Pink Floyd's Animals Review

Pink Floyd's Animals Review

The Pink Floyd album Animals was released January 23, 1977 in the UK by Harvest Records. It was then released in the United States by Columbia Records on February 2, 1997. It was an adequate success for the bang earning a Quadruple Platinum score from the RIAA. It featured David Gilmour on lead guitar, Nick Mason on drums, Roger Waters on bass and lead vocals, Richard Wright during any type of keyboarding and synthesizer work. Snowy White also did lead guitar on Pigs on a Wing. The song was based off George Orwell's novel, Animal Farm. It attacks capitalism and identifies social castes with animals. (ie. Dogs as enforcers of law, Sheep as useless pawns, Horses as the working class, and Pigs as heartless rulers)

The opening song is Pigs on the Wing part one. It features Roger Waters on acoustic guitar. He talks about how a lack of care will lead to no unison and blaming each other instead of helping. Dogs, the second track, opens with the strumming of an acoustic guitar on the D chord and an electronic effect that drives into vocals of Gilmour. This song has a nice under lying drive throughout and has the feel of a hurried explanation of accusation. It talks about dogs who are businessmen who will do anything to get ahead. At 3:43 Gilmour has a guitar solo that features dog barking sound effects and lasts til 6:48. At 8:10 the repetition of “Who” is used in the echo type then goes into an instrumental arrangement until 12:17. Rogers finishes off singing the last two verses in unison with Gilmour. The song is 17 minutes long. Pigs (Three Different Ones) is the next song. It opens with pig snorts and a guitar riff. There is a brief clip of piano at 2:30 which is very rare for this album. “Ha ha charade you are” is repeated often which is a poke at the British Politicians. At the 5 minute mark there is a guitar solo with added effects and a screeching tone. It sounds very much like a pig. The song is 11 and a half minutes. The album finishes with Sheep and the...

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