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    Posted: April 11 2014 at 05:18
I see all love Animals, I think its only a good album, not a masterpiece as Dark Side Of The Moon, WYWH and The Wall.
The songs are from awesome to only okay, Sheep is a masterpiece the rest are good to decent. Wow i dont see the greatness all gives it, its not my favorite from Pink Floyd.

I like the album but it is just maybe a strong 7/10.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2014 at 05:22
Originally posted by Rihanna Rihanna wrote:

I see all love Animals, I think its only a good album, not a masterpiece as Dark Side Of The Moon, WYWH and The Wall.
The songs are from awesome to only okay, Sheep is a masterpiece the rest are good to decent. Wow i dont see the greatness all gives it, its not my favorite from Pink Floyd.

I like the album but it is just maybe a strong 7/10.

Believe me, to those of us growing up in a rather bleak 1970's Britain, it was a revelation, and revolutionary, in its way.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2014 at 05:24
No, you must be mistaken :-)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2014 at 05:28
I cant just appreciate it as you other, Dogs are nearly boring.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2014 at 05:34
Dogs is a full-on MASTERPIECE - how does one find it boring ?? This, I just cannot fathom.....
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2014 at 05:41
It's their best album imo. It's not as varied or groundbreaking as DSOTM, it's not as well produced or fresh sounding as WYWH, but for some reason it encapsulates mid to late 70's Britian perfectly. It has some of the agression of punk in places, as well as some of the best lyrics Waters ever wrote. Dogs is the ultimate Pink Floyd epic. Far more mature and more edgy than Echoes.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2014 at 06:22
Not their best album, but still alternating with Atom Heart Mother at the bottom of my top 5 of PF albums. Sheep and Dogs are both masterpieces. From a lyrical point of view Animals is surely one of their best.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2014 at 07:44
Their greatest album, and Dogs is a masterpiece.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2014 at 07:56
Dogs has one of the best Guilmour's guitar work. Those solos are jaw dropping Big smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2014 at 08:09
It's my favourite anyway Tongue.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2014 at 08:28
I love Animals. Might be my favorite Floyd album. I'm not a huge early Floyd fan...I kinda start at Meddle My list would go:

1. Animals
2. Dark Side of The Moon
3. Wish You Were Here
4. The Final Cut
5. Meddle
6. The Wall

I never actually gave Meddle full attention. I must do so.

The Wall...I love parts of it...but it's pretty much permanently played out for me...I never reach for it when I an in a Floydian mood.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2014 at 09:24
I wish you could see through our eyes and hear through our ears so you could understand why we hold this album in such high regard.  As it is, you've got your own eyes and ears, and hear things the way you hear them.  Nothing wrong about that.  Enjoy what thou may.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2014 at 09:26
I want to really love it but just no wow except for Sheep that i love. Dogs hm i never found the greatness in that song yet, maybe i change in the future and found the gold. Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2014 at 09:33
I think Waters was BY FAR  the best poet in the band. Maybe that's the reason why neither The Wall nor Animals are one of my fave ones, i was always kind of "lazy" to pay attention to that observations about our society in their lyrics, which at first seem somewhat depressive, imo, at least when listening to that PF songs. But in fact it could be very interesting for me to get the lyrics and give a good reading to them, in order to understand and get better their 70's british music spirit, which btw curiously differed in Genesis early 70's albums.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2014 at 09:37
Animals could never reach the greatness of Good Girl Gone Bad.
Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2014 at 09:41
I love Dogs: it's one of my favorite Floyd pieces.
Though I don't like Animals as much as DSOTM or WYWH, I don't think it is much overrated.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2014 at 09:42
Animals is one of my favorite Floyd albums. I do feel a great affinity with Wish You Were Here, Dark Side of the Moon, and The Wall as well. I did enjoy Meddle, but early and late Floyd (i. e. after Waters departure), I'm not too fond of.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2014 at 09:59
Originally posted by Rick Robson Rick Robson wrote:


   
   
   
   <font face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">I think
Waters was BY FAR  the best poet in the band. Maybe that's the reason
why neither The Wall nor Animals are one of my fave ones, i was always
kind of "lazy" to pay attention to that observations about our society
in their lyrics, which at first seem somewhat depressive, imo, at least
when listening to that PF songs. But in fact it could be very
interesting for me to get the lyrics and give a good reading to them, in
order to understand and get better their 70's british music spirit, which btw curiously differed in Genesis early 70's albums.


Genesis wrote songs that took the listener away from all the depressing stuff that surrounded them. It was escapism. Yes took that to new levels, essentially writing utter nonsense some of the time. imo

Floyd on the other hand embraced reality and very skilfully made entertaining music from very dark subject matter. DSOTM is very depressing, but it's also very compelling. Animals is angry AND depressing. A joyful combination, I think..
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2014 at 10:46
Originally posted by Rihanna Rihanna wrote:

I see all love Animals, I think its only a good album, not a masterpiece as Dark Side Of The Moon, WYWH and The Wall.
The songs are from awesome to only okay, Sheep is a masterpiece the rest are good to decent. Wow i dont see the greatness all gives it, its not my favorite from Pink Floyd.

I like the album but it is just maybe a strong 7/10.
 
I like the album, and the concert at Anaheim Stadium was out of this world, but I have to admit that I liked the original versions wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy better.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2014 at 11:02
Originally posted by Crumple Crumple wrote:

I love Animals. Might be my favorite Floyd album. I'm not a huge early Floyd fan...
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The early PF makes sense if you are familiar with the 60's.
 
If all you know is the late 70's and 80's and such, that stuff won't make a whole lot of sense.
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