd songs and this is one I’ve never listened to before!! So glad I get to listen along with you in this reaction 🙂↕️🖤
This song, as well as the whole Animals album, is very raw and political, Roger Waters response to the rise of punk rock and was inspired by Animal Farm
Mary Whitehouse headed "The viewers and listeners association" they constantly complained about media that they felt was outside their own moral compass. FWIW for many years I worked near the building on the album art, it is Battersea Power Station, London, beside the Thames. Famously the pig balloon did escape, and ran into some barbed wire. The power station is now a swanky shopping mall retaining the exterior. Comically Whitehouse campaigned successfully to get Alice Cooper's "Schools Out" banned from the BBC, he subsequently sent her a bunch of flowers for helping it to reach number 1.
Great reaction Aileen the lyrics are purely political by Roger. In Pink Floyd's song "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" from their album Animals, the pigs represent the wealthy and powerful people at the top of society who manipulate the rest of society to remain in power. The song's three verses each address a different pig, with the first verse directed at the pigs who supervise the work that feeds their gluttony. The second verse criticizes the conservative government, particularly Margaret Thatcher, a British politician who is often considered Ronald Reagan's counterpart. The song also suggests that the pigs encourage society to be competitive and cut-throat. Love what you are doing keep up the phenomenal job.
Yes - Waters - like a proper socialist - hated Thatcher, but in this case he wasn't referring to her. His hatred of Thatcher only emerged during the Falklands War. In this song, he's referring to Mary Whitehouse...
Not Thatcher. Too early. Roger was writing this in 1976. Thatcher did not become PM in the Uk until 1979 and it was in the 1980s that she developed the difficult reputation that could retrospectively be applied to this verse. When the album was released in the UK in 1977 no one associated Margaret Thatcher with this verse. I remember.
Roger Waters - lead and harmony vocals, rhythm guitar, tape effects, vocoder David Gilmour - lead guitar, bass guitar, talk box Richard Wright - Hammond organ, ARP String Synthesizer, grand piano, clavinet Nick Mason - drums, cowbell
Animals is a very underrated album and largely unknown outside of die hard Floydians, sitting as it does between two giant albums Wish You Were Here, and The Wall. But it stands up well since 1977. No bad music on it!
Out of all their big albums released through the 70s. and DSOTM being most meaningful to me. Animals is easily my favorite. As said by others it is easily overlooked. Mainly due to the lack of radio airtime. PS: Rumour has it (I say as im not 100%) the record executives hounded them for more songs for radio play after the success of DSOTM, WYWH etc. The band in retaliation made this album, it only has 5 tracks that are too short or too long for the radio. Basically their way to say "Stuff it, Pigs" lol
I'm 53 and grew up listening to this, I feel a sense of loss for your never having heard it. Go find some old Pink Floyd albums and immerse yourself, you'll feel like a better person afterwards.
It was much better live ,with the wind blowing in off the ocean ,holy shit I remember it like It was yesterday, WOW ,thank you Aileen for bringing back some awesome memories ❤😊💕
Aileen, at this moment you are my second favourite reactor on UA-cam. Don't ask that question! You picked up on most of the lyrics and their meaning quickly. One thing you did not understand was "Hey you, Whitehouse". It does not mean that house in Washington DC. Here in Britain, some years ago there was a woman who was, to say the least, very prim and proper. She wanted to control everything we did and said and only expected everyone to live a strangely clean life, just like hers. I am now quoting the line from the song: "You try to keep our feelings off the street...". She expected everyone to conform to her own super clean image. Thankfully, she's gone now. Most people scorned her, but she just thought her way of thinking was the only one. A very sad person... her name was Mary Whitehouse.
This has been my fave Floyd album since the day it inspired me as a child to become a musician. But I never knew Gilmour (as a guitarist for 4 decades now myself, he's still one of my 5 fave guitarists) played bass on this album. Thanks for mentioning that. 😊
@@NeonNights80 To each his own. Gilmore brings a lot to the band, obviously. However, if you're a true Floyd fan, you have to recognize that Waters brings most of the edge to the band (besides Gilmore's edgy guitar). Waters wrote most of the songs, lyrically, and is an absolute genius. All the concept albums are Water's concepts. It's another thing like Lennon and McCartney. The Yin and Yang of Floyd. After Waters left the band, Floyd did some great music, but they lost their edge.
Pink Floyd are not only playing guitar, bass, keyboards and drums, the are creating works, sending statements wrapped in musical masterpieces. It's a great pleasure to follow your enthusiastic and appropriate reviews, Aileen, and to witness your smile brightening when the bass sets in ... 😘
Pink Floyd was able to create music without any restrictions or rules. They didn't use the familiar blueprints of the industry. They are truly the birth of modern Progressive Rock. They delivered truly inspiring art both sonically and visually to give the listeners a much deeper experience. Many tried to do this...Pink Floyd did it with ease. Animals is fabulous! Dogs is the real banger in my opinion. Cant wait!!! Much love!!❤
The pig over the factory is an inside joke. They had a pig balloon made for a show and it blew away never to be seen again. So it makes an appearance now and again in the artwork.
The pig blimp should have been shot down by a marksman who turned up the first day it was due to fly, over the famous London landmark Battersea Power Station. Just a photoshoot for the album cover, not a stage prop. But the pig didn't fly. On the second day it did fly, and they got the photos. But the marksman didn't come back. The pig blimp broke free and drifted off with the winds. It was spotted by airline pilots at 20,000ft who reported it and were suspected of seeing things/flying under the influence. Eventually the pig came down over Kent, south east of London. The pig was made in Germany, so some wit said when it broke free and left London eastwards, that it was a 'homing pig' 😂 Thus the legend of Pink Floyd and flying pigs was born. From that tour that year and on, they had flying pigs (blimps) at their shows.
