ANIMALS

The most underrated album? Not really. It is probably the most overrated Pink Floyd album, I'd say. First off, the good things. Pigs on the Wing, Pigs, and Sheep all sound spectacular. POTW is a beautiful accoustic piece, and the rare three minute piece has one of David Gilmour's most beautiful guitar solos. Pigs is just an awesome rocker. There was an SNL sketch where Christopher Walken demand more cowbell from Blue Oyster Cult, and well, he would have loved this song. Everything comes together here, and the pig noises in the middle are icing on the cake. Sheep is one of Pink Floyd's greatest jams. The 12/8 time signature almost always means some good music, and this is no exception. The interplay between the drums, bass, keyboards, and guitar is outstanding, and the heavy chords played at the end are masterful. The sound is naturally good; Sheeps was on tour since Dark Side of the Moon, and in two years, all they had to work on was POTW and Pigs, as Dogs was also played on tour. Now, onto the bad. DOGS! Most overrated Pink Floyd song. It should've been 10 minutes, or more mercifully, 7 minutes. Shine on You Crazy Diamond, and Echoes are two songs that succeed in being very adventurous pieces with few bad moments. Dogs is very much a lull for most of the time. It has a few good chords by Gilmour, but you can find better in 'Comfortably Numb', 'Echoes', 'Shine On', the second suite of Atom Heart Mother, or material from the Wall. I heard this album was made to be more direct, with a punk-like minimalism, as at the time, progressive rock was said to be too pretentious. Waters stated he wanted to get rid of the 'blobs' of music that many fans would misinterpret. Well they certainly failed with Dogs. It's one of the most drawn out, long, pretentious Floyd songs ever written. The whole concept is bad too. It's a childish viewpoint, a childish rant against society. If I want to hear about people lumped into dumb metaphors, I'll go back to high school and hear about the prep and goths duke it out. Some say it's supposed to be cynical. However, if you want cynical, see the Wall, an album about war, a waste of childhood, and alienation, or the true underrated Pink Floyd album, "The Final Cut", the syrup that can be boiled out of the Wall, it's ten times darker and cynical. Hell, even see Wish You Were Here, or Dark Side of the Moon, about insanity, absence, and the record company. Just as dark, but still has some beautiful instrumental passages.

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