ANIMALS

I will say with uttmost certainty that this is my favorite Floyd album. Animals was Floyd putting together the balance that was found on Drak Side with the darkness that transpired on the forthcoming The Wall. It is Roger Waters' satirical look at the human population as one of three animals: Dogs, Pigs, and Sheep. I suppose thaat the pigs are the leaders/politicians that tell the dogs what to do. the dogs are those that follow the leaders or i'd say rebel against the leader, and the sheep are those that are just common and misplaced people that do what they're told. It is also said to have Animal Farm (George Orwell) references all over it and Roger apparently got the idea for the album from this book. It's actually fun to read the book and to listen to the album at teh same time...really enhances the book and album ideas.

The album begins with an acoustic piece that demostrates the style you SHOULDN'T expect to hear over the rest of the album: tranquility/happines...you get it. As soon as it's over we move into the sinister epic "Dogs", which spans 17 minutes long and can be heard on the archives. Then we fade into "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" which begins with keyboard spirals and a very memorable riff before breaking into the pseudo-chorus after every line "Haha, charade you are!". This is my favorite track on the album. Next up is "Sheep" another long song which has plays on common reliigion and all sorts of little satires while keeping melody attached in good style, with a very nice Gilmour solo to top it off. Then we end with the second half of "Pigs on the Wing", ending the album on a bittersweet note and casting the ideas in iron.

This is the Floyd masterpiece I think, or one of them. It is also the most difficult Floyd masterpiece to get into...although it's still not that hard to love. I'd say go get it now if you don't have it, your collection is incomplete without it.