I went to this concert "Pink Floyd Animals" at Tampa Stadium, Tampa, Fla. They had speakers on all four sides of the stadium and the ticket said, " An Evening of Sight and Sound with Pink Floyd". 😎 They also had a big pig floating over the stage, Plus the world biggest chrome ball bearing was their too, hanging over the stadium!
Lol. Your mind does move a million miles per hour but that's a good thing. You get it. Pink Floyd's music is designed to be thought provoking. This album was based on the book "Animal Farm" by George Orwell. (He also wrote the book 1984.) Both books worth a read. Gilmour was using a talk box on this song. It's a device that connects the guitar to your mouth with a rubber tube. Love this album.
Thing about this music its like you dont just hear the music you feel it you see it and you really feel like you experience it ... pink floyd was magic ...
"Hey you, Whitehouse" is refering to Mary Whitehouse who was a "Morality Officer" in England, not "The Whitehouse" in the US. However, if the lyrics stick then it must be a pig. ========= Yea, I edited it. For some reason I crossed Amy Winehouse with Mary Whitehouse = Amy Whitehouse. Hey, it's old age so don't be judgemental. 60 years of trivia gets jumbled sometimes. Point still stands, Pigs are Pigs. "If you didn't care what happened to me And I didn't care for you We would zigzag our way through the boredom and pain Occasionally glancing up through the rain Wondering which of the buggers to blame And watching for pigs on the wing,"
@@milesbrown68 : Mary, not Amy, not Barbara. She was a Conservative "Morality Officer" in England, who in particular opposed people having sexual Freedom.
I don’t know the “White House or Whitehouse reference isn’t much different with today’s communist party running the country today, Biden/Harris are the new communist regime and that’s why the country is in the shit it is in now. When leaders can’t lead they push blame and that’s what these two clowns are doing and the media is in full force behind them. They want big government and Donald Trump doesn’t, so socialist Democrats get out of your own way and stop blaming Republicans for your problems. You are the problem. Case closed!
Pink Floyd are legends,they are sync rock,the inspiration for experimental music for disco to house to trance & more, gotta love them for that,love your reaction so cute 😊🤘
Hey flower, They are singing about Mary Whitehouse she was a British Christian moral campaigner who came to prominence in the 70s. who was constantly trying to "clean up" British TV and British media, and the Haa Haa Haaa on the track was originally swear words but had to be cut out. 👍
Great reaction piecing things together. I saw them live in April 1975 at the Cow Palace in San Francisco and 2 years later on the Animals Tour in Oakland at the Oakland Coliseum Arena. They played this entire album and Dark Side Of The Moon, and were at their peak at this show according to many music critics. At the 75 concert they played the entire Dark SIde of the Moon album along with the entire Echoes Album and their new album Wish You Were Here. Incredible
The second stanza refers to Margaret Thatcher and the third refers to Mary Whitehouse, who didn't like their music amongst others. She tried to get My Ding-a-ling banned from radio.
My 3 favourite PF albums are Animals - The Wall - and The Final Cut......love watching your reactions your face is so beautiful........BUT you neeeeed to listen to all of the album...it's a masterpiece, and so are the other 2 I mentioned earlier
In all the times I’ve listened to this I’ve never noticed how great Roger’s bass intro is. Right before it kicks into the more obviously funky section, he hits a note, sustains it, then slowly slides the pitch down to the end of the bar and hits another note, repeats. He’s underrated as a bassist; Pink Floyd are so well known for their spaciness but no one talks about the grooves they put down, like in Pigs.
Mary Whitehouse used to go on national t.v ,usually chat shows, and have a moan about films that showed nudity ,bad language and violence, she was the moral compass of the 70's ,early 80's for us brits. I remember when vhs recorders first came out and everyone used to go to get films out for the weekend, from an early version of blockbusters, most of the top films were hard to get, so there was an influx of B movies which usually had a lot of soft porn and graphic violence in them. Good for us being teenagers but not good for Mary Whitehouse 😂
Hi Aileen 😊 An absolute masterpiece of a reaction to Pink Floyd's Pigs 😊👍 I've read all the comments and everyone has filled you in beautifully 😊👍 You laid the foundation, put up the framework and they help you finish the job and the story is complete 😊👍 All the way back with Comfortably Numb, you quickly learned how to approach Pink Floyd and grown to love them as much as we do. People need to listen to your playlist in order to understand you. They need to understand that you take each Pink Floyd song very analytically, philosophically and thoughtfully. You emphasize to people that they need to listen and allow the music to overcome you. Then and only then are you able to experience what the band made the music to be. To be whisked away into the universe that they have created. A couple very beautiful comments have suggested that after you listen to Pigs, Dogs and Sheep to re-listen to the album in its entirety, as you have said to. There are a pair of small songs as bookends call Pigs on the Wing. Part one is at the beginning of the album and part two is at the end of the album, where each is 1 minute and 24 seconds long. The album is 41 minutes and 40 seconds long. That will be completely up to you to react. All of the recommendations in the comments are fabulous and I look forward to your reactions to them. I wanted to let you know David Gilmour has a new album out and is releasing videos off the album and is touring. I will drop the links in Patreon. Have a great day you and Arya with much love 😊👍💪❤️
I saw this tour for this album, what a mind blowing experience. I was going to San Francisco State, and hanging with two my friends from Berkley , one was micro biologist, and we took some LSD for the concert.
