Legend CUT His GENIUS Partner OUT of This 1977 Record To SEIZE Control of Band! | Professor of Rock

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Although Pink Floyd is no stranger to this channel, we really are breaking new ground here… taking on an epic album that we’ve never covered before. And with it, a formidable song that is as darkly beautiful as they come. Were covering the dog-eat-dog track from Pink Floyd’s 1977 masterpiece Animals, Dogs… It was written by one of the premiere lyrical geniuses of the past half-century… Roger Waters and boasts a brooding, black-hearted view of the world. Okay maybe that sounds a little bleak, but I’m telling you… When paired with the sonic excellence of his guitar hero bandmate David Gilmour, this track becomes a rarified work of art. Plus we’re giving you a preview of how this album led to the beginning of the end for this band. We’ve got no shortage of drama for this one. It’s an episode you’re not going to want to miss… NEXT on the Professor of Rock.
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So today we’re coming back to a top-tier band that is one of my favorites ever… a combination of four almost mythical musicians who changed the way we listen to music forever back in the 70s. I’m talking about David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Nick Mason, and Rick Wright… collectively known as Pink Floyd. Although in the past we’ve broken down songs from most of their biggest albums: Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, and The Wall…
…we have yet to take a deep dive into their 1977 masterpiece “Animals.” So we’re going to change that today…And to kick things off, we’re going with the track that eats up almost all of Side 1: Dogs. As Pink Floyd progressed through the 70s - moving further away from the collaborative effort of Dark Side of the Moon - Roger Waters’ stranglehold over the band began to tighten. Such was the strength of his lyrical and conceptual genius. Say what you will about Roger Waters the man, but Pink Floyd would have never achieved all they did without him. But then again, you can say the same thing about David Gilmour, whose sonic brilliance is in a class all its own. As every Floyd fan knows, these two giants of rock are ‘indisputably indispensable’ to this band’s legacy. I just want to put that out there as we get into this. Because honestly, there are some hard things to sift through here.
So Roger Waters - judging by the concept albums he has spearheaded - has an insane talent for giving life to the twisted concepts churning in his head. A poet of the darkest order, his lyrical prowess towered above his bandmates’ skills with the written word. And that is where today’s drama-filled narrative kicks into gear. By the time Water got to work writing 1977’s Animals, he was making a distinct transition from writing lyrics that could be somewhat vague to addressing very precise.

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@ProfessorofRock Год назад

Poll: What is your pick fo the greatest PINK FLOYD record overall?

@dcfan2020 Год назад

Animals is Pink Floyd's most rocking album and has always been my favorite.

@rabby-u Год назад

Too many layers in the question to answer it so early in the day!

@williamsanders2439 Год назад

I'm a Wall fan...but so many to choose from!

@johntomlinsonsr8590 Год назад

My vote is Dark Side of the Moon. Betting the final tally is 85% Moon and 15% Another Brick in the Wall

@Ganja-jh6iy Год назад

Meddle

@gregorfamily8325 Год назад

Roger made David better and David made Roger better. I’m grateful they were together as long as they were.

@fivestring65ify Год назад

This is often the case.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

Yes indeed. He was very creative.

@Geezer-yf8hv Год назад

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻. Aye!! Many of the best bands had rather heavy tensions going on between members! This competition brought out the strongest efforts. It just always pissed me off when Roger would bitch about the other members not contributing to the band. I never felt this when listening to their albums! And let’s just admit it! If they did write original material, Roger would reject it as not fitting in with his grand concept!

@dohanddonuts5716 Год назад

@@Geezer-yf8hvthis sadly is true. Roger doesn't put much into music as lyrics. He even has said this. However, Gilmour has said that his song writing, lyrics, has always been lacking. But he said the opposite when it came to the actual music. He could have had an idea of what it was in his head but in the end of the day, without David, Nick and Rick, his music would have no life. Without music to a opera, it just be a fat person on stage yelling.

@tjroelsma Год назад

@@Geezer-yf8hv Agreed, but it comes down to what you like more: the experimental sound of earlier Pink Floyd, where all four members contributed songs for the albums or the more concept albums that saw Waters contribute all songs for the albums. Albums like Ummagumma featured songs from Mason and Wright and those were far more experimental than songs from Waters and Gilmour. What ultimately led to Waters leaving Pink Floyd was in my opinion the fact that he didn't feel that Mason and Wright in particular and Gilmour in a somewhat lesser way contributed anything to the sound anymore and at times seemed to work more and more against him from his point of view.

@garrettadkins8265 Год назад

Richard Wright is not talked about enough with this album, in my opinion his work makes it what it is, especially in Dogs and Sheep

@georgelochinski8144 Год назад

Sheep is actually my fav PF track post-Syd

@lucaswitdalidov7655 Год назад

He actually did very little of the recording on this album beyond the into to sheep. He was going through an ugly divorce as well as mountains of cocaine from my understanding. This was when waters started edging him out and recorded a lot of the keyboards himself. Remember by the time the wall came about Rick wasn’t actually a part of the band but was later hired as a session musician.

@biancachristie 11 месяцев назад

Rick was a titan, such a gifted musician and the warm gentle heart of Pink Floyd’s best music. I love all these guys and I have never understood why Roger couldn’t appreciate his talent. I think Roger wasn’t enough of a musician himself and felt a little threatened by anyone he didn’t completely understand-but that’s just armchair psychology and idk. I have a really hard time listening to Animals and The Wall because of Roger’s stranglehold-I don’t think they fly the way the earlier albums do, at least not so effortlessly.

@ResearchSoundLab 11 месяцев назад

Absolutely 100% truth. He is the Underdog, the unsung hero.

@paulmatschull1923 10 месяцев назад

@@lucaswitdalidov7655 I don’t believe that Ricks parts on the Animals album were overdubbed or re-recorded by Roger yes he was becoming very controlling and difficult to work with but all members contributed equally to the making of the album and certainly not guest session players. Rick keyboards are an integral element of all Floyd albums and his work cannot be diminished even if Roger felt he wasn’t providing enough input into the group .

@paulkinzer7661 Год назад

My connection to this album: I was in a foster home when 'Animals' came out, 16 years old. A previous foster kid had left an 8-track of Animals in the top drawer of an old dresser in the finished basement. My foster parents had some strict rules on certain things, and one was that lights out was 10:00 pm on weeknights. This was tough for me, as I've always been a night owl, so I would stay up late, reading in bed, and listening to background music wearing big old headphones (also found in that drawer), so as not to get busted, and also to not bother the foster brother who shared the room with me. This was the time when I first read The Lord of the Rings, and I inhaled it. While reading it, I would have 'Animals' playing on a literal loop on that 8-track. (Jethro Tull's 'Thick as a Brick' -- one more drawer find -- was used in the same way). To this day, whenever I listen to 'Animals', I get images of Middle Earth flowing in my mind. I totally got into what was being said on the album, too. I came from a messed-up urban, blue-collar family into this suburban home and its high school filled with privileged suburban 1970s kids. I was a critical thinker, and one of my nicknames in this school was 'the Commie'. I wasn't one, but I did ask uncomfortable questions about things the kids -- and teachers -- took for granted.

@charlie-obrien Год назад

Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull and JRR Tolkien sound like a great combination to free the mind of any 16 year old. Adults back in those days were down on fantasy and progressive rock, but what they missed in their understanding is that escapism and delving into fantasy and using ones imagination is what is needed sometimes to find out who we truly are. My brother used to stay up late in our room and listen softly to prog rock through the night and I guess that I acquired a taste for it eventually, through subliminal sleep hearing.

@tracieday8661 Год назад

It sounds like you and I would have been friends.

@anahatatutu Год назад

Wow! Same here. I was 16 in 77 and in a foster home. I went to the record store and bought this. I listened to it over and over. This album was pivotal. Very affirmational of my rough experiences up to that point. It took me many more years to discover Thick As a Brick. My fantasy opus was Le Guin's "Earthsea Trilogy" which I was fortunate to find on the shelf at the children's home.

