ANIMALS

Pink Floyd were my first love, but to give this 5 is slightly mad. It's very good and certainly valid prog but sometimes you get the feeling these songs didn't have to be quite as long as they were. For me, The Wall is a better album - probably one of the best concept albums of all time. Looking at something such as song length can sometimes be a superficial way to analyse what is prog or what isn't. Certainly these are fine songs - Dogs being the standout. Gilmore's guitar work is breathtaking and inspired and the song is genuinely moving. Pigs is pretty good but, after Dogs, the middle section seems to be a bit of a pain to sit through - and the same goes for Sheep. The 3 main songs all have the same structure but Dogs is the only one to really justify these overlong forms. Sheep and Pigs are really just two ample rock songs with huge indulgent middle sections chucked in. But I still like it.

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