Mary Whitehouse was an ultra right Christian political leader in England. She was highly homophonic and I believe anti- immigrant. Most people that embrace those phobias are timid at heart.
She wasn't a leader of anything except a TV 'watchdog' that she set up. She was a 'moral' campaigner always complaining about TV being too sexual. She was also a very conservative Christian who felt that standards in the 1970s were degrading, particularly on TV. She didn't seem to like anything.
Awesome, saw him 4 times with Floyd (twice in the 70s with Waters still in the band) and twice solo, you are in for the treat of a lifetime! Top 3 Guitar player in my lifetime with Hendrix and Page. He was the best I ever saw live. Enjoy! 🎸
@@vicprovost2561, I saw him with the Momentary Lapse of Reason tour and Pulse tour but never solo. I’m excited to see what the set list is going to be.
Dont forget the 2 parts of 'Pigs on the Wing' that start and finish this album. They have lyrics worth a listen too, and its short and sweet. In the 80s i recorded both parts back to back on tape to jam along with on guitar. Its cool to sing both parts as one song. Still meaning to learn the entire guitar parts for 'Dogs', but its a big project. Currently im working on 'Coming back to life' of the Division Bell album. Been 2 weeks and i have tge 1st solo down ok-ish, but 2 fast runs still trip me up. The Chords are beginner easy. Next week i start on the 2nd solo. Tgen the 3rd maybe around xmas. Such a musical masterpiece. 'Dogs' and 'The Blue' maybe in the next 2 years.
This was the first Pink Floyd album I bought the day it was released in 1977. I was 15 at the time. I bought the LP to play at home and the 8-track to play in my car. Little did I know until I listened to the 8-track, it had an extended version of Pigs (Three Different Ones) due to the continuous play format of 8-track tapes. It had a guitar solo by Snowy White (he often toured with the band) on it. You can find that extended version on UA-cam for those that are interested.
This album is epic, and usually unknown by non-fans. But it's one of their best! I love the different music elements in this one, really kinda spacey and mysterious but also funky and in your face. NO ONE is like Pink Floyd
My favorite Pink Floyd album. Good job breaking it down, You're understanding their meaning and intention for sure! Love hearing your thoughts. It's been so long since I heard these albums for the first time, so nice to hear someone just being exposed to Roger Waters and Pink Floyd
The building on the cover is Battersea power station. The wind got up and it broke the lines and it went flying off causing no end of problems for Heathrow Airport as it was floating around the flight path. It was finally shot down over Kent. You should listen to Dogs from the same album, which was performed three years earlier as ‘You got to be crazy’ on the Deluxe Experience version of Wish You Were Here.
Wikipedia: Constance Mary Whitehouse CBE (née Hutcheson; 13 June 1910 - 23 November 2001)[2] was a British teacher and conservative activist. She campaigned against social liberalism and the mainstream British media, both of which she accused of encouraging a more permissive society.
Album's 3 components: blood thirsty corporate businessmen. Politicians and self proclaimed public opinion "controllers." And the sheeple who do what they're told obliviously. Until they don't. BTW, the 2nd pig specifically is Maggie Thatcher. And the 3rd pig is Mary Whitehouse. Look them up to see why they annoyed Roger.
Yes !! Looking forward to this reaction. Your Pink Floyd journey is also a journey for your subscribers. And a delightful one, at that. While this song is incredible, Dogs is beyond words. I believe you have already reacted to it. Dogs may well be the best song in R&R history. I say that with tongue loosely in cheek, because it dang well may be . Edit : I guess you haven't reacted to Dogs yet. Cool . I don't know if it is just me, but this track sounded different than the original album version. The pig snorts were subdued and almost inaudible in parts. But this could be me.
This song shows everyone just who they are. Waters on the bass. Gilmour on that beautiful guitar. Nick on the drums. And Richard on the keyboards. They were all such great musicians. It’s so sad how it all went down in the end. ❤️😔
Pink Floyd is epic cerebral and aural genius. They are unique in their ability to create sonic and cerebral landscapes of great depth and breadth. Consider Dark Side of the Moon that is the 4th best selling album of all time and was on the Billboard Charts for 778 weeks, 14 years. Amazing
Animals is a concept album that focuses on the sociopolitical conditions of mid-1970s Britain, the album's lyrics describe various classes in society as different kinds of animals: the predatory dogs, the despotic ruthless pigs, and the "mindless and unquestioning” herd of sheep. The album is inspired by a book "Animal Farm" a satirical allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England 1945. It tells the story of a group of anthropomorphic farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, the rebellion is betrayed, and under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon, the farm ends up in a state far worse than before. Whereas the novella focuses on Stalinism, the album is a critique of capitalism and differs again in that the sheep eventually rise up to overpower the dogs.
I’ve watched your other videos where you reacted to Pink Floyd songs. One song I would highly recommend taking a look at is ‘Us and Then’ from ‘The Dark Side of the Moon.’ It’s a spectacular song. You won’t regret it.
Roger Waters despised "Mary Whitehouse" who was a morality hag in Britain in the 1970s who constantly condemned rock music, in much the same way Frank Zappa spoke out in Congress against the American version of Whitehouse, Tipper Gore and the PRMC ( Parents Music Resource Center) who sought to ban music based on lyrics.
I still remember Dee Snider from Twisted Sister running circles around the Senators at the PRMC hearings and absolutely burying Tipper Gore".
