Ha!! Perfect. Where would Roger be without Gilmour there to complete his thoughts better even than he could with the written word. In case you missed the point in the lyrics, Gilmour was always there to drive it home right into your soul. He's never sounded angrier here. The reconstituted, Waterless Floyd never did anything from Animals in Concert. God I wish they had. Can you imagine Dave going off on that solo live for another two or three minutes. We can only dream. 😍🎸
@@rustyshackleford928 In the studio, yes. On half the studio recordings Dave is the one playing the bass. Live it's mostly Roger, but in 77 on Sheep and Pigs the bass was played by Snowy White while Rog played a black Strat with a white pickguard. During the 1980/81 tour, bass duties were split between Roger and Andy Bown
Hi Stacey! Thanks for a great reaction to this song. Just one thing: Mary Whitehouse was the enemy of anybody concerned with free speech and self-expression. She was the self-appointed head of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, an organisation of conservatives who spent their time trying to censor TV and radio to remove any trace of sex and violence. The BBC actually lived in fear of Mary because she was very good at whipping up right-wing hysteria against them. At one point she tried to get Tom and Jerry taken off the television because she accused it of being too violent for children to watch. On that occasion, however, the BBC stood up to her and refused. She was an archetypal Pig. Thanks again Stacey... I always look forward to your reactions!
Roger Waters said this about her in an interview with Mojo Magazine: “Oh, she was everywhere pontificating on TV. Interfering in everybody’s life, making a nuisance of herself and trying to drag English society back to an age of Victorian propriety.”
I have a great teenage party story about this song and the entire album. After partying all day, I crashed at my friend Jim's farmhouse. He had this fireplace we had going all night and put on the album/record on the turntable, it would start over when it was done. So we heard it all night long!! This entire album is probably my favorite Floyd album. It represents society, the exploiters (Dog/Pigs) and the Sheep (the exploited). Just a great concept album!
When you correctly anticipated the guitar solo it made me thrilled that you were just about to find out that you called it right! I purchased this album in the form of an 8 track the same day I purchased a Pioneer Super Tuner car stereo into my first car, a 1963 4 door Chevy Nova handed down to me by my Grandma that I named "The Cloud" because it had worn out shocks that caused it to rock gently over every bump in the road. One of the best experiences I had during that period of my life in my late teens was when I took a few of my friends in The Cloud driving in the evening toward a line of thunderstorms, and we ended up parking in a field while watching the huge cumulus clouds rolling in filled with lightning and thunder. As we were watching, I played Pink Floyd Animals while we shared a large joint. We were all high on many different levels. Ah, those were the days.
The 8 track tape famously features a couple of minutes of additional guitar soloing by Snowy White to fill out one "side" of the album. This additional music has never been officially released anywhere else and makes the 8 track version of Animals somewhat collectable.
@@FloweredUp-n4t I think it appeared on one of the anniversary box sets. it's certainly on Snowy White's Goldtop compilation album from 1995. Also 100s of videos of it on UA-cam.
@@FloweredUp-n4t Thanks for the info. I have it somewhere in storage. Would be fun to rig an 8 track player, just for the occasion of hearing the additional music.
Ah yes, 8-track tapes are the best way to experience Pink Floyd The summer of ‘73, my friend and I built a glorious treehouse while listening exclusively to Dark Side of the Moon on 8-track … For years, listening to it on vinyl and cassette, I kept anticipating the CHUNK-KA-CHUNK in the middle of certain tracks
I'm a huge Gilmour fanboy. This is among one of his most underrated solos. That and the solo in Not Now John. Fantastic work on his part. I love learning this parts.
A Talk Box is the guitar effect you are talking about. It’s basically a small speaker in a closed box with a tube that comes out of the box and is positioned next to a microphone so that the guitar player can put the tube in their mouth then change the shape of their mouth next to the mic while the sound of the guitar goes through the tube and make it sound like words or vocalized sounds. It’s very simple but quite effective. Aside from David Gilmour other well known guitarists who are known for using a Talk Box include Peter Frampton (listen to Do You Feel Like I Do from Frampton Come Alive), Joe Walsh (solo and with the Eagles- listen to Rocky Mountain Way) and Richie Sambora from Bon Jovi (Living on a Prayer). The entire Animals album is very political, very British and of the times (mid 70s) and loosely based on the book Animal Farm insofar as using animals as metaphors for different kinds of people. Did you listen to the 2 Pigs on the Wing tracks? One starts and the other ends the album. The thing about Pink Floyd albums (especially the 70s albums) is they are albums to be listened to in one sitting. The lyrical content is related in some way from start to finish. The Wall is more so because it is more of a single storyline than Animals, Wish You Were Here or Darkside of the Moon. But they are all very much concept albums.
Roger Waters on main vocal on Pigs and Sheep .... Roger's 🐖 called Algie , Roger's 🐑 called Brian , ....and the dog called Seamus and Nipper, Enjoy you all floydians ...👍👍 Double thumbs to staceyRPG
This entire album is sheer perfection. The guitar, the bass. Rick on the ivories and Nick on the skins. Perfection. Oh, and the Final Cut is a criminally underrated album. So many incredible song on that album. And that Gilmour guitar solo overshadows that final bass line. So funky.
Yes, The Final Cut was very underrated album. It's one of those where you have to chill out and listen to the whole to understand the complexities of all the wars it refers to.
The tube effect that David Gilmour uses in Pigs and, is called a "Voice Box". The sound of the guitar playing is played into the voice box, which travels up the tube into David's mouth, he changes the shape of his mouth to distort the sound into the microphone. This is used in "Do you feel like I do", by Peter Frampton. On the album of the same name.
The inflatable giant pig floating above the Battersea Power Station in London, broke free during the photo shoot. Causing chaos with the Heathrow Airport flight paths nearby and the legend was born.
Thanks to the genius of Sir Roger Waters, who wrote this!! Lyrics and music,and sang lead vocals on three tracks, Gilmore co wrote dogs with waters and sang lead vocals!!
The Animals album literally changed music for me. I heard it for the first time in 1980 when I was 13yrs old. I only listened to Motown and disco up to then. A friend put Animals on his turntable and told me to focus on what I heard. I remember being blown away and it opened me up to a whole genre of music I wasn’t familiar with. I still listen to Animals and appreciate it to this day.
It is called a talk box,,and every song in existence that uses one is a hit. Roger Waters sings this song. You should bring up the lyrics on all of your reactions, that way you get the full effect of the song as it happens. This is one of my favorite Floyd songs, and they are my favorite band of all time.
