Pink Floyd Animals is based on the book Animal Farm --> Pigs Dogs Sheep representing society by George Orwell ---> also famous for the book 1984. While you've got a long way to go yet. And it's all worth it. Cheers.

The thing about Pink Floyd is that in order to get the full depth of any single track you must experience it within the greater tapestry of the entire album. That is to say Dogs is a great track so is sheep and pigs three different ones but until you have the context of the entire album then you've only experienced a portion of it. Gotta listen to the entire albums , everyone ( each album ) is distinctly different and a beast of its own but still you know it's pink floyd as they are in a class all their own. But if you Want chill from pink floyd. Check out. That fat old sun. Or grandchester meadows .

the pig 🐖 between the chimneys got loose it was floating towards London thay got it back. 👍

Man have you read the book Animal Farm by Orwell?

You can't go wrong when comes to Pink Floyd. Fact!💥

Indeed. Rich was the backbone of Floyd

Pink Floyd, like all great groups, were all skilled musicians but together you got that intangible lightning in a bottle of pure magic. I mean for example I love the Division Bell but the classic line up produced at a much higher level that when apart

RWW was the soul of PF

Absolutely. Without Rick Wright, Floyd is not Floyd. Have we done Shine On You Crazy Diamond yet here? Coz, really...

RW was the glue that held PF together.

Highly agreed, of course it’s personal choice but after listening to each album a few hundred times, Animals is just a personal favorite, as well as this song. Dogs became my favorite Floyd song, gripping from beginning to end, like most Floyd masterpieces a trip in its own.

@@OsbaldoCervantes-im5pl Do you know the live cover of this album by a band called "colonel les claypool's fearless flying frog brigade" ?

@@OsbaldoCervantes-im5pl Same here✌

Somehow I always found my way back home.

This. Until you're ready to look inside yourself, you never really hear Pink Floyd.

Us and Them , the song i always played when in a bad mood ! perfectly relaxing

I would put Meddle in that sequence also. Then you get (almost) the full picture of the evolution of their music, from experimental and almost self-indulgent, to fully realized art.

Calling him "the pig" is a bit impersonal. His name was "Algie", and he proved that pigs COULD fly.

And they were suposed to have a guy to shoot it down if it broke free but he didnt show up. They were told they couldn't get a permit to do it again so they did it anyway.

@@skipwilliam5639 He wasn't an "it". He was a pig called Algie.

I’m man, what a GREAT anecdote!

They had cows on Time Square NYC for Atom Heart Mother.... or was that idea abandoned?

46 years for me

Ever read Animal Farm?

@@TrianglesAndCircles of course

@@TrianglesAndCircles yes

Exactly .

The album, that Maynard, James Keenan, refers to as opening his eyes to a better range of music

Guessing you’re about 64.

@@RoadDoug 🤫more or less lololol

@@RoadDougeah, I worked it out to 63/64 depending on what month their birthday fell 😁. I was a bit older when this album came out. Allot older really.

I hear what you saying, I’m 37, I did hear bits when I was 24 but it never caught on. I’d say it’s really caught on with me now. I don’t view it as I’ve missed out, I view it as I’m glad I got to listen to them in all of their glory. Think of how many will pass by never even hearing their music at all. Those are the ones I feel for

@@andrewdobson3518 well, I’m glad you’re experiencing it now I wasn’t trying to be snobby. I was just stating that I grew up with this music. This is what I was exposed to it a very young age so it’s set my bar very high and to only seek out the best music, because nothing else would do, not saying I don’t enjoy a very eclectic taste of music because I do but when you start off with the pinnacle of perfection, you tend to compare it to Pink Floyd. There’s only been a few bands that have come close, which is why the name Pinkfloyd and, tool are synonymous. At least with me.

Im 21 just became a fan! Feels a bit late to the party but im glad i got into it

TBF, these guys are doing this to make a little money to live on...I don't think many people would tune in to watch him ingest the entirety of The Wall in full...it's much better to just listen to it yourself if that's your goal...one long song at a time is about all you can do...or do it like the Virgin Rock channel. She listened to the entire thing, but is releasing her reactions one song at a time...they got to get paid to keep doing this, dude...

@KingFloydX I get it, but you do understand, he needs subs and views or his channel goes away...YT is a "for profit" proposition that takes up a massive amount of the content creators time. No one in their right mind would be a creator for free, unless they were already independently wealthy. He has to get views, and I can tell you, as a fifty year old, forty year Pink Floyd lover, I would not sit and watch him react to the whole album...I would just listen to the album. One song at a time is the best thing he can do for his channel...

I don’t think reactors don’t get it. They must do. I’m sure most if not all come back and listen to the whole thing afterwards. We tell ‘m to often enough :) I’m just glad to see even genZ discovering how great real music used to be and cracking down on the absolute tripe we get these days. Next up: Sibelius, Satie and Fauré. Not Vivaldi, Wagner or Mozart plz

Blame CD's and the skip option. Ever since then bands have stopped putting albums as a journey together.

