Pink Floyd - Animals

My favourite track is Pigs three different ones ....the groove is great. I love the joy of waters singing woo! In the the verse verse. You can clearly hear him having a great time singing it.

Oh and that cowbell gets me every time :)
 
I do like it but it's not my favourite. Great concept, mostly great lyrics. Sheep is a bit weak and I tend to skip it. Has a couple of tedious 'jam' / instrumental sections than interrupts the tunes (i.e. that tedious keyboard section in dogs and the instrumental section in pigs... and I actually think the harmonised guitar sections in dogs should have been cut too).

Wall > all!

I love the instrumental sections...the drum fill and then drone at around 4.40 in pigs is class
 
Do you like Atom Heart Mother (the song)? I love that... love the jam in the middle before the voices come back with "rapatika! etc" :) I also love Echoes. For some reason the jams on Animals feel like filler to me. I guess it's because in my view the lyrics outshine them. :)

The guitar solos in pigs and in dogs are more sophisticated and experimental than AHM...but love it all the same...:)

Gilmour loves the blues pentatonic as do I but on animals he shifts up a gear in phrasing.

Btw...one of my favourite solos by Gilmour is cultural cliche ...comfortably numb is blues pentatonic mostly...:) but it hits the spot :)
 
Does anyone hear the Alan Partridge reference ?

Disclaimer -Beware once heard you cannot unhear it...

Let me know
 
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Click Below only if you want to know the Alan Partridge bit you have been warned.

You gotta be crazy, you gotta have a real need
You gotta sleep on your toes, and when you're on the street
You gotta be able to pick out the easy meat with your eyes closed
And then moving in silently, down wind and out of sight
You gotta strike when the moment is right without thinking
And after a while, you can work on points for style
Like the club tie, and the firm handshake
A certain look in the eye and an easy smile
You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to
So that when they turn their backs on you,
You'll get the chance to put the knife in
You gotta keep one eye looking over your shoulder
You know it's going to get harder, and harder, and harder as you get older
And in the end you'll pack up and fly down south
Hide your head in the sand,
Just another sad old man
All alone and dying of cancer

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And when you loose control, you'll reap the harvest you have sown
And as the fear grows, the bad blood slows and turns to stone
And it's too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around
So have a good drown, as you go down, all alone
Dragged down by the stone (stone, stone, stone, stone, stone)
I gotta admit that I'm a little bit confused
Sometimes it seems to me as if I'm just being used
Gotta stay awake, gotta try and shake off this creeping malaise
If I don't stand my own ground, how can I find my way out of this maze?
Deaf, dumb, and blind, you just keep on pretending
That everyone's expendable and no-one has a real friend
And it seems to you the thing to do would be to isolate the winner
And everything's done under the sun
And you believe at heart, everyone's a killer
Who was born in a house full of pain
Who was trained not to spit in the fan
Who was told what to do by the man
Who was broken by trained personnel
Who was fitted with collar and chain
Who was given a pat on the back
Who was breaking away from the pack
Who was only a stranger at home
Who was ground down in the end
Who was found dead on the phone
Who was dragged down by the stone
 
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