I saw the Animals tour in 1977. They played the entire Animals album, took a break, then played the entire Wish You Were Here album, then some Dark Side for an encore, Tampa Stadium, 77,000 people!
@@ajm2868 I can imagine that. Actually, animals tour was my very first concert, just a few months before my birth. Is it by chance that WYWH and Animals are my personal favourites? Well...
I was there too! Great concert. The clouds all turned pink right before the show started. The whole stadium was set up in quadrophonic. And that giant round video screen.
Gilmour's guitar work on this album is so creative and emotional. There are parts where it's just searing, screaming rage, and others where it's plaintive, longing melancholy. There's a bit on Dogs where he does three short sequences - each one a different tone and style - and it's one of my favorite moments in all of Floyd music.
@@BloodySanjit I see, but still I wouldn't really call it underrated. Atom Heart Mother is underrated I think, especially by the band members. While Atom Heart Mother Suite isn't as good as Echoes, Dogs, or Shine On You Crazy Diamond, it is still often overlooked. But still, the album that does deserve hate is Ummagumma. I think it was just a load of shit, and I got bored and gave up 2 tracks in (excluding Careful With That Axe, Eugene, the only song from disc one I listened to) because it just seemed like on the piano piece, Wright was just mashing on the piano with not much musicality. I may listen to it again, but I don't know if I'll last. Then there were pretentious pricks in the comment section (to be fair, that is for every Pink Floyd comment section) praising it, one person mentioned a bunch of classical pianists and claimed that people would've loved it if it was by them, but because its from Pink Floyd people hate it. When its the opposite, and people praise it because its Pink Floyd. Keep in mind, I don't mind experimental music. King Crimson is a master of what I think Ummagumma was going for. Larks' Tongues in Aspic is what I imagine Pink Floyd wanted, but instead they made Ummagumma. But anyways, thanks for reading this dogshit and pointless novella. Sorry for wasting your time. Run along now child.
I’ve always considered “Animals” Pink Floyd’s Punk album. Dry production, anti-establishment/heartfelt lyrics, and predominantly driving ROCK songs. Every serious Pink Floyd fan absolutely loves this record. PLAY LOUD
Animals is their 2nd best album next to DSOTM. Roger wrote everything but Daves guitar is stellar. His chops and tone was unreal. Also Rick was able to lay down some amazing keys and synths.
Roger didn't write everything. If Dave really did write 90% of Dogs (and I believe that; as a guitarist and bassist, I doubt Roger even knew half of those chords), then he wrote about 40% of the entire album. This was just the start of Roger trying to take credit for everything.
I'm glad that you acknowledged that Roger was the only one bringing in material. He's not the easiest guy to like, but sometimes he's treated like a pantomime villain when he really was the one making things happen.
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And by then, Sid who was initially making music before being let go, Roger became the natural successor. I know Sid visited the studio Floyd was busy making the Wish You Were Here album. If he still had any real grasp of anything, he'd have been floored hearing the band recording the Animals album. I myself love Animals over every other album, but not implying anything before or after isn't spectacular. Animals was very aggressive when you read the lyrics; especially on the song Pigs.
I think Waters merely simplified a complex situation- and he did it in his favor. Two of the songs were worked on by the entire band live throughout 74 and 75 so to say that Waters brought in the completed songs all by himself compared to what was started in 74 is bit of a lie. It's like taking the bridge music the band added to live Childhood's End in 73, making it the main theme of the Wall and claiming "I, Roger Waters, wrote that." Up to Dark Side, the band was a lot better at handing out credit on the "Work in progress" tracks {Gilmour, Mason, Waters, Wright} but it all went "me, ME, ME!!!" until it was just "All me, you guys played."
@Rodzilla I've always thought Dog's was a Gilmour song, as for the DNA of Pink Floyd, David's is all over the place. That distinctive sound is what it's all about for me.
Nick Mason called their Studio a bunker in his biography. Doesn't look so bunkery to me :) Haven't seen it before. Thanks for doing this doc and all about one of my fav albums. Animals never gets old.
The Floyd Owned the 70’s! Meddle, Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals then The Wall. All Masterpieces! And to think the Punk Bands believed it belonged to them. Not even one of those Bands ever recorded an album that was anywhere even close to being as good as the 5 Pink Floyd albums I’ve mentioned.
Yeah, but punk influenced the entire 80s far more than Pink Floyd did. And I'll take Never Mind the Bollocks over all Pink Floyd albums, though I love every Floyd album you just mentioned, especially Animals.It's all music. We're allowed to love what we love, prog rock, metal, punk, disco, whatever, and we don't have to get caught up in forty-some year old differences in music styles. Besides it's all better than what is around today.
@ Are you kidding? The Beatles had nothing but successively popular albums. Going by the UK releases (so skipping Magical Mystery Tour, which was still popular in the US), The Beatles had Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, The White Album, Abbey Road, and Let It Be. Prior to Revolver there was Rubber Soul and Help!, and so on.
@ I love Pink Floyd dearly, but “even the Rolling Stones couldn’t do that”? (5 albums in a row). Have you heard Beggars Banquet, Let it Bleed, Get yer ya ya’s out, Exile on Main Street, and Sticky Finger’s? I would say they’re very competitive. I would say the RS were a little better, but that is just person taste. 2 of the greatest 5 album runs ever.