Back when I was a kid listening to this, I would have sworn he was talking about `the` Whitehouse. Washington, DC. I was shocked to learn who/what it was about. The lyrics fit perfectly to both.
It refers to Mary Whitehouse, an English politician Roger felt was curtailing what people could do (or something along this lines) hence why he labelled her as a "pig" in the context of this album.
@@glerp10000000000 Oh yeah, you're right. My mistake! I was relying on my aging memory as a non-British person. I remember an interview with Roger were he was talking about her doing those things.
So at the beginning of the lead, he plays OneNote about 13 times for 10 seconds and it’s amazing.And at the end of that 10 second one note lead,Stacey said ,Damn!
That "tube thingy" is a Heil Talk Box, which became popular in the 70's after being used by Joe Walsh on "Rocky Moutain Way" and Peter Frampton on several songs from "Frampton Comes Alive".
This was the first album i ever bought. Funny to think that 1977 is mostly remembered for Punk than this outstanding album, but i look back on this year as one of the most creative for innovative music i can remember.
Saw it in the old Boston Garden in 77, Gilmour was on freaking fire that night with a Fender Telecaster for the first, extended set of Animals, just jamming out the 3 epics, especially at the end, he freaked us out. He switched to a Fender Stratocaster for the 2nd set of Wish You Were Here. You can hear a recording of this show on You Tube, the guitar alone is worth hunting for. Just when you think you heard it all, he blows you away anew. He and Jimmy Page are the best guitarists I ever saw.
It was that tour that Roger spit on a particularly rowdy fan. Thus causing him to reflect on his life and career as a rockstar and as a result we got The Wall
Don’t ever lose your enthusiasm Stacey. I love how your beautiful face shows all of your surprises, nothing is ever run of the mill with Pink Floyd & we can see how much you love it. Looking forward to the whole album reaction ❤️🏴🇬🇧
The trouble was they rarely played it live. I think they last played anything from Animals on the 'In the Flesh' tour in 77. I saw them 5 times in the 80's and 90's and they never did. Its a shame as this is my favourite Floyd album.
Great video I like watching your reaction videos, there are so many things to say and listen to Pink Floyd, a band created by Syd Barrett (guitarist) and unfortunately addicted to LSD who died in 2006, he was replaced around 1968 by his childhood friend David Gilmour (lead guitar), Richard Wright (keyboard/vocals) who died in 2008, Nick Mason (drummer) and Roger Waters (bassist), all my adolescence listening to them; I became a guitarist a little thanks to David Gilmour among others, I am 61 years old and I will always play the guitar, keep up your videos like that Stacey, best regards 😉👍🎸
My version of .the Talk Box ,yes the Tube thingy. .... Guitar is pluggged Into the TALKBOX, which has a Tiny speaker inside of it . ..... The Tube is attached directly over top of that tiny speaker (which the guitar is also plugged into playing into that tiny speaker,which has the Tube, which goes in the mouth. ... The output of the talkbox go to the Amplifier . .... In my case I used the Rocktron Talkbox 2 ....... a swicth On the talkbox itself can be set to Play thru the Amp , or Just the talkbox only. ....... As hes playing the guitar, what hes playing ....is being fed back into his mouth ...... And he is shaping words /sounds with his mouth ..... which is heard in the Microphone,which is directly by the Tube. .... Spent many nights doing Frampton when I was in the band.
Stacey WELCOME TO THE MACHINE off the wish you were here album is a must also HAVE A CIGAR off the same album. I actually heard them play these two tracks live at Knebworth August 1975 before the album wish were here was even released in September 1975
The guitar effect is called a talk box. It carries the instrument's sound through a tube into the mouth like substitute vocal chords, so the position of the mouth changes the sound just like talking. The result is picked up on a microphone. The talk box became popular in the 1970s, featuring heavily on Peter Frampton's 15-minute "Do You Feel Like I Do". Joe Walsh used it on "Rocky Mountain Way".
Stacey, I watched a documentary and it referred to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as the Iron Lady . . . referring the 'hot stuff with a hat pin' remark as this reference. So . . . I believe the second 'Pig" is referring to Mrs. Thatcher. Roger Waters is responsible (chiefly) for the content of this album. Waters, an outwardly declared Marxist, would naturally be in opposition to anyone on the conservative side of politics. FYI Thatcher & Whitehouse both represented views in opposition to Waters, and his views.
The deep self-exploratory inner journeys this album has spawned over the decades is a testament to its innate power and masterful compositions, these are dark ancient themes every human must face, question, and (if fortunate) answer for themselves.
For what it's worth , Pink Floyds 1970's era 3 album run of "Dark Side of the Moon" , "Wish You Were Here" & "Animals" are my favorite albums to listen to . Those 3 really sum up why Pink Floyd became the Superstars that they did . 🙂
The way you say the name David is like ASMR to me! But back to the music. It just occurred to me that your love of David Gilmour's guitar work could translate to an equally fervent love for Eddie Hazel's guitar work on Funkadelic's "Maggot Brain." I know the song title isn't exactly auspicious, but trust me, it's one of the most beautiful and emotional pieces of guitar music ever recorded, probably my personal favourite. Legend has it that George Clinton told Eddie to play as if he'd just heard that his mother died! And damn, you feel every emotion of that. (If you do listen to it, ignore the weird sci-fi intro and focus on Hazel's playing, let yourself be transported.)
Anyone think Stacey is ready to experience "Careful with that Axe, Eugene" or "Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict"? Don't know how you would handle real early, experimental Pink Floyd. It would awesome to see your reaction to them though.
The 'tube thing' is called a voice box. It takes the sound from his guitar, sends it up the tube into his mouth allowing him to control resonance and out into the mic.
This song shines most in the live versions that were recorded on their tour in 77. Those that are not aware of the intense of this live recording: check out the version from Oakland.
IMO Being a Floyd fanatic since a teenager when The Wall came out , this is Floyd's GREATEST ALBUM ANIMALS 🐕🐖🐑...!! All 4 band members put together their best work in this album which is saying something cos of all of Pink Floyd's MASTERPIECES..!! Roger's incredible incitful lyrics, David's Unbelievable bass and lead guitar solo's, Rick's Amazing solo keyboard parts all across the album and Nick's drumming which in parts of the album changes the mood, sway and uplifting and down playing drum parts..!! ABSOLUTELY ADORE ANIMALS, THE MOST UNDERATTED FLOYD ALBUM but when you really understand this album it's MIND-BLOWING...And Stacey you articulated the album really well as some people's reaction to Animals they havent taken the time to understand what this concept album is about so hats off to you..!! And Donald Trump is one of this Generation's PIGS 🐖 and a 🐕 DOG aswell..He is 2 for the price of 1 in ANIMALS
8:05 Good catch about the talk box (re: Keep Talking). 13:11 "Are we going to get a guitar solo because I would love a David guitar solo right now" 😆 You're definitely getting the Floyd groove!