@paulkinzer7661 Год назад

@@charlie-obrien Adults in those days were down on me, too, sometimes, even though I was a model citizen in almost every way. I had to find my own way mostly because all the grown-ups either abused me, or took no notice of me at all. I'm glad I chose a sensible path. Take care!

@paulkinzer7661 Год назад

@@tracieday8661 Thanks, Tracie! I'm doing fine now, but I sure could have used some decent friends back then.

@kennethbishop8128 2 месяца назад

I am 63 years old and I am so glad to finally see someone talk about this album as I experienced it back then. The first time I heard it I was totally blown away by its concept and how they put it to what I consider to be some of the finest music ever played. I saw them in Atlanta in my teenage years when they toured on this album and it was the greatest concert. They did many albums and tours after this but none as extraordinary as this album. I loved it then and I love it now.

@hottotty13 10 месяцев назад

Richard Wrights Synth does so much for Floyd which is too often overlooked.

@MikeAdelic1207 2 месяца назад

I have a friend who once asked, "Which member was Pink Floyd?" Many would favor Waters or Gilmour, which I favored Gilmour. The reality is Wright is Pink Floyd. Without his synth work, the band would have NEVER been what they were. Thus the reason "The Final Cut" was a flop and the reason why PF couldn't go on anymore.

@liamsdad33 2 месяца назад

Absolutely

@beenaplumber8379 Месяц назад

Adam gave his performance short shrift here, but he was always remarkable, IMO more notably on the piano and organ, but his stand-out work on Dogs is on the synth. (My synth has a patch called "Shine On".)

@Paolo8772 Месяц назад

@@MikeAdelic1207 Agreed. Richard Wright also wrote more MUSIC for SDOTM than any other member. He wrote the music to my favourite Floyd song Us and Them and only got half credit for it because Waters wrote the lyrics to it.

@brianhelms7226 Месяц назад

He was a beautiful genius so full of soul

@stanleyguarnelo1101 Год назад

True story: Back in the 90's when I discovered Animals, I listened to it my room. I had a black chow at the time. He would lay in my room when I listened to music. Every time I played Dogs and the section where the dogs start barking, he would look at my stereo, tilt his head in confusion, then sniff the speakers. When the distorted dogs howled, he would pull his head back. One time he looked behind the speakers looking for the dogs barking. I miss that dog.

@rft2001 Год назад

Same here man, with a huskador.

@PatrickWilson47 Год назад

Same with my Siberian Husky, she also liked Meddle and Seamus 😊

@queenredspecial 10 месяцев назад

Aaaw!

@jeffreybabor2585 5 месяцев назад

My my beagle would howl at the top of his lungs 🫁 and my collie would look at him like WTF

@kenlamond1459 2 месяца назад

My dog did that for the song Seamus on Meddle!

@llarose 11 месяцев назад

As much as Gilmour and Rogers soak in the credit for this masterpiece, In "Animals," Nick Mason's drumming and Richard Wright's keyboard work played pivotal roles in creating the album's unique sonic landscape. Mason's precise, active and inventive drum patterns provided the album's rhythmic backbone, adding depth and complexity to the tracks. His ability to blend intricate patterns with solid beats contributed to the album's distinctive sound. This was Mason's best work. Richard Wright's keyboard mastery added atmospheric layers to the music. His use of synthesizers and organs created haunting textures that enhanced the album's overall mood. Wright's melodic sensibility and his knack for finding the perfect sound complemented Roger Waters' and David Gilmour's compositions beautifully. Together, Mason and Wright, along with their much-celebrated bandmates, crafted a musical masterpiece in "Animals," showcasing their individual talents and collective synergy. Their contributions elevated the album to one of Pink Floyd's finest works.

@jockster5525 9 месяцев назад

What a load of tosh ...

@Jimboslice911 8 месяцев назад

@@jockster5525your comment... Yes..this comment, not so much

@larryfroot 8 месяцев назад

Mason's drumming on Dogs was as pivotal as his contribution on Echoes, which is to say, huge.

@PedroCoutinho-yf8po 8 месяцев назад

I think Waters Wrote all lyrics and songs , excepto Dogs he Wrote with David

@brianbrandt25 8 месяцев назад

Mason is up in the reissue remix, It makes it even more powerful.

@Gunners_Mate_Guns Год назад

Dave Gilmour's guitar on this is fantastic, some of his finest work ever.

@boboharperoldbobostillhere7588 9 месяцев назад

When I think of Pink Floyd I think of David Gilmour, period. In my mind his guitar work touches the soul far more than some dark lyrics by Waters.

@jr2904 Месяц назад

@@boboharperoldbobostillhere7588 then you're missing a huge part of what made them great. Floyd was never great after Roger left, even his last album with them wasn't that good. David needed Roger, and Roger needed David.

@commonman317 Год назад

"You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to". What an unforgettable line, that has stuck with me all of these years. "Dogs" is my favorite PF song. The description of psychopathic, narcissistic, greedy people and corporations seems so fitting for today's world, let alone 1977. Thanks Professor for covering this song.

@philsurtees Год назад

_"psychopathic, narcissistic, greedy people"_ People like, say, Roger Waters you mean??? 🤣

@Louisthefur 10 месяцев назад

“So that when they turn their backs on you… you’ll get the chance to put the knife in”

@ThePaulv12 10 месяцев назад

@@philsurtees True that. Projection and denial knows no bound.

@danteyampey737 9 месяцев назад

@@philsurteesseems like you're blinded by media m8

@SuperPatrick777 8 месяцев назад

@@philsurteesYeah , hypocrisy does seem to pop up .

@eightballsidepocket9467 Год назад

“And it's too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around” Best line ever! All the ruthlessness needed to get ahead is now ballast while having a “good drown” Just wow!

@evanoglesby9504 Год назад

I prefer “you fucked up old hag, ha ha charade you are”

@Barklikeadog61 Год назад

Loved this album, the sound effects they created, how creative the whole album is. As a teenager during the 70’s this was huge for me

@ProfessorofRock Год назад

Awesome!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

It’s a cool album for sure.

@urgemore Год назад

I was also a teenager in the late 70s. This was such a powerfully conceptualized and delivered piece of art for someone that age at that time.

@owendavis2129 Год назад

First Floyd I ever heard was Animals as a struggling teenager coming over crackling AM radio out of New York City. No music had ever impacted me like the songs from Animals. That beauty and joy has never left me. Although I am a drummer for my band I sing and play acoustically Pigs on the Wing Parts 1 & 2 with 2 of my band mates.

@RUDI-UK Год назад

Gilmour's guitar work on "Dogs" still brings a tear to my eye to this day.

@queenredspecial 10 месяцев назад

Every time.

@DinsdalePiranha67 9 месяцев назад

His solos on this track - especially the first one - have a ferocity you don't often hear in his work.

@676bun Год назад

I played this obsessively as teen, I really thought they were forecasting my future. I think now it was just my first time falling in love with depressing lyrics and music. this album still has this unique spell it can cast on you unlike anything i've heard before.

@cloudtowerphotography815 Год назад

Yes! This album exists In a different place to their others. I cannot verbalize It, but It has an atmosphere that Is unique. Richard Wright's playing had a lot to do with that and I think he deserves huge credit for what he did on Animals.

@keep_walking_on_grass Год назад

and what animal are you now, where did it all end up?

@cloudtowerphotography815 Год назад

@@keep_walking_on_grass I used to be a dog, but now I’m a rabbit.

@sux2bu883 Год назад

I always get goose bumps listening to Pink Floyd , David Gilmour is my all time favorite.

@maggieanaya1114 Год назад

“Animals” is one of my favorite Floyd albums. “Dogs” is absolute musical perfection! ❤

@norbertberningerjr.1061 Год назад

I agree

@rumien1383 11 месяцев назад

I’m with you there 👍👍

@chrissys.9312 10 месяцев назад

Same!