I was 13 when this was released. Home from school in bed with the flu...and listening to the radio all day. They played this album in its entirety, and the world was never the same again.
Possibly be my favorite album, but the 5 most incredible songs they made, imo are: 1. Dogs (17.04) 2. Shine on your crazy diamond - part 2 (12.33) 3. Echoes (23.31) 4. Pigs - Three Different Ones (11.22) 5. Atom Heart Mother Suite (23.44) (except some of the disharmonic parts) In addition to their classic albums, "Soundtracks from the film MORE" and Obscured by clouds are very cool.
Another good one to me. It’s too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around. So much analysis in an awkward sentence that magically fits perfectly in place in the meaning and timing of the song.
Animals is Roger Waters masterpiece. It NEVER gets old after all these years. The angst grabs you every time you play it. It was a mind blowing experience seeing it performed live in 1977 by Pink Floyd in Milwaukee, WI, at the old Milwaukee County Stadium.
Animals is one of the best albums ever. My favorite story about any production is the one behind the album cover here, with a 40 ft pig flying on the loose. Thank you so much for the video
This channel deserves more subs. Great effort in going through the stories, narrating in a clear focused path, inclusion of the old photos, and that awesome set.
I think The Beatles first used 8-track recording in 1968? As mentioned here, Pink Floyd were using 24-track in London by 1976 - I found that interesting for technology milestone notes. This episode was also interesting for detailing some of the Floyd music industry deals and how things work out as a business and being musicians. As David Gilmour said; "After Dark Side of The Moon we had to also consider being businessmen." I'm looking forward to part two of this video. Thanks for uploading - Liked.
Animals is one of those albums you gotta listen to in full, it is so perfect as a whole. . And Richard should have been given more credit, the intro to Sheep is more than just throw away arrangement, it's a part of the composition.
Animals, an album that just sounded great and set a backdrop for my life. It is so deep that I was wearing out cassettes or 8 tracks but I never complained. One of my all time favorites!
ehh I dunno about that. You dont remember throwing "Nevermind the Bollocks" on the first time? When I was young i got what they meant buy dinosaur rock. I have changed as i got older but i got it.
Completely agree. Punk rock was a gimmick to get the English youth to listen to a type of sound. Only a hanful remember those bands yet Pink Floyd will go down as one of the greatest bands of all time.
@@Slycoomer56 hi, im an american.... and i THINK we have a different definition of punk rock, in the USA....... . im thinking more like..... well.... the entire SST records catalog . but yes... they started marketing punk..... buy jeans with wear and holes from the factory.... which only pissed the punks off more....lol
First listened to this album on a tapedeck in the footwell of my Austin mini.. drove from Oxford to London (for the first time) and back with this one tape.. an unforgettable, emotional journey in all senses
So glad You Tube recommended your video. I’m always looking for music history vids and any and all new insight into the best part of my youth, music! I’ve always loved Pink Floyd’s music, but only got interested in the band members as an adult. I’m looking forward to being a regular viewer of your outstanding channel.
My favorite Floyd album. It has a very particular edge to it, which i attribute to the combination of their classic melodic sweetness with more tart flavored lyrics. When younger i loved to kick back into the night, headphones on, getting lost in thoughts with Dogs/Sheep Jams. That guitar solo from Dogs is just brilliant
To this day I still feel Animals is my favorite Floyd album. I can see other's arguments about Wall, Dark Side, and Wish You Were Here - albums I also love, being better or more significant or whatever, but Animals is the underrated gemstone of the 4 albums in my opinion......I saw Roger Waters in 2017. He played Pigs and Dogs complete with all the visual aid you can imagine. So awesome.
There are early versions of both "Dogs"and "Sheep". The early version of Dogs (called you gotta be crazy) was awesome. I would highly recommend it. I feel like it's just as good as the later album version, though for different reasons
I saw Pink Floyd at Empire Pool Wembley in 1974 before the release of wish you were here. The second half of the show was the full dark side of the moon with an encore of echoes. The first half was three songs Shine on you crazy diamond. Raving and Drooling (sheep) You've Got to Be Crazy (Dogs) I was surprised when wish you were here came out that the other two songs were not on it. Then image when I heard the two songs on animals but under different names.
Thank you for making these Animals videos. Far and wide my favorite Floyd record and there is not a lot out there about it. You really nail it and I really enjoy your channel. An interesting one to break apart would be Presence by Zep!
Animals (in my opinion) is Pink Floyd at the peak of their powers playing more like a jamming session. The album has stood the test of time and is just as relevant today as it was upon release. Great video 👍
@@latkagravas2967 Thanks. Animals is a powerhouse of an album that often gets overshadowed by Pink Floyd's other famous albums, but it's raw, truthful grittiness has stood the test of time.
This album is my favorite of theirs... even more so than Dark Side or The Wall. People always seem to marvel at Gilmour's playing on Comfortably Numb... but I'm sorry.. it just doesn't compare to his playing on Dogs. The lyrics and melodies on this album... oh man... they were at top form here before their bickering would start to tear them apart. Thank you for doing this... just found it.
Great job on this. I really appreciate the context you provide and the still images and video clips, too. Animals was the first LP I ever bought at the age of 10. I no longer have the original album but in whatever format I listen to it, I'm immediately transported to the surreal world of Animals that still resonates today.