It’s called a Talkbox or voice box. You should react to Do You Feel Like We Do by Peter Frampton, from the Frampton Comes Alive live album. He made it famous. Great song, long song. Should be about 13 minutes or you got an abridged version.
Animals is Water's take on the classic literature book Animal Farm. A fantasy story based loosely on the Soviet revolution. The vocals are Roger Water's, not David Gilmour's. That is the noise maker Dave used in Keep Talking.
Funny how Orwell and Waters were/are both socialists, but Animal Farm is explicitly anti-communist. It's delusional to think one doesn't lead to the other simply based on human nature and corruption in the government.
I wished it was only fantasy and about Russia. Orwell is all about our society as we have seen it deployed during the pandemic. Waters is a visionary genius that wrote this song in his twenties!
@@nivokspilkommen801 Are you deliberately being obtuse to be a contrarian? The OP was referring to the talk box effect used by David Gilmour in "Keep Talking."
Random on my feed. I was talking just yesterday with my son’s best friend, also musicians, and we we landed on the Animals album. We agreed, one of the most underrated albums ever, especially in the Floyd cannon. I specifically mentioned the tracks “Pigs” and “Dogs!” Thank you!
The first verse is about businessmen in general. The second is about Margerat Thatcher, the British Prime Minister at the time. And yes, the last verse is explicitly about Mary Whitehouse and Roger calls her out by name. And yes, I'm sure she wasn't happy about it.
When I saw PF perform this album at Cleveland Stadium, Pigs was memorable for the giant pig suspended from a cable above field,,,it had glowing red eyes. The concert was near July 4th, and people in the crowd had bottle rockets, which they shot at the pig as it floated across…it was surreal.
The tube instrument thing works in conjunction with the guitar. So if you bend a note and change the opening/closing of your mouth it produces those strange sounds. A wah-wah pedal does something similar but instead of changing the cavity size of your mouth you push the foot pedal up and down while playing guitar but of course the sound it produces is different.
Stacey, I think you are extremely sharp when you interpret the lyrics to these songs. You rarely go amiss, and that's a beautiful thing to see. I love your reactions, and I would like to see more. Led Zeppelin, please. Steely Dan, Steve Miller Band, Gerry Rafferty, Bob Seger, Fleetwood Mac, you've started a bit of Supertramp, which is so cool. It would warm me through to see a whole new generation of youngsters enjoying the ear candy that has brought so much enjoment and pleasure to us old farts. Like Pink Floyd, much of this music contains content that is still relevant today, and is not yet ready to be forgotten. By the way, I love that tree like thing your cats sleep on. I'm a big lover of cats myself, always had them and they go for walkies at 05:30 on their own which is always a plus. Keep up the good work, you're keeping me feeling young 👌
You can't understand the meaning of these songs unless you listen to them in the context of the whole album. Animals the album is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm. Each song represents aspects of the story and the animals in it. Dogs is my favorite. The guitar solo is one of David Gilmour's best. Also, the Whitehouse they are talking about is Mary Whitehouse. She was a conservative campaigner that was trying to keep "objectionable" (sex, swearing, ect.) material off of TV. This is just a classic album from beginning to end. I hope it ends up in heavy rotation at your house like it was in mine growing up.
How I understand it is that it was cobbled together from two songs leftover from the wywh sessions and this piece of crap. The songs were retitled to make it look like a concept album but it has no real connection to Animal Farm. Dogs was kinda cool but pretty depressing, the rest of it is a bit naff.
Personally, David Gilmour is my favorite guitarist. I know he usually lands in the top 10-12 of all time. His musical prowess is unmatched, and he's one of those artists that you would never expect to play the talk box. Peter Frampton was excellent on it, but Dave Gilmour blows all the others out of the water. I'm 39 years old, and looking back at the last 30 years of listening to pink Floyd since grade school, they only get better with age. Cheers from Saco Maine...
David Gilmour is the only guitarist who can make me can make me cry. John McLaughlin, Robert Fripp, and Eric Johnson leave me stunned by their technical virtuosity, but only Gilmour can make me cry. And I say that as someone who has been a Floyd fan for so long that I remember waiting for "Dark Side of the Moon" to come out.
no it is not : "Roger Waters wrote this about Mary Whitehouse, a British woman who led a movement to keep sex off TV. He felt Whitehouse had no right to decide what other people should watch. Speaking to Mojo magazine Waters recalled: "Oh, she was everywhere pontificating on TV." -Ultimately, the “pigs” represent those at the top who perpetuate the ruthless, dog-eat-dog social dynamics satirized on the album for their own benefit. By calling them out in this cynical song, Pink Floyd voiced their conviction that such systems of oppression led by the powerful “pigs” at the top needed to change.
ROCK IT Stacey!! Was kind of waiting for you to react to this one. I saw the original guys do this live in Milwaukee in 1977. End of the first set. Truly, I recall this song. The pig flying over our heads. The one floating in the parking lot that exploded after David's solo. Perhaps one of their most angry songs. Thanks Stacey! Your reactions to this band are special.
For many many years I’d put this album on (cassette tape in those days!) and drift off to sleep to it. God I wish I could sleep that sound nowadays as a 60 year old! Great choice, great reaction - keep the Floyd coming 👌
Now that you've taken the Pink Floyd journey, your next 1970s prog-rock journey should be Jethro Tull Aqualung album, starting with the songs Locomotive Breath, Cross-eyed Mary, and Aqualung.
It absolutely is. The voice synthisizer. So many people forget that Pink Floyd's origins are the mid 1960s. They are on par with The Rolling Stones for longevity.