@@larrybremer4930while sitting next to John Denver of all people
this. they were talking about "Whitehouse", but not the American Whitehouse.. but, in the new version he's talking about trump. watch the live in mexico city. he's got trump pasted all over the place (anti trump). show his dick lol. smallest thing you've seen.
@@larrybremer4930 Dee mentioned his "vast collection of cartoons" LOL. I loved that.
@@chadengert7786 Donny Osmond was involved too. He and John were concerned that they would be lowered to a "G" rating, haha.
The Album is loosely based on the book "Animal Farm"
Waters voice is so crazy. Such a difference from the beautiful Gilmour voice. Both complement each other so well on songs & albums.
Don't forget about Rick Wright's voice in there. Echoes, etc.
Gilmour has a more soothing and gentler voice. Roger’s is more dramatic/expressive.
PF also used some sort of signal processing (maybe flanging) in parts to give Roger's voice an other-worldly sound.
Yeah his screams of desperation on both The Wall and The Final Cut are incredible to listen to
Pink Floyd isn’t just a band. They’re an experience 🎸🔥🤘🏻
YES! And that's why one needs to listen to the ENTIRE album in one setting! 💯💯👍👍
White House is referring to a woman in the UK named Mary Whitehouse... who tried to censure everything counter-culture in the UK/England... the pearl-clutching prude religious-right kind of person... that's why they say 'Mary you're really a treat' ... it's not about the US White House, but that's obviously a super-common misunderstanding.
Mary Whitehouse was an earlier UK version of Tipper Gore, to provide a US example, in that she wanted to promote censorship and ban anything she deemed offensive, same as what Tipper Gore and her cronies tried to do in the US in the late 80’s.
Its happening now.
@@stephengiannone5449 absolutely!
During the 2017 tour, he changed the meaning of the lyric. As soon as he sang that lyric, a big picture of the Whitehouse flashed on the backdrop. This was the anti-Trump tour
@cggg5089
You specifically mean Roger Waters,,,
Us + Them Tour. 😏
Pigs in charge. Dogs work for the Pigs, their job, keeping the sheep in line. Sound familiar?
More so than ever
I'm 49 and listened to Pink Floyd since my school days. After Trump came along and ran for president, it dawned on me that "Mother" was a prediction. Very relevant imo.
Animal Farm by George Orwell was a banned book at my school, it's the first thing that made me question authority. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
that's right
@@himareiIm not gonna lie, I feel bad for anyone who feels as if they "got something" out of reading fiction about "totalitarianism" written by the snitching, racist, sexist, hitler-sympathizing antisemite Orwell. I am not normally one to bash on authors but god Orwell was really such an awful human being, just all around, nothing redeeming about him at all, not to mention the fact that Lenin, Marx and Engels all wrote wonderful works on the nature of authority and the state way before, especially Engels 'On Authority' and Lenin's 'State and Revolution'.
The meaning behind Animals :- Concept. Loosely based on George Orwell's political fable Animal Farm, the album's lyrics describe various classes in society as different kinds of animals: the predatory dogs, the despotic ruthless pigs, and the "mindless and unquestioning” herd of sheep.
Eric Cartman on South Park has referenced "Ha Ha Charade You Are" several times on the show, causing me to laugh my ass off.
Someone mentioned this in a reaction I saw last week.
LOVE South Park, haha!
Ha ha, charade you are, Scott Tennerman
Thank you for listening to this song Aileen, it´s the first time i hear it after... well i´ll tell you my story. I had a friend, pretty older than me, i was a teen and this guy already had two kids, he kinda introduced me to a world of music, bands like Van Halen and, well, Pink Floyd. Fast forward many years, his kids grew up and i started playing music with them. My friend, their dad, was so happy because he basically had his own band. He was the one who bought me my first drum kit. We played Pink Floyd a lot, and Pigs was the most difficult song we mastered. Playing that song with them was so special, and i, while playing, always looked at him to get feedback, and he was flying in bliss. Well, he got ill, and sadly, he passed away some months ago. We never played together again. Listening the song with you brought me all those memories, it´s sad but also i am so happy to have lived that with my friend David. Thanks.
Love the emotions you show verbally and non-verbally. I saw Pink Floyd live on the Animals tour and it was incredible! It was outside in a stadium and I was right up against the stage in front of David Gilmour. The most incredible guitar work I have seen live. This was in 1977 and I was 17. I still get chills thinking about it!
"Halfway through the song, David Gilmour uses a Heil talk box on the guitar solo to mimic the sound of pigs.
This is the first use of a talk box by Pink Floyd" - wikipedia
David used it minimally on this song. He really goes with it on "Keep Talking".
Animals my favorite album from floyd
This is Floyd's take on famous author George Orwell's "Animal Farm", which compares farm animals (pigs, dogs, sheep, etc.) to humans and their politics. Orwell also wrote the dystopian classic "1984".
I’ve only ever heard a handful of Pink Floyd songs and this is one I’ve never listened to before!! So glad I get to listen along with you in this reaction 🙂↕️🖤
This song, as well as the whole Animals album, is very raw and political, Roger Waters response to the rise of punk rock and was inspired by Animal Farm
Glad for the renewed interest in Pink Floyd, but please do a react on "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and "Hey You". Thank you!
