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You need to build 3 fat ones, and do Meddle, begining to end, no breaks. The chill parts where nothing is happening are where it's all in your own head, it's your journey, the boys just point you there. The thing about the drums, this band is very much the sum of it's parts, no band has better synergy. The only problem with these videos is that the younger generation don't know how to listen to albums and Floyd are an albums band, you need to listen to whole albums.
Listen to Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun. Nick Mason goes crazy on the drums in the live versions on TH-cam. The early acid rock stuff from Pink Floyd is still some of the best imo.
This song and album as a whole are one of the greatest masterpieces in the history of masterpieces. Most people pick Dark Side of the Moon or The Wall but for me this will always be their craziest diamond, in tandem with Wish You Were Here which is its twin brother for me.
I totally agree. Animals and Wish You Were Here are my favorite Floyd albums. In fact, I saw them in 1977 performing these albums. An unforgettable experience.
I always picture a street filled with rundown houses at dusk. There are ragged trees, and rusted chain link fences surrounding yellowed grass overgrown lawns. Though I don't see the dogs, I hear them. I don't want to go down the street. Not fear, but tired, oppressive sadness.
"It's too late to lose the weight you use to need to throw around" is, in my opinion, one of if not the best lyric ever written. This album is absolute brilliance.
@@Guitardudeftw Yeah, and he's right about the others not knowing how to write songs... Since he left the "Disney Princess Polly"'s lyrics are insipid... Oh yes she's for 'peace" and "love" and "being nice" etc. But it's boring and at the level of a 17 year old school girl. Even when I should enjoy the theme, I can't appreciate what she writes. Roger, on the opposite, write things with poetry, it's deep, it takes you to the guts. I mean, at least when he was with Pink Floyd. I admit that I don't know a lot about his solo work, as for me the "top level alchemy" was when they worked together. It's funny, because I find David solo's work boring... Nice but boring. I find Waters solo work (for the few I know), as only depressing and "always the same". I haven't heard a solo stuff from Rick Wright which gave me goosebump. But when they worked together it was above anything else. They really had something while being together. Of course the shadow of Syd fueled the machine and gave them their best maybe.
@@Guitardudeftw Oh and to add a "detail": I love Syd's solo work. Although he was helped by David a Water, it's "his genre"... And I think he was, indeed, the seed for their work: simple but catchy music, childish (in a noble way: fantasy, contemplation..) but also dark poetry for the lyrics, and an unconventional way of singing.
Not just the lyric, but the way David phrases. It has been my absolute favorite few seconds of any song ever since i was in junior high. Like 37 years ago, and it still is.
2nd floyd song? Damn you jumped into the deep end. IMO this is their best album and one of the best ever. The band were pissed at their record label and decided to make their next album unplayable on the radio as a way to give a big middle finger to the execs. It’s amazing.
Animals is by far one of the very best albums ever made. I know Dark Side of the Moon was on the charts for 13 years but Animals was made when they was at the top of their game.
To me, I don't find interesting trying to "rank" them.... From Dark Side to The Wall, it's their "magic arc", they produced THE 4 BESTS albums in SpaceTime... So I don't rank them, if I put an order, is that I like to listen things chronologically, so they'll be played from the oldest to the more recent. I often playlist: Piper -> More -> Atom Heart Mother -> Meddle -> (Bam!) DSTOM -> WYWH -> Animals -> The Wall, "that's it"... I rarely listen to anything after The Wall. I often push the concept about "full album listen" to "full arc listen", I'm used to have WYWH after DS is complete, THEN I want Animals, and finally I crave The Wall to complete my run.
Yep I never even really gave it a chance, I was all about DSotM and that was pink floyd to me. But a few years ago I finally checked it out and it blew my fucking mind, immediately became my favorite album. Can't believe I slept on it for so many years. Animals is perfection through and through.
This is probably my overall favorite song from Pink Floyd. I get chills when I hear the opening guitar because I know what's coming. Absolute musical genius.
I would just add that at the end, it's talking about how he eventually realizes he's been being used his whole life. "Who was broken by trained personnel? Who was fitted with collar and chain? Who was given a pat on the back?" Etc. Eventually he's found dead on the phone, dragged down by the stone (all the bad blood he'd sowed in his life.) Defined by the line "And when the fear grows, the bad blood slows and turns to stone." This whole album is a lyrical masterpiece.
@@tenminutetokyo2643 Just out of curiosity, is that something Roger himself said at some point? I was thinking is was a more a stab at capitalism, or more specifically a counter to the story of "Animal Farm." I suppose it could be about police states, though dogs doesn't seem to fit in that narrative. There are no dogs in a police state. Pigs and sheep.
David was the musical composition and structure guy, Roger was the lyricist and conceptualist. The 2 of them along with Richard Wright and Nick Mason made pure magic.
@@neillenet291 Yeah, NEVER FORGET Nick and Rick... Pink Floyd is the perfect example of each part being good in their... parts, but almost none is "number one", but when they worked together, their got over anything, pure team genius. I love a lot of music and genre, but Pink Floyd up until the Wall is by FAR my favorite music over anything else. Then Beethoven below, and a lot of great bands on their own merit, but the level they reached as a band 4(+1) is just mind blowing. And in my heart until death. Back to the topic: Rick was a wonderful melodist, he produced beautiful chords progressions, and Nick IS (still) a great drummer, humble but efficient, able to be soft and heavy... With Keith Moon (the other side of the moon), they are my favorite drummer.... (Ok John Bonham is not far :) ). (Edit: fixed my insomniac name confusion...)
