ANIMALS

A lot of people always talk about Animals saying it's the best Pink Floyd album. Tha't not true, sorry for the fans. Released in 1977, year of the punks, Animals is a good album, I agree, but not a masterpiece - even if Dogs and Sheep are marvellous.

Only 5 tracks, including two very short ones (1,25 each, the two parts of Pigs On The Wing which opens and closes the disc). The three others last from 10 to 17 minutes.

Dogs is from far the best track, and the longest. Performed by Gilmour, except the last verse ('Who was...', etc) by Waters - who wrote all of the tracks, with Gilmour on Dogs.

Pigs (Three Different Ones) is the song I like the less, I found it a little boring and repetitive. 11 minutes.

Sheep is great, 10 minutes, and is probably the album's most well-known song.

The two parts of Pigs On The Wing are lo-fi, nce, but too short to be ttally interesting.

In its entirety, a special album, based in part on the Orwell novel 'Animal Farm'. Waters imagine the humanhood as a bunch of animals. The policemen are the pigs. The businessmen, the dogs. We simple people, the sheeps (in french, Moutons de Panurge, those of you who know about the french middle-age writer Rabelais would know what I'm talking about).

On the cover art, a floating pig above the Battersea electrical factory. A vision of a inhuman, polluted London. In fact, maybe the best Pink Floyd sleeve.

But the album itself is probably a little bit overrated, though very good indeed.