Mary Whitehouse headed "The viewers and listeners association" they constantly complained about media that they felt was outside their own moral compass. FWIW for many years I worked near the building on the album art, it is Battersea Power Station, London, beside the Thames. Famously the pig balloon did escape, and ran into some barbed wire. The power station is now a swanky shopping mall retaining the exterior. Comically Whitehouse campaigned successfully to get Alice Cooper's "Schools Out" banned from the BBC, he subsequently sent her a bunch of flowers for helping it to reach number 1.
Great reaction Aileen the lyrics are purely political by Roger. In Pink Floyd's song "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" from their album Animals, the pigs represent the wealthy and powerful people at the top of society who manipulate the rest of society to remain in power. The song's three verses each address a different pig, with the first verse directed at the pigs who supervise the work that feeds their gluttony. The second verse criticizes the conservative government, particularly Margaret Thatcher, a British politician who is often considered Ronald Reagan's counterpart. The song also suggests that the pigs encourage society to be competitive and cut-throat. Love what you are doing keep up the phenomenal job.
The problem with it referring to Thatcher is, she didn't come to power until 2 years AFTER the album was released.
@@doomhunter697 true but she still was a very viable conservative spokeswoman 1975 until she was prime minister in 1979.
@@doomhunter697 correctamungo he's referring to Mary Whitehouse not Thatcher
Yes - Waters - like a proper socialist - hated Thatcher, but in this case he wasn't referring to her. His hatred of Thatcher only emerged during the Falklands War. In this song, he's referring to Mary Whitehouse...
Not Thatcher. Too early. Roger was writing this in 1976. Thatcher did not become PM in the Uk until 1979 and it was in the 1980s that she developed the difficult reputation that could retrospectively be applied to this verse. When the album was released in the UK in 1977 no one associated Margaret Thatcher with this verse. I remember.
Roger Waters - lead and harmony vocals, rhythm guitar, tape effects, vocoder
David Gilmour - lead guitar, bass guitar, talk box
Richard Wright - Hammond organ, ARP String Synthesizer, grand piano, clavinet
Nick Mason - drums, cowbell
"Dogs" is really long, but the best lyrics.
P.S. I need more cowbell
I'll let Christopher Walken and Will Ferrell know that. 🤣✌️
I'm 53 and have never heard this song before. I'm shocked! I love it. Thank you Aileen for doing these videos, your very good at it,
Animals is a very underrated album and largely unknown outside of die hard Floydians, sitting as it does between two giant albums Wish You Were Here, and The Wall. But it stands up well since 1977. No bad music on it!
Out of all their big albums released through the 70s. and DSOTM being most meaningful to me. Animals is easily my favorite.
As said by others it is easily overlooked. Mainly due to the lack of radio airtime.
PS: Rumour has it (I say as im not 100%) the record executives hounded them for more songs for radio play after the success of DSOTM, WYWH etc. The band in retaliation made this album, it only has 5 tracks that are too short or too long for the radio. Basically their way to say "Stuff it, Pigs" lol
I'm 53 and grew up listening to this, I feel a sense of loss for your never having heard it. Go find some old Pink Floyd albums and immerse yourself, you'll feel like a better person afterwards.
You didn't hang out with the right people. 😎
buy the album and listen from first song to last. My favorite PF album of all time. such a masterpiece.
It was much better live ,with the wind blowing in off the ocean ,holy shit I remember it like It was yesterday, WOW ,thank you Aileen for bringing back some awesome memories ❤😊💕
Aileen, at this moment you are my second favourite reactor on UA-cam. Don't ask that question! You picked up on most of the lyrics and their meaning quickly. One thing you did not understand was "Hey you, Whitehouse". It does not mean that house in Washington DC. Here in Britain, some years ago there was a woman who was, to say the least, very prim and proper. She wanted to control everything we did and said and only expected everyone to live a strangely clean life, just like hers. I am now quoting the line from the song: "You try to keep our feelings off the street...". She expected everyone to conform to her own super clean image. Thankfully, she's gone now. Most people scorned her, but she just thought her way of thinking was the only one. A very sad person... her name was Mary Whitehouse.
I was at this Tour in Boston, 1977...I was 14, Captivated by Floyd before, and since
I was at the show in the old Cleveland Municipal stadium June 25th 1977. EPIC SHOW!!!
Always loved your facial expressions. You seem to be getting the lyrics correctly. So proud of you girl.
Don’t let too much time go before Dogs, so you don’t forget about these feelings Pigs gave you.
The bass is extra tasty in this one because Gilmour is playing it.
This has been my fave Floyd album since the day it inspired me as a child to become a musician.
But I never knew Gilmour (as a guitarist for 4 decades now myself, he's still one of my 5 fave guitarists) played bass on this album. Thanks for mentioning that. 😊
Nothing against Waters, but most things I like about Pink Floyd have to do with David Gilmore.
Isn’t it a fretless bass? That’s why David played it and not Roger
And that finale with the bass. Walking up and down. Straight fire.
@@MegaForrestgumpcorrect, it is
@@NeonNights80 To each his own. Gilmore brings a lot to the band, obviously. However, if you're a true Floyd fan, you have to recognize that Waters brings most of the edge to the band (besides Gilmore's edgy guitar). Waters wrote most of the songs, lyrically, and is an absolute genius. All the concept albums are Water's concepts. It's another thing like Lennon and McCartney. The Yin and Yang of Floyd. After Waters left the band, Floyd did some great music, but they lost their edge.
I love this song so much. Pink Floyd are such masters at thought provoking music. Again loving your reaction Aileen
Pink Floyd are not only playing guitar, bass, keyboards and drums, the are creating works, sending statements wrapped in musical masterpieces.