@Garry Iglesias Yeah I wasn't forgetting about Richard Wright or Nick Mason. Richard provided all those wonderful soundscapes on keyboards and Nick always provided just the perfect understated drums. It's impossible to imagine what Pink Floyd music would sound like without Richard Wright especially.
@@neillenet291 Haha... I know I did that same mistake in another comment, but I realized it quickly... It's just that I should be asleep for a few hours... So I'm having bugs... I go to reload my cells now. Bests.
What do you do? Its the question of the put upon...once you are the dog that catches the car..or takes down the trillionaires..are you going to do better..honestly and disturbingly... probably not.
One of the greatest bands of all time. Nothing else like them. Those KEYS! Richard Wright is the best imo. Can't stop now, Polo. Gotta see what the rest of the farm is up to now! ✌🏼
One aspect of Pink Floyd's true genius is the crafting of concept albums. From "Dark Side of the Moon" to "The Wall", the band took the idea of an overarching theme or message in all the songs of an album and raised it to a level that few other bands could ever dream to match. "Dogs" is 17 minutes and 05 seconds of pure rock bliss.
@@misterwirez7731Not in the slightest. He probably thinks so, but combination David, Richard and Waters was what gave Pink Floyd their sound from Meddle to the Wall. The Final Cut is what you get when Roger Water’s ego went completely overboard.
@joshuagriffith9191: Whilst you are mostly right, without the structure of Nick Masons' drumming, the others wouldn't have had such a solid foundation for their expression. To be honest, I personally think The Final Cut is Floyds worst album by a country mile!
Animals is Pink Floyd at their finest. This album is a true masterpiece and Dogs is their very best to me. Animals and Wish You Were Here are my two favorites. Then comes Dark Side of The Moon, Final Cut, The Wall..... this band was extra special. So cool to see you appreciating this!
I was just thinking of this song... looked on YT and there you are... subscribed. This was released when I was in high school. Music was so much more then... no video games... most people didn't even have cable TV. We analyzed these albums to the note. I know every song on this album from memory... via hours with headphones at night. I'm glad I was born at the right time.
Pink Floyd's special ability is to transport you into the music. Almost every reaction video ive seen, there mental state has shifted some sort of way by the end. its in the eyes
The power plant on the album cover is called Battersea Power Station and has now been refurbished and turned into luxury condos and a shopping mall. It’s on the cover of the 2018 Animals remaster. Pigs, Dogs, and Sheep is a reference to George Orwell’s book 1984. This song was made at the end of the Cold War. The line “Gotta try and wake gotta try and shake off the creeping malaise” was a reference to President Jimmy Carter.
Wow! You took the training wheels off pretty quick! You're barely getting started on your PINK FLOYD journey and you already jumped off into the deep end. I'm excited to see your reactions to their classic albums and I do mean CLASSIC!
As with every Pink Floyd album, they all tell a story. Listening from the first track to the last is part of the experience. Animals is one album that I highly recommend you listen to in the truck on a long drive lol. This album is timeless. An instant classic. It holds up so well to this day.
As PF being my #1, if I'd be a trucker, I would obviously listen to them ANYWAY... But not only: Kraftwerk's Autobahn, NOFX's Truck Stop Blues, Deep Purple's Highway Star, Roy Orbison's I Drove All Night, Phil's In The Air Tonight, Prince's Purple Rain, and so on...
Being a Pink Floyd fanatic since the early 70's, I enjoy watching your reactions as I know what to expect, so it amuses me to watch you're face as it unfolds. They always take you on a journey. This is my favorite band.
I had this in CD in high school and would just play it on my CD player on any long drive my family went on. Dogs in particular just never would get old and still gives me chills.
I saw them in 1977 at the Olympic stadium in Montreal for the 'Animals' album tour. Pretty impressive. Sheeps (made of cotton I guess) were dropped like parachutes from the top of the stadium. Epic. Obviously, they played that song.
As a kid I would be sitting there while my parents had gone to bed, alone in the living room, all lights out, 15 years of age, with headphones, totally in awe.
I went to the Animals tour in Chicago. There are no real words to describe a Pink Floyd concert. Anyone even today hearing it will feel like they are tripping.
Welcome to Pink Floyd!! Glad you have found them! Floyd is one of the most iconic groups ever. They are great to listen to when you are expanding your horizons (ahem!), or meditating. It's easy to use yourself in the world's they create. I hope you continue your journey with them
The best thing to do when you listen to Pink Floyd is to let the music wash over you and let it take you there. It's a different journey for everyone, but it's definitely a journey
I first bought this album in the winter of 1986. A girl I liked was in the hospital and it was a sad depressing time. I will always play this song in my car on a grey sky winter day and it takes right back in time.
This is a lifetime song, it gets better yet more cynical as time goes on, the whole album is a brilliant piece of music, after "Wish" they were left to tear one another apart, late '70's rock is full of moments of brilliance just before the ships came crashing along the shoreline
Pink Floyd and TOOL invented their own ingenious, infectious sound. There were no tight jeans, and there was no “dancing”. However, a lot of weed was sacrificed, and many Gen X babies were created.
