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TheLionOfPrague 
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Posted: August 07 2016 at 18:36 |
The Wall is a very good album
Dark Side, WYWH and Animals are perfect.
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Posted: August 07 2016 at 18:13 |
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zero contest man...
The Wall by the shear numbers of necrosis's that Roger exhibited on that album. brilliant stuff.. fascinating stuff..
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Posted: August 07 2016 at 16:36 |
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A curse upon the heads of those who seek their fortunes in a lie. The truth is always waiting when there's nothing left to try. - Colin Henson, Jade Warrior (Now)
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Posted: August 06 2016 at 14:11 |
 The Dark Elf wrote:
I went with The Wall. Sprawling, messy and too Watery  but it is also far more ambitious. There are so many great moments on The Wall that it simply overwhelms Animals, which is often simply bitter and, after all, only contains 3 complete songs. |
hell yeah
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Posted: August 06 2016 at 14:09 |
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The wall, animals is a great album, but i got more enjoyment out of the wall.
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Posted: August 06 2016 at 12:43 |
I went with The Wall. Sprawling, messy and too Watery but it is also far more ambitious. There are so many great moments on The Wall that it simply overwhelms Animals, which is often simply bitter and, after all, only contains 3 complete songs.
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Posted: August 02 2016 at 05:49 |
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Actually, I love them equally. But I gave my vote to the Wall based on the fact that I invested much more money into the wall. I own one copy of Animals, whereas I own a number of different Live documents (several CDs and a two DVDs) of the wall next to the original album.
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Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus
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Posted: July 30 2016 at 18:01 |
I went with The Wall because this was when I discovered Floyd. I was 11 in 1979, and I kept hearing all these amazing new songs on the radio; I'd wait to find out who it was, and it was always Pink Floyd. It seemed like this music was made especially for me: Comfortably Numb, Hey You, Run Like Hell, Goodbye Blue Sky. This was at exactly same moment I was discovering older songs being played on the radio: One of These Days, Have a Cigar, Welcome to the Machine, Breathe, The Great Gig in the Sky. I was stunned that they were all by the same band. I bought The Wall and poured over the lyrics, wearing out the grooves on all 4 vinyl sides. It's that experience that I'll always treasure.
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Posted: July 30 2016 at 16:45 |
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Animals. I don't like The Wall ...
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Michael678
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Posted: July 30 2016 at 11:30 |
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Animals
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Posted: July 30 2016 at 00:05 |
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Animals by far
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Posted: July 29 2016 at 23:46 |
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The Wall is flawed, puerile, too long, and overexposed. It's also tremendous, kick-ass, jawdropping, and impossible to emulate. Animals is a better record but I give it to every 80s high school student's de-virginizing heartbreak of a rock album.
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Posted: July 29 2016 at 23:30 |
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Surprisingly difficult for me, but I gave my vote to the underdog (heh), The Wall. A true epic with scathing observations and drama. I find the whole sequence concerning the trial to be particularly intense. And I love Animals.
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Posted: July 29 2016 at 12:41 |
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Animals still sounds like Pink Floyd to me where The Wall sounds like Roger Waters...
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Posted: July 29 2016 at 10:35 |
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The Wall but not easily.
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Posted: July 29 2016 at 09:51 |
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Animals but not easily !
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The Mystical
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Posted: July 29 2016 at 08:45 |
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Two absolute gems. Funnily enough, I was just comparing these two yesterday after a long Pink Floyd hiatus. I would perhaps choose Animals by a minuscule margin, but The Wall is a masterpiece.
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Posted: July 29 2016 at 08:41 |
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Being on lost side here as my vote goes to The Wall. Not that I love The Wall soo much, but it was the first Floyd LP I heard back in start of 80'th and this has some impact on me. More to it, it's not such bad record, maybe too long and Watersian, but definitely not bad.
Animals is on my Floyd records chart on bottom shelf (almost every Floyd's record would win over Animals) so the conclusion is obvious.
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Posted: July 28 2016 at 21:24 |
SteveG wrote:
Dellinger wrote:
King Only wrote:
SteveG wrote:
Which Roger Waters authored work do you prefer? |
I don't consider Animals to be a Roger Waters authored work, no matter what the writing credits say. HUGE contributions from Wright, Gilmour and even Mason all over the three main tracks on that album. I love Roger's lyrics and vocals on it too.
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I wouldn't have put Animals as a Roger Waters authored work either... for that I guess it would have been more accurate to put The Wall with The Final Cut. And it's not only that Gilmour or Wright might have contributed a lot or a little to the Waters penned songs, but there's still the matter of Dogs, which is actually credited Gilmour/Waters... and as far as I understant the music is mostly a Gilmour affair, Waters got his credit because of the lyrics. And since Dogs is the longest song on the album, it's almost half of the music on the album that is not written by Waters. |
Sorry, but the force of Water's is as clear to me on Animals as it is with his following PF albums. Mason goes through the motions and Wright, the unsung co-star of the Wish You Were Here album, is creatively missing in action. I wish he was there for Animals.Water's pushed and Gilmour responded, but to me, Animals this 90% Waters' vision, IMHO. PF, with Animals, has assumed an identifiably defining "Roger Waters' sound" that is prevalent on The Wall, The Final Cut and all of Waters' solo albums. Roger Waters authored Animals in more ways then people realize.
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Perhaps on Pigs and Dogs, since those are the Waters penned ones, but even then they don't sound like what would come next on The Wall and Final Cut, for this are longer pieces that would fit better with, say, Welcome to the Machine than with Another Brick in the Wall, Mother, Hey You, Comfortably Numb, etc. And still there's Dogs, easily my favourite here, which is very much Gilmour. Perhaps because of the concept and pesimism you could say it's got more Waters... but then again concepts and lyrics had been Waters thing since Dark Side... or perhaps even longer.
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Posted: July 28 2016 at 06:31 |
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Love both. I like Animals more though. Animals is probably my favorite Floyd album. There's just a beautifully dark vibe to Animals musically that's extremely unique.
I do like the lyrics on both, too. But lyrics aren't very important to me as a music fan, and for the vast majority of music that I'm a fan of, I have little idea what the lyrics are.
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Animals vs. The Wall