Ohhh you should also listen to the remix of the album that they did a few years ago. The OG is amazing but the new mix is still very well done and fun to listen to all the varying differences. Same exact songs, just mixed and mastered differently. One of their best albums and criminally underrated. :)
This is one of the many "Concept" albums produced during the 60's and 70's. Concept albums are like musical books, with each song being like a chapter of the book. the whole album tells a story or takes on an emotional trip. I am 68 y/o and I was fortunate to have grown up during this musical renascence period. I have always been a music lover and could turn you on to a lot of great music. I enjoy your reactions and am very pleased to be a subscriber! Peace and Love! 🥰
In 1978 this was the third Floyd album I bought starting with DSOTM and then Wish You Were Here, and I think having read Animal Farm in school previously this was such a deep album. Seeing what was going on in the UK at the time on the news and reading the lyrics everytime I listened to it, I got the political commentary. Listening to it all the way through will put it all together.
This track was extended live I’ve heard live at Oakland version on UA-cam which is over 17mins 30 long David signs off with an even angrier shorter 2nd solo after the main end solo from the album. Unlike pulse animals tour only exists on bootleg recordings with sound quality as you would expect on bootlegs.
Yes! Spring 1992, i heard 'Dogs' on the radio, all 17+ minutes, when I was 17. Animals was my first floyd album purchase soon after. I now have everything from Piper through the Endless river and a couple dozen live recordings (on Cd, WAY before UA-cam was around). Animals has always been my favourite album, though I love it all. Hope Animals is your first full album listen. Pigs on the Wing, Pts 1 and 2 are the short songs at the beginning and end that bookend the album. Thanks, as always!
Yes it's the famous talkbox or fuzz box......he can do anything with a stringed instrument. He also said that this was the most angry guitar he ever played.
Talk-box - the guitar goes into a small speaker that feeds into a tube which goes into your mouth which is then picked up on the vocal microphone. My friend and I made one in high school that sounded amazing.
Animals is my favourite Pink Floyd album, and that’s saying something because I have a heartfelt love of them all. There’s just something about the dynamics of this one, ethereal, brutal and beautiful.
When a Pink Floyd number has lyrics, they are an essential part of the whole piece. The lyrics are the core of the song, and although the music can be overwhelming, having the lyrics adds another dimension to the experience.
What David Gilmour can do with a guitar is just stunning. It's like it's connected directly to your soul.
He is so musical.
What he can do with one note!
“David, we need an angry guitar solo to match the bitterness and sarcasm of the lyrics and vocal performance…” David: “Hold my beer…” 🔥
LOL! And Spot On, he will take care of that! 🎸
Hold Ma Tea
If guitar solos could hurt you, this one would.
This solo has been described as Godzilla destroying Tokyo. I concur.
Ha!! Perfect.
Where would Roger be without Gilmour there to complete his thoughts better even than he could with the written word.
In case you missed the point in the lyrics, Gilmour was always there to drive it home right into your soul. He's never sounded angrier here.
The reconstituted, Waterless Floyd never did anything from Animals in Concert. God I wish they had. Can you imagine Dave going off on that solo live for another two or three minutes. We can only dream. 😍🎸
one of the best guitar solos in pf history, also gilmour on bass is so cleann
Almost reminds me of the solo on The Nile Song.
live in Cleveland version has the best pigs solo
Gilmour played bass?
@@rustyshackleford928 In the studio, yes. On half the studio recordings Dave is the one playing the bass. Live it's mostly Roger, but in 77 on Sheep and Pigs the bass was played by Snowy White while Rog played a black Strat with a white pickguard. During the 1980/81 tour, bass duties were split between Roger and Andy Bown
@@rustyshackleford928 yup he played bass on Sheep and Pigs for this album
Stacey: "I would love a David guitar solo right now."
The Universe: We got you!
Roger is singing. He sang the back half of Dogs & he sang Sheep.
Hi Stacey! Thanks for a great reaction to this song. Just one thing: Mary Whitehouse was the enemy of anybody concerned with free speech and self-expression. She was the self-appointed head of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, an organisation of conservatives who spent their time trying to censor TV and radio to remove any trace of sex and violence. The BBC actually lived in fear of Mary because she was very good at whipping up right-wing hysteria against them. At one point she tried to get Tom and Jerry taken off the television because she accused it of being too violent for children to watch. On that occasion, however, the BBC stood up to her and refused.
She was an archetypal Pig.
Thanks again Stacey... I always look forward to your reactions!
Roger Waters said this about her in an interview with Mojo Magazine: “Oh, she was everywhere pontificating on TV. Interfering in everybody’s life, making a nuisance of herself and trying to drag English society back to an age of Victorian propriety.”
Mary Whitehouse almost considered suing Pink Floyd the whole story is on the web to be read and the background.
She really had it in for Doctor Who as well.
@@supertrexandroidxbeing American, I never knew of this woman Mary and the influence in Britain 's TV, Radio etc...
Cartman from Southpark once said...."HA HA Charade you are"....my favorite Floyd song
Yep! He actually said it 3 times, there’s a YT clip of all 3 of them
@@ryanburns4697Yep, 3 Different Ones.😉
has nothing to do with Pink Floyd
@@RoverWaters except for the Pink Floyd lyrics from a Pink Floyd song
@@ryanburns4697 Cartman from Southpark once said...."HA HA Charade you are" has nothing to do with Pink Floyd
My favourite Pink Floyd album.
I agree!
Pigs definitly in my top 5 song. The outro solo full of rage and anger is so underrated. The rawness is just amazing.
David's guitar play just emotes so much emotion it's almost crazy!
I was thinking when she said the solo gave her different feelings than others, t's because it is full of rage. It's an angry song in gerneral.
My favorite album but my song is Dogs. I can understand anyone loving any part of this.
Ah… you get it. You figured it out. There are people who “get” Pink Floyd, and there are people who don’t. You get it. Changed your life, huh!
David Gilmour, Joe Walsh and Peter Frampton were all masters of the talk-box in the 1970's.
The talk-box is used to such great effect in this song. Love the pace of this and how it flows. It grooves. Such a vibe!
His surname is spelt "Gilmour".
Not sure using it once as a novelty effect on one track and regretting it shortly after counts as mastery.
Roger’s lyrics at its best. I love the humour in his lyrics as well as the bitterness.
"You're hot stuff with a hatpin".
I have a great teenage party story about this song and the entire album. After partying all day, I crashed at my friend Jim's farmhouse. He had this fireplace we had going all night and put on the album/record on the turntable, it would start over when it was done. So we heard it all night long!! This entire album is probably my favorite Floyd album. It represents society, the exploiters (Dog/Pigs) and the Sheep (the exploited). Just a great concept album!