@ThePaulv12 10 месяцев назад

I agree but Sheep is my fav. I love it for music as much as the theme. Dogs for me is just a bit too real and the musicality of it is hard to enjoy because of it.

@SunflowerLover63 14 дней назад

Agreed!

@TheSquidgal Год назад

As a former DJ, I can confirm that we would put this one on take a restroom break and then go out a sneak in a smoke. (It also worked with Traffic and Iron Butterfly). Animals is my favorite Pink Floyd hands down. It had nothing to do with the break btw. Thanks for featuring this album. To me it is the darkest of three of their albums that I think of as a trio that complement each other -- Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and finally Animals. While lyrically Animals is quite dark, the accompanying music is absolutely exquisite.

@k.h.1587 Год назад

Anyone ever use 2112, hemispheres, necromancer or fountain of Lamneth?

@greghooper4235 Год назад

Saw this album played live in concert in Kansas City My four friends and myself walked out of the show completely stunned. We all said that it was like an acid trip without having taken any. To say that it stayed with you for a long time after is an understatement. Complete and total sensory overload. For the record Floyd also played the entire Wish You Were Here and a mix of other earlier work. The show stayed with us for days. If not a lifetime. I can still hear it now I've been to an insane amount of live shows from the 70s era. This by far was the most awe inspiring. Unbelievable what the Floyd was able to make.

@rejeandurette3471 Год назад

I hear you. That would have been their peak. Definitely the best time ro see them

@frankbizzoco1954 Год назад

There are a few bootlegs of that tour floating around. I especially liked Dogs because of how huge, and loud it sounded through David's Hiwatts. And it has the best version of "Have a Cigar". There is no phaser, but purely a colorspund powerbooster that detonates his amps in the rhythm parts. I envy you.

@LaurieWisti-go3yr Месяц назад

My BIL went to see them at Madison Square Garden in New York City when they did Animals in 1977.He said he was blown away with the pig floating around with the lights in it's eyes. I wish I was there. I've been a fan since I was 16. I'm almost 66 and every time I hear a Pink Floyd song it brings back memories. Absolutely loved The Division Bell.

@billyrose2112 Месяц назад

Kemper Arena was transformed into a mystical place indeed that night . I remember getting my tickets for that show via the lottery system . I was so excited and needless to say . I can still close my eyes and spin this album and transport myself back to my one and only live Pink Floyd experience . ✌🏻

@michaelgay-crosier7500 Год назад

Thanks Professor! The album that introduced Pink Floyd to me. David Gilmour’s guitar solos on this album give me goosebumps to this day!

@ProfessorofRock Год назад

He's incomparable! What's your favorite solo by him?

@timothyforce1949 Год назад

All three solos from "Coming back to life" are my favorite, just because I went thru a time in my life where I was technically dead for 2 minutes after a motorcycle accident years ago. It just hits me more than it did when it came out. It's like the first solo is somber, then by the last solo it's uplifting and hopeful.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

One of the most iconic guitarists!

@michaelgay-crosier7500 Год назад

@@ProfessorofRock, my favorite solo is on “Dogs” but, to be honest, his solos make any song an instant classic.

@philsurtees Год назад

@@ProfessorofRock Nah, he's just a guitarist, and could have been replaced by anyone. Just ask Roger, he'll tell you all about how irrelevant Gilmour and his solos are in the scheme of things... 😛

@chitlun Год назад

I’m 58 years old and first heard DSOTM at the age of 11 in the summer of ‘76, it shaped my musical journey from that moment on. However, it’s Animals that is probably my favourite album. I can clearly remember my brother coming back home with a copy on the day of release and we were blown away. I was 12 years old then and didn’t have the brain to grasp the lyrics but I knew there was a dark, sinister edge to what was being conveyed. A superb piece of work and lyrically more relevant now than ever! I like your delivery man, a new sub here for thee. Cheers!

@PinkFloydGirl 2 месяца назад

As a HUGE Pink Floyd fan, I thank you for this video. Only a true Pink Floyd fan can review this masterpiece of an album with such passion! Always spot on with the commentary on the Gilmour/Waters feud and the demise of this groundbreaking band. Dogs is one of many PF songs that left me feeling like I need a cigarette at the end of the song. Truly spent from a glorious journey. Listening to Animals over and over and hearing something beautiful and different each time. And then searching and finding the bootleg In The Flesh recordings, the ridiculous reaches the sublime. Pink Floyd live is unmatched. It is a true masterpiece and masterpieces never stop giving. Thank you for being as passionate about Pink Floyd as I am!

@AHA-bo8zm Год назад

Dear Professor, I am writing to express my sincere admiration for the analysis of the Animals album. I have been a (Roger Waters) Pink Floyd fan since I first heard them when The Wall came out, and this album is my absolute favorite. The lyrics to "Dogs" are simply indefectible, and the musical composition is out-of-this-world. I can listen to this song over and over again and never get tired of it. Thank you, sir!

@johntomlinsonsr8590 Год назад

First concert was Pink Floyd in Toronto 10 days after Dark Side of the Moon album was released. Been to possibly 150 different concerts since but very few have matched that one in 1973.

@ponzo1967 Год назад

I bet that was amazing

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

What a great start to your concert going journey! How old were you at the time?

@johntomlinsonsr8590 Год назад

@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 wasn’t even a teenager then

@michaelogrady232 Год назад

I was there! Also at Ivor Wynne.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

@@johntomlinsonsr8590 Awesome. What a magical time 1973 was.

@carolmartin4413 Год назад

Loved Animals album...it struck a chord in reality. At the time I worked at a company loaded with 'pigs' so it was natural to turn to this music for relief. Too bad ego issues became so prevalent and destructive...they were a great band.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

I’m so sorry you had to deal with such pigs.

@musicmamma Год назад

Great song pick! When i was younger, i listened to The Wall alot. I related instantly to the songs about Pink's depression over his failed marriage. Now as im getting more middle-aged/older, Animals speaks louder. The desparity of the despicable human-condition in life and in the workplace, screams volumes. A true masterpiece.

@louise_rose Год назад

Yes, the album actually preceded Thatcher's takeover and the big neo-liberal wave of the eighties, that was going to push the idea of Labour/workplace solidarity back by leaps and bounds, but Waters could evidently figure out what was coming. In recent years, when he's performed "Pigs" he has dedicated the song to Donald Trump, or played it with projections of images and quotes of Trump - check out the beautiful live take from Mexico City in the summer of 2016 here on RU-vid! - and he's completely justified in doing that. Trump does represent so much of what this song of greed, jealousy, blind materialism, hypocrisy and misogyny is about.

@act.13.41 Год назад

All these years later and this is still my favorite Pink Floyd album. Even through all the inner turmoil, they managed to put it aside and perform at the top of their game. True masters of their craft. Rodger was a lyrical genius, but he just couldn't control his ego and it tore them apart. Sadly, he still can't.

@zyrrhos 10 месяцев назад

In what regard can Roger not control his ego today? He's admitted his role in the rift in the band. When Gilmour, Mason and Waters announced they were going to remix Animals in 2018, egos once again got in the way and Gilmour clashed with Waters over liner notes where a music critic praised Waters' writing the album as genius. Gilmour refused to allow the notes, stating Pink Floyd was always a collective and not one person. So the release was held up, until _Waters_ decided to back down in 2020 (publicly on video), posting the liner notes instead on his website. Or do you just not like his politics?

@stickman1742 10 месяцев назад

Roger was also a brilliant song composer. I don't know why people want to just talk about lyrics when he composed most of the songs.

@zyrrhos 10 месяцев назад

@@stickman1742 I believe a lot of it has to do with his politics. Ideology clouds people's judgment.

@pashapasovski5860 10 месяцев назад

People mention his politics like there's something wrong with it! Roger is the only star that remains principled and honest, not buying into MSM bullshit and of course Zionist,Nazi hegemony propaganda!