For me personally, Animals is their best album. I feel it is less well appreciated around the world due to its content being very specific to English (and British) society at that time. The album reflects life in the UK during the '70s,
I loved Waters description of Maggie Thatcher in Pigs (Three Different Ones); " Bus stop rat bag / Ha, ha, charade you are / You fucked up old hag / Ha, ha charade you are." LOL On Jan. 20, 2017, Rogers played to a million people in Mexico City and when he played this song, images of Donald Trump flashed on the multiscreen jumbotron.
'Gotta Be Crazy' and 'Raving and Drooling' had been written sometime in mid 1974 and were featured on a mini tour the Floyd did later that year. Once they had written 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond', Gilmour wanted to have all three making up the next record, but Waters' concept of 'alienation' prevailed and they worked on other songs to complete what would be released in June 1975 as 'Wish You Were Here'. Meaning the first two aforementioned songs were filed away and about a year later, were dusted off and reworked when the Floyd entered Britannia Row studios to work on their next album. The songs were renamed 'Dogs' and 'Sheep' as per Waters' new 'concept' demanded. 'Pigs' and 'Pigs On The Wing' complete the album.
I always loved every seconds of it...I was 14 when it came out and I remember buying the LP and calling all my friends to come to my place and religiously listen to it like x10 time in a row...
When I became a Pink floyd fan like many others at 16 I started out with The Wall. That autumn of 1988 I think I heard all their albums and bought the brand new live album the day it came out. My sister had a cassette with only one word written on it. `animals`. I did not know what I was listening to, but my friends and I played that 90 minute cassette to death. Not until Christmas when she came home from school did she tell me that it was floyds 77 album on one side and Gilmours solo album, `about face` on the other side. I loved both albums and they will always remind me of a great time in my life. Playing pool and hanging out every day after school in our very cool bar/basement my dad built.
As extensive are the Pink Floyd records, you rightly do justice in explaining them as mini documentaries rather than bloated reviews. It’s always exciting to watch your efforts even though everything is known by some of us here. So 2 thumbs up 👍👍 for you! Another channel that provides the similar experience is @polyphonic
The beauty of this album and the haunting realism with every note played STILL cuts to the bone and I first heard it at 16 in 1986. If there is an album I could sing live with a full band, this is the one. So much detail and yet simple and to the point. A rite of passage for me. Perfection on all levels. PF are just so dang deep with everything and I'm grateful and blessed to have such armor. Props.
Great work on these Floyd episodes of your series. I’m a huge fan and a bit of skeptic to some of these videos. But you, sir, have done a great job. Well researched and informative. Looking forward to part 2.
This is great!!! Animals doesnt get as much attention as the other big albums , animals became my favorite floyd album after hearing it on vinyl when I was 15 , much love to this album big pace in my heart
I have been a fan since childhood. My mom introduced me to DSOTM. I watched the Wall on MTV. Loved all of the albums after Gilmour joined yet completely overlooked Animals until my mid 20s. Finally discovered it and afterwards drove everyone I knew crazy playing it constantly for a few years straight.
Roger didn't "kick Richard out of the band", there was a GENERAL agreement in the band, that Ricks coke problems was too much to handle and that he didn't do diddly squat.
Thank you for this video. I’m an obsessive fan of their music. I’ve read, travelled and watched extensively on the Floyd topic. Animals is one of my favorite albums in many ways. I’m extremely impressed at your writing and succinct historical review of the album. Absolutely excellent. I’ve subscribed and will watch more. Again thank you and excellent work!
Great follow up to your review video. I was a very early teen in 1977 and thanks to Animals I was never lured over to the punk movement. Animals had the same anger and rawness but there was no doubting the Floyd's skills as musicians and songwriters. I didn't need to be a rocket scientist to see that most punk bands could barely strum a note. So punk was stillborn for me.
Great video! I swear I had just put out my copy of Animals to listen to and right after this appeared on youtube, so of course I had to see this first in order to give the spin more flavor. Cant wait for part two.
Quick story here. I had three cats in the early '80's. They never paid any attention to the music I played. When I got Animals on CD and played the song 'Dogs', and the sound of dogs howling came on, they completely freaked out. They never got used to it either, as I would have expected. Every time that tune played, they would hide behind the couch. I was under the impression the dog sounds were made electronically, but I haven't been able to confirm this either way. Can someone here shed some light on the origins of the dog tracks?
Something which was a huge part of the more rough-edged sound of Animals was Roger Waters' rhythm guitar on Pigs (three different ones) and Sheep. If you listen to those parts, they are clearly not David, and that's a big difference from previous albums.
The lyrics on Dark Side of the Moon, Wish you were Here, and Animals have the most punk rock lyrics of all time. From class warfare to mental health issues Waters absolutely was sneering at the machine so to speak.
I hated Animals when I first brought it. However it is now my favourite Floyd album. The lyrics and songs are amazing and Gilmours guitar playing supports the aggressive songs with some his most stinging and razor sharp guitar playing.
Not my favourite Floyd (see above) but, yes, Animals could (and probably should) have made a double-album. I love your suggestion of chickens, horses and cows. Orwell would've liked that.
Thank you! Its my favorite and most of my buds' favorite record from them. In all the Floyd docs I've seen, they seem to skip over these years and this album. Don't know why. Very interesting stuff, never heard the full story about Algie! Now I want to listen to it, but I gave my vinyl copy to my best mate a few years ago as a birthday/going away present. Guess this devil device will have to do. Or how awesome would it be to have that 8 track copy! Man...