It's a great pleasure to follow your enthusiastic and appropriate reviews, Aileen, and to witness your smile brightening when the bass sets in ... 😘
Pink Floyd was able to create music without any restrictions or rules. They didn't use the familiar blueprints of the industry. They are truly the birth of modern Progressive Rock. They delivered truly inspiring art both sonically and visually to give the listeners a much deeper experience. Many tried to do this...Pink Floyd did it with ease. Animals is fabulous! Dogs is the real banger in my opinion. Cant wait!!! Much love!!❤
The pig over the factory is an inside joke. They had a pig balloon made for a show and it blew away never to be seen again. So it makes an appearance now and again in the artwork.
The pig blimp should have been shot down by a marksman who turned up the first day it was due to fly, over the famous London landmark Battersea Power Station. Just a photoshoot for the album cover, not a stage prop.
But the pig didn't fly.
On the second day it did fly, and they got the photos. But the marksman didn't come back.
The pig blimp broke free and drifted off with the winds.
It was spotted by airline pilots at 20,000ft who reported it and were suspected of seeing things/flying under the influence.
Eventually the pig came down over Kent, south east of London.
The pig was made in Germany, so some wit said when it broke free and left London eastwards, that it was a 'homing pig' 😂
Thus the legend of Pink Floyd and flying pigs was born.
From that tour that year and on, they had flying pigs (blimps) at their shows.
your take on this is excellent, and embodies pure Americana
this song gets it, and you get it
And has nothing to do with “Americana”??? WTF???
Aileen gets it for sure, not sure you do with that statement!
Haven't heard this song in at least 40 years. Can't go wrong with classic Pink Floyd. 👍
BTW - I like bacon & sausage ... ribs too. 😋
Congrats on emerging from your 40 year coma!
You totally should do "Dogs" next! I love the solos in that one and fun fact, the "barking" in that song is Gilmour's guitar.
This album is a bonafide masterpiece. There's no way they came up with all this by themselves without some divine intervention from elsewhere.
yup, I agree... its called narcotics. LOL
@@Turbobrat_Motorsports😂😂😂
It's called George Orwell's Animal Farm; featuring All 3 Animals mentioned on the album. Pigs, Dogs, Sheep 🤨
Waters Creation. Genius.
@@gilbertgranby9339George Orwell didn't come up with the lyrics, singing, arrangements or music though
I went to this concert "Pink Floyd Animals" at Tampa Stadium, Tampa, Fla. They had speakers on all four sides of the stadium and the ticket said, " An Evening of Sight and Sound with Pink Floyd". 😎 They also had a big pig floating over the stage, Plus the world biggest chrome ball bearing was their too, hanging over the stadium!
It's amazing how quickly Aileen picks up things. I can listen to a song dozens of times and still not know the meaning of it.
Lol. Your mind does move a million miles per hour but that's a good thing. You get it. Pink Floyd's music is designed to be thought provoking.
This album was based on the book "Animal Farm" by George Orwell. (He also wrote the book 1984.) Both books worth a read.
Gilmour was using a talk box on this song. It's a device that connects the guitar to your mouth with a rubber tube. Love this album.
You make what's already an amazing song even better with your reactions 😊😊❤
My dear Aileen 😍 love it when you do Pink Floyd 👌🏼
The outro guitar solo is blisteringly good
The piggy solo in the middle was Gilmour on a talk box
Thing about this music its like you dont just hear the music you feel it you see it and you really feel like you experience it ... pink floyd was magic ...
"Hey you, Whitehouse" is refering to Mary Whitehouse who was a "Morality Officer" in England, not "The Whitehouse" in the US. However, if the lyrics stick then it must be a pig.
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Yea, I edited it. For some reason I crossed Amy Winehouse with Mary Whitehouse = Amy Whitehouse.
Hey, it's old age so don't be judgemental. 60 years of trivia gets jumbled sometimes.
Point still stands, Pigs are Pigs.
"If you didn't care what happened to me
And I didn't care for you
We would zigzag our way through the boredom and pain
Occasionally glancing up through the rain
Wondering which of the buggers to blame
And watching for pigs on the wing,"
Mary Whitehouse....not Amy
Mary..Mary you're really a treat.
Sorry, maybe it was "Mary" Whitehouse. ANyway...
"Mary your nearly a treat."
@@milesbrown68 : Mary, not Amy, not Barbara.
She was a Conservative "Morality Officer" in England, who in particular opposed people having sexual Freedom.
I don’t know the “White House or Whitehouse reference isn’t much different with today’s communist party running the country today, Biden/Harris are the new communist regime and that’s why the country is in the shit it is in now. When leaders can’t lead they push blame and that’s what these two clowns are doing and the media is in full force behind them. They want big government and Donald Trump doesn’t, so socialist Democrats get out of your own way and stop blaming Republicans for your problems. You are the problem. Case closed!
Pink Floyd are legends,they are sync rock,the inspiration for experimental music for disco to house to trance & more, gotta love them for that,love your reaction so cute 😊🤘
I’m always impressed with how much you get in touch with your inner Floyd Eileen. You’re a credit to the job you do ❤
Hey flower, They are singing about Mary Whitehouse she was a British Christian moral campaigner who came to prominence in the 70s. who was constantly trying to "clean up" British TV and British media, and the Haa Haa Haaa on the track was originally swear words but had to be cut out. 👍
One of favorite Floyd albums
Great reaction piecing things together. I saw them live in April 1975 at the Cow Palace in San Francisco and 2 years later on the Animals Tour in Oakland at the Oakland Coliseum Arena. They played this entire album and Dark Side Of The Moon, and were at their peak at this show according to many music critics. At the 75 concert they played the entire Dark SIde of the Moon album along with the entire Echoes Album and their new album Wish You Were Here. Incredible
The second stanza refers to Margaret Thatcher and the third refers to Mary Whitehouse, who didn't like their music amongst others. She tried to get My Ding-a-ling banned from radio.