It was said by David Gilmour’s wife that is you want David to talk hand him a guitar. The grittiness of the guitar on Animals is David reacting to Roger’s assertions of control and ever dominating personality.
All the Greatest Bands from back then knew just how many bars to complete each part without it getting repetitive, an uncanny ability to Morph the song precisely when it was needed.
I think Pink Floyd excels at that... Just when you might think that once more could be too much, they just give you what to want or add a twist which makes their LONG instrumentals going fast... I like Dire Strait, but I'm not fan of their long booooring intros... And often, those band trying to makes long intros ends up to do something boring.
The Animals album is based on George Orwell’s book Animal House. The animals represent different characters in society. The Dogs are the businessmen, the Pigs are the politicians, and the Sheep are the general populace.
Pink Floyd's music IS the psychedelic in itself. Great reaction. Can't wait for your reaction to the next track from this album, "Pigs (Three Different Ones)"
You should watch the entirety of "Live at Pompeii". A concert with no audience filmed in a ruined Roman circus. They are young and vital and in their prime. It has Abbey Road footage from the Darkside recordings as well. Watch the newer one with the cool NASA footage.
Great choice, whoever recommended it. Let's put some context on this. Britain was bleak at the times, punk rock was in its peak popularity and Pink Floyd came out with this amazing gritty, cynical and vicious album. Dogs is a real gem. As an aside, the building on the album sleeves was the recently decommissioned Battersea Power Station in London. There was a decision to float a giant helium filled pig from one of the towers for the promo be shots. Rumour has it that the pig broke it's moorings and headed off into the flight path of Heathrow airport . It was reported at the time that a pilot was breathalised after reporting he spotted an enormous flying pig on his approach into London.
And nothing has changed since those times. If anything, it's worse. Which makes this song even more relevant than ever. Sadly, the British sheep are still docile.
Unconventional is an understatement. They are simply just , Pink Floyd. Arguably the greatest band of all time. And I say that loving hundreds of other bands.
Polo, you forget that we had no computers, no internet, no cell phones. Hell, I didn't even have a TV for about 5 years in the 70's. I played music whenever I was home.
If you want to dig deeper into PF World - here are a few ideas and recommendations for 2023 First - TIME from their alltime legendary album Dark Side of the Moon, original studio version Second - ECHOES Live at Gdansk. This particular version is the ultimate last time, that PF or David Gilmour will play this song live, because short after the concert in Poland, the keyboarder Rick Wright passed away; the last minutes of this great masterpiece seem to be a dialogue between David's guitar and Rick's keyboards, it sounds as if these two friends are sayin Good Bye to each other. Third - HIGH HOPES, also Live at Gdansk Fourth - all 9 parts of SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND, original studio version and finally - SORROW Live at Pulse Tour or ON THE TURNING AWAY Live at Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour; both great guitar solos. Oohh, I nearly forgot RUN LIKE HELL Live from Pulse as well. Enough for today - HAPPY NEW YEAR, I wish you and your beloved ones all the best for 2023
Pink Floyd is as close to a religion as a band can get. This album is epic. On or off air you really should give it a full listen through. There are 5 songs if you count parts, more 4 really, but in actuality there is just one song... Animals.
Yeah, but they are not a "big religion" neither a "cult" (although they ARE cult...). They have become what Syd hoped they become (cf the interview with the guy complaining about "loudness"). They played HUGE concert, for people to listen to the music, and if you watch Astronomy Domine on TV with Syd (The song just before this ITW, IIRC), he's more a Shaman... So they support the trip, but not imposing anything than travelling in our mind, asking yourselves maybe some good questions, I mean, introspection... They offer that to the "masses"... It's a way to experiment "trips" without ANY drug, just by audio sensation. I think their 4 bests albums of the golden arc are ones of those kind: a complete mental and emotional journey, a trip, a musically assisted brain-movie.
Thank you for noticing Nick Mason's drumming on this song. Mason's contribution to the PF sound is too-often overlooked, usually because the power of the Waters' lyrics and Gilmour's guitar overshadowed his work. He was always in the pocket and never resorted to flash, though he did let it out a little (thankfully) on this song and on the live version of "Echoes." Thanks for reviewing this song. It's one of their under appreciated classics.
There are so many colors and sounds in this recording, it's almost overwhelming; Despite hearing it about 3-5 THOUSAND times, the song always has some nuance I hadn't heard...But; Gilmore's axe work is above and beyond everything recorded in music..The whole album is a masterpiece of sound...7:45 Blues licks are exquisite. :)...Hurts your teeth it's so sweet! 12:20 we would be HAF mouthing "Stone, STONE, STONE, " to our other HAF boys, in the dim light of a black light... We'd play this against the old Lone Ranger cartoon, with the sound off on the TV...The cartoon graphics, of the time were clunky but, well drawn action...
Pink Floyd is a whole other rabbit hole and brother it runs deep One of my all time favorite bands If you liked this you should check out the Flaming Lips or Radiohead "Pyramid song" I think you'd really enjoy it
Probably my all-around favorite Pink Floyd album. Been a fan since 1975...& I still haven't made up my mind. Yet it keeps ending up in truck's CD player. 'Sheep' used to be my favorite off of the album....but nowadays it's 'Dogs'. Imagine if they had included tracks for chickens, horses & cows....WOW! We could have had a double-album.