Greatest shout-out I can possibly think of for The Floyd. A couple of years back I was interviewing the rapper Common for a TV show he was doing at the time - a Western! I don't even know how it came up but I mentioned Pink Floyd ('Wish You Were Here' was my White Album, as a 16-year-old at the time) and Common volunteered that he thought Pink Floyd to be, and I quote, "a great band." Did not see that coming. I almost blanked out, I was so startled. I'm not into rap/hip hop but my admiration for Common (one of Barack Obama's favourite musicians, I understand) knew no bounds after that. (He's a fair decent actor, too.)
Animals is the most relaxing therapeutic album ever, so happy to have seen Roger Waters play it live in Philly a couple years ago, totally epic! Thought I’d never get to see and hear that album played live, awesome stuff!
I saw the Animals tour in 1977. They played the entire Animals album, took a break, then played the entire Wish You Were Here album, then some Dark Side for an encore, Tampa Stadium, 77,000 people!
Wow!! What a show!! I would have loved to be there.
@@philburns5656 and despite all the drugs then, and since, I still remember it!
@@ajm2868 I can imagine that. Actually, animals tour was my very first concert, just a few months before my birth. Is it by chance that WYWH and Animals are my personal favourites? Well...
I was there too! Great concert. The clouds all turned pink right before the show started. The whole stadium was set up in quadrophonic. And that giant round video screen.
Yes, I saw that tour too ay MSG in NYC..... Amazing
To this day, still my favorite Floyd album.
Who's with me?
I AM!!!
Absolutely
Pink Floyd are vastly, vastly overated. but yeah man, I'm with you.
@mark skinner you know, when I listen to Animals I wonder, wouldn't quack, quack, quack have been a far superior title ?
@mark skinner I was referring to the predictability of the narrative, it's "duck talk"
Gilmour's guitar work on this album is so creative and emotional. There are parts where it's just searing, screaming rage, and others where it's plaintive, longing melancholy. There's a bit on Dogs where he does three short sequences - each one a different tone and style - and it's one of my favorite moments in all of Floyd music.
Animals is undoubtedly Floyd’s underrated masterpiece. Sucks that it gets overshadowed by the other big three.
Why would it suck? You can listen to their entire collection of albums. I would still say it is number 4.
Animals is by far the best, unreal music,in saying that, the other big 3 are brilliant as well!!
What? Most Pink Floyd fans herald this as their best album
@@cancercentral9997 i think he means from a pop and public POV.
@@BloodySanjit I see, but still I wouldn't really call it underrated. Atom Heart Mother is underrated I think, especially by the band members. While Atom Heart Mother Suite isn't as good as Echoes, Dogs, or Shine On You Crazy Diamond, it is still often overlooked.
But still, the album that does deserve hate is Ummagumma. I think it was just a load of shit, and I got bored and gave up 2 tracks in (excluding Careful With That Axe, Eugene, the only song from disc one I listened to) because it just seemed like on the piano piece, Wright was just mashing on the piano with not much musicality. I may listen to it again, but I don't know if I'll last.
Then there were pretentious pricks in the comment section (to be fair, that is for every Pink Floyd comment section) praising it, one person mentioned a bunch of classical pianists and claimed that people would've loved it if it was by them, but because its from Pink Floyd people hate it. When its the opposite, and people praise it because its Pink Floyd.
Keep in mind, I don't mind experimental music. King Crimson is a master of what I think Ummagumma was going for. Larks' Tongues in Aspic is what I imagine Pink Floyd wanted, but instead they made Ummagumma.
But anyways, thanks for reading this dogshit and pointless novella. Sorry for wasting your time. Run along now child.
I don't always listen to Animals by Pink Floyd - but when I do - the neighbors do also.
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a most interesting post....
Please pump up the volume, I can't hear it from home. (Quebec).
@@claudepage6214 Moi si je passe dans ta rue en l'écoutant dans mon char, c'est sur tu va l'entendre
Nice comment from 2007.
I’ve always considered “Animals” Pink Floyd’s Punk album. Dry production, anti-establishment/heartfelt lyrics, and predominantly driving ROCK songs. Every serious Pink Floyd fan absolutely loves this record. PLAY LOUD
I agree, and I love the fact that more than 70% of it was written three years before the punk movement even started.
#1 - Animals, #2 - Wish You Were Here, #3 - Dark Side Of The Moon, #4 - The Wall. Those are my favorites, & in that order.
ministerofdarkness- Yes. "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" seems very punk to me, Except crafted better than most punk songs.
same here.. Pretty Great Record.
@@daveydudely9954 Pink Floyd defied labels. They played all categories and created their own.
One of the best Albums ever to put good head phones on lay back close eyes and let it take you on a journey
Absolutely, (It's good to warm my bones,
Beside the fire) while listening to this masterpiece.
I think that goes for all their albums. 😊
@@allsystemsgo8678 Absolutely true.
"You house proud town mouse, haha charade you are"
Damn those lyrics still gives me goosebumps.
Thank you Roger!
That line plays in my mind quite often when I think of the band, playing those guitar licks.
Mary Whitehouse.
Agreed!
@@debras1503 Hey you Whitehouse
Ha ha charade you are. Mary Whitehouse.
Animals is their 2nd best album next to DSOTM. Roger wrote everything but Daves guitar is stellar. His chops and tone was unreal. Also Rick was able to lay down some amazing keys and synths.