When you correctly anticipated the guitar solo it made me thrilled that you were just about to find out that you called it right! I purchased this album in the form of an 8 track the same day I purchased a Pioneer Super Tuner car stereo into my first car, a 1963 4 door Chevy Nova handed down to me by my Grandma that I named "The Cloud" because it had worn out shocks that caused it to rock gently over every bump in the road.
One of the best experiences I had during that period of my life in my late teens was when I took a few of my friends in The Cloud driving in the evening toward a line of thunderstorms, and we ended up parking in a field while watching the huge cumulus clouds rolling in filled with lightning and thunder. As we were watching, I played Pink Floyd Animals while we shared a large joint. We were all high on many different levels.
Ah, those were the days.
The 8 track tape famously features a couple of minutes of additional guitar soloing by Snowy White to fill out one "side" of the album.
This additional music has never been officially released anywhere else and makes the 8 track version of Animals somewhat collectable.
@@FloweredUp-n4t I think it appeared on one of the anniversary box sets. it's certainly on Snowy White's Goldtop compilation album from 1995. Also 100s of videos of it on UA-cam.
@@FloweredUp-n4t Thanks for the info. I have it somewhere in storage. Would be fun to rig an 8 track player, just for the occasion of hearing the additional music.
Ah yes, 8-track tapes are the best way to experience Pink Floyd
The summer of ‘73, my friend and I built a glorious treehouse while listening exclusively to Dark Side of the Moon on 8-track …
For years, listening to it on vinyl and cassette, I kept anticipating the CHUNK-KA-CHUNK in the middle of certain tracks
I'm a huge Gilmour fanboy. This is among one of his most underrated solos. That and the solo in Not Now John. Fantastic work on his part. I love learning this parts.
My favourite part is at the 13:21 mark when David Gilmour stomps in like Godzilla destroying Tokyo.
The only thing that song needed was "MORE COWBELL"
"I've got a fever...and the only cure...is more cowbell!"
Yeah, they should have used the bell more, I like the sound.
Any song is enhanced by cow bells.
lol more cow bell
😂😂😂 god I love that skit! Cracks me up every time o see it.
A Talk Box is the guitar effect you are talking about. It’s basically a small speaker in a closed box with a tube that comes out of the box and is positioned next to a microphone so that the guitar player can put the tube in their mouth then change the shape of their mouth next to the mic while the sound of the guitar goes through the tube and make it sound like words or vocalized sounds. It’s very simple but quite effective. Aside from David Gilmour other well known guitarists who are known for using a Talk Box include Peter Frampton (listen to Do You Feel Like I Do from Frampton Come Alive), Joe Walsh (solo and with the Eagles- listen to Rocky Mountain Way) and Richie Sambora from Bon Jovi (Living on a Prayer). The entire Animals album is very political, very British and of the times (mid 70s) and loosely based on the book Animal Farm insofar as using animals as metaphors for different kinds of people. Did you listen to the 2 Pigs on the Wing tracks? One starts and the other ends the album. The thing about Pink Floyd albums (especially the 70s albums) is they are albums to be listened to in one sitting. The lyrical content is related in some way from start to finish. The Wall is more so because it is more of a single storyline than Animals, Wish You Were Here or Darkside of the Moon. But they are all very much concept albums.
Or k own as a voice box .
Roger Waters on main vocal on Pigs and Sheep ....
Roger's 🐖 called Algie ,
Roger's 🐑 called Brian ,
....and the dog called Seamus and Nipper,
Enjoy you all floydians ...👍👍
Double thumbs to staceyRPG
Cartman from Southpark once said...."HA HA Charade you are" has nothing to do with Pink Floyd
This entire album is sheer perfection. The guitar, the bass. Rick on the ivories and Nick on the skins. Perfection.
Oh, and the Final Cut is a criminally underrated album. So many incredible song on that album.
And that Gilmour guitar solo overshadows that final bass line. So funky.
Yes, The Final Cut was very underrated album. It's one of those where you have to chill out and listen to the whole to understand the complexities of all the wars it refers to.
Final Cut is amazing yes. Gets better with each listen too.
The Final Cut is not underrated at all. It’s awful!
The tube effect that David Gilmour uses in Pigs and, is called a "Voice Box".
The sound of the guitar playing is played into the voice box, which travels up the tube into David's mouth, he changes the shape of his mouth to distort the sound into the microphone. This is used in "Do you feel like I do", by Peter Frampton. On the album of the same name.
@@RonaldMesure Actually , it’s called a ‘Talk Box’. ‘Voice Box’ is just a layman’s term for your larynx.
The inflatable giant pig floating above the Battersea Power Station in London, broke free during the photo shoot. Causing chaos with the Heathrow Airport flight paths nearby and the legend was born.
Gilmour 's solo at the end is criminally underrated. Best choice! Hi Stacey❤
You're Right, It's a talk box
I freakin' love this tune. Maybe my favorite from the album. I've been listening to this album regularly since it came out.
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Thanks to the genius of Sir Roger Waters, who wrote this!! Lyrics and music,and sang lead vocals on three tracks, Gilmore co wrote dogs with waters and sang lead vocals!!
I'm fairly certain that nothing Gilmour has ever done is "under rated". His magnificence is implied by his renown.
@@bgumm9122wrote the lyrics, Gilmour played bass on this and composed the music.
oh man these guys from Pink Floyd made some great music! There is always so much story in their music and also in their instrumental pieces👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
The Animals album literally changed music for me. I heard it for the first time in 1980 when I was 13yrs old. I only listened to Motown and disco up to then. A friend put Animals on his turntable and told me to focus on what I heard. I remember being blown away and it opened me up to a whole genre of music I wasn’t familiar with. I still listen to Animals and appreciate it to this day.
It is called a talk box,,and every song in existence that uses one is a hit. Roger Waters sings this song. You should bring up the lyrics on all of your reactions, that way you get the full effect of the song as it happens. This is one of my favorite Floyd songs, and they are my favorite band of all time.
Another song that gets better and better towards the end thanks to David's guitar
I got this album the year it came out 77 … I think still gives me chills still
Back when I was a kid listening to this, I would have sworn he was talking about `the` Whitehouse. Washington, DC. I was shocked to learn who/what it was about. The lyrics fit perfectly to both.
It refers to Mary Whitehouse, an English politician Roger felt was curtailing what people could do (or something along this lines) hence why he labelled her as a "pig" in the context of this album.
Especially when the pig Trump was in the White House.
65 yo and, same here. Took me a while to learn who Mary Whitehouse is.
Same with Vera Lynne in the Wall.