You will need to hear Pigs then Sheep. We played this album to death when it came out, while meditating on the album cover and art, as was the case with most prog and art rock of that spiritual time. Live would be cool, yes.
One amazing thing to me, is the use of space in the music. They give the notes space and time to develop. It creates dimensions you just don't get anywhere else!
Subbed hoping to get you to 100K 😊 “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” parts 1-5 & 6-9 are amazing, as well as “Echoes” and of course the rest of this album (my personal favorite).
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First part of barking dogs was realistic. But second part was done as if you hear dogs from under the grave stone.
You need to build 3 fat ones, and do Meddle, begining to end, no breaks.
The chill parts where nothing is happening are where it's all in your own head, it's your journey, the boys just point you there. The thing about the drums, this band is very much the sum of it's parts, no band has better synergy.
The only problem with these videos is that the younger generation don't know how to listen to albums and Floyd are an albums band, you need to listen to whole albums.
I appreciate your frankness,
The ENTIRE FRONT TO BACK ALBUM
THE 🧱 WALL!
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It's the kind nessh🙏🌏😂❤
Listen to Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun. Nick Mason goes crazy on the drums in the live versions on TH-cam. The early acid rock stuff from Pink Floyd is still some of the best imo.
Gilmour's guitar just blows my mind on this track. He is the master.
This song and album as a whole are one of the greatest masterpieces in the history of masterpieces. Most people pick Dark Side of the Moon or The Wall but for me this will always be their craziest diamond, in tandem with Wish You Were Here which is its twin brother for me.
Compared to Animals and Wish, Dark is their pop album.
Yep
I totally agree. Animals and Wish You Were Here are my favorite Floyd albums. In fact, I saw them in 1977 performing these albums. An unforgettable experience.
Totally agree.
Final Cut for me. Very underrated. Insanely amazing album. Animals #2.
I always picture a street filled with rundown houses at dusk. There are ragged trees, and rusted chain link fences surrounding yellowed grass overgrown lawns. Though I don't see the dogs, I hear them. I don't want to go down the street. Not fear, but tired, oppressive sadness.
"It's too late to lose the weight you use to need to throw around" is, in my opinion, one of if not the best lyric ever written. This album is absolute brilliance.
Waters isn't perfect and sometimes annoying BUT... But what a writer, and concept maker ! He's a genius certainly.
@@garryiglesias4074he can be annoying, but he always wrote about what he believed in, no matter wether fans political views agreed with him or not
@@Guitardudeftw Yeah, and he's right about the others not knowing how to write songs... Since he left the "Disney Princess Polly"'s lyrics are insipid... Oh yes she's for 'peace" and "love" and "being nice" etc. But it's boring and at the level of a 17 year old school girl. Even when I should enjoy the theme, I can't appreciate what she writes.
Roger, on the opposite, write things with poetry, it's deep, it takes you to the guts. I mean, at least when he was with Pink Floyd. I admit that I don't know a lot about his solo work, as for me the "top level alchemy" was when they worked together.
It's funny, because I find David solo's work boring... Nice but boring. I find Waters solo work (for the few I know), as only depressing and "always the same". I haven't heard a solo stuff from Rick Wright which gave me goosebump. But when they worked together it was above anything else. They really had something while being together. Of course the shadow of Syd fueled the machine and gave them their best maybe.
@@Guitardudeftw Oh and to add a "detail": I love Syd's solo work. Although he was helped by David a Water, it's "his genre"... And I think he was, indeed, the seed for their work: simple but catchy music, childish (in a noble way: fantasy, contemplation..) but also dark poetry for the lyrics, and an unconventional way of singing.
Not just the lyric, but the way David phrases. It has been my absolute favorite few seconds of any song ever since i was in junior high. Like 37 years ago, and it still is.
2nd floyd song? Damn you jumped into the deep end. IMO this is their best album and one of the best ever. The band were pissed at their record label and decided to make their next album unplayable on the radio as a way to give a big middle finger to the execs. It’s amazing.
Ironic thing is I remember hearing Sheep on the radio in my Dad’s truck in 1979.
I’m with you bro I hate when they follow and react to the same songs that everyone else reacts to I’m also a tool fan
@@eyeonyou1554love both bands!
@@MegaVolcanowas it the full version? They could probably shear one minute off Sheep, not that they should.
I'm 50 I've only heard a snipit of Dogs from a scene in WKRP in Cincinnati
Funny scene. Deep song.
Animals is by far one of the very best albums ever made. I know Dark Side of the Moon was on the charts for 13 years but Animals was made when they was at the top of their game.
To me, I don't find interesting trying to "rank" them.... From Dark Side to The Wall, it's their "magic arc", they produced THE 4 BESTS albums in SpaceTime... So I don't rank them, if I put an order, is that I like to listen things chronologically, so they'll be played from the oldest to the more recent.
I often playlist: Piper -> More -> Atom Heart Mother -> Meddle -> (Bam!) DSTOM -> WYWH -> Animals -> The Wall, "that's it"... I rarely listen to anything after The Wall.
I often push the concept about "full album listen" to "full arc listen", I'm used to have WYWH after DS is complete, THEN I want Animals, and finally I crave The Wall to complete my run.