Roger didn't write everything. If Dave really did write 90% of Dogs (and I believe that; as a guitarist and bassist, I doubt Roger even knew half of those chords), then he wrote about 40% of the entire album. This was just the start of Roger trying to take credit for everything.
no roger didn't write everything. David wrote 90% of Dogs which takes the whole first side ..
Dogs is my favorite Animals song. 👍🇦🇺
Rick's phrasing on the whole album: Incredible.
3:10 the video straight up shows the writing credits for the album. Have you even watched the video?
I'm glad that you acknowledged that Roger was the only one bringing in material. He's not the easiest guy to like, but sometimes he's treated like a pantomime villain when he really was the one making things happen.
And by then, Sid who was initially making music before being let go, Roger became the natural successor. I know Sid visited the studio Floyd was busy making the Wish You Were Here album. If he still had any real grasp of anything, he'd have been floored hearing the band recording the Animals album. I myself love Animals over every other album, but not implying anything before or after isn't spectacular. Animals was very aggressive when you read the lyrics; especially on the song Pigs.
I think Waters merely simplified a complex situation- and he did it in his favor. Two of the songs were worked on by the entire band live throughout 74 and 75 so to say that Waters brought in the completed songs all by himself compared to what was started in 74 is bit of a lie.
It's like taking the bridge music the band added to live Childhood's End in 73, making it the main theme of the Wall and claiming "I, Roger Waters, wrote that." Up to Dark Side, the band was a lot better at handing out credit on the "Work in progress" tracks {Gilmour, Mason, Waters, Wright} but it all went "me, ME, ME!!!" until it was just "All me, you guys played."
@Rodzilla I've always thought Dog's was a Gilmour song, as for the DNA of Pink Floyd, David's is all over the place. That distinctive sound is what it's all about for me.
Even Gilmour admitted that Waters was "the one driving everything"
When he left they became so MOR.
@Rodzilla Agreed. Dogs is a Davey G. song.
Nick Mason called their Studio a bunker in his biography. Doesn't look so bunkery to me :) Haven't seen it before.
Thanks for doing this doc and all about one of my fav albums. Animals never gets old.
%90 of biographies are complete bullshit lol
No windows.
The Floyd Owned the 70’s! Meddle, Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals then The Wall. All Masterpieces!
And to think the Punk Bands believed it belonged to them.
Not even one of those Bands ever recorded an album that was anywhere even close to being as good as the 5 Pink Floyd albums I’ve mentioned.
Agree but don't forget that little movie soundtrack. Obscured by clouds. A hidden gem.
Yeah, but punk influenced the entire 80s far more than Pink Floyd did. And I'll take Never Mind the Bollocks over all Pink Floyd albums, though I love every Floyd album you just mentioned, especially Animals.It's all music. We're allowed to love what we love, prog rock, metal, punk, disco, whatever, and we don't have to get caught up in forty-some year old differences in music styles. Besides it's all better than what is around today.
@ Are you kidding? The Beatles had nothing but successively popular albums. Going by the UK releases (so skipping Magical Mystery Tour, which was still popular in the US), The Beatles had Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, The White Album, Abbey Road, and Let It Be. Prior to Revolver there was Rubber Soul and Help!, and so on.
@tubenshaft very well said, I'm in so much agreement with your statement.
@ I love Pink Floyd dearly, but “even the Rolling Stones couldn’t do that”? (5 albums in a row). Have you heard Beggars Banquet, Let it Bleed, Get yer ya ya’s out, Exile on Main Street, and Sticky Finger’s? I would say they’re very competitive. I would say the RS were a little better, but that is just person taste. 2 of the greatest 5 album runs ever.
I was 13 when this was released.
Home from school in bed with the flu...and listening to the radio all day.
They played this album in its entirety, and the world was never the same again.
Possibly be my favorite album, but the 5 most incredible songs they made, imo are:
1. Dogs (17.04)
2. Shine on your crazy diamond - part 2 (12.33)
3. Echoes (23.31)
4. Pigs - Three Different Ones (11.22)
5. Atom Heart Mother Suite (23.44) (except some of the disharmonic parts)
In addition to their classic albums, "Soundtracks from the film MORE" and Obscured by clouds are very cool.
I agree with you on "Dogs". It's life laid out in 17:03 like an opera.
H E A V Y. . . .This one still stings in a way no other album has ever affected me. It gives me the shivers.
Completely with you, then and now, I wonder how it achieves that. Everything meshes to several emotional and powerful musical crescendos.
"Dragged Down By The Stone" - Poetry
"You radiate cold shafts of broken glass"
By the way which ones pink
Actually, it is philosophy -- from "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus
Another good one to me.
It’s too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around.
So much analysis in an awkward sentence that magically fits perfectly in place in the meaning and timing of the song.
@@rustyaxelrod 👍
Animals is Roger Waters masterpiece. It NEVER gets old after all these years. The angst grabs you every time you play it. It was a mind blowing experience seeing it performed live in 1977 by Pink Floyd in Milwaukee, WI, at the old Milwaukee County Stadium.
This is definitely my favorite Pink Floyd album. The lyrics are timeless and applicable to today.
Animals is one of the best albums ever. My favorite story about any production is the one behind the album cover here, with a 40 ft pig flying on the loose. Thank you so much for the video
This channel deserves more subs. Great effort in going through the stories, narrating in a clear focused path, inclusion of the old photos, and that awesome set.