@MatthewLewis68 Год назад

Dogs is one of the great examples of Roger having a great idea, particularly lyrically, and Dave just absolutely nailing it. In particular, I'm referring to the part 'And when you lose control...you'll reap the harvest you have sown". I remember hearing a version of Gotta Be Crazy where Roger sings it, and it was...pretty cool. When Dave sang it, it is absolutely chilling!

@stickman1742 10 месяцев назад

David had a nicer and more versatile voice. Singing was a struggle for Roger. I'm actually amazed Roger could do as well as he could at singing considering how his voice sounds. The interesting thing about the band is that David and Rick are the virtuoso musicians playing instruments at a high level and singing quite well. Roger doesn't play at an advanced level and has a voice he struggles with, but Roger is the one that can compose a lot of songs many of which will be big hits. He can compose Money and Have A Cigar and many, many more. He dominated the Floyd catalog in composition after Syd left. He need others to help bring the sounds to life. That's why it worked so well together when they were working together.

@MatthewLewis68 10 месяцев назад

@@stickman1742 Totally. Each had their strengths, and it is no knock that they had their weaknesses.

@ericleiter6179 Год назад

For guitar players, Animals is THE Pink Floyd album to absorb...I read somewhere that this was Floyd's response to the emerging punk scene, who saw PF as relics of a bygone era...for me, the album is a personal favorite

@rft2001 Год назад

For me as well. Pink Floyd were one of the few psychedelic/progressive bands willing to take on the punks.

@ChipmunkRapidsMadMan1869 Год назад

I remember driving my parents nuts with this album. I was in that beautiful golden age when $5 could get you a good stereo system from a garage sale and for 25¢ apiece, a pile of records like this.

@SeanScorpion Год назад

I haven't listened to this one is years but hearing it again makes me feel very nostalgic. "Dragged down by the stone, stone, stone."

@bobdudy7177 9 месяцев назад

I was lucky to see the tour for Animals at Anaheim Stadium in 1977. Saw the Wall and Division Bell also. My favorite Band!

@davidmcintier128 2 месяца назад

I was at the Anaheim Stadium show, and I saw the Wall in LA. Then I was at the Momentary lapse of Reason show in Oakland. All mind-blowing shows!

@RC32Smiths01 Год назад

Pink Floyd is a band filled with many kinds of emotions relating to their history as a band and with each other. Their music and with each album, it's simply a true reflection of those events. A band that is cemented in history for sure!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

Pink Floyd are experts at tone and mood in music.

@kevinwheesysouthward9295 Год назад

I wasn’t always a pillar in the community, like I am today. I was, what they call a bad seed. I always loved Pink Floyd and especially Animals. One day, in my mid 20’s, I was listening to Dogs. For some reason, the lyrics just hit me. They were describing the way I was living. I don’t know why i finally made this realization but I knew that I didn’t want to be that guy. I didn’t change my life in that moment but that was definitely the instant that I started working on changing. Thankfully, I’m not that guy anymore. Not even close but I still listen to dogs often to remind myself of what I was and what I’m capable of if I’m not living the way that I know I need to live.

@candicewitzkoske3155 Месяц назад

We all have our journeys and opportunities to be better people.

@Jibbahrish1 Год назад

The lyrics throughout Dave’s Division Bell ( Pink Floyd’s) were and are quite telling. Dave is a much more humble man while Rogers political rants really got old fast in the later years. Dave also gave Rick his due.. Stay cool Floyd fans 🎧🎹🎸🐕🐑🐖

@MarkT-v7f 8 месяцев назад

Yea they were OK, but none of the songs had the cutting edge of Water's. Roger comes from a dark place, Dave is a much more gentle person and it is reflected in his songs.

@TheFamousMockingbird 5 месяцев назад

Gilmore was lazy and parties ton he was by no means humble. Waters worse his emotions on his sleeve and was a quite sensitive person that was prone to more dramatic swings. Roger was a creative genius David a genius guitarist but not lyricist or songwriter as Roger was

@silgen Год назад

I saw Floyd at Knebworth in 1975, they did a couple of songs I did not recognise, which turned out to be early version of Dogs and Sheep. Suddenly recognising them the first time I played Animals sent shivers down my spine...

@djknox2 Год назад

I too saw Pink Floyd around that time - at Iver Wynn Stadium outside of Toronto. I was very young but got to go with my older brother whose friend had to cancel At the time I was familiar with Meddle, DSOTM and WYWH. I remember hearing these new songs and thinking how cool they were. A few years later Animals was released and I was stunned about how seamless the LP was from first note to last. I imagine that concert at Knebworth must have been iconic.

@silgen Год назад

@@djknox2 It was. I went to quite a few festivals 1975-1982, and Knebworth was always my favourite. 1975 Captain Beefheart and Pink Floyd. 1976 Lynyrd Skynyrd and Rolling Stones, 1978 Devo, Tom Petty and Genesis, 1979 Todd Rundgren and Led Zeppelin. They don't make festivals like that anymore...

@djknox2 Год назад

@@silgen yeah that's for sure. The concerts I saw in the 70s and 80s would make many cry...

@antoniocarlin5026 10 месяцев назад

I was born in 1977, and ANIMALS is my fav album ALL TIME....!! I hear it full LIVE here in México, with Roger Waters...THANX ROGER!!

@mikemcgown6362 Год назад

This song has done so much for me, actually the entire album. After my son was born and his mother denied me visitation I listened to this tape (yes I had it on cassette) over and over each night until I fell asleep and wake up hearing dogs barking (out of my speakers). Some nights friends stop by to visit. When they heard the tunes playing they would say "makes me want to fire up a doob". Sometimes we did. More for my comfort than their "entertainment". Not your typical Pink Floyd album. It goes way deeper. Makes you think, but what Floyd album doesn't? Thanks for the memories.

@trinaq Год назад

Pink Floyd never had a single that I didn't like, they have a style that's all themselves, and I love that they aren't afraid to experiment.

@Raellives Год назад

My fav PF album. Moreso because of the musicianship and production value. Yes, most all PF albums were recorded masterfully, this one in my opinion, rises to the top. Gilmour and Rogers needed each other just as much as Lennon and McCartney. Bravo to them all and thanks for the songs and the memories and images they evoke!

@brianroof8613 Год назад

The Lennon McCartney reference is spot on.

@mcbillygoat Год назад

Animals is my favorite Pink Floyd album. It somehow expresses perfectly what the 70’s we’re about and what Pink Floyd of the 70’s were about. It is not a pop album, but is one of those albums that you need to hear from beginning to end to understand it. It is a “coming of age” album that speaks to the alienated and inquisitive. Not many albums can get you there, but this one does with brilliant colors. Pink Floyd became a band with a very dark vision and perhaps the most serious band at the time. No true Pink Floyd fan will dismiss this album.

@ThePaulv12 10 месяцев назад

It's Orwellian. The animals in Animals are the animals from George Orwell's Animal Farm (say that 10x fast - I double dare you LOL).

@ianobrien3248 Год назад

Animals is by far my fav Pink Floyd album. "And it's too late to loose the weight you used to need to throw around So have a good drown, as you go down, alone Dragged down by the stone."

@atlasshrugged6435 Год назад

I hate to be that guy, but it’s lose, not loose. I see that specific word spelled incorrectly all the time and I can never figure out why.

@ianobrien3248 Год назад

@@atlasshrugged6435 I agree. I just copy/pasted from whatever the lyrics website was and then sat there wondering if I should edit it or if it is just a british 'slang' usage and decided just to leave it. Drove me nuts tho, lol.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

Such poetry.

@ProfessorofRock Год назад

Poll: What is your pick for the greatest guitar solo of the 70s?

@Ganja-jh6iy Год назад

Time Gilmour

@killrmillr Год назад

David Gilmour - Time

@marinebean420 Год назад

It's gotta be Eruption by King Edward. Maybe ask what the second best was?