Actually 746 week 15 years plus . Goggle it !!!!
the Wall > rest
Yep I never even really gave it a chance, I was all about DSotM and that was pink floyd to me. But a few years ago I finally checked it out and it blew my fucking mind, immediately became my favorite album. Can't believe I slept on it for so many years. Animals is perfection through and through.
I always think of Dark Side and Animals being two halves of one long concept. They fit so well if you listen to them back to back.
There’s is no other music quite like this Polo, Pink Floyd is on a level all their own.
This is their best album! But I will take the first King Crimson album as well definitely better musicians.
@@timothytouhey8682 and brain salad surgery by ELP.. then Yes close to the edge
Gilmore's guitar tapping into your soul. Legendary!
GILMOUR*
It’s like a big hug to mind, body and soul!
This is probably my overall favorite song from Pink Floyd. I get chills when I hear the opening guitar because I know what's coming. Absolute musical genius.
In my opinion Animals is their best album. They were a masterpiece of a band.
You really need to listen to the entire album in order because it tells a story. One most aware Americans will recognize.
It was inspired by George Orwell's book "Animal Farm".
Sheep is my favorite on this album. The way the vocal faze into a laser. Gives me chills
IMO the fading riff at the end of the song is one of the best riffs ever created
My favo too.........especially the church part.
I would just add that at the end, it's talking about how he eventually realizes he's been being used his whole life. "Who was broken by trained personnel? Who was fitted with collar and chain? Who was given a pat on the back?" Etc. Eventually he's found dead on the phone, dragged down by the stone (all the bad blood he'd sowed in his life.) Defined by the line "And when the fear grows, the bad blood slows and turns to stone." This whole album is a lyrical masterpiece.
Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone... Stone...
@@djknox2 Pink Floyd in a nutshell…
It was actually a critique of police states and how they abuse their citizens - and oddly prescient.
@@tenminutetokyo2643 Just out of curiosity, is that something Roger himself said at some point? I was thinking is was a more a stab at capitalism, or more specifically a counter to the story of "Animal Farm." I suppose it could be about police states, though dogs doesn't seem to fit in that narrative. There are no dogs in a police state. Pigs and sheep.
@@somersetcace1the police are the dogs. As is big business. The pigs buy them. The rest of us are sheep. Mask wearing vaccinated sheep.
My favorite Pink Floyd album! Hope you love this one man 🤘🏻
I frickin love this album!
Likewise.
Animals > Wish You Were Here > Dark Side > all the rest
My favorite Pink Floyd song.
Animals is gorgeous.
Roger's lyrics and song structure. David's incredible guitar work and composition. From 1971 to 1979 this was perfection.
David was the musical composition and structure guy, Roger was the lyricist and conceptualist. The 2 of them along with Richard Wright and Nick Mason made pure magic.
@@neillenet291 Yeah, NEVER FORGET Nick and Rick... Pink Floyd is the perfect example of each part being good in their... parts, but almost none is "number one", but when they worked together, their got over anything, pure team genius. I love a lot of music and genre, but Pink Floyd up until the Wall is by FAR my favorite music over anything else. Then Beethoven below, and a lot of great bands on their own merit, but the level they reached as a band 4(+1) is just mind blowing. And in my heart until death.
Back to the topic: Rick was a wonderful melodist, he produced beautiful chords progressions, and Nick IS (still) a great drummer, humble but efficient, able to be soft and heavy... With Keith Moon (the other side of the moon), they are my favorite drummer.... (Ok John Bonham is not far :) ).
(Edit: fixed my insomniac name confusion...)
@Garry Iglesias Yeah I wasn't forgetting about Richard Wright or Nick Mason. Richard provided all those wonderful soundscapes on keyboards and Nick always provided just the perfect understated drums. It's impossible to imagine what Pink Floyd music would sound like without Richard Wright especially.
@@garryiglesias4074 By the way, you got Rick and Nick mixed up. Rick passed away over a decade ago and Nick Mason is still alive playing drums.
@@neillenet291 Haha... I know I did that same mistake in another comment, but I realized it quickly... It's just that I should be asleep for a few hours... So I'm having bugs... I go to reload my cells now. Bests.
Shine On You Crazy Diamond is my favorite Floyd song. It’s a long one but well worth it.
This album was inspired by George Orwell's book Animals Farm. When you read it and listen to the album right after, it gets way more brilliant!
Animal....singular
ah vá é memo?
@edkabessa it's true though
Thank you, I will read it. God bless.
What do you do? Its the question of the put upon...once you are the dog that catches the car..or takes down the trillionaires..are you going to do better..honestly and disturbingly... probably not.
all Floyds tracks are not just songs there experiences that take you on a journey, this is not just music you listen to you feel it also
Just imagine being 15 and having your brother put this on the record player. It was magic the way I remember it. Still is.
And when you lose control, you`ll reap the harvest that you sow.
Pink Floyd was always on in the background of my youth. Excellent. Best band.
They are always my everyday soundtrack, since around my 12. Now 47 and still counting... :)
"Rom Com" is one term I'd never have expected in a Pink Floyd reaction!
What it means!!?
I use to and still fall asleep to their music a lot. I'm 35 and they have been my all time favorite band.
I was lucky enough to see this concert tour . Still ranks in the top five shows all time. Over 100 concerts atttended.
One of the greatest bands of all time. Nothing else like them. Those KEYS! Richard Wright is the best imo. Can't stop now, Polo. Gotta see what the rest of the farm is up to now! ✌🏼
Rick was epic !
