Animals by Pink Floyd - WHAT A CONCEPT with Brent from

[@erikleenhouts834]

Also my favourite PF album, but... It wasn't for a long time. Great video ❤

[@pauljordan8033]

My favorite Floyd album!

[@robm9999]

You need to remember, two of these “songs” had been played LIVE since 1974, before they even recorded WYWH. You Gotta Be Crazy became Dogs, and Raving and Drooling became Sheep. So really there were only two new songs written for the Animals album. And due to the extensive touring they all had a hand in crafting the music so both songs are truly collaborative pieces of music. If anything, as a result, Roger did both David and Rick dirty wrt the royalties and all three deserved songwriting credits for those two pieces.

[@MackyAr]

Hey man, are you currently accepting original submissions for album reviews?

[@heytallman]

It's crazy to think of Animals being the black sheep (no pun intended) because Pink Floyd really didn't miss in the 70's. But yeah, this one is so dismal to listen to, even in a different way than The Wall. At least with The Wall it was just one person's world crumbling, whereas here it's the whole world that sucks. I really like Dogs and Pigs here, I love how sleazy Pigs is and how much time Dogs has to just breathe and exist. Sheep is the weakest one here, I agree. Overall I think if I had to pick a Floyd album to spin up I'd take this over The Wall most days, but certainly less so than Dark Side or WYWH.

[@willem-janageling3907]

The "is it accessible for a large audience" one feels out of place. Some art isnt while it can be a masterpiece or important. What about: "How unique is this album compared to other concept albums"? OR "Does the theme get the respect it deserves?"

[@robm9999]

Agreed, my point as well. The messages in this album are actually as important today as the late 70’s in England. They may feel harsh but that doesn’t matter! Being accessible is not the point: important messages are sometimes hard to hear but need to be said, and said loudly!

[@willem-janageling3907]

@@robm9999 well said!

[@robm9999]

And Britain in the late 70’s was a miserable existence after WW2 and decades of austerity measures so this was a real “punk” message, and far more effective in many ways than most of the punk albums at the time. Thatcher had taken over, and it was a bleak place so many felt this need to rebel. PF just did it on a much grander scale than the punk bands did and demonstrated their musicianship while still raging against the society they lived in. There was real rage in the British public at that time and you need to understand just how bleak some people felt about their futures felt over there. Mike, not to be critical, but some of your takes seem a bit uninformed given the times in which this album was recorded and you can’t go back and reinterpret it against today’s world and how someone today would view the concept. Whether it is accessible to the wusses and soft as shit kids of today is irrelevant, it was required to be heard and Roger and the band had something important to say. It may not have been a comfortable listen, but that was the entire point.