@ueno1 Год назад

Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers -- ZZ Top

@fivestring65ify Год назад

Money. Gilmour is the 🐐

@Rick-jg8vx Год назад

Thank you for this video. Like most kids of the 70s I had dark side of the Moon and then I really got into the wall and I had a couple other albums. But there was so much rock ‘n’ roll to discover that I never became a huge Pink Floyd fan until many years later, I picked up a cheap copy of animals, which I had never heard before. And it was like a light bulb went on. I became a massive Pink Floyd fan buying everything including the movie soundtracks I work for a corporation and I have a corner office. But I have a big poster of animals framed in my office. I can’t say it’s my favorite Pink Floyd album cause there’s several Classix, but it’s definitely one of them and it definitely hold a special place in my heart.

@thepragmatic6383 10 месяцев назад

For me, this album will always have a special place in my heart. Because this album was the opening act for the first Pink Floyd show that I saw when I was a teenager. It was in the summer of 1977, July 6 at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal (80,000 spectators). The show started with: The Animals album in this strange order: Sheep - Pigs on the Wing, Part 1 - Dogs - Pigs on the Wing, Part 2 - Pigs (Three Different Ones). In the second part of the show, they played the album "Wish You Were Here" in full and in the correct order, then for the encores, they played: 1st encore; Money - Us and Them, and 2nd encore, - Drift Away Blues with Snowy White on guitar.

@cynthiasmith5011 9 месяцев назад

I turned twenty on July 6, 1977. I saw them a couple of months earlier.

@jasonmckenzie2835 8 месяцев назад

That's a crazy set list

@timjohnson7919 2 месяца назад

Thanks so much for covering this album and this song in particular. BRILLIANT track, so underrated.

@davidlaw689 Год назад

Animals in my mind was the last true Pink Floyd album. All four guys stepped up to the plate for this one. From Waters’ acid laced lyrics , Gilmour’s finest fret work , Wright’s atmospheric keys and Masons’ steady beat. Everything after this was either a Waters or a Gilmour solo album under the PF banner

@matthewcoombs3282 Год назад

Agree with that "The Wall" and "Final Cut" are Waters solo albums. All of the post Waters Albums are Dave Gilmour solo albums branded as Pink Floyd so they sold more units.

@Fregulus5 Год назад

Indeed, "The Final Cut" was, for all intents and purposes, a RW solo album with Gilmour and Mason serving as mere backing musicians.

@jasonmckenzie2835 Год назад

Truth

@Geezer-yf8hv Год назад

I totally agree! It was different than the 2 previous albums, DSOTM and WYWH, which were for the most part very dreamy and soothing, (that “Space Cadet Glow”)! Animals was straight up jamming! No lush female backup vocals or warm soothing sax solos. Straight hard core, for Floyd, at least! Dogs and Sheep were insanely great! Polished and perfected after years of playing live in concert! The new song Pigs was spacey trip out music with an unusual twist; Dave played the bass better than Roger ever could! While Roger played a good crunchy rhythm guitar! Dave played the lead parts, and used the voice box for the crazy pig sounds! Killer outro leads for this, (and Sheep)!! Can’t say enough good things about this album. Loved all of Rick’s and Nick’s parts too! Of course, great lyrics from Roger! Some fans didn’t like it, because of its harshness and cynicism. But this was the late ‘70s, and kind of the mindset of the era! Punk was all the rage, and Johnny Rotten wore the “I Hate Pink Floyd” tee shirt! Well Roger responded with the most anti- establishment album ever! He even dropped the “F Bomb” on Pigs! As for Waters, solo song,(not songs), Pigs on the Wing. The Professor says it all! Split it up the get more royalties, and was screwing Gilmour to get more money than anyone else in the band! I liked the days when the songs were credited to all the members of the band! Roger didn’t write the guitar parts, keyboard parts, or the drum parts that made Floyd such a great band, one of the best!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

You’re not wrong. We began to see egos take over shortly after that.

@fivestring65ify Год назад

Wow, what a great episode. I have listened to animals several times, and dogs is easily the best track. While I can't argue with the message, it was very dark and cynical. I will be 58 years old in November. I've watched society turn into what is described on this album. Waters is the genius, Gilmour was the glue that held the band together. I wasn't aware of this band, until the wall was released. Then, like a lot of young people do, I started exploring their earlier work. I was blown away. I'm still blown away by this band. There are so many musical prophets that came out of the 70s. We are living in a society they saw coming back then. Kind of unsettling.

@ProfessorofRock Год назад

Thanks for watching!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

It’s a very haunting song that is relatable to today’s times.

@carlodave9 Год назад

I’m impressed he covered this at all. But yeah, cynicism got the upper hand with this one.

@Left-handed-liberal Год назад

I'm 2 years younger, and had the same path starting with the wall, and an older high schooler turned me on to animals, and it was on.

@NickNicometi Год назад

1960's Pink Floyd was quite different. Apples and Oranges.

@mizginavale22 Год назад

All I had to do was read the title of this video and I knew immediately that it was about Pink Floyd. Roger Waters reminds me so much of Brian Wilson, Jim Morrison and Nina Simone. Musical geniuses but a with deep tortured mind as well.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

One of those “complicated people.”

@russellboston Год назад

This album has a hauntingly relevant significance to my childhood. In 1978 my father had a sailboat charter business in Belize. Two of the British tourists on our sailboat used to play this album, while talking about the lyrics meanings. My father later murdered those tourists in front of me and and my brother, then later he almost murdered us to keep us from snitching on him. The lyrics to Animals, especially Dogs, caused my father to think it was a message from his victims, about him. I realize Roger wrote them about society, but still to this day, they hit home in more ways than one.

@victorvaldez9723 Год назад

No way!

@russellboston Год назад

@@victorvaldez9723 yep, it’s actually true. I usually don’t tell people that part of my childhood, because they thought I was making it up. The FBI eventually believed me and my brother and arrested my father, but not until 2016. Feel free to look it up, my father’s bad decisions understandably made the news. Silas Duane Boston. The lesson to be learned, don’t harm others. Instead treat them twice as nice as you want to be treated. Not to get anything out of it, but hopefully to inspire others. And because treating people with kindness is the right thing to do.

@victorvaldez9723 Год назад

I can't even imagine how to live with that shit, especially in your childhood, i think you won't hear this song anymore. Blessings.

@rickboiardimindshiftingaca6975 10 месяцев назад

That’s unbelievable!

@s.r.345 10 месяцев назад

What I find truly amazing about this album (my personal Pink Floyd favorite) is written over 40 years ago it still fits society today.

@brianwaloweek6770 10 месяцев назад

Even more so,almost prophetic.

@kittyvaughn76 Год назад

Love your Rush shirt. My late husband introduced me to Floyd after we first married in 1974. I had not heard of Floyd that much, but oh, my, I was hooked the moment I heard them. Same with Rush. Floyd and Dave are my "drug". 💗 Rush, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Tom Petty are bands/ musicians that he also introduced me to. My hubby💗 had great taste in music.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

I feel the same way! Rush is awesome, and so is Floyd!

@kittyvaughn76 Год назад

@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 I also have to throw in Zeppelin and Skynrd.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

@@kittyvaughn76 Undeniable classic bands.

@KingdomMindedWarrior Год назад

Thanks for this one. This has always been possibly my favorite PF album (maybe even over the incredible but often overplayed Dark Side). A fantastic episode in an endless library of great videos. Keep up the great work!

@dont_follow5777 Год назад

I first heard this album when my brother bought it upon its 1977 release. He played it constantly. It stuck with me, and Pink Floyd has been my favorite band for decades.

@evilmothericebearkillerbir6016 11 месяцев назад

a band that needed eachother to be as grate as they are

@toddhershberger6474 8 месяцев назад

Or as Great as they were.