Best album ever!! lyrically and instrumentally 😊
Congratulations! You will never look at music the same way again. Best listened to as entire album. Masterpiece.
I’m one of the lucky one that got to see the Floyd live. Their music never gets old. You definitely want to here all their stuff. Very powerful
Me too. Amazing days. We had it all.
This whole album is devastating. A crushing commentary on our society and humanity at large. Raw, and violent.
One aspect of Pink Floyd's true genius is the crafting of concept albums. From "Dark Side of the Moon" to "The Wall", the band took the idea of an overarching theme or message in all the songs of an album and raised it to a level that few other bands could ever dream to match. "Dogs" is 17 minutes and 05 seconds of pure rock bliss.
ALL Roger Waters. Everything
@@misterwirez7731Not in the slightest. He probably thinks so, but combination David, Richard and Waters was what gave Pink Floyd their sound from Meddle to the Wall. The Final Cut is what you get when Roger Water’s ego went completely overboard.
@joshuagriffith9191: Whilst you are mostly right, without the structure of Nick Masons' drumming, the others wouldn't have had such a solid foundation for their expression.
To be honest, I personally think The Final Cut is Floyds worst album by a country mile!
@@misterwirez7731so was Roger playing guitar, drums and keyboard?? Get real, he was primary lyric writer but not sole, get with the programme.
Animals is Pink Floyd at their finest. This album is a true masterpiece and Dogs is their very best to me. Animals and Wish You Were Here are my two favorites. Then comes Dark Side of The Moon, Final Cut, The Wall..... this band was extra special. So cool to see you appreciating this!
Live is a stellar trip. This is one of their best creations. Awesome to hear it with someone who hasn't.
Animals is my #1 all time favorite album. I listen to it regularly.
Wish You Were Here is a close second.
The more you listen to it, the more you’ll love ALL of it. Sheep & Pigs (3 Different Ones) are epic too.
This song is probably my favorite Pink Floyd song. A lot of people are torn between this one and Pigs (Three Different Ones).
This album is amazing!
personally, my favorite floyd song is sheep lol it never gets enough love 😭😭
I think the guitar solo in Dogs is possibly my favorite guitar solo, in context, of a rock song. Something about it just hits right
Yep. Those heart-wrenching guitar harmonies... that snarling solo...
peace.
I prefer dogs, but the song I'm torn about is sheep. After that long intro the way the music hits when he starts singing..... perfection
My fave Pink Floyd is this whole album, listen start to end. It's AWESOME.
I was just thinking of this song... looked on YT and there you are... subscribed. This was released when I was in high school. Music was so much more then... no video games... most people didn't even have cable TV. We analyzed these albums to the note. I know every song on this album from memory... via hours with headphones at night. I'm glad I was born at the right time.
My favorite Pink Floyd song! Dogs is incredible. Musically, lyrically, conceptually... brilliant.
Pink Floyd's special ability is to transport you into the music. Almost every reaction video ive seen, there mental state has shifted some sort of way by the end. its in the eyes
That was 45 years ago . . . lots of memories and emotions! My kids still listen to them . . .
This was my first Pink Floyd concert // Animals.. tripping & blown away inside
From my absolute favorite Floyd album. I bought it in 77. You're in for a treat with the rest of it. Thanks, Polo.
My favorite album ever! Burned through 3 albums over the years.
RIP Richard Wright ❤️
The power plant on the album cover is called Battersea Power Station and has now been refurbished and turned into luxury condos and a shopping mall. It’s on the cover of the 2018 Animals remaster. Pigs, Dogs, and Sheep is a reference to George Orwell’s book 1984. This song was made at the end of the Cold War. The line “Gotta try and wake gotta try and shake off the creeping malaise” was a reference to President Jimmy Carter.
Wow! You took the training wheels off pretty quick! You're barely getting started on your PINK FLOYD journey and you already jumped off into the deep end. I'm excited to see your reactions to their classic albums and I do mean CLASSIC!
Gilmour's guitar simply cries, sobs, stutters and agonizes in these solos. Simply the best.
As with every Pink Floyd album, they all tell a story. Listening from the first track to the last is part of the experience. Animals is one album that I highly recommend you listen to in the truck on a long drive lol. This album is timeless. An instant classic. It holds up so well to this day.
As PF being my #1, if I'd be a trucker, I would obviously listen to them ANYWAY...
But not only: Kraftwerk's Autobahn, NOFX's Truck Stop Blues, Deep Purple's Highway Star, Roy Orbison's I Drove All Night, Phil's In The Air Tonight, Prince's Purple Rain, and so on...
I agree. I used to call it a journey.
Being a Pink Floyd fanatic since the early 70's, I enjoy watching your reactions as I know what to expect, so it amuses me to watch you're face as it unfolds. They always take you on a journey. This is my favorite band.
I had this in CD in high school and would just play it on my CD player on any long drive my family went on. Dogs in particular just never would get old and still gives me chills.
so cool you chose this as one of your first songs. this is my favorite and i think this whole album is overlooked.
Had the priviledge to hear the 'Animals' tour in Miami. The inflated Pig was crazy. The concert amazing. What an album!
Animals is that album no one paid attention to, that is really one of the greatest albums ever made. It is truly a masterpiece.
My absolute favorite Pink Floyd song, ever. The lyrics and the guitar solos hurt the soul.
