Pink Floyd's: Animals vs Wish You Were Here

At the start of the poll I was concerned Animals had more votes than WYWH. I supported 1975 and last time I looked this morning it was tied 18.
Glad to see the better album leading and Wish It Went To Next Round!

EDIT: by making this post the vote is again tied but this time 21!

Edited by AZF - July 29 2016 at 09:49

Animals easily.

Wish, pretty easily.

Wish You Were Here - no contest!

King Only wrote: uduwudu wrote: The Dark Elf wrote: They needed to add one more animal to the bunch. Which one though? Rats were done by the Stranglers, Mice had Jethro Tull and Genesis. Budgies... no... not Budgies. Cats?  Vultures. Or Lemmings. I'm pretty sure Roger could have written some good lyrics about either of those animals.

Can't be Lemmings, already done by VDGG. Possibly vultures, but that doesn't fit the farm atmosphere. I'd say horses or cats or maybe goats

It's Wish' for me!

David its kind of opposite for me.  I liked Animals a lot as a kid.  I don't feel it has held up as well for me now as an older person.  Dark Side is that warm album that speaks to the human condition, shared emotion, common fears, it still can move me to tears.  Wish You Were Here is the perfectly manicured one, with sonic chill, artwork, and lyrics that capture so well the Syd trip and the music biz disillusion.  So much subtle beauty. It still blows my mind.  Animals on the other hand means very little to me now, it is a nice collection of "Floyd-ey jams", I'll give it that.  Dave does well as he always does, the others seem like they're phoning it in.  It never feels memorable, or special, or inspiring.  Mostly it's kind of a drag and I think Roger really upped his game and kicked ass to recover so well with The Wall.  Animals was a solid base hit before they cranked yet another tater over the fence with The Wall.  Just my opinion of course, I know Animals is many people's favorites and so my apologies for dissing it a bit. 

I agree with you about the unrealistic expectations of fans of course.  True classics don't come along all that often.

I thought they were all superb in their own unique ways. Animals has that album climax in the last track and a lot of sonic and musical exploration which is way more evident in the remaster (cleared the cob webs away). Still apparently Rick Wright was not absolutely on the top of his game for whatever reasons but they still managed to put out of the best albums of that year.

Must say I don't play much PF now as I've largely well, internalized it all and don't really need to do so.

This may change with that new box set which'll replace quite a few bootlegs.

uduwudu wrote: Must say I don't play much PF now as I've largely well, internalized it all and don't really need to do so. This may change with that new box set which'll replace quite a few bootlegs.

I'm salivating too although I'm gonna have to sell a kidney to afford it

Still Animals