One of my favourite albums of all time
What an awesome surprise. Great video! Looking forward to part 2.
My fave album by Floyd. That will never change.
I think The Beatles first used 8-track recording in 1968? As mentioned here, Pink Floyd were using 24-track in London by 1976 - I found that interesting for technology milestone notes. This episode was also interesting for detailing some of the Floyd music industry deals and how things work out as a business and being musicians. As David Gilmour said; "After Dark Side of The Moon we had to also consider being businessmen." I'm looking forward to part two of this video. Thanks for uploading - Liked.
Animals is one of those albums you gotta listen to in full, it is so perfect as a whole.
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And Richard should have been given more credit, the intro to Sheep is more than just throw away arrangement, it's a part of the composition.
The explosive cords in Sheep are just amazing. Is easily my favorite track out the album
Little did they know, that album became one of their best works.
YES! i love snowy white’s solo on pigs on the wing, and i’m so glad you mentioned it in your video. everyone should hear it
Animals, an album that just sounded great and set a backdrop for my life. It is so deep that I was wearing out cassettes or 8 tracks but I never complained. One of my all time favorites!
Animals. Ive listened to it over & over from 8 traks to albums cassettes to CD's. Love it
You've got to be crazy?
Animals is the best album ever and the most Pink Floydish of all Pink Floyd albums. I could listen to this album everyday for the rest of my life.
'Animals' has more authentic attitude than the entire punk rock output.
ehh I dunno about that. You dont remember throwing "Nevermind the Bollocks" on the first time? When I was young i got what they meant buy dinosaur rock. I have changed as i got older but i got it.
@John James me and everybody else.
I wouldn't be that broad regarding the punk rock output, but certainly, it's their most "in your face" record
Completely agree. Punk rock was a gimmick to get the English youth to listen to a type of sound. Only a hanful remember those bands yet Pink Floyd will go down as one of the greatest bands of all time.
@@Slycoomer56 hi, im an american....
and i THINK we have a different definition of punk rock, in the USA.......
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im thinking more like..... well.... the entire SST records catalog
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but yes... they started marketing punk..... buy jeans with wear and holes from the factory....
which only pissed the punks off more....lol
First listened to this album on a tapedeck in the footwell of my Austin mini.. drove from Oxford to London (for the first time) and back with this one tape.. an unforgettable, emotional journey in all senses
So glad You Tube recommended your video. I’m always looking for music history vids and any and all new insight into the best part of my youth, music! I’ve always loved Pink Floyd’s music, but only got interested in the band members as an adult. I’m looking forward to being a regular viewer of your outstanding channel.
My favorite Floyd album. It has a very particular edge to it, which i attribute to the combination of their classic melodic sweetness with more tart flavored lyrics. When younger i loved to kick back into the night, headphones on, getting lost in thoughts with Dogs/Sheep Jams. That guitar solo from Dogs is just brilliant
Let´s go looking for the Ball you knocked out of the park again with this album treatment. Excellent!! Can´t wait for chapter two.
To this day I still feel Animals is my favorite Floyd album. I can see other's arguments about Wall, Dark Side, and Wish You Were Here - albums I also love, being better or more significant or whatever, but Animals is the underrated gemstone of the 4 albums in my opinion......I saw Roger Waters in 2017. He played Pigs and Dogs complete with all the visual aid you can imagine. So awesome.
Very cool.. This is my favorite floyd album.. Thank you for breaking it down as you did
Animals is my favorite Pink Floyd album. Dogs is my favorite Pink Floyd song.
Animals was always my favorite Pink Floyd album.
There are early versions of both "Dogs"and "Sheep". The early version of Dogs (called you gotta be crazy) was awesome. I would highly recommend it. I feel like it's just as good as the later album version, though for different reasons
The Animal's demos exist too o UA-cam
I agree that the 74 version of You've Got to be Crazy is great but the 75 version is just toothless compared to versions before and after.
@@PinkFloydBootlegs You mean Eric Burdon's band? I love House of the Rising Son.
I saw Pink Floyd at Empire Pool Wembley in 1974 before the release of wish you were here.
The second half of the show was the full dark side of the moon with an encore of echoes.
The first half was three songs
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Raving and Drooling (sheep)
You've Got to Be Crazy (Dogs)
I was surprised when wish you were here came out that the other two songs were not on it.
Then image when I heard the two songs on animals but under different names.
Its almost like New Floyd.
IMHO, Animals is their peak as a band. It’s the most coherent, most focused, and most concise statement as a band.
Thank you for making these Animals videos. Far and wide my favorite Floyd record and there is not a lot out there about it. You really nail it and I really enjoy your channel. An interesting one to break apart would be Presence by Zep!
Animals (in my opinion) is Pink Floyd at the peak of their powers playing more like a jamming session.
The album has stood the test of time and is just as relevant today as it was upon release.
Great video 👍
Well said, and fully agree on all your points.
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Thanks.
Animals is a powerhouse of an album that often gets overshadowed by Pink Floyd's other famous albums, but it's raw, truthful grittiness has stood the test of time.
This album is my favorite of theirs... even more so than Dark Side or The Wall. People always seem to marvel at Gilmour's playing on Comfortably Numb... but I'm sorry.. it just doesn't compare to his playing on Dogs. The lyrics and melodies on this album... oh man... they were at top form here before their bickering would start to tear them apart. Thank you for doing this... just found it.