Once again I'm really jealous of you discovering Pink Floyd and Dogs in particular. LOVE this song.
I love this entire album. I put my headphones on and the music completely takes me to another dimension.
I saw them in 1977 at the Olympic stadium in Montreal for the 'Animals' album tour. Pretty impressive. Sheeps (made of cotton I guess) were dropped like parachutes from the top of the stadium. Epic. Obviously, they played that song.
that was the famous spitting incident where the The Wall was ''born'', awesome!
@@rick-ry3kj Exactly. People were in a party mood
Alors tu t'es fait cracher dessus ? T'as gardé un souvenir de Waters ? :)
Salut cousin.
The year I was born. I did not get to see them until Division Bell Tour.
So jealous of you, I would have loved to be at that show. I did get to see them at the pulse concert at earls court
As a kid I would be sitting there while my parents had gone to bed, alone in the living room, all lights out, 15 years of age, with headphones, totally in awe.
this entire album is awesome !!
Coming Back to Life, another amazing Pink Floyd song.
I went to the Animals tour in Chicago. There are no real words to describe a Pink Floyd concert. Anyone even today hearing it will feel like they are tripping.
Quad sound system they had was very trippy
How was the sound quality back then ? Compared to like the PK audio and all the other crazy stuff today
@@slavghterdubz Like Live. It was a trip. Quadraphonic sound times four imagine that.
Welcome to Pink Floyd!! Glad you have found them! Floyd is one of the most iconic groups ever. They are great to listen to when you are expanding your horizons (ahem!), or meditating. It's easy to use yourself in the world's they create. I hope you continue your journey with them
The best thing to do when you listen to Pink Floyd is to let the music wash over you and let it take you there. It's a different journey for everyone, but it's definitely a journey
Best in the dark, with some herbal assistance/enhancement.
Just sayin'
@@coachhannah2403 I can attest to that
David Gilmour IS the reason I wanted to play guitar. He says in one note what other guitarists can't even say in a whole solo
Polo...so glad I found your site. Love your imput. I'm 70 years young and I must say that you do a great job.
You're so close to 100k! Love Pink Floyd! You should listen to the entire album of Dark Side of the Moon all at one time as the songs flow together.
I first bought this album in the winter of 1986. A girl I liked was in the hospital and it was a sad depressing time. I will always play this song in my car on a grey sky winter day and it takes right back in time.
That guitar riff at 5:52 is so beautiful. I could listen to it on loop
Wish you were here ! Best ever pink Floyd in concert
This is a lifetime song, it gets better yet more cynical as time goes on, the whole album is a brilliant piece of music, after "Wish" they were left to tear one another apart, late '70's rock is full of moments of brilliance just before the ships came crashing along the shoreline
This song gives me insane nostalgia , my parents blasting it on surround sound on Friday nights with friends over. Love to hear it!
YOU can't go wrong with Pink Floyd. It's always a journey to another place.
Your stepping into a new world when hearing Pink Floyd for the first time. Every song takes you on a journey.
Pink Floyd and TOOL invented their own ingenious, infectious sound.
There were no tight jeans, and there was no “dancing”.
However, a lot of weed was sacrificed, and many Gen X babies were created.
Lots of blotter involved as well
@@lakesthaproduct44 purple micro-dot….
It was said by David Gilmour’s wife that is you want David to talk hand him a guitar. The grittiness of the guitar on Animals is David reacting to Roger’s assertions of control and ever dominating personality.
All the Greatest Bands from back then knew just how many bars to complete each part without it getting repetitive, an uncanny ability to Morph the song precisely when it was needed.
I think Pink Floyd excels at that... Just when you might think that once more could be too much, they just give you what to want or add a twist which makes their LONG instrumentals going fast... I like Dire Strait, but I'm not fan of their long booooring intros... And often, those band trying to makes long intros ends up to do something boring.
“They’re definitely unconventional” now that’s an understatement! 😮😮😮
GREAT reaction. You get it, dude!
The Animals album is based on George Orwell’s book Animal House. The animals represent different characters in society. The Dogs are the businessmen, the Pigs are the politicians, and the Sheep are the general populace.
Ignore this comment! George Orwell never wrote a book called Animal House!!!!!
Polo is so cool.and open minded af! Thanks Polo
My all time favorite Pink Floyd song.
Pink Floyd's music IS the psychedelic in itself. Great reaction. Can't wait for your reaction to the next track from this album, "Pigs (Three Different Ones)"
You should watch the entirety of "Live at Pompeii". A concert with no audience filmed in a ruined Roman circus. They are young and vital and in their prime. It has Abbey Road footage from the Darkside recordings as well. Watch the newer one with the cool NASA footage.
Great choice, whoever recommended it. Let's put some context on this. Britain was bleak at the times, punk rock was in its peak popularity and Pink Floyd came out with this amazing gritty, cynical and vicious album. Dogs is a real gem. As an aside, the building on the album sleeves was the recently decommissioned Battersea Power Station in London. There was a decision to float a giant helium filled pig from one of the towers for the promo be shots. Rumour has it that the pig broke it's moorings and headed off into the flight path of Heathrow airport . It was reported at the time that a pilot was breathalised after reporting he spotted an enormous flying pig on his approach into London.
My request, thanks! Great color commentary!