My 3 favourite PF albums are Animals - The Wall - and The Final Cut......love watching your reactions your face is so beautiful........BUT you neeeeed to listen to all of the album...it's a masterpiece, and so are the other 2 I mentioned earlier
Final Cut is a underrated masterpiece.
@@glynjones2587 very underrated, its superb from first second to last
the bass riff at the end of the song is so good, the whole last part of the song is proto metal.
Never heard it called that before.
Keep em coming. Lots more out there
The outro solo is stupendous and very underrated
you should listen to it on the live at fort worth 77
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the outro is godly
I love how it carries on right through the fade out like the guitarist could have carried on for ever and didn't care that the song was ending.
In all the times I’ve listened to this I’ve never noticed how great Roger’s bass intro is. Right before it kicks into the more obviously funky section, he hits a note, sustains it, then slowly slides the pitch down to the end of the bar and hits another note, repeats. He’s underrated as a bassist; Pink Floyd are so well known for their spaciness but no one talks about the grooves they put down, like in Pigs.
The bass in this song was actually played by David Gilmour.
@@stephencrowley3939seriously? Wow. That explains the beautiful economy of notes!
Thank you for playing my suggestion !!!!
My all-time favorite Pink Floyd album
Awesome reaction Aileen! cant wait for Dogs. either way still a Great Album!
Thanks
Mary Whitehouse used to go on national t.v ,usually chat shows, and have a moan about films that showed nudity ,bad language and violence, she was the moral compass of the 70's ,early 80's for us brits. I remember when vhs recorders first came out and everyone used to go to get films out for the weekend, from an early version of blockbusters, most of the top films were hard to get, so there was an influx of B movies which usually had a lot of soft porn and graphic violence in them. Good for us being teenagers but not good for Mary Whitehouse 😂
Great reaction Aileen love you thoughs on it can't wait for the next ones hope you are having a great day ❤
Re-read Animal Farm just a few weeks ago. Man, that book hits hard - and so does the music after a read.
Great analysis. You get it. The rest of the album is just as good or better.
Nice and beautiful to have you back on the Floyd wave!😊
Roger waters had said its about a few politicians
Aileen, you're really a treat!
Love the reaction ❤. Dogs is next, prepare to be even more blown away🤘
This WHOLE album mesmerized me when I was in high school!! I was enthralled with every track!
Hi Aileen 😊 An absolute masterpiece of a reaction to Pink Floyd's Pigs 😊👍 I've read all the comments and everyone has filled you in beautifully 😊👍 You laid the foundation, put up the framework and they help you finish the job and the story is complete 😊👍 All the way back with Comfortably Numb, you quickly learned how to approach Pink Floyd and grown to love them as much as we do. People need to listen to your playlist in order to understand you. They need to understand that you take each Pink Floyd song very analytically, philosophically and thoughtfully. You emphasize to people that they need to listen and allow the music to overcome you. Then and only then are you able to experience what the band made the music to be. To be whisked away into the universe that they have created. A couple very beautiful comments have suggested that after you listen to Pigs, Dogs and Sheep to re-listen to the album in its entirety, as you have said to. There are a pair of small songs as bookends call Pigs on the Wing. Part one is at the beginning of the album and part two is at the end of the album, where each is 1 minute and 24 seconds long. The album is 41 minutes and 40 seconds long. That will be completely up to you to react. All of the recommendations in the comments are fabulous and I look forward to your reactions to them. I wanted to let you know David Gilmour has a new album out and is releasing videos off the album and is touring. I will drop the links in Patreon. Have a great day you and Arya with much love 😊👍💪❤️
This is a great album. I went out and bought it around 20 years ago. I was never a big Floyd fan. But this is a great album.
Based on Animal Farm and also based on Gone With the Wind. It ties in images and lessons learned from both literary works.
Great reaction Aileen! I luv this song and this album! My favorite is Dogs! Woof woof Can't wait for your next song reaction!❤🐽🐖/🐶🐕
I saw this tour for this album, what a mind blowing experience. I was going to San Francisco State, and hanging with two my friends from Berkley , one was micro biologist, and we took some LSD for the concert.
Animals is my favorite Pink Floyd album. They are in my mind the best band of any I've heard, this being one of my favorites.
Actually, "White House" is really the last name "Whitehouse", referring to a Brit leader named Mary Whitehouse.
It also makes sense too as he mentions right after , the "proud townhouse" , a reference to 10 Downing.
She was a Conservative "Morality Officer." In particular she opposed sexual Freedom.
Mary Whitehouse was an ultra right Christian political leader in England. She was highly homophonic and I believe anti- immigrant. Most people that embrace those phobias are timid at heart.
She wasn't a leader of anything except a TV 'watchdog' that she set up. She was a 'moral' campaigner always complaining about TV being too sexual. She was also a very conservative Christian who felt that standards in the 1970s were degrading, particularly on TV. She didn't seem to like anything.
@@MikePhillips-pl6ov ...seeing how the world turned out, she may have had a valid point. Now folks don't even grasp the concept of sexes.
