ANIMALS

One of Pink Floyd's best album (to me, the second, rigth after WYWH). I think this is a really good concept album, and it is clearler than DSOTM to follow, with its in- and outro and its 3 songs. Three songs about three classes in the society. I've read Animal Farm long time before to ear that album, and I must say I'm impressed by the lyrics. For those woh didn't read George Orwell's book, it is about animals that forms a society to live on their own. Like every country, there's a hierarchy with bad people in the top, and in this case, the pigs. So the third song is about comfort and injustice in the favour of high people. The lyrics aren't clean, and the music is cruel, rude, and it's a clear vision of what it is to be a leader. That's why this album is so different from any other PF: it is a very conceptual album, with no personnal emotions to share, but the ones of an old society. There's no virtuosity, except for the solo in Dogs, the song about a bunch of the population, the part that works hard and lives in inustice. There are some good vocals in there, and I especially like the 15 econds before the solo goes one... You can see plenty of images by listening at that, and it is a very animal world, so green! Sheep, finally, is more light, in my opinion, and greener too... The rest of the people, the ones who follow and live with fears, but who can't control anything. The intro with the keyboard gives me that impression: it's a bad world, but anyway... what can we do? Follow the others...

The music really fits with the concept, and this is another masterpiece signed by Waters, with a clear help by Gilmour and Wright... Nice ambiences and rudeness, a real 5- stars album...