@@rossharper-ds4dn She wasn't a politician. She was part of a group who decided to guard our morals for us. Mary Long by Deep Purple is about her too.
@@glerp10000000000 Oh yeah, you're right. My mistake! I was relying on my aging memory as a non-British person. I remember an interview with Roger were he was talking about her doing those things.
The pig noise and animal noise later is really the guitar-work by David Gilmour. No animals were used to make the sounds.
(,or harmed in the making of this song)
So at the beginning of the lead, he plays OneNote about 13 times for 10 seconds and it’s amazing.And at the end of that 10 second one note lead,Stacey said ,Damn!
That "tube thingy" is a Heil Talk Box, which became popular in the 70's after being used by Joe Walsh on "Rocky Moutain Way" and Peter Frampton on several songs from "Frampton Comes Alive".
I’m so happy for you that you finally got to know, hear, feel and experience Pink Floyd !
It's just easier to say Gilmour didn't play drums and keyboards on this song.
also rythym guitar, that was roger
Or write the words or sing or play rhythm guitar or play tape effects.
@@johnstones66 Waters played rhythm guitar on tour, not on the record (he might have used a VC3). Snowy White played the bass on tour.
@@davevasques2157 Roger is indeed credited for rhythm guitar on this song on the album
@@cybister4864 Roger was the one who suggested that he and David swap instruments for the song (bass / rhythm guitar).
Every song starts with animal noises: the album is called "Animals". It is a political and music business album calling out the creeps in both.
The short closing song is "pigs on the wing" which you should listen to also. It concludes the theme and emotions of the album.
David Gilmour also plays Bass guitar on this song and the next, Sheep.
This was the first album i ever bought. Funny to think that 1977 is mostly remembered for Punk than this outstanding album, but i look back on this year as one of the most creative for innovative music i can remember.
The noise thing is called a voice box. The guitar sound is broadcast up the tube, shaped in the mouth, and then picked up by a vocal microphone
AKA: vocoder
Talkbox. Voicebox is your larynx.
@@thecroft6070 If they use a mic, it's a vocoder. If they use a tube, it's a talkbox.
@doomhunter697 not true a regular vocal mic is used to pick up the sound. I have one.
@thecroft6070 no vocoder is a mic plugged into a key or sequencer. I have a Korg unit that has a setting.
I figured that Stacey's reaction to "Pigs" would be great, but quite honestly this is my new favorite reaction to this song. Thanks Stacey!😊❤
I saw them live on June 15,1977 for this tour at Milwaukee County Stadium. It's the show that the Pig exploded.
This was the first Floyd song I heard on 8 track about 48 yrs ago.I’m 58 now.Still love it!
The release of this LP kicked off a massive tour called the In the Flesh Tour which featured giant pig and sheep puppets.
Saw it in the old Boston Garden in 77, Gilmour was on freaking fire that night with a Fender Telecaster for the first, extended set of Animals, just jamming out the 3 epics, especially at the end, he freaked us out. He switched to a Fender Stratocaster for the 2nd set of Wish You Were Here. You can hear a recording of this show on You Tube, the guitar alone is worth hunting for. Just when you think you heard it all, he blows you away anew. He and Jimmy Page are the best guitarists I ever saw.
I remember seeing the floating pig over the former County Stadium in Milwaukee, many many moons ago.
It was that tour that Roger spit on a particularly rowdy fan. Thus causing him to reflect on his life and career as a rockstar and as a result we got The Wall
@@MysteriumArcanum Correct.
The "tube" instrument is a voicebox: he's playing the guitar and shaping the sound with his throat...
Don’t ever lose your enthusiasm Stacey. I love how your beautiful face shows all of your surprises, nothing is ever run of the mill with Pink Floyd & we can see how much you love it. Looking forward to the whole album reaction ❤️🏴🇬🇧
It’s called a voice box, where the voice is merged through whatever the guitar is playing. Absolute badassery.
That solo is HEAVY, hearing it live is even BETTER
The trouble was they rarely played it live. I think they last played anything from Animals on the 'In the Flesh' tour in 77.
I saw them 5 times in the 80's and 90's and they never did. Its a shame as this is my favourite Floyd album.
Great video I like watching your reaction videos, there are so many things to say and listen to Pink Floyd, a band created by Syd Barrett (guitarist) and unfortunately addicted to LSD who died in 2006, he was replaced around 1968 by his childhood friend David Gilmour (lead guitar), Richard Wright (keyboard/vocals) who died in 2008, Nick Mason (drummer) and Roger Waters (bassist), all my adolescence listening to them; I became a guitarist a little thanks to David Gilmour among others, I am 61 years old and I will always play the guitar, keep up your videos like that Stacey, best regards 😉👍🎸
Addicted might not be the right word, but in some instances unwillingly forced.
I recommend checking out Paul McCartney's "No More Lonely Nights" for one of Gilmour's best solos.
My version of .the Talk Box ,yes the Tube thingy. .... Guitar is pluggged Into the TALKBOX, which has a Tiny speaker inside of it . ..... The Tube is attached directly over top of that tiny speaker (which the guitar is also plugged into playing into that tiny speaker,which has the Tube, which goes in the mouth. ... The output of the talkbox go to the Amplifier . .... In my case I used the Rocktron Talkbox 2 ....... a swicth On the talkbox itself can be set to Play thru the Amp , or Just the talkbox only. ....... As hes playing the guitar, what hes playing ....is being fed back into his mouth ...... And he is shaping words /sounds with his mouth ..... which is heard in the Microphone,which is directly by the Tube. .... Spent many nights doing Frampton when I was in the band.
Stacey WELCOME TO THE MACHINE off the wish you were here album is a must also HAVE A CIGAR off the same album. I actually heard them play these two tracks live at Knebworth August 1975 before the album wish were here was even released in September 1975
Those two songs go together, Floyd really harpoons the music industry in both. Great suggestions.
@@vicprovost2561 they do indeed 👍hope Stacey plays them both one after the other
The guitar effect is called a talk box. It carries the instrument's sound through a tube into the mouth like substitute vocal chords, so the position of the mouth changes the sound just like talking. The result is picked up on a microphone. The talk box became popular in the 1970s, featuring heavily on Peter Frampton's 15-minute "Do You Feel Like I Do". Joe Walsh used it on "Rocky Mountain Way".
