Pink Floyd - Animals
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Free Music Review: rats
Hit: 1 Stars
The first time I heard this would be kind of album I was imagining little brown things dropping from Roger Waters' behind. 12 years later my sentiment's the same but my dad keeps on playing this garbage.
All the six tracks: Cats, Rats, Centipedes, Mammoths and Lice all sound completely interchangable. (yeah I know its Dogs Sheep Fish and the other thing, but it's blatantly the same anyway).
Pink Floyd hit it big in the beginning of their carear but lost it with Meddle and A dark sight of the moon. Take Ummagumma, Soucerful, AHM, Obscured by clouds if you are fan of classic rocK, but avoid this horrible piece of dung from...animals.
Simon Hurt
Free Music Review: The last flawless masterpiece from Pink Floyd.
Hit: 5 Stars
Well, boom, there ya go! Roger Waters takes absolute control of the group from this point on, and the result is an underrated masterpiece that sounds nothing like the earlier releases, while still having a Pink Floyd stamp on the tunes. Wow. Animals has often been called the Punky Floyd album, but that's only becuase of the angry-as-hell lyrics that Roger penned. Yet another concept album, this one deals with different classes in society being compared to animals. The high class are pigs, the middle class are dogs, and the poor are sheep. As for the music, well it's a definete step over the jamming of Wish You Were Here. The psychedelic factor is just about nil here, so a lot of rock fans can really get into this album. Pigs On The Wing starts off with Roger in a folky mood yet again, with some great lyrics, setting a mood of paranoid love. Dogs, is the brilliant excourse into the pain and violence of the album. The melody is harsh and strong, with a paranoid feel at the same time. Dave's solos are absolutly breathtaking on this song, probably the best of his career. The sound effects really help the songs and the story move along, especially the echoed "stone" that Dave sings. It really feels like someone is being drowned. One of the best "long" songs that Floyd has. Pigs is another classic, which has Roger at his absolute best singing, second only that to The Wall. The synth solo is fabulous, fitting in with the pig noises perfectly. Finally, there is Sheep, the most rocking out song that Floyd ever did. Just listen to that riff David blares out 2 minutes before the end, and tell me that doesn't make you feel like thrashing your head around. Another perfect song from a perfect album. And then we return to Pigs On The Wing, which makes the album seem like a cycle. Problem solved. What I love about this album is that it's a radical depature from the early days. Gone are the loose jams and psychedelic feel, replaced by something resembling rock theater. Hmmmn, rock theater? Sounds like our next album.Free Music Review: The first installment in a Waters-dominated trilogy
Hit: 3 Stars
Animals was the first in a trilogy of Pink Floyd albums dominated by Roger Waters' lyrical and (eventually) musical ideas. I am in a minority on this matter, but I think this domination of the band had a negative impact on the band's music and creativity. While many Floyd fans - particularly those new to the band - will find Animals to be appealing, partly due to the fact that it has not suffered the radio overplay of Dark Side or The Wall - those who like the collaborative and more diverse nature of earlier Floyd albums may be disappointed.
Unlike The Wall and The Final Cut, which moved Floyd to a more radio-friendly, short song format, Animals sticks to the lengthy epics of early albums. The instrumental sound of the music is quite similar to that on Wish You Were Here, and there are still quite a few lengthy instrumental passages. But those passages tend to be fairly straightforward, with little of the spacy and abstract "head music" of Floyd's earlier work. Gilmour's guitar playing dominates throughout; Rick Wright, aside from a very nice electric piano solo at the beginning, is limited to textural work. "Dogs" is probably the best of the bunch - especially the first half - followed by "Sheep". The two "Pigs on the Wing" bookends are actually quite lovely and tend to be overlooked. And I've always found "Pigs" to be completely boring, just mainstream 70s rock dragged to an unnecessary length - but again, I'm in a minority here.
Waters's lyrics are the second key component here, and your assessment of the album will ultimately ride on how you feel about them. I personally find the Animals theme to be uninteresting rather than clever. It doesn't help that Waters's voice, occasionally effective but more often hectoring (it would get worse on later albums), ends up keeping the emotional range of the music very narrow.
Overall, not a bad listen - but Pink Floyd's preceding albums are generally better.
Free Music Review: Classic Part of any Pink Floyd Collection
Hit: 5 Stars
I became introduced to this album long after I listened to The Wall. Up until then The Wall & the Dark Side of the Moon were the only Pink Floyd I owned or heard. A friend played this album in review for me and I had to have it as part of my collection. I do not believe you'll find any of the tracks on some sort of greatest hits cd. I would encourage a Pink Floyd collector to add this cd as it is definitely a classic!Free Music Review: something's not quite right
Hit: 3 Stars
I have mixed feelings with Animals. While some people are quick to claim it the very best Floyd album, others (like me) are very skeptical of that.
You see, the thing I mostly like Pink Floyd for was their highly unusual and distinct atmosphere that made the band both interesting and complex. By the late 70's, the band stopped including psychedelic elements. Now, I understand that was starting to go out of style by that time as punk, disco and new wave were on the horizon. But to me that means the band should have just broken up after Wish You Were Here, because without that strange atmosphere the band were the masters at, you now just have a songwriting album with nothing to back up the ordinary songs.
That's what happened with Animals. Sure, I can remember how the songs go because the 70's were a very memorable decade. So to some extent I still like the album. There ARE some good guitar tricks too, such as the way the guitar work plays at the end of "Sheep", which is FANTASTIC
But seriously, "Dogs" NEEDED to be about 7 minutes shorter, and the band should have made another song out of those 7 minutes (I don't know, call it "Cats").
But without the psychedelic sounds, the band was rather ordinary to me. How people can put this album on the same level as A Saucerful of Secrets is a mystery to me. It's a good enough effort, but the Wall just further proves the band was heading in a direction that never should have happened in the first place.