ANIMALS

I agree to many of my pre-viewers, that this album was an underrated one for a long time, but I don´t think that this view is valid up to now. ANIMALS contains a combination of demanding music (you can`t grasp by hearing the record for one or two times) and thematically closed texts, which reflect typical human traits. The album is opened with part 1 of the short acoustic "Pigs on the Wing", a poem charging the missing brotherly love of today`s society. By the way, part 2 of the same track closes the album, but the key numbers are the remainig "Dogs", "Pigs" and "Sheep". The 17-minute "Dogs" expresses, that it depends on waiting for the appropriate opportunity to get in quickly at the right moment, always longing for his own advantage. Careerists and also ass-kissers seem to be meant here. In "Pigs" a person is spoken of by name. It´s the english anti-Porn/pro-religion fighter Mary Whitehouse. Therefore, this song is not only "dedicated" to persons, who are faulty morally, but also to humans, who care for the morale of other persons. At last, there is the 3rd category: the sheep- humans, led by others in their lifetime, not having special ambitions and perhaps already satisfied, if they are let alone, or, perhaps being afraid of their boss or of mobbing cölleagues or other uncomfortable fellows. I´m thinking highly of this record - in my opinion it is on the same level as the landmark albums "DARK SIDE OF THE MOON", "WISH YOU WERE HERE" and "THE WALL"- and give 5 stars to it.