@ronblair6196 Месяц назад

I'm 68, and have been a followers since 1970. Had the honor of being with them when the Division Bell came through Denver. This video was a very in-depth look at their struggles and professionalism in their craft. I cannot speak to Waters and Gilmores' issues as they both will work it out in time...either in this life or another one along the path. That being said, I offer a thousand blessings upon all of them, Sid, Roger, Richard, Nick and David....and their families... A truly gifted group of souls who have shared their talent with all of us here at this time, on Earth... 🕛🕒🕕🕘 ✈️ 🌑 ...

@robertmagee3006 Год назад

This is my favorite Pink Floyd album that I fell in love with from watching WKRP. I had just told my wife about that part just before you had it in the episode. Great show. Pink Floyd is the band that I go to all the time. My voice if I could listen to no one else. Thanks 🙏🙏

@dondebomm6329 Год назад

Mr. Calson.."Are those dogs I here?" Johnny.." I hear them." Classic!

@luvbasses5487 Год назад

To anyone here who may not know: after this record and tour, David released a 1978 solo record which I highly recommend checking out.

@cyncty666 Год назад

One of my all time favorites

@williammcdowell3718 Год назад

@@cyncty666 Arguably his best solo album. On an Island is also.

@luvbasses5487 Год назад

@@williammcdowell3718 Face Value from ‘84 stands well too I think.

@whiteboyjared529 Год назад

The album is epic, sad Roger created animosity with Gilmour and the others. Suppose some people can't control their egos...

@denverman6161963 Год назад

Don't get me wrong-I'm a huge Gilmour fan (as a guitarist/singer), but he just couldn't write anywhere near as well as Waters. Phenomenal guitarist, but the stuff he wrote on his own was sometimes almost childish, and that broke my heart. That '78 album was just ok, but his other solo stuff was not very good. The post-Waters Floyd stuff was PRETTY good, but never phenomenal, and Gilmour needed Wright and Mason to pull it off.

@TheRoadDawg Год назад

David was more important to Pink Floyd than Roger, in my humble opinion. His voice and genius level guitar play was the essence of Floyd. I’ve watched them both live many times, and can say the experiences with David were much more visceral and transcendent to me. I always feel more satisfied and fulfilled after a Gilmore/Floyd experience. I’m sure others feel differently, and I couldn’t argue with much conviction, as he is amazing also.

@cactaceous Год назад

How the hell can Gilmour be more important if Roger Waters was writing the very great majority of the songs?! Almost 85% of the songs from Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall were written by Waters. The conceptualization and the lyrics were all Waters as well. As soon Waters left and Gilmour took over, the mediocrity in the songs shone through. Momentary Lapse and Division Bell are both full of bland hit or miss tracks. The greatness of Pink Floyd ended when Waters left the band. The works proves who was more important.

@youtoo2233 Год назад

@@cactaceousso true, I never could get into Pink Floyd without Waters. Something is just missing. I love Waters vocals

@mel124177 Год назад

I agree. Dave's melody-heavy songwriting trumps Roger's lyrical genius, methinks. The former redeemed Floyd from the self-absorbed, grandiose, tiresome and sometimes overly pretentious social commentary, whiny and bleak direction Rog was taking the band to, back to its more accessible melodic and existentially-themed course, making it a sort of spiritual experience.

@Paul-vf2wl Год назад

Important probably isn't the word to use but I'd say he's easily the most talented performer both on guitar and as a singer in rock's history.

@TheRoadDawg Год назад

@@Paul-vf2wl I can agree with that, I should have thought on that word more.

@bepriceless 10 месяцев назад

Both Waters and Gilmore were genius, narcissistic, ego maniac, know it alls; what could go wrong? But, so much went right before it went wrong.

@DanD5350 10 месяцев назад

Gilmour's longest guitar solo, the one contained in the break after the third verse, is arguably his best ever. Definitely my favorite Gilmour solo of all time.

@Chris.Treborn Год назад

Right on man✌️ What an excellent analysis of this album, and what a heavy and beautifully terrifying album it is. Enjoyed the show. Love and peace to you brother.

@speedandstyletony Год назад

Every time I hear this song or even it mentioned I instantly recall the WKRP episode where Johnny Fever has it playing and Mr Carlson comes in. "Do I hear dogs barking" asks Carlson, Johnny replies, "I do". It is from the episode where they bomb the mall with live turkeys for Thanksgiving. Classic TV using a classic song!

@chuckfalls9827 2 месяца назад

Exactly this!! I can’t believe I had to scroll this far to see this comment.

@richardmcginnis5344 Год назад

roger waters is a legend in his own mind, he's still touring the wall its almost 45 years old, while pink floyd the band had finally come to an end with the endless river and possibly the best track since wish you were here, louder than words and called it a day

@clintlandrum9498 Год назад

Too many times, waters has acted towards others in ways that he criticizes in his songs, namely overbearing, his own out-of-control ego and incredibly judgemental.

@stickman1742 Год назад

Have no clue what you're saying. The Waters-less Floyd albums were pure rubbish. Not only bad, but largely written by ghostwriters brought in to try to make it sound like Floyd. If you like it then god help you.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

Entitled mindset for sure.

@Eriond1 Год назад

@@stickman1742Bullshit! Those albums are clearly different in style than previous albums, and reflects the remaining members of the band well. Just compare with their solo albums 🙂 Roger Waters are a brilliant musician and writer, but so are the others in their way. I prefer the albums where they work together, but I also find «The division bell» as one of the best. My opinion 👌

@tonycowin 11 месяцев назад

His DSotM Redux prove this. An exercise in 6th form wankery.

@FRCMoto 9 месяцев назад

This has long been my favorite Pink Floyd album, and song. Musical fluidity at its best. Iconic, beautiful solos.

@terrycarter8929 10 месяцев назад

I find I can put this cd in the car stereo and never get tired of it for months.

@larx4074 Год назад

Aaaaaand..... not long after Animals, David Gilmour created his own solo album, which is an absolute sonic beauty................

@timothyforce1949 Год назад

If you listen to "Raise My Rent" from Gilmour's '78 solo album, you can clearly hear that it was recycled into " What Do You Want From Me" on The Division Bell. I have no problem with this either, but I remember when TDB was first broadcast from Redbeard I heard the first guitar notes and smiled.

@DavePocklington Год назад

For Water's sacking of Rick Wright I have nothing but contempt. Anyone who met the amazing keyboard player always stated what a great guy he was. His keyboard sound is as indispensable as Gilmour's guitar to the sound of Pink Floyd. I have to agree with you, that dogs is Roger Waters in description. Even if he was thinking of other people when he wrote those words, it fits to a tee. "Everyone is expendable and no one has a real friend". The rest of the band were watching for a pig on the wing with the face of Roger Waters.

@creepingbrain Год назад

Waters didn't have the power to sack Wright. Waters & Gilmour both agreed that Wright had to leave the band because he was no longer contributing anything, and worse than that his behaviour was disrupting the recording of The Wall. It's a complete myth that it was Waters decision alone. Gilmour could have brought Wright back as an equal member of the band when Waters left if he'd wanted to, but guess what, he didn't.

@travisleland1186 Год назад

Wright himself said of that period he was pretty checked out, dealing with a brutal divorce and a mounting coke habit

@johnmoser2689 Год назад

And Richard Wright was a integral part of the band Roger was and still is a bit too much

@samuellahniers7430 10 месяцев назад

Animals made sense to me after reading Orwell's Animal Farm. The Pig rules the farm/world. The dog sells his soul to serve the pig. The sheep are the rest of us sheeple.

@bobapp3045 11 месяцев назад

this whole album was awesome.. i have memories of long talks over cigars and cognac with my late brother while listening and enjoying, and now every time I hear any of those tunes.. i miss him dearly. I have just memories with animals.