The pig breaking free and landing on a farm is somewhat poetic
As a long time floyd nerd, I can say you have proper Pink Floyd knowledge - and your narrative here is spot on. Good work, I subscribed.
-Which Pink Floyd album is your favorite?
-Yes!
Just an INCREDIBLE album that was nothing like ANYTHING. This band was up there with the big boys.... they ARE the big boys.
My favourite album by Pink Floyd 👍❤️😎
Great job on this. I really appreciate the context you provide and the still images and video clips, too. Animals was the first LP I ever bought at the age of 10. I no longer have the original album but in whatever format I listen to it, I'm immediately transported to the surreal world of Animals that still resonates today.
For me personally, Animals is their best album. I feel it is less well appreciated around the world due to its content being very specific to English (and British) society at that time. The album reflects life in the UK during the '70s,
I loved Waters description of Maggie Thatcher in Pigs (Three Different Ones); " Bus stop rat bag / Ha, ha, charade you are / You fucked up old hag / Ha, ha charade you are." LOL On Jan. 20, 2017, Rogers played to a million people in Mexico City and when he played this song, images of Donald Trump flashed on the multiscreen jumbotron.
'Gotta Be Crazy' and 'Raving and Drooling' had been written sometime in mid 1974 and were featured on a mini tour the Floyd did later that year. Once they had written 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond', Gilmour wanted to have all three making up the next record, but Waters' concept of 'alienation' prevailed and they worked on other songs to complete what would be released in June 1975 as 'Wish You Were Here'. Meaning the first two aforementioned songs were filed away and about a year later, were dusted off and reworked when the Floyd entered Britannia Row studios to work on their next album. The songs were renamed 'Dogs' and 'Sheep' as per Waters' new 'concept' demanded. 'Pigs' and 'Pigs On The Wing' complete the album.
very interesting for a vinyl nerd, record store geek. animals is my favorite Pink Floyd LP.
I always loved every seconds of it...I was 14 when it came out and I remember buying the LP and calling all my friends to come to my place and religiously listen to it like x10 time in a row...
My favorite Floyd album by far.
When I became a Pink floyd fan like many others at 16 I started out with The Wall. That autumn of 1988 I think I heard all their albums and bought the brand new live album the day it came out. My sister had a cassette with only one word written on it. `animals`. I did not know what I was listening to, but my friends and I played that 90 minute cassette to death. Not until Christmas when she came home from school did she tell me that it was floyds 77 album on one side and Gilmours solo album, `about face` on the other side. I loved both albums and they will always remind me of a great time in my life. Playing pool and hanging out every day after school in our very cool bar/basement my dad built.
As extensive are the Pink Floyd records, you rightly do justice in explaining them as mini documentaries rather than bloated reviews. It’s always exciting to watch your efforts even though everything is known by some of us here. So 2 thumbs up 👍👍 for you!
Another channel that provides the similar experience is @polyphonic
The beauty of this album and the haunting realism with every note played STILL cuts to the bone and I first heard it at 16 in 1986. If there is an album I could sing live with a full band, this is the one. So much detail and yet simple and to the point. A rite of passage for me. Perfection on all levels. PF are just so dang deep with everything and I'm grateful and blessed to have such armor. Props.
Snowy also did some excellent work on Richard Wrights first solo album, Wet Dreams, which I HIGHLY recommend
Agreed- in fact he is a highlight of Wet Dream and the reason I became a fan ever since
Funky Deux!
Animals is my favorite Pink Floyd album. One of my best albums of all time
Great work on these Floyd episodes of your series. I’m a huge fan and a bit of skeptic to some of these videos. But you, sir, have done a great job. Well researched and informative. Looking forward to part 2.
This is great!!! Animals doesnt get as much attention as the other big albums , animals became my favorite floyd album after hearing it on vinyl when I was 15 , much love to this album big pace in my heart
Pink Floyd rules man
@ how manly of you to say.
I have been a fan since childhood. My mom introduced me to DSOTM. I watched the Wall on MTV. Loved all of the albums after Gilmour joined yet completely overlooked Animals until my mid 20s. Finally discovered it and afterwards drove everyone I knew crazy playing it constantly for a few years straight.
Roger didn't "kick Richard out of the band", there was a GENERAL agreement in the band, that Ricks coke problems was too much to handle and that he didn't do diddly squat.
That rings true to me...
Rick is all over Animals. There are so many great keyboard passages!
@@a.azazagoth5413 You do know he doesn't like anything he did on Animals.... Right????
Thank you for this video. I’m an obsessive fan of their music. I’ve read, travelled and watched extensively on the Floyd topic. Animals is one of my favorite albums in many ways. I’m extremely impressed at your writing and succinct historical review of the album. Absolutely excellent. I’ve subscribed and will watch more. Again thank you and excellent work!
My favorite part of the video is Algie causing all kinds of trouble down at the airport. Of course, he was only playing up to his billing.
Absolutley my favorite Pink Floyd album. I understand David's frustration. Yes. But, sometimes... injustice leads to perfection.
You got the concept of dogs spot on which I think many have gotten wrong by just associating it with the police. Much appreciated. 👍
Great follow up to your review video. I was a very early teen in 1977 and thanks to Animals I was never lured over to the punk movement. Animals had the same anger and rawness but there was no doubting the Floyd's skills as musicians and songwriters. I didn't need to be a rocket scientist to see that most punk bands could barely strum a note. So punk was stillborn for me.
I bounce between Animals and Final Cut as my top PF album. Depends on my mood
Love the final cut. Many people overlook it. Much better then the wall i think. But my favorite might have to be obscured by clouds
I never liked Final Cut, no matter how i tried. Obscured by Clouds is the most overlooked album in history
@@patricksommer3971 for early PF Obscured is my favorite with Meddle as my number 2
The Final Cut is heavy man. It needs a special mood to feel it.
@@postdan28 that was the album that got me into PF. Not Now John specifically
Great video! I swear I had just put out my copy of Animals to listen to and right after this appeared on youtube, so of course I had to see this first in order to give the spin more flavor.
Cant wait for part two.
Quick story here. I had three cats in the early '80's. They never paid any attention to the music I played. When I got Animals on CD and played the song 'Dogs', and the sound of dogs howling came on, they completely freaked out. They never got used to it either, as I would have expected. Every time that tune played, they would hide behind the couch.
I was under the impression the dog sounds were made electronically, but I haven't been able to confirm this either way. Can someone here shed some light on the origins of the dog tracks?
The dogs are the work of Rick Wright.
@@joeysplats3209 thanks!
Very good, sir. Keep these Pink Floyd reviews up!
Richard Wright deserved a writing credit on dogs atleast. he has 2 synth solos on it and one of them goes on for 4 or 5 minutes straight
Its definitely my favourite album consistently
Something which was a huge part of the more rough-edged sound of Animals was Roger Waters' rhythm guitar on Pigs (three different ones) and Sheep. If you listen to those parts, they are clearly not David, and that's a big difference from previous albums.
“Animals” is my favorite and first Pink Floyd album I purchased. I still listen to it regularly.
I scored a promotional vynl back in 92. I just busted out the record player last week and threw it on. Forgot I had that album.
GREAT JOB!!!!!
Can't wait for part two!!!!
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The lyrics on Dark Side of the Moon, Wish you were Here, and Animals have the most punk rock lyrics of all time. From class warfare to mental health issues Waters absolutely was sneering at the machine so to speak.
I hated Animals when I first brought it. However it is now my favourite Floyd album. The lyrics and songs are amazing and Gilmours guitar playing supports the aggressive songs with some his most stinging and razor sharp guitar playing.
I think he leaned pretty heavily on the Telecaster for that album and you can hear it.
Lol nice way to not give Roger Waters any credit.
I didn't like Animals at all when I first heard it, but now I love it. It took a few years to grow on me.
THANK GOD they didn't use the cover with the kid walking in on his parents.
I gave this suggestion and they made it! Massive thanks, Geek, love your channel!
Animals is a masterpiece!
Pigs (Three Different Ones) is still to this day my favorite song of all time.
Sadly......'Animals' COULD have been a double-album......if only they had ALSO included some tracks for chickens, horses & cows.
I agree ☝️
I guess that would then have been the barnyard album?
Not my favourite Floyd (see above) but, yes, Animals could (and probably should) have made a double-album. I love your suggestion of chickens, horses and cows. Orwell would've liked that.
Thank you! Its my favorite and most of my buds' favorite record from them. In all the Floyd docs I've seen, they seem to skip over these years and this album. Don't know why. Very interesting stuff, never heard the full story about Algie! Now I want to listen to it, but I gave my vinyl copy to my best mate a few years ago as a birthday/going away present. Guess this devil device will have to do. Or how awesome would it be to have that 8 track copy! Man...
Nobody talks about the album: The Final Cut. Maybe not as great as other albums but I loved it. The song Not Now John was awesome.
Ashes and diamonds,
Foe and friend,
We were all the equal in the end.
- Two suns in the sunset.
Also the last 3 lines of the album The Final Cut.
the final cut and animals are my 2 favorite. In that order.
Greatest shout-out I can possibly think of for The Floyd. A couple of years back I was interviewing the rapper Common for a TV show he was doing at the time - a Western! I don't even know how it came up but I mentioned Pink Floyd ('Wish You Were Here' was my White Album, as a 16-year-old at the time) and Common volunteered that he thought Pink Floyd to be, and I quote, "a great band." Did not see that coming. I almost blanked out, I was so startled. I'm not into rap/hip hop but my admiration for Common (one of Barack Obama's favourite musicians, I understand) knew no bounds after that. (He's a fair decent actor, too.)
Dark Side is probably the better album of the two, but Animals is just more fun to listen to.
A punk album. 13 when it came out and I bought it because of the pigs in HMV and life changed. Catches the feeling of the time so well
Seriously, dogs is my favorite song of all time
Well thank you Roger just so happens to be my favorite Floyd album.
Animals is my favorite PF record.
I could never pick which is my favorite Floyd album, but I do listen to ‘Animals’ more than any other.
Same for me, the top step of the podium
needs to be enlarged when it comes to PF.
This dude reminds me of George McFly but cool AF
Crispin Glover.
Animals is the most relaxing therapeutic album ever, so happy to have seen Roger Waters play it live in Philly a couple years ago, totally epic! Thought I’d never get to see and hear that album played live, awesome stuff!
I’ve been looking forward to this
The setting, the forniture, the warm saturated colors, give me a David Lynch vibe. Nice!