The "Whitehouse" referred to in the song, is Mary Whitehouse. She was a Christian morals campaigner who was trying to force her morals on the rest of the country.

The cover is a photograph of the iconic Battersea Power Station in London. The inflatable pig broke loose during the photo shoot of the album cover and caused problems for the flight path into Heathrow Airport. It closed down around that time and was basically an empty shell of a building for several decades, but it's recently been redeveloped and it now holds offices, apartments and a shopping mall, as well as a new Underground station.

Not that I'm recommending this, but the first time I heard this track, and this album was in 1978, as a sixteen year-old knucklehead who just dropped acid for the very first time with some friends. We ended up at an older friend's apartment, sitting around passing the bong, when somebody dropped this on the turntable. Needless to say all our minds were completely blown, and we all just held on for dear life as the Floyd took us far, far away.

"Pink Floyd has sent more people to space than NASA." - Kersten Graham

The lyrics aren't referring to the White House of the United States, rather it is Mary Whitehouse. Whitehouse was a morality activist in the UK... somewhat similar to Tipper Gore and Anita Bryant in the US. The previous verse is generally accepted as to be referring to Margaret Thatcher.

🧨🧨 Dudes, you hit it out of the park.....(again)!

This song is a masterpiece! Hands down. This album is epic!

Yeah, between Roger's touching, insightful and brutally honest lyrics and Gilmour's emotive and soaring guitar work, most everything they created together takes the listener somewhere that no other band ever could. And whomever was singing on a particular track (Waters, Gilmour, Wright, or even guest vocalists) always seems to fit the overall context of the song perfectly.

I've listened to Floyd for 40 years and the more I play Animals the more I believe it's the band's greatest piece of work. Yes, Dark Side was groundbreaking, Wish You Were Here was magical and The Wall was chilling, but this album and in particular Pigs is something that is beyond compare. Gilmour is all over this track and why they didn't let him storm out of it for five more minutes is one of the great mysteries of Life. Love the reactions, keep up the great work.

Roger wrote it but David Gilmour is all over this song. It was him doing the guitar riffs and obviously the solo. He did the voice box "pig" sounds during the middle section. He even played some if not all of the bass on the album version. He definitely plays the bass during the guitar solo at the end, the rest might be Roger.

Actually, David played Roger’s bass parts on this song and Sheep for the album recording. Roger played bass on Dogs.

My introduction to this album was when i was in my room and my older brother busted in and just took off whatever i was listening to on my turntable and put this on. It was like a mic drop!

At 60 I have NEVER had the opportunity to see them 😕 😪 I WILL catch their next one! 🤷‍♀️😁✌️❤️🔥🔥🔥🎶💯

There is a live recording (on youtube), of the Pink Floyd concert in 1977 in Oakland where Gilmour plays an awesome final lead to PIgs. Well worth searching and listening to.

Voice box gilmour, plus all the guitars..that's all that David contributed to. Love you guys..

I remember getting my first stereo and it had a 8-track player. My dad bought me Animals and Kiss alive ll... Animals was 8-track and Kiss was a double vinyl record. 1977 was cool...

Great track. I used to play an acoustic version of this back in the day. Always a crowd pleaser :)

They recorded 5 straight albums that are probably the best 5 albums ever recorded, by anyone. Meddle, Dark Side, Wish you Were Here, Animals, The Wall. And that's not even including the Syd era, the pastoral and experimental era, the David Gilmour era. All include amazing nuggets of perfection. But those 5 albums are seriously up there with Beethoven, Mozart. In 100 years people will still be listening.

have you noticed the building is a pig upside down

The building looks like a slaughterhouse, but it’s actually a power generating plant. It’s called Battersea Power Station.

The album cover is the Battersea Power Station. I don't know if it is intentional, but a KZfaq commenter elsewhere observed that it resembles a dead sheep (on its back). Whether or not it was intentional, I can't unsee it now.

Hi I love that your passion for PF means you ask way too many questions. Here goes: Their music would be known to the fans who saw them live before the albums came out as they played their compositions that were 'in progress'. In 1972 concert goers heard an incomplete version of 'The Dark Side Of The Moon'. I saw them in 1974, their tour after the release of 'The Dark Side Of The Moon', and the first half of the concert was an amalgam of what would become 'Wish You Were Here' and 'Animals' ('Dogs' was called 'Raving and Drooling'), the second half being TDSOTM and their encore was Echoes. Ditto when they did the 'Wish You Were Here' tour, with 'Time', 'Money' and a couple of other tracks from TDSOTM for the encore. That way of trialling their music ended with 'The Wall' which came fully formed and performed in 1980 with a totally ground-breaking live performance. During the first half a giant wall was constructed across the stage with the band stuck behind it. The second half started with a different band in Pink Floyd character masks playing the songs. No Pink Floyd (and Roger Waters) tour has ever been anything less than an extraordinary immersion of music and visuals. This stems from their early days in the 1960's when they were the leaders of Psychodelia where the music and visuals, not the players, was designed to be artistically important and overall, it was meant to affect you emotionally. PF are credited with creating the light show as we would understand it today. They allowed a friend in college to experiment with light during their earliest shows. He wired a bank of spotlights to sockets screwed to a plank of wood. He then physically and separately turned the lights off and on in time to the music. Syd Barrett and Roger Waters formed the band and Syd was the main songwriter with a genius for taking music to a whole new dimension. After illness disabled Syd and his ability to remain in the band, Dave Gilmour who was already playing with PF became permanent. Roger Waters took over as the main writer of their output, but the path they were to tread had been laid by Syd. Their work was, of course, a collaboration but the origin and form of a song came from Roger. 'Pigs' Is about three different types of Paranoid person whose fear creates a certain fascism in their behaviour. This is explored to its limit in 'The Wall'. The first is the fat-cat businessman consumed by greed. The second is the bitter life hating (usually poorly educated) older person who rails against youth, modernity and those who aren't embittered like them. The third is specific to a person, but it could describe any bigoted, religious right winger. Mary Whitehouse was a big figure in the 1970's and 80's in the UK, she headed a campaigning Christan group that fought against social freedom especially the Gay community. Battersea Power Station, South London, used on the cover of 'Animals' was a coal fired electricity generator. BPS looks like a dead animal with its four chimney stacks on each corner of the main body of the building and this made it perfect for the cover of the album. The building was never demolished as it was a design classic and became a protected building, but it remained empty for many years as the cost of re-development was so high. In the late 1990's I took my kids a to a funfair that had been set up in the grounds outside the building. It has now been turned into luxury apartments with a shopping mall at the base. I could go on and on, but you don't need a lecture from an old fart like me. Suffice to say, I cannot recommend too highly the live version of 'Pigs' from October 1st 2016 at Zocalo Square Mexico City on KZfaq. Roger Waters kicked off his 2016 tour by giving a free concert in Mexico to 300,00 fans just before Trump was elected and only Roger could re-create a South London power station in the middle of Mexico. The best thing about your reactions is the obvious love and respect you have for each other. You are both very lucky.

The Dogs in Animal Farm are the police force. They are totally under control of the Pigs. As to Dogs looking after Sheep - sheep dogs maybe, but ordinary dogs have been known to savage sheep and even kill them. The building on the cover is Battersea Power Station, a now disused power station in London.

I saw Floyd concert in 77, where they played the entire wish you were here album, took a break, and then played the entire animals album. For "Pigs", there was an inflatable that had a mom, dad and kid seated on a couch (they also had an inflatable Pig that traversed to the back of the arena), although I don't believe that is what this song is referring to.

This song changed my musical direction. In the 70s, I was listening to pop, top 40, am radio, then disco came along. I hated disco and was hoping it was just a passing fad. So one day I switched over to FM radio. This song came on and it blew my mind! No longer was it just pop, am radio, I fell down into the "dark" side of FM radio.

The T-shirt image is the pig from the Animals album, and the triangle is the prism from the Dark Side of the Moon Album.

This one has always been my favorite of all the 3 major songs in this album. In all fairness, Mary Whitehouse was a UK politician who was forcing draconian decency laws during that time onto the public which many protested against. David Gilmore was using the voice box in conjunction with his guitar hooked into each other so your voice would take on a distorted guitar sound which the pig grunts were also created with. Gilmore did both the base guitar and the lead guitar for this song and helped write the music but not the lyrics. I too believe we were robbed of Gilmore's greatness at the end of this song because he just wasn't stopping and was going full boar.....oink, oink....

Dogs is my favorite of the 3. They are all great songs though.

Love the channel guys,I loved your reaction to Run Like Hell,pulse concert😂

BASICALLY THE ALBUM ( ANIMALS ) IS : DOGS = BUSINESSMAN, PIGS = GOVERNMENT, SHEEP = THE PEOPLE 😊 THE SHEEPLE

I could listen to that outro solo by David for an easy 4-5 more minutes. Goosebumps every dang time!

"Punk Floyd." And if you think "Dogs" and "Sheep" are biting and angry, try hearing the raw, early versions, "You Gotta Be Crazy" and "Raving and Drooling", which were actually written and performed live *before* WISH YOU WERE HERE. (They were written for the post-DARK SIDE followup before changing directions, and then used later for ANIMALS.)

sorry i never said thank you for your gratitude of the floyd so thank you from the uk its great watching you listen to the floyd i was i the concert everyone looks at on vids in ears court it was briliant

Funny and cool seeing and hearing this reaction to something I've been listening to for 46 years! I saw them live in Nashville in '96... '95 ? Was the best concert ever for ME. Y'all need to listen to the entire album start to finish without stopping. It's a Master piece. Just my opinion 😎

This was AWESOME!!!!!

Love the cover love the album, love love love.

HEY YOU ROCKERS!!! 😊HOPE YOU GUYS ARE GOOD, HAVE GREAT HOLIDAYS AND ALLLLL THE BEST, MANYYYYY BLESSINGS! 😊

great reaction from the lads there, u both have great musical ears and love music, If you both haven't listened to this one try Pink Floyd live at Pompeii with Echoes this song isn't from one the big 4 albums an earlier tune

Great music guys!

The album cover harkens back the The Jungle, a 1906 book by Upton Sinclair that exposed the labor and unsanitary conditions of the US meatpacking industry.

Alright lads you need to react to "On The Turning Away" extended version from the 1988 tour called 'A Momentarily Lapse of Reason ' tour..!! It will absolutely blow your brains into another universe ✨️..!! The David Gilmour solo at the end lasts for about 7/8mins and is absolutely amazing and I know you've been amazed by his solo's on other Floyd songs but this is up their with the best of the best, Mark my words and if you don't agree well I'll be disillusioned by your reaction to it not it being that absolutely awesome 😀

Floyd had pigs in concert...sometimes "flying"....lol

If you haven't done "Echoes" Live at Pompeii 1971 you are missing one of the coolest visual/music pieces they ever did. My opinion.

FYI...the "Animals" album was Roger Waters' condemnation of life in mid-70s Britain, loosely based on the novel Animal House, where the dogs represent big business, pigs are the politicians, and the sheep are the ordinary citizens that they both are screwing over. The incredible bass runs, lead guitar, and voice box (the sound effects) are ALL by David Gilmour. Roger played rhythm guitar. His overall bitterness was both a driving force and he reason for their ultimate split. If you want Gilmour tracks, listen to Their last two albums - "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason" (you've reacted to "Sorrow" and "Coming Back To Life" from that one) and "Division Bell". A good start there would be the pulse performance of "High Hopes" - the final track on what would be their final full-band (sans Waters, and before Rick Wright's untimely death). "The Endless River", which came out after Rick's death was almost entirely instrumental, using material originally written for "Division Bell", except the last track (the only one with lyrics), which was primarily a tribute to the memory of Wright.

Animals is a prequel to the wall and the Final Cut is the sequel to the wall. All Roger’s work really

I remember blasting this at get togethers we'd have back in the day! I've seen them live when they were together but never saw them do anything off of Animals.

Get it right guys. Roger left the band and then tried all he could that the others could not carry on using the Pink Floyd name. He failed, thank god. Yes he is/was brilliant but he also is/was also flawed with an amazing arrogance to think that the band couldn't exist without him.

Animals was mainly written by Roger Waters, however, David Gilmour co-wrote Dogs with Roger.

Gilmour saving up for that last guitar solo.

I saw Pink Floyd in 94 in Atlanta and saw Roger Waters in august 2022 in Atlanta

I have those exact 2 shirts

Animals album is is the first album I had ever bought I actually had to buy it twice because the needle on my LP player wore out the first album. Another one to watch it was their first video of the whole album metal live at Pompeii echoes one and two

About the shirts you are wearing, maybe the Pig is on top of the DSM Triangle logo showing that the pigs are ruining or overtaking the band? Food for thought for the pigs!

battersea power station in london

Haha I commented before I finished the video

You should try to do either Pigs on the Wing on Riff Tracks! Try it!

Mary Whitehouse is who he is singing about.

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Yo check out the story about Casper the dog in Atlanta from last month. He is in recovery after killing 8 of 11 coyotes that attacked his herd of sheep. He got tore up pretty bad, but he's gonna make a full recovery.

They actually split after 'The Final' Cut'

You have to listen Oakland live 1977 full concert full songs especially pigs and sheep

I listened to your Rush stuff. React to Red Sector A! It has a incredibly strong Message!

Listen to Meddle. It’s their first masterpiece.

FYRRRRRRRRRR!!! 😊

Gilmour takes the pigs to the slaughterhouse at the end there

That last verse, Hey you Whitehouse...Mary you're nearly a treat but you're really a cry....yeah Google that one Pink Floyd and Mary Whitehouse...yes she's an actual person.

Also "Meddle" .

lol yea

David Gilmour on bass.

Pompeii live . You will understand the evolution of modern music. Trust me. Please. Thank you.

This song is written about mary whitehouse and people like her. Look it up

Correction Meddle album !

You left off The Division Bell 😢

Please react to "Lonely You" by Badfinger

Read Animal Farm by George Orwell, whose masterful, dystopian novel, itself inspired by the Russian Revolution, the betrayal of original Marxist ideology, and the process by which Stalin marshalled brute force and brutality to build a totalitarian regime even worse than the Czarist regime it replaced. The novel was what inspired Roger to write Animals, and the pigs, dogs and sheep on the album echo the characters in the novel, whose ending is so profound I will not share it --> you need to read the book. The album was also influenced by contemporary British politics and society, include how Roger felt repulsed by activist Mary Whitehouse -- who he refers to both by her first and last names in this specific song.

This genre is known as progressive rock. Another great band around that same time was Genesis, when Peter Gabriel was the front man. Listen to Firth of Fifth and Dancing With The Moonlit Knight from the album Selling England By The Pound.

I believe Roger Waters is the one that left the band...

All my friend would get mad when I would jam this… they were so low IQ hooked on rap made me lose all respect from them so I just stopped being around people. Also Roger was nothing without David but David made it without Roger… Division Bell 🔔

The reference to "Whitehouse" is not about the US president's residence but is about a person named Mary Whitehouse... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Whitehouse