Got my tickets for the David Gilmour Hollywood Bowl shows in October. Stoked!❤
Awesome, saw him 4 times with Floyd (twice in the 70s with Waters still in the band) and twice solo, you are in for the treat of a lifetime! Top 3 Guitar player in my lifetime with Hendrix and Page. He was the best I ever saw live. Enjoy! 🎸
@@vicprovost2561, I saw him with the Momentary Lapse of Reason tour and Pulse tour but never solo. I’m excited to see what the set list is going to be.
With Pink Floyd concept albums, like this one, it's best to listen to the tracks in order.
Dont forget the 2 parts of 'Pigs on the Wing' that start and finish this album. They have lyrics worth a listen too, and its short and sweet. In the 80s i recorded both parts back to back on tape to jam along with on guitar. Its cool to sing both parts as one song.
Still meaning to learn the entire guitar parts for 'Dogs', but its a big project. Currently im working on 'Coming back to life' of the Division Bell album. Been 2 weeks and i have tge 1st solo down ok-ish, but 2 fast runs still trip me up. The Chords are beginner easy. Next week i start on the 2nd solo. Tgen the 3rd maybe around xmas. Such a musical masterpiece. 'Dogs' and 'The Blue' maybe in the next 2 years.
As a bass player, those licks at the start, although nothing complicated, are cool and smooth af.
Love this album with a passion.
This was the first Pink Floyd album I bought the day it was released in 1977. I was 15 at the time. I bought the LP to play at home and the 8-track to play in my car. Little did I know until I listened to the 8-track, it had an extended version of Pigs (Three Different Ones) due to the continuous play format of 8-track tapes. It had a guitar solo by Snowy White (he often toured with the band) on it. You can find that extended version on UA-cam for those that are interested.
This album is epic, and usually unknown by non-fans. But it's one of their best! I love the different music elements in this one, really kinda spacey and mysterious but also funky and in your face. NO ONE is like Pink Floyd
My favorite Pink Floyd album. Good job breaking it down, You're understanding their meaning and intention for sure! Love hearing your thoughts. It's been so long since I heard these albums for the first time, so nice to hear someone just being exposed to Roger Waters and Pink Floyd
The building on the cover is Battersea power station. The wind got up and it broke the lines and it went flying off causing no end of problems for Heathrow Airport as it was floating around the flight path. It was finally shot down over Kent. You should listen to Dogs from the same album, which was performed three years earlier as ‘You got to be crazy’ on the Deluxe Experience version of Wish You Were Here.
Wikipedia:
Constance Mary Whitehouse CBE (née Hutcheson; 13 June 1910 - 23 November 2001)[2] was a British teacher and conservative activist. She campaigned against social liberalism and the mainstream British media, both of which she accused of encouraging a more permissive society.
You’re about to get on a journey with this album, musically and metaphoric lyrics all over! 😁
Animals, is one of my favorite 'Floyd' albums. Thanks for playing music from 'My Time'. Cheers.
The Pigs are basically the rich, those on top of the social ladder.
Album's 3 components: blood thirsty corporate businessmen. Politicians and self proclaimed public opinion "controllers." And the sheeple who do what they're told obliviously. Until they don't.
BTW, the 2nd pig specifically is Maggie Thatcher. And the 3rd pig is Mary Whitehouse. Look them up to see why they annoyed Roger.
You better watch out........there maybe DOGS about !!
Gotta love that cowbell :)
Best pink floyd song.
The building on the cover is Battersea Power Station in London. Iconic
Yes !! Looking forward to this reaction.
Your Pink Floyd journey is also a journey for your subscribers. And a delightful one, at that.
While this song is incredible, Dogs is beyond words. I believe you have already reacted to it.
Dogs may well be the best song in R&R history.
I say that with tongue loosely in cheek, because it dang well may be .
Edit : I guess you haven't reacted to Dogs yet.
Cool .
I don't know if it is just me, but this track sounded different than the original album version. The pig snorts were subdued and almost inaudible in parts. But this could be me.
Battersea Power Station in London, on the cover. I thought it was long since abandoned but It's now a shopping mall, restaurants and penthouses.
First time I heard this was in 1977, and was on cannabinol ! Never been the same sense.
This song shows everyone just who they are. Waters on the bass. Gilmour on that beautiful guitar. Nick on the drums. And Richard on the keyboards. They were all such great musicians. It’s so sad how it all went down in the end. ❤️😔
Gilmour played bass as well on this song.
Pink Floyd is epic cerebral and aural genius. They are unique in their ability to create sonic and cerebral landscapes of great depth and breadth. Consider Dark Side of the Moon that is the 4th best selling album of all time and was on the Billboard Charts for 778 weeks, 14 years. Amazing
one of the best
Animals is a concept album that focuses on the sociopolitical conditions of mid-1970s Britain, the album's lyrics describe various classes in society as different kinds of animals: the predatory dogs, the despotic ruthless pigs, and the "mindless and unquestioning” herd of sheep. The album is inspired by a book "Animal Farm" a satirical allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England 1945.
It tells the story of a group of anthropomorphic farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, the rebellion is betrayed, and under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon, the farm ends up in a state far worse than before.
Whereas the novella focuses on Stalinism, the album is a critique of capitalism and differs again in that the sheep eventually rise up to overpower the dogs.
Great song and a great album. Thank you Aileen
Excellent choice Aileen 🎶🥰💖
I’ve watched your other videos where you reacted to Pink Floyd songs. One song I would highly recommend taking a look at is ‘Us and Then’ from ‘The Dark Side of the Moon.’ It’s a spectacular song. You won’t regret it.
That’s actually not a bad idea.