Stacey, I watched a documentary and it referred to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as the Iron Lady . . . referring the 'hot stuff with a hat pin' remark as this reference. So . . . I believe the second 'Pig" is referring to Mrs. Thatcher. Roger Waters is responsible (chiefly) for the content of this album. Waters, an outwardly declared Marxist, would naturally be in opposition to anyone on the conservative side of politics. FYI Thatcher & Whitehouse both represented views in opposition to Waters, and his views.
The deep self-exploratory inner journeys this album has spawned over the decades is a testament to its innate power and masterful compositions, these are dark ancient themes every human must face, question, and (if fortunate) answer for themselves.
For what it's worth , Pink Floyds 1970's era 3 album run of "Dark Side of the Moon" , "Wish You Were Here" & "Animals" are my favorite albums to listen to . Those 3 really sum up why Pink Floyd became the Superstars that they did . 🙂
The way you say the name David is like ASMR to me! But back to the music. It just occurred to me that your love of David Gilmour's guitar work could translate to an equally fervent love for Eddie Hazel's guitar work on Funkadelic's "Maggot Brain." I know the song title isn't exactly auspicious, but trust me, it's one of the most beautiful and emotional pieces of guitar music ever recorded, probably my personal favourite. Legend has it that George Clinton told Eddie to play as if he'd just heard that his mother died! And damn, you feel every emotion of that. (If you do listen to it, ignore the weird sci-fi intro and focus on Hazel's playing, let yourself be transported.)
Anyone think Stacey is ready to experience "Careful with that Axe, Eugene" or "Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict"? Don't know how you would handle real early, experimental Pink Floyd. It would awesome to see your reaction to them though.
The Narrow Way and the other Pompeii tracks, she only tried Echoes. All great suggestions, Ummagumma was dope.
“Several Species” is my ringtone.
Never forget The Effevescing Elephant, by Sid Barrett 😅
The 'tube thing' is called a voice box. It takes the sound from his guitar, sends it up the tube into his mouth allowing him to control resonance and out into the mic.
There is 3 types of people, according to this album, Pigs, Sheep and Dogs
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And yet I'm an Armadillo. 🤔
@@Tarkus_ An armored dildo?
the album is based on the book animal farm
No cats. Sorry Stacey!
This song shines most in the live versions that were recorded on their tour in 77. Those that are not aware of the intense of this live recording: check out the version from Oakland.
Saw it in the Boston Garden, 77 freaking fire! 🔥 Gilmour was God that night. 🎸 Hear it on You Tube.
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IMO Being a Floyd fanatic since a teenager when The Wall came out , this is Floyd's GREATEST ALBUM ANIMALS 🐕🐖🐑...!! All 4 band members put together their best work in this album which is saying something cos of all of Pink Floyd's MASTERPIECES..!! Roger's incredible incitful lyrics, David's Unbelievable bass and lead guitar solo's, Rick's Amazing solo keyboard parts all across the album and Nick's drumming which in parts of the album changes the mood, sway and uplifting and down playing drum parts..!! ABSOLUTELY ADORE ANIMALS, THE MOST UNDERATTED FLOYD ALBUM but when you really understand this album it's MIND-BLOWING...And Stacey you articulated the album really well as some people's reaction to Animals they havent taken the time to understand what this concept album is about so hats off to you..!! And Donald Trump is one of this Generation's PIGS 🐖 and a 🐕 DOG aswell..He is 2 for the price of 1 in ANIMALS
8:05 Good catch about the talk box (re: Keep Talking).
13:11 "Are we going to get a guitar solo because I would love a David guitar solo right now" 😆
You're definitely getting the Floyd groove!
It’s called a Talkbox or voice box. You should react to Do You Feel Like We Do by Peter Frampton, from the Frampton Comes Alive live album. He made it famous. Great song, long song. Should be about 13 minutes or you got an abridged version.
Animals is Water's take on the classic literature book Animal Farm. A fantasy story based loosely on the Soviet revolution. The vocals are Roger Water's, not David Gilmour's. That is the noise maker Dave used in Keep Talking.
Funny how Orwell and Waters were/are both socialists, but Animal Farm is explicitly anti-communist. It's delusional to think one doesn't lead to the other simply based on human nature and corruption in the government.
I wished it was only fantasy and about Russia. Orwell is all about our society as we have seen it deployed during the pandemic. Waters is a visionary genius that wrote this song in his twenties!
It was Stephen Hawkin on Keep Talking and you are wrong about Animal Farm too.
@@nivokspilkommen801 Are you deliberately being obtuse to be a contrarian? The OP was referring to the talk box effect used by David Gilmour in "Keep Talking."
Random on my feed. I was talking just yesterday with my son’s best friend, also musicians, and we we landed on the Animals album. We agreed, one of the most underrated albums ever, especially in the Floyd cannon. I specifically mentioned the tracks “Pigs” and “Dogs!” Thank you!
right pauses - sensible words - always great reaction
Una de las mejores canciones de Pink Floyd, sin dudas
The first verse is about businessmen in general. The second is about Margerat Thatcher, the British Prime Minister at the time. And yes, the last verse is explicitly about Mary Whitehouse and Roger calls her out by name. And yes, I'm sure she wasn't happy about it.
When I saw PF perform this album at Cleveland Stadium, Pigs was memorable for the giant pig suspended from a cable above field,,,it had glowing red eyes. The concert was near July 4th, and people in the crowd had bottle rockets, which they shot at the pig as it floated across…it was surreal.
The tube instrument thing works in conjunction with the guitar. So if you bend a note and change the opening/closing of your mouth it produces those strange sounds. A wah-wah pedal does something similar but instead of changing the cavity size of your mouth you push the foot pedal up and down while playing guitar but of course the sound it produces is different.
Stacey, I think you are extremely sharp when you interpret the lyrics to these songs. You rarely go amiss, and that's a beautiful thing to see. I love your reactions, and I would like to see more. Led Zeppelin, please. Steely Dan, Steve Miller Band, Gerry Rafferty, Bob Seger, Fleetwood Mac, you've started a bit of Supertramp, which is so cool. It would warm me through to see a whole new generation of youngsters enjoying the ear candy that has brought so much enjoment and pleasure to us old farts. Like Pink Floyd, much of this music contains content that is still relevant today, and is not yet ready to be forgotten. By the way, I love that tree like thing your cats sleep on. I'm a big lover of cats myself, always had them and they go for walkies at 05:30 on their own which is always a plus. Keep up the good work, you're keeping me feeling young 👌
You can't understand the meaning of these songs unless you listen to them in the context of the whole album. Animals the album is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm. Each song represents aspects of the story and the animals in it. Dogs is my favorite. The guitar solo is one of David Gilmour's best.
