Animals (Pink Floyd album)
| Animals | ||
|---|---|---|
| Album Cover | ||
| LP by Pink Floyd | ||
| Released | January 23 1977 | |
| Recorded | Brittania Row Studios 1976 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 41 min 51 s | |
| Record label | Harvest Records | |
| Producer | Pink Floyd | |
| Professional reviews | ||
| Q | 3 stars out of 5 | August 1994 |
| RollingStone review | 4.5/5 (Only user ratings available) | link |
| Allmusic.com review | 4 out of 5 | link |
| Pink Floyd Chronology | ||
| Wish You Were Here (1975) |
Animals (1977) |
The Wall (1979) |
Animals is a Pink Floyd album, recorded at the band's own Britannia Row Studios in London and released in 1977 (see 1977 in music). It is a concept album, loosely reminiscent of George Orwell's famous book Animal Farm. A digitally re-mastered CD was released in 1994.
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Track listing
- "Pigs on the wing 1" (Waters) - 1:25
- "Dogs" (Waters/Gilmour) - 17:08
- "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" (Waters) - 11:28
- "Sheep" (Waters) - 10:20
- "Pigs on the wing 2" (Waters) - 1:25
Personnel
- Roger Waters - bass, vocals
- David Gilmour - guitar, vocals
- Richard Wright - keyboards
- Nick Mason - drums
Commentary
Through the central three songs, all over 10 minutes in length, Roger Waters equates all humans to one of three types of animals: dogs, pigs, or sheep. Dogs are used to represent the megalomaniacal businessmen who are finished by being dragged down by the very weight they needed to throw around. Pigs represent the corrupt politicians and moralists (with direct references to Margaret Thatcher and Mary Whitehouse). Those who do not fall into either of these two categories are sheep, who follow blindly, without any self-thought. These three core songs are bookended by a pair of love songs written by Waters: Pigs On The Wing parts 1 & 2. The message of these two songs and (as some interpret it) the album in general is that as long as Waters and the subject "Pigs on the wing" are with each other, they can shelter themselves from the evils of the world spoken about in the middle three songs. Waters also refers to himself as a dog in "Pigs on the wing 2".
Perhaps notably, Les Claypool's Frog Brigade covered the entire album in some concerts and eventually released a recording of this exact cover.
In the concerts they used to have a giant pig-shaped air baloon. It is alleged that once this baloon was acidentally released thus a gigantic floating pig was spoted by airport control towers in the sky for some days.