ANIMALS

Pink Floyd's triumvirate of prog brilliance, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish you were here and Animals, never cease to amaze me. While I have ranked all three of these classic albums 5 stars, Animals is the best of these. A concept album concerning the strata of the modern society, Animals features excellent guitar work and the studio effects that Pink Floyd has come to be recognized for. The book ends of Pigs on the Wing, although simple, fit the album well. Roger Waters' singing actually sums up the album as a whole, but I will leave the listener to figure these out. Dogs, the album's longest song and one of Pink Floyd's longest (after the awful Atom Heart Mother Suite), features, in my opinion, some of Dave Gilmour's best guitar work. The solos are quite expressive and make great use of falling chords and strange tones to augment the soloing. A criticism of the businessmen and their loss of individuality to the system, the dogs, like Orwell's dogs in Animal Farm, terrorize the sheep and are at the beck and call of the pigs. Although I find Pigs (Three Different Ones) to the weakest song on the album, this really does not mean much on such a strong album as this. The bass work and the keyboard work really shine on this track, with Nick Mason's drumming complimenting each note. The end of the song, with screaming guitar work and pounding instrumentation, really shines. Sheep is my absolute favorite song on the album and one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs. Beginning with Rick Wright's almost bluesy keyboard intro, slowly melded with swirling bass lines before quickly shifting to a galloping rocker with huge guitar hits, pounding drums, atmospheric synth hits and wailing vocals, Sheep is a deservedly a Pink Floyd classic. Pink Floyd is a hard band to be disappointed by, and Animals certainly reinforces this fact. While the track lengths can be difficult to newer prog admirers, give them time. I hope they will make the same impact on you as they have on me.

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