@@cbird02 Thanks for the recommendation! 👍🏼🔥🙌🏼
And nothing has changed since those times. If anything, it's worse. Which makes this song even more relevant than ever.
Sadly, the British sheep are still docile.
Love you brother. I appreciate your honesty. It’s always nice to connect through music.
Tool and Pink Floyd are so similar to me in many ways, i was born in '83 and for some reason i think that matters.
Unconventional is an understatement. They are simply just , Pink Floyd. Arguably the greatest band of all time. And I say that loving hundreds of other bands.
I love seeing the young hear the greatness of Pink Floyd for the first time! 🙂
Polo, you forget that we had no computers, no internet, no cell phones. Hell, I didn't even have a TV for about 5 years in the 70's. I played music whenever I was home.
If you want to dig deeper into PF World - here are a few ideas and recommendations for 2023
First - TIME from their alltime legendary album Dark Side of the Moon, original studio version
Second - ECHOES Live at Gdansk. This particular version is the ultimate last time, that PF or David Gilmour will play this song live, because short after the concert in Poland, the keyboarder Rick Wright passed away; the last minutes of this great masterpiece seem to be a dialogue between David's guitar and Rick's keyboards, it sounds as if these two friends are sayin Good Bye to each other.
Third - HIGH HOPES, also Live at Gdansk
Fourth - all 9 parts of SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND, original studio version
and finally - SORROW Live at Pulse Tour or ON THE TURNING AWAY Live at Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour; both great guitar solos.
Oohh, I nearly forgot RUN LIKE HELL Live from Pulse as well.
Enough for today - HAPPY NEW YEAR, I wish you and your beloved ones all the best for 2023
Dude. I love Pink Floyd. This song is up there. I love your willingness to listen. So good. Thanks dude
Pink Floyd is as close to a religion as a band can get. This album is epic. On or off air you really should give it a full listen through. There are 5 songs if you count parts, more 4 really, but in actuality there is just one song... Animals.
Yeah, but they are not a "big religion" neither a "cult" (although they ARE cult...). They have become what Syd hoped they become (cf the interview with the guy complaining about "loudness"). They played HUGE concert, for people to listen to the music, and if you watch Astronomy Domine on TV with Syd (The song just before this ITW, IIRC), he's more a Shaman...
So they support the trip, but not imposing anything than travelling in our mind, asking yourselves maybe some good questions, I mean, introspection... They offer that to the "masses"... It's a way to experiment "trips" without ANY drug, just by audio sensation.
I think their 4 bests albums of the golden arc are ones of those kind: a complete mental and emotional journey, a trip, a musically assisted brain-movie.
Odd how I looked up reactions to this song and noticed a video was posted 12 minutes ago, love this song, props to you
Thank you for noticing Nick Mason's drumming on this song. Mason's contribution to the PF sound is too-often overlooked, usually because the power of the Waters' lyrics and Gilmour's guitar overshadowed his work. He was always in the pocket and never resorted to flash, though he did let it out a little (thankfully) on this song and on the live version of "Echoes." Thanks for reviewing this song. It's one of their under appreciated classics.
Go to "Live in Pompeii" in Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun and Astronomy Domine he goes full "Animal" it's amazing! 😉😢
Hell yea dude. My favorite Pink Floyd song. I’m literally wearing an ‘Animals’ T-Shirt as I type this.
There are so many colors and sounds in this recording, it's almost overwhelming; Despite hearing it about 3-5 THOUSAND times, the song always has some nuance I hadn't heard...But; Gilmore's axe work is above and beyond everything recorded in music..The whole album is a masterpiece of sound...7:45 Blues licks are exquisite. :)...Hurts your teeth it's so sweet! 12:20 we would be HAF mouthing "Stone, STONE, STONE, " to our other HAF boys, in the dim light of a black light... We'd play this against the old Lone Ranger cartoon, with the sound off on the TV...The cartoon graphics, of the time were clunky but, well drawn action...
The descent at 8:55 is naaaasty...
Pink Floyd always takes you on a journey 👍
Pink Floyd is a whole other rabbit hole and brother it runs deep
One of my all time favorite bands
If you liked this you should check out the Flaming Lips or Radiohead "Pyramid song" I think you'd really enjoy it
Pink Floyd is a “ Journey with a Message “ that you EXPERIENCE!!! Not just a band.
Probably my all-around favorite Pink Floyd album. Been a fan since 1975...& I still haven't made up my mind. Yet it keeps ending up in truck's CD player. 'Sheep' used to be my favorite off of the album....but nowadays it's 'Dogs'. Imagine if they had included tracks for chickens, horses & cows....WOW! We could have had a double-album.
OMG! I’m imagining that in my head. It would’ve been awesome of course! I’m specifically imagining what the rooster would say.❤️✌️🌼
This song is EPIC EPIC EPIC!!!! I love your honesty. Brilliant Reaction!!
You will need to hear Pigs then Sheep. We played this album to death when it came out, while meditating on the album cover and art, as was the case with most prog and art rock of that spiritual time. Live would be cool, yes.
One amazing thing to me, is the use of space in the music. They give the notes space and time to develop. It creates dimensions you just don't get anywhere else!
Subbed hoping to get you to 100K 😊
“Shine On You Crazy Diamond” parts 1-5 & 6-9 are amazing, as well as “Echoes”
and of course the rest of this album (my personal favorite).