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Originally posted by Foxprog Foxprog wrote:

Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Time
Money

I'm not a massive fan of this album although I've seen it performed live in it's entirety and it becomes a different animal in that environment entirely. It rocks big time and the guitar licks are some of the best of any genre. However I will always turn towards Wish You Were Here and Animals if I feel like listening to some Floyd.

If I want to listen to Pink Floyd I will turn to "Ummagumma" or "Meddle", but most definitely not to the ridiculously overrated "Animals". Had "Animals" come out a few years earlier my opinion would be different, but for the time it came out it was absolutely lame compared to what was musically going on at that time.


Animals is not vastly overrated. By looking it objectively, it's the only Floyd album without "bad songs". The album is solid as a rock. It's also the favourite album by many hardcore Floyd fans.

first of all: there is no such thing as "looking at something objectively"; this only exists in your imagination. personal taste always plays a crucial role. and "bad" is in the eye of the beholder, or rather the ear of the listener. there are in my opinion definitely two weak tracks on "Animals", the two parts of "Pigs on the Wing". "Meddle" or "Ummagumma" don't have weak tracks. yes, I love "San Tropez" and "Seamus" (how someone can NOT love that dog's singing is beyond me, but I know many people hate that track).

second: as Friede rightly pointed out an album has to be viewed in the context of the time it was recorded. had "Animals" been recorded in 1972 or 1973 it would have been great. but at the time it came out it sounded as if coming from a bunch of BOFs who are totally oblivious to what is musically going on around them and who have become so saturated that they can't get their fat asses out of their armchairs anymore to really get rocking. other artists had noticed the sign of the times and reacted; take for example Hawkwind's "Quark, Strangeness and Charme" or "Live Floating Anarchy" by Planet Gong which came out in the same year as "Animals".

I know a lot of people love "Animals", but for me it is absolutely lame. in the context of time, of course


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Originally posted by Foxprog Foxprog wrote:

Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Time
Money

I'm not a massive fan of this album although I've seen it performed live in it's entirety and it becomes a different animal in that environment entirely. It rocks big time and the guitar licks are some of the best of any genre. However I will always turn towards Wish You Were Here and Animals if I feel like listening to some Floyd.

If I want to listen to Pink Floyd I will turn to "Ummagumma" or "Meddle", but most definitely not to the ridiculously overrated "Animals". Had "Animals" come out a few years earlier my opinion would be different, but for the time it came out it was absolutely lame compared to what was musically going on at that time.


Animals is not vastly overrated. By looking it objectively, it's the only Floyd album without "bad songs". The album is solid as a rock. It's also the favourite album by many hardcore Floyd fans.





I agree, and Animals is my favourite Floyd album. Dogs is their finest work IMO.

I can understand why some folk don't like it. It's cold and harsh sounding, and doesn't have the swirling, synthy dynamics of WYWH, or the dark mystery and diversity of styles and sounds as DSOTM. It's not groundbreaking. It's angry and cynical, but for me it's an album that captures everything I've wanted to say about the world at various points in my life, and of course there's an element of the significance of when I first heard this album and what was going on in my life, that has affirmed it as a favourite. It's for similar reasons ATTWT by Genesis is another much loved album for me, but seemingly disliked by many others.
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Best: Time
Worst: On the Run (does that count as a song?)
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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Time
Money

I'm not a massive fan of this album although I've seen it performed live in it's entirety and it becomes a different animal in that environment entirely. It rocks big time and the guitar licks are some of the best of any genre. However I will always turn towards Wish You Were Here and Animals if I feel like listening to some Floyd.

If I want to listen to Pink Floyd I will turn to "Ummagumma" or "Meddle", but most definitely not to the ridiculously overrated "Animals". Had "Animals" come out a few years earlier my opinion would be different, but for the time it came out it was absolutely lame compared to what was musically going on at that time.


Animals is not vastly overrated. By looking it objectively, it's the only Floyd album without "bad songs". The album is solid as a rock. It's also the favourite album by many hardcore Floyd fans.
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Time
Money

I'm not a massive fan of this album although I've seen it performed live in it's entirety and it becomes a different animal in that environment entirely. It rocks big time and the guitar licks are some of the best of any genre. However I will always turn towards Wish You Were Here and Animals if I feel like listening to some Floyd.

If I want to listen to Pink Floyd I will turn to "Ummagumma" or "Meddle", but most definitely not to the ridiculously overrated "Animals". Had "Animals" come out a few years earlier my opinion would be different, but for the time it came out it was absolutely lame compared to what was musically going on at that time.


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Time
Money

I'm not a massive fan of this album although I've seen it performed live in it's entirety and it becomes a different animal in that environment entirely. It rocks big time and the guitar licks are some of the best of any genre. However I will always turn towards Wish You Were Here and Animals if I feel like listening to some Floyd.
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This is indeed a Sum is better than the parts album. I do like many songs from it, but choosing one is really difficult. Time, The Great Gig in the Sky, Us & Them, and Brain Damage / Eclipse are all wonderful, yet the greatness of that album resides upon listening to the whole album.
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This is almost impossible since I tend to like them all equally. This is a fantastically consistent album. That said, I'm going to try something I've never even dreamed of attempting: a full top to bottom ranking.

Time
The Great Gig in the Sky
On the Run
Breathe
Eclipse
Brain Damage
Us and Them
Any Colour You Like
Money
Speak to Me


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I love Money, but I'm a poor Pink Floyd fan.
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Originally posted by MortSahlFan MortSahlFan wrote:

 Best: Time
Worst: On The Run



Best: Us and Them

Worst(or at least least favorite): On the Run



Though I picked differently on mine, I really cannot argue with this either. Good piks. 

I've always been a side-one guy, but Us and Them is undeniably exquisite?  I'm not a big sax guy, but on this song it is heroic. 
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Originally posted by MortSahlFan MortSahlFan wrote:

 Best: Time
Worst: On The Run

Even though I like OTR I would have to agree here. It seems to be a sequencer so it's probably ground breaking but it just doesn't really do much. Tangerine Dream could have done better in their sleep(pun intended Wink).

As for favorite possibly Time but I also really like the Great Gig in the Sky and Us and them.

Here is my official answer:

Best: Us and Them

Worst(or at least least favorite): On the Run


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"Time" and "The Great Gig in the Sky" are both great; I can't choose between them.

Not certain about worst. Definitely not "Money"; a great track to dance to. One of the proofs that a 7/8 rhythm can definitely be danced to. Another one is "Dance on a Volcano", by the way.


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Best: Time/Great Gig (yes, I do realize putting both is cheating) Big smile
Worst: Money
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 Best: Time
Worst: On The Run
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The best and the "worst" song in your opinion?

Best : Us and Them
Worst : Money

Yes I know it's an fantastic album and should not be divided into best and worst song haha
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