Then suggest to him to listen to those albums in full

I would recommend you listen to this album from beginning to end. You certainly don't want to miss context for following chapters. 🤠🏞️🐂

A reading of Franz Kafka's," The Trial" might also give you an angle on this album, as well as George Orwell's, "Animal Farm ". I won't tell you how The Trial ends but you may think of this song if you get there. Slán.

Well you were extremely more eloquent than I was saying the same thing well done...

@@daveking9393 Thank you sir.

❤

Agreed

I was reading that today lol

Pink Floyd’s greatness is in the studio. Non Grateful Dead live recordings generally suck anyway.

75 yo lady who's seen THE Pink Floyd,... Roger Waters & Dave Gilmour (together &/or separately 25+ times... and the Floyd has Never Done NUTHIN' That couldn't be re-produced LIVE in front of thousands of peeps hanging on EVERY Note!

Exactly what I say all the time and I feel so bad for some people but never listen to it because they don’t think it’s in the genre of music. There is no genre when it comes to a masterpiece.

It’s OK you can say it’s your favorite. It’s definitely been mine since 1977.

@@KWC33 I was a youngster who almost only listened to classical music in the 70s. I was hardly interested in other types of music. Until I heard Pink Floyd one night camping. It was almost like a revelation, and I knew at that moment that Pink Floyd would be with me for the rest of my life. With them I opened my ears to new types of music, but I never found anything comparable. Each album is a journey, an experience that changes as I get older, I always discover new things in them, new meanings, new paths to explore within myself, because Pink Floyd has the amazing ability to make me reflect on things that are always important.

@@taranvainas I thought the same way, but I like the other Prog rock bands as well like yes an Genesis there is a lot of great music in the 90s. It was a bit of revival of Prog just heavier with more influences . And I was introduced to tool and I had that same feeling again .. again they are much heavier but they are absolutely brilliant in the song writing the premise and their musicianship is surpassed by none . if you haven’t listen to them and don’t believe just me and look at all the quotes for all the Pink Floyd reactions, and so many say the same thing. Try parable ,parabola he will start off in zen and end in 🤯

@@KWC33 I know other bands, but I only like some of them. That does not happen to me with Pink Floyd. I like EVERYTHING of them. Because in addition to being extraordinary musicians, they are also very notable intellectuals, aware of the most sensitive fibers of the human being and of the society in which we live, aware of our fears, our insecurities, our failures and complexes. I have lost one of my best friends, he was a philosophy teacher and used Pink Floyd in his classes. Today every time I listen to them (especially "The Wall") I feel like he is sitting next to me.

And the lyrics (like on so many of their songs) are not 'relaxing' at all.

Big floating pig above the crowd??

I like what you say: "I've always felt there was an orchestral nature to a lot of their music, it goes through movements". My late father, who was a great lover of classical music and opera, sometimes listened to Pink Floyd with me. Of all the music his four children listened to (from disco to progressive rock), Pink Floyd was his favorite band. He admired the complex orchestration of their music, which was not repetitive like so many others, especially in disco music. He particularly appreciated the multiple transitions, which he found sometimes surprising, but oh so well arranged, like the movements in classical music. I often think of him when I listen to Pink Floyd, that is to say very often.

@@thepragmatic6383 Thank you for your kind words. I turned 70 on Tuesday and I've played in several rock and blues bands but I've also been a huge fan of classical music almost my entire life. Thanks again

@@alancrofoot This reminds me of the year I picked my dad's name for the Christmas gift exchange. On his list of gift suggestions, my father asked for a specific orchestration of Rossini's "Barber of Seville". As I couldn't find this album in time for Christmas at any of the local record stores, and it was only available by special order, I had given him a double cover of an old album, on which I had made a collage of photos of combs, scissors, razors and other hairdressing instruments, adding various titles and subtitles corresponding to the various parts of the album that he wanted. As he unwrapped this makeshift gift, my dad laughed heartily, knowing all the work I had done so that he had something to unwrap on that Christmas evening, waiting for the real gift which was only to arrive a few weeks later. This was many years before Amazon and UPS. When he passed away, while I was helping my mother sort through my late father's belongings, I was surprised to find among his record collection, this (homemade) album that I had given him for this Christmas. My mother and I looked at each other, then smiled as we remembered his so communicative "joie de vivre". He had kept it all these years, and placed it next to the real version with Maria Callas and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Thats not true at all. Almost everyone mentions dogs.

@@sacredgeometry “Almost everyone” seems hard to quantify.

@@nhilge78 Look at any pink floyd videos comment section. Dogs is consistently mention. Its a great song but there are better lesser mentioned pink floyd tracks.

@@sacredgeometry Thank you for this info

That's what I said to the bag of seed potatoes.