Also, the Whitehouse they are talking about is Mary Whitehouse. She was a conservative campaigner that was trying to keep "objectionable" (sex, swearing, ect.) material off of TV. This is just a classic album from beginning to end. I hope it ends up in heavy rotation at your house like it was in mine growing up.
How I understand it is that it was cobbled together from two songs leftover from the wywh sessions and this piece of crap. The songs were retitled to make it look like a concept album but it has no real connection to Animal Farm. Dogs was kinda cool but pretty depressing, the rest of it is a bit naff.
This was a great concert back in the day with a big pink pig floating in the air during the concert. ❤🎉
Personally, David Gilmour is my favorite guitarist. I know he usually lands in the top 10-12 of all time. His musical prowess is unmatched, and he's one of those artists that you would never expect to play the talk box. Peter Frampton was excellent on it, but Dave Gilmour blows all the others out of the water. I'm 39 years old, and looking back at the last 30 years of listening to pink Floyd since grade school, they only get better with age. Cheers from Saco Maine...
David Gilmour is the only guitarist who can make me can make me cry. John McLaughlin, Robert Fripp, and Eric Johnson leave me stunned by their technical virtuosity, but only Gilmour can make me cry. And I say that as someone who has been a Floyd fan for so long that I remember waiting for "Dark Side of the Moon" to come out.
The reference of the pigs is to the book "Animal Farm" where the pigs get power crazed and become exactly the same as the farmer and his family.
no it is not : "Roger Waters wrote this about Mary Whitehouse, a British woman who led a movement to keep sex off TV. He felt Whitehouse had no right to decide what other people should watch. Speaking to Mojo magazine Waters recalled: "Oh, she was everywhere pontificating on TV."
-Ultimately, the “pigs” represent those at the top who perpetuate the ruthless, dog-eat-dog social dynamics satirized on the album for their own benefit. By calling them out in this cynical song, Pink Floyd voiced their conviction that such systems of oppression led by the powerful “pigs” at the top needed to change.
it is not about anything so concrete as a book or film,
is a Satira to society , and the powers that be !
I'm sure 1984 was in RW mind even though the album is not specifically a homage to the book.
@MsCorbacho Neil is describing the live in concert music video that plays on screen so actually
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ROCK IT Stacey!! Was kind of waiting for you to react to this one. I saw the original guys do this live in Milwaukee in 1977. End of the first set. Truly, I recall this song. The pig flying over our heads. The one floating in the parking lot that exploded after David's solo. Perhaps one of their most angry songs. Thanks Stacey! Your reactions to this band are special.
1 OF THE BEST CONCERTS I'VE BEEN TO.
For many many years I’d put this album on (cassette tape in those days!) and drift off to sleep to it. God I wish I could sleep that sound nowadays as a 60 year old! Great choice, great reaction - keep the Floyd coming 👌
Now that you've taken the Pink Floyd journey, your next 1970s prog-rock journey should be Jethro Tull Aqualung album, starting with the songs Locomotive Breath, Cross-eyed Mary, and Aqualung.
The Wall 1979.
My favorite from that album. Love the guitar solo. Their album artwork is always interesting.
It absolutely is. The voice synthisizer.
So many people forget that Pink Floyd's origins are the mid 1960s. They are on par with The Rolling Stones for longevity.
I love the line "you radiate cold shafts of broken glass" Such descriptive imagery.!!
Comment 667! the "Wailing" Guitar is all side guitar by mr. gilmour. He's so good... The solo, you got it right, nice job! 😎👍
Great reaction, so much wanted you to react to this one! Thanks Stacey. Now you can enjoy Animals end-to-end :)
PIGS!!! That's my favorite song, from the animals album. I love it.
A masterpiece!!!...Excellent..👌👌
Ohhh you should also listen to the remix of the album that they did a few years ago. The OG is amazing but the new mix is still very well done and fun to listen to all the varying differences. Same exact songs, just mixed and mastered differently. One of their best albums and criminally underrated. :)
This is one of the many "Concept" albums produced during the 60's and 70's. Concept albums are like musical books, with each song being like a chapter of the book. the whole album tells a story or takes on an emotional trip. I am 68 y/o and I was fortunate to have grown up during this musical renascence period. I have always been a music lover and could turn you on to a lot of great music. I enjoy your reactions and am very pleased to be a subscriber! Peace and Love! 🥰
In 1978 this was the third Floyd album I bought starting with DSOTM and then Wish You Were Here, and I think having read Animal Farm in school previously this was such a deep album. Seeing what was going on in the UK at the time on the news and reading the lyrics everytime I listened to it, I got the political commentary.
Listening to it all the way through will put it all together.
This track was extended live I’ve heard live at Oakland version on UA-cam which is over 17mins 30 long David signs off with an even angrier shorter 2nd solo after the main end solo from the album. Unlike pulse animals tour only exists on bootleg recordings with sound quality as you would expect on bootlegs.
love how you see right through the music and into the meaning of it. Nailed it again. well done young lady, keep them coming.
Also, I'm so glad you reacted to Animals over time. It's definitely one of my favorite Pink Floyd albums.
Yes! Spring 1992, i heard 'Dogs' on the radio, all 17+ minutes, when I was 17. Animals was my first floyd album purchase soon after. I now have everything from Piper through the Endless river and a couple dozen live recordings (on Cd, WAY before UA-cam was around). Animals has always been my favourite album, though I love it all. Hope Animals is your first full album listen. Pigs on the Wing, Pts 1 and 2 are the short songs at the beginning and end that bookend the album. Thanks, as always!
Most underated PF album. Just plain exquisite on so many levels.
Yes it's the famous talkbox or fuzz box......he can do anything with a stringed instrument. He also said that this was the most angry guitar he ever played.
Cheers, I just love watching someone discovering the beauty in my favourite band of all time.
Talk-box - the guitar goes into a small speaker that feeds into a tube which goes into your mouth which is then picked up on the vocal microphone. My friend and I made one in high school that sounded amazing.
Animals is my favourite Pink Floyd album, and that’s saying something because I have a heartfelt love of them all. There’s just something about the dynamics of this one, ethereal, brutal and beautiful.
BTW….thats also Gilmour playing bass on this track.
The Animals reactions vids were all awesome!! My favorites.. cant wait for the album vid!!
When a Pink Floyd number has lyrics, they are an essential part of the whole piece. The lyrics are the core of the song, and although the music can be overwhelming, having the lyrics adds another dimension to the experience.