@leinie6683 9 месяцев назад

what many members of numerous bands have failed to recognize is that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts

@bryanwinchell2485 Год назад

Les Claypool of Primus covered this album with his Fearless Flying Frog Brigade. Well worth checking out. I was lucky enough to see it live twice back in the year 2000. Anyway, great video of a legendary band's most often-forgotten classic album and one of THE great tracks of their career in "Dogs."

@netplumber 10 месяцев назад

Yes, it was great show Aug 19, 2000 at The Fillmore in San Francisco

@bryanwinchell2485 10 месяцев назад

@@netplumber I saw it in Seattle, also I think in August, maybe it was The Showbox? Don't remember, but that seems right. And then, after one of the Phish Vegas shows in, I think the Hard Rock Cafe. Both were a lot of fun!

@surlechapeau Год назад

At the radio station, a 6-7 minute song was known as a bathroom cut. Legend had it a DJ put on Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" (18:34), walked across campus, had lunch listening to the song playing in the cafeteria, and got back before it finished. A lunch break cut?

@ProfessorofRock Год назад

Thanks for sharing!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

It’d probably take me more than 18 minutes, but okay…

@torino429scj Год назад

Animals..... easily one of the most underrated Floyd albums. So good but mostly overlooked for some reason. Such a mood, such a groove.

@gregorymoats4007 Год назад

Absolutely! Listened with headphones when it came out, start to finish. A great recording

@HardRockMaster7577 Год назад

NO radio "hits"... Which is fine with me.

@beachhunting69 Год назад

@@gregorymoats4007 Same here...stoned (but I guess that was par for the course back in those days). Listening to Dogs for the first time had me smiling, crying, laughing and shitting my pants all in one song. Part of the lyrics of that song became my quote along with my senior year picture in the year book.

@barryfarrell123 8 месяцев назад

The dystopian experience in this epic album is more poignant today, than at the time it was composed. Absolute brilliance, without compromise, or comparison. A tragic betrayal of humanity and its existence.

@carpysmind Год назад

I bought Animals the week it came out. At 60 and upon reflection, today I've probably listened to Animals more than any of their other albums, a true gem. Thanks for the insight.

@TheRicardoSanchez Год назад

For me this is the greatest song ever both musically and lyrically. Of anything. Ever. The most epic composition and most genius story in the music arts. And Im fully conscious of everything from Rush thrown against it. I just keep coming back to Dogs.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

You are not wrong.

@dad4ever-c90 Год назад

You surprised me today! When I saw this episode was about a 17-minute song, I was SURE it was Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. I wasn't as familiar with Dogs as most of Pink Floyd's other work. So thank you for this deep dive. Interesting, as always.

@davej.meister5421 Год назад

Echoes from Pink Floyd's Meddle album is almost 25 minutes long.

@graysonbr Год назад

I thought it was about Freebird

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

He already did that one at the beginning of June!

@Ganja-jh6iy Год назад

The Battersea power plant depicted was also used on Quadrophenia

@LaurieWisti-go3yr Месяц назад

I didn't know that! I'm a fan of The Who too.

@rickboiardimindshiftingaca6975 10 месяцев назад

I remember when this album came out, that the older hippies from the 60s really didn’t like it, but us younger kids ate it up!

@elizabethconklin9011 9 месяцев назад

What a brilliant album, played by brilliant musicians. Powerful, is a good way to describe it.

@markwelsh9068 10 месяцев назад

Re Waters writing everything: Well, on Animals, he did! This is what I don't understand about the Waters 'haters'. Except for "Dogs", Waters wrote the entire album and that does not mean just lyrics (which many suggest is all he did when he didn't). To get full writing credit for a song, you must write the lyric and the melody yourself at the very least. The harmony comes from the melody and, without a doubt, it will have been shared - possibly on all tracks - by Waters and Gilmour. If Gilmour or the others complain then they need to look in the mirror and ask themselves why they had nothing to offer. If Waters thought "I write everything and these guys just play my music" then, in this case of "Animals" he's pretty much right. Then came "The Wall" the concept for that, just like "Animals" and the vast majority of the album written by Waters. "YoungLust", "Comfortably Numb" and "Run Like Hell" co-written with Gilmour. So, over 3 albums (incl The Final Cut in 1983) and 6 years, Gilmour nor any of the others came up with a concept or more than 4 Pink Floyd songs. Three people, in 6 years, couldn't present a song to the band (except Gilmour with 4 - Dogs and the other 3 listed BUT co-written!). One guy - Waters - shaped and drove Pink Floyd to the heights it became. There is no doubt about that. It sounds to me like Gilmour, Wright and Mason were lazy bastards or, alternatively, just not very capable in the writing department. Whether Waters could have handled things better, I don't know, I wasn't there but I find it difficult to criticise him for the break up. That all said, however, it's ironic in a way that I look upon Waters and Gilmour as TWO "Sad old men, all alone ..." and will die of something as they've gotten older and struck it rich.They've both lived nearly 40 years on their legacy rather than having got together (not alone) and created more magic. Such a goddamned shame.

@DaveyMulholland 2 месяца назад

FFS. Have you written music in a group yourself? You don't sound like you've got a clue about music, or life in general for that matter.

@bruceaskin9645 11 месяцев назад

At the time of Animals being released I was doing the occasional acid trip. The mood and pace of this album just seemed to capture that feeling, and intensity. Especially the dogs barking in the distance. Sound is very much altered during a trip, you can hear a dog ten miles away and a vehicle, not the engine , but the tyres slapping on the road. Like you are actually stepping into a different realm.

@brianwaloweek6770 10 месяцев назад

Tripping on acid walking into the Worcester Centrum to the beginning of Welcome to the Machine, oh shit it’s starting why is everybody walking slowly, and then seeing the mechanical armadillo on the screens, I will remember on my death bed.

@tommc3622 Год назад

What I truly love about Animals is "Pigs on the Wing". It brackets all the darkness Roger hits us with in the album by telling us: Find someone who loves you, and everything will be OK.

@bradking6126 Год назад

Well said

@paulweston8408 Месяц назад

Thank you for bringing up the WKRP "Dogs" spot! I went to the local music store and bought Animals because of it. I'm embarrassed to say that my 11 year old self didn't get it, and I actually took it back and exchanged it for something I don't even remember. I was horrible back then of only listening to the songs I knew from Casey Kaseem's Top 40😞. Today, I listen to Animals almost every night, going back and forth between it and Dark Side Of The Moon. One last thing, a few years ago I heard an interview with David Gilmour. When asked about Roger, David said "he's a bass player, they're 10 for a cent!" OUCH🔥🔥🔥

@candicewitzkoske3155 Месяц назад

Some people never learn to be better people.

@ericaxel483 Год назад

Even when this band was starting to fall apart, (after Wish You Were Here), they put out 2 unbelievable historic albums! Animals, these guys came together and recorded musical and lyrical perfection! Flawless and I never get tired of that album....and maybe they couldn't top the perfection of this album....but they did, with The Wall.... The wall pretty much ended Pink Floyd. The band was in chaos, at this point, but STILL managed to put out some of the best rock music...ever? But they nailed it. When Syd Barrett had a momentary lapse of reason, the band adjusted, and began to revolutionize rock music. They took the Beatles experimental stuff, ran with it, perfected it, evolved it. Beatles were doing things no one had done before. Pink Floyd carried that on and each album got progressively better... Obscured by Clouds, Meddle, Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, and the more the band fell into it's radio chaos, the chaotic lyrics and the mood swings of the music to go with it... It all came together anyways... The start of this band were Music Students and Architecture students... And they kept building on their own music...and then the wall came down, but left behind works of art that will be remembered for many more generations to enjoy

@Fregulus5 Год назад

"Animals" is one of the rare full albums that I can listen to without skipping over any tracks. The lyrics are possibly the most direct and pessimistic ones by Roger, and I don't think the 4-man Floyd ever rocked as hard as on this album. Strange thing about "Dogs", it seems that Roger had indeed turned into a Dog by this point, and was well on his way to becoming a Pig, with the rest of the band becoming increasingly resentful Sheep. And in the end, the Sheep (Gilmour, Mason and even Wright) would revolt against him... and perhaps become Dogs themselves? I love the WKRP scene with "Dogs" (especially when Carlson tries to see what's on the turntable as it's spinning!). When the show was popular, the best way to know what the hip crowd was listening to on the radio was to see which songs were on WKRP every week. One last thing about "Dogs": the outro, starting with the "Who was born..." and ending with "Who was dragged down...", I always wondered if the ghost of Syd Barrett had returned, as he has so often done. It sounds a bit like the lamentations of how many rock stars were used and abused until they burned out, and then were cut mercilessly from the record labels when they could no longer deliver. Perhaps Roger was feeling a bit guilty as to how Syd was "fired" from Pink Floyd?

@ProfessorofRock Год назад

I know what you mean. Thanks for sharing.

@stickman1742 Год назад

You clearly have a biased view, not surprising as it is easy to be brainwashed. All the members of Floyd have expressed some regrets about leaving Syd behind. He wasn't kicked out by Roger alone. At least I've heard Nick, David and Roger talk about how they were more concerned about themselves at that point and not so much about Syd. They seemed to feel remorse. Never heard much from Rick other than his whining about himself. The stories I hear about Rick paint him somewhat differently than public opinion. Apparently very stingy, cheapest guy around. He was never nice to Roger from the beginning so they were never friends. Every album Rick would only push for his songs to be on the albums and he didn't care about anything else. Thing is, he was the weakest writer between him, David and Roger. And Rick was ultimately fired by all during the Wall because he refused to help out in their time of need. They had big money issues and by then, Rick was writing nothing. The Wall was a work mostly of Roger and David. Nearing the end, they needed Rick to interrupt his vacation and do some work to finish the album. Wright told Roger to f off and refused. Gilmour was pretty angry at Rick during this time as well and they all decided to remove Rick from the band. These stories come from a variety of sources around Floyd and the members themselves. You can enjoy the rubbish revisionist history if you want. I prefer the truth.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

For me, literally anything by Pink Floyd is not worth skipping over. Dogs is a good reflection of what the band would soon become in the next few years.

@crusheverything4449 Год назад

@@stickman1742- There’s always more to the story. Is Waters a prick? Of course he is, but he’s a bonafide genius who was the most responsible for Pink Floyd’s greatness. He gets a lot of crap from people who love the hell out of his music. Visionaries are always misunderstood, it seems.

@1978garfield Год назад

Roger is not capable of guilt or shame. I mean he can tell you why others should be ashamed and why they are guilty. But him personally, no.

@cdolan13 Год назад

Great video! Yes, the issues between Gilmour and Waters have never been more prevalent than surrounding this great album. When they announced the Floyd had all gotten together (the remaining three of Gilmour, Mason and Waters) to remix the album I was ecstatic because I had read throughout the years (specifically in Nick Mason's brilliant biography of the group, Inside Out) that the band were not happy with the recording as a whole due to their 'unfinished' studio, Brittania Row with getting used to their own space after leaving Abbey Road, to pressure from Columbia to make their deadline, that the mastering was rushed. They were going back in to give it the treatment it deserved. But, of course egos got in the way and, in 2018 Gilmour clashed once again with Waters over liner notes where a music critic praised Waters' writing the album as genius. Gilmour, not taking anything lying down, refused to allow the notes, stating Pink Floyd was always a collective and not one person, so the release was held up, until Waters decided to back down in 2020 (publicly on video), posting the liner notes on his website. Now, in comes my issue with Mr. Gilmour, who, in my eyes has become as bitter and spiteful as Mr. Waters. He held up the release to allow other Pink Floyd releases (A momentary Lapse of Reason remix and Pulse remix), stating Animals missed the release timeline due to the 'riff' (obviously trying to make out Waters as the bad guy), so we had to wait another year+ for the release. I just think of all those older Pink Floyd fans, that loved the album who, after hearing about the remix project - even before publicly announced in 2018 - were so excited as well, who sadly have died since then, and my ire falls on both men. Such selfishness over this great album and the one-upsmanship between the two just cements their legacy as not great artists, but not caring about their fans. It truly is them against each other - and the world. You would think they would bury the hatchet (hopefully not in each other) and realize they made magic - together, and allow the well-deserved celebration of the band as a whole. Sadly, I fear they will go to their graves without reconciliation, which should be a lesson to all of us to forgive trespasses and live our lives as happy as we can. Bottom line, I love both mixes for different reasons, but, that is a topic for another time. Sorry for the rant, thanks for another great video!

@stickman1742 10 месяцев назад

Too bad they can't get over that stuff. Sometimes I can't blame Roger for maybe wanting people to know more about what he did as there a lot of people who keep just saying Roger was great at lyrics. Even the host of this video, who unfortunately showed a clear anti-Waters bias, said this. I consider that kind of a cheap shot since Waters composed most of the successful songs as well. Started as soon as Syd was gone. Roger was the most prolific songwriter and he wrote the lyrics as well.

@andyharman3022 8 месяцев назад

I'm on Gilmour's side: Roger is the aggressor, and Gilmour must stand up to him. I understand the frustration of the Pink Floyd fans, but it's an issue between the creators of the work. Our enjoyment is conditional on their work. The rest of us can just stand, watch, and keep score. In the way of comfort Gilmour, I can only quote the rock lyricist par excellence, Neal Peart: "Wish him well, and be glad you're not like him."

@queenredspecial 10 месяцев назад

The vocals on Dogs….. 🔥🔥🔥

@dylswife8048 11 месяцев назад

OMG!!! so excited to see this. Animals is my most favorite PF album..fav song DOGS!

@cometogetherfilm 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for this video! I'm a huge Pink Floyd Fan and I LOVE the underrated Animals CD. It's truly a shame that this was the beginning of the end, as you mentioned, but still, it was great to learn more about the Album and Dogs. I totally agree that it was the combination of Waters and Gilmour that made this band, perfect combination of lyrics and guitar. I'd love to see a video that features the entire Animals CD. I feel, and I know I'm not alone in this, that the holy trinity of Pink Floyd Albums is DSOTM, WYWH & ANIMALS!

@jimmyjams9036 10 месяцев назад

Dogs and Shine on You Crazy Diamond are my two favorite songs of all time.

@c.e.anderson558 Год назад

Melodies beat lyrics Everytime. I've been listening to Animals since it came out . I was 18. Don't know all the words. Don't care. It's the waves of feeling lifting and lilting and cradleing. Cruising down the back roads with a beer and a J. Carried along by the pad and the vibe.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

I like to let the lyrics sink into my brain.

@eclecticexplorer7828 Год назад

Both musically and personality-wise, I'll take Gilmour over Waters any day of the week. It is such a shame that this great band got destroyed by ego clashes.

@sseltrek1a2b Год назад

a lot of them do...the first thing that bands forget is that it's a "team sport"...the minute you start thinking about yourself, it no longer is...

@barbarajohnson9050 Год назад

Roger Waters clashes. He was the monkey wrench

@lananiella Год назад

Agreed. You have to have friction to make a spark to make a fire though. Much like Lennon & McCartney. 2 people who are alike are just going to agree on things and miss that ignition point. That said, as the years have gone by there is a clear picture of who was the bigger genius and better person. Gilmour. Roger went down his own slow road of madness to the point where his stuff & recent politics are incomprehensible & embarrassing. He went from a liberal fighting for the sheep to becoming his own PigDog.

@StevenRogers-hw9dj Год назад

@@barbarajohnson9050 John Fogerty and Gene Simmons look at Waters and say "Geez, what an asshole!".

@VivaPortugal Год назад

What has Gilmour to offer musically, beyond what he has acomplished under Waters supervision?

@skeezix91 Месяц назад

I never thought I'd ever hear a better version of Dogs than the original. But then I saw Brit Floyd perform Dogs live and my mind was totally blