ANIMALS

Pink Floyd's eleventh album was another Progressive Rock classical masterpiece.

After "Wish you were here" was published, the following album by Pink Floyd was "Animals". "Animals" was based on a short book by George Orwell titled "Animal farm". The album is ambitious: a short song divided into two parts at the beginning and end of the album and three long amazing pieces in the middle talking about the predominant species of animals (characters of Orwell's book).

The album is clearly in the vein of the last two albums: the long compositions filled with long instrumental sections in which the musicians kept rolling on the spacey improvisations that characterized the band are still there; it was the last album with this kind of compositions, because "The wall" was clearly an iconic change in their sound.

1.- Pigs on the wing (part one) (01:24): The album starts with a short acoustic song, no electric guitars, bass, or drums on this piece, which is the introduction to the conceptual album that is about to begin.

2.- Dogs (17:06): Album's longest song occupying almost the entire A-side. This piece is an amazing journey through the experimental long instrumental passages accompanied with a well-assembled rock ballad that goes and goes until reaches its climax. The band worked amazingly here as a group even when the song was almost entirely composed by Roger Waters.

3.- Pigs (three different ones) (11:29): This song has no acoustic guitar and it's mainly a bluesy rock piece that gets its Progressive Rock atmosphere from Rick Wright's keyboards and the incessant drumming of Nick Mason. The same guitar riffs and bass lines are played along with the song in a hypnotic way (it doesn't get boring) occasionally guitar solos as well.

4.- Sheep (10:19): The hardest rock song of the album, with an amazing work of Richard Wright giving it a very entertaining touch. The song is in the same style as its predecessor and ends with a guitar riff that repeats itself over and over again until the tranquility reaches the music and opens the door to the closing track.

5.- Pigs on the wing (part two) (01:24): The same acoustic arrangement of the first part, only changing the lyrics closes this work quite nicely.

After this album the band changed its style and legal troubles started to appear and all of that became a very uncertain era for Pink Floyd, so it's fair to say that this album was the golden button that closed an era.

SONG RATING: Pigs on the wing 1, 5 Dogs, 5 Pigs (three different ones), 5 Sheep, 5 Pigs on the wing 2, 5

AVERAGE: 5

PERCENTAGE: 100

ALBUM RATING: 5 stars

I ranked this album #8 on my TOP 100 favorite Progressive Rock albums of all time.

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