Best guitar work ever yes, a great song writer too..

It DOES get the credit it reserves. Nowadays, every Pink Floyd fan and their dog either loves Animals or has it #1 and simultaneously tries to discredit DSOTM. I can't even count how many times I heard "Animals-#1" fans call DSOTM overrated, overhyped, how it's not as ambitious as Animals. So, in short, yes, it does get the credit it deserves...

Well it gets the credit from me. Still as obsessed with this album as I was when I was 16. Actually, more. I keep getting more obsessed.

I don't think he refers to ardent floyd fans. Becaues the songs aren't radio friendly MOST of the public doesn't even know the album exists. It comes and goes with me, I'm not sure you can 'objectively' state a 'better' when they are so different, and yet its not like one of them is a collection of television commercial jingles. So for over rated, EVERYBODY knows Dark Side of the Moon, my 85 year old parents know OF it. That was largely the commercial machine, but the guys do admit that was them functioning at 'peak', at least as a band. At one point I was listening to it over and over again for months, but that seems to have driven it out of me, when I listen now I'm not that crazy about it. But maybe its beause we got a farm with a lot of animals and that makes me kind of dislike that whole anthromorphizing thing. I can't quite make out Rogers fascination with animals, Monty python talks about their fascination as well, maybe there are books or articles written on it somewhere but he certainly likes to rope them in as metaphors, analogies, whatever.

​@@mikearchibald744Not just Roger, the idea came from Orwell's "Animal Farm" I believe. And to this day people who blindly follow the politicians are called sheep, or sheeple, and police are called pigs.

Agreed, The Wall was a disappointment

@@patrickstep It's still one of their best and most ambicious albums, imo.

@@patrickstep I bought the wall when it came out and I wasn't as impressed as I had hoped, but over time I have come to realize that it is a really great album.

@@opinion3742 thats what I thought about the Final Cut....and still not impressed

@@andiman45 I don't get on with The Final Cut either. Whatever value it has to me gets lost in its uncompromising sense of drama. It just isn't a well balanced record. It demands too much of the listener. More like a friend in a hyper mood, just annoying.

The first thing that struck me was that the bass guitar is so clear, it used to be so muddy

Where’s a good place to purchase the remix? And just a thought, is there a 7.1 mix? That could be great if done properly…

Original will always be my go to. New one sounds too ...clean and separated to me.

Not a fan, too much attack on everything, looses the warmth and classic feel to me.

@@user-yk4gd1fl4z bang on

Sharing his narcisissim with the world.

For me at 9 on cassette in February 1985 and Pigs (Three Different Ones) was cut up, the first verse on Side 1, the rest of the song on Side 2.

@@pinkfloydcentral6384 I was 8 in 1978, and I found the Animal's LP cover In my grans street, the incredible artwork stoked my curiosity, so I had to put it on my bedroom wall, but It wasn't until the wall came out, when almost every house where I lived had the Wall playing on repeat, and I realized the link to the pic on my wall. That was when I realized I was going to love Animals before I even heard it, which would have been some years later. But the very first Floyd album I did buy, was Relics on a bargain-basement cassette tape in 1980, It was on a label called fame. Money was an issue for a council estate kid at the age of 10, but, man, am I so grateful for it, because I fell in love with early with Floyd before I got to own the most up-to-date albums...

“This album…has some spooky resonance right now” This.

I got the album in 1977 right off the press

And went to the concert Spectrum in Philadelphia

Absolutely, I always felt this was Rogers attempt at a punk attitude..which coincidentally was all around him in 77

@@rupowell2821 So, ok, I'll say it. Roger kind of invented Punk Floyd.

Man you are a lucky one 🎉

Wow man...Cosmic debris.😅

I did the same thing. Transferring to CD was a nightmare but worth it. I am now doing Wish You Were Here in the band's own words with narrators Jim Ladd, Redbeard and Alan Parsons and bits of Dan Neer.

Same here. A lot of the discussions here are from interview series done by Jim Ladd (who also features on Radio K.A.O.S) on 25 years of Pink Floyd. I still have it on tape somewhere, but "I got nowhere to" play it on.

@@paf432 To me that was the definitive Pink Floyd radio documentary plus the In the Studio episodes are helping me create these in depth documentaries. The Wall may be an undertaking. Again using interviews with all four members for the documentary. I will air Wish You Were Here next (finished, took me a few hours)

I concur. It ended the first set and the fact that Rick got to play a synthesizer solo where the voice box solo was.

Many are a lot better. But i love what was done at the time.

He was lip syncing to a tape. Roger should have retired but I forgot DIVORCE NUMBER FOUR torpedoed retirement.

Had my 1st acid experience with Wish you were here and my then best friend flipping the record over and over...at some point i was kind of losing it and my friend stopped the record...not sure how that would have ended if he hadn't.....and you are so right, _it's just one of those things._

Rumours by Fleetwood Mac, Songs From the Wood by Jethro Tull, Hotel California by The Eagles and Wind and Wuthering by Genesis were all also released in winter 1976/77.

I know the feeling. It would be easier for me to list the Floyd albums that _aren't_ my favorites, than to pin down a favorite. But if I did have a favorite, it would be Animals, or one of the album before DSOTM.

Working on Wish You Were Here next and may do a proper visual documentary with band interviews on The Wall, Dark Side Of the Moon and the post-Waters albums.

It was my fifth album after Dark Side, The Wall, The Final Cut and Wish You Were Here in February, 1985 as a 9 year old boy, My mom (may she RIP) got me into Pink Floyd.

Very cool

The US by then were playing shorter songs on the radio and this was the least selling until The Final Cut.

Took me a few days to complete and master.

I bought it in the 80s while I was still a teen. I really had trouble getting into it, but I've always preferred their early work, before DSOTM. I still listened to it over the years, but not a lot. It wasn't until I was closer to 50 that I found a true appreciation for Animals, and it has now became one of my favorites that I can listen to over and over.

I couldn’t agree more.

Thanks I appreciate it. I saw no proper documentary on the album was ever done so I had two separate radio specials and also borrowed from the BBC 1994 documentary to make as precise a documentary on the album.

It is Snowy White.

Pink Floyd rehearsed 'Sheep' in Canada in 1987 prior to the 'Momentary Lapse' tour, awkward choice. 'Dogs' would make more sense, but it never made it into the final setlist for when the tour started. Early concert posters had the albums represented pictured, and 'Animals' was one of them.

It’s not a shame, it’s unbelievable. Imagine writing the riffs and solos on Animals and then literally never playing them again. I guess it shows what an absolute GOD Gilmour is.

Hindsight being 20/20 and all, and for as much as I appreciate the genius of this album and of Pigs TDO, I dare say ol' Mary Whitehouse was right all along and our beloved R. Waters misguided in attacking her personally. The same could be said about his extremist and delusional political grandstanding.

@@pabloboy6397 If you knew what MW represented: the 'moral majority' deciding her/themselves what should be acceptable to society - particularly in regards to 'Christianity' correct sexual matters ('Festival Of Light' believer) in the 70's era you would realise Rog was COMPLETELY correct!

@@BOFsensaiMary Whitehouse and Mary Tipper Gore were both cut from the same cloth despite being politically opposite they had similar views on censorship.

Amen!

Ummagumma never made sense to me either. Best thing about it is the cover. I also share your top 3 and i wish i had seen Nick Mason live.

@Terrence's Classic Rock Corner Podcast This was recorded in 1992? With Jim Ladd? I'm trying to do some research but can't find it. But these interviews are gold, thanks!

Cover of Classic Rock Magazine in late 2001.

@@pinkfloydcentral6384 February 2002 edition. Had a look at the website back issues. I may even have that edition!

I can try

@The Terrence Reardon Podcast it’s sad knowing this

It's also noteworthy that, to my knowledge, this is the first PF album with no vocals from Richard on it.

Which is a complete shame, really, isn't it, as some of the best atmospheric parts of the whole of 'A' is Rick's keyboard interludes: Sheep (+intro) and Dogs in particular - which became even more so (so marvellous from him) on the 77 live tour dates. '

@TerrencesClassicRockCorner24 Very interesting / useful to know:(since its release, I've always felt 7 reasoned that RWs atmospheric sound contributions to A - live & especially the pre-test playthrus, 74 gigs - are integral to overall feel of the themes: but what is the source of that?

Both.

Wrong.

Margot Honnicker of East Germany was a far worse human being than Margaret Thatcher yet funny Roger prefers the Marxist dictor who suppress free speech and expression

Correct. I believe it was David referencing Margaret Thatcher on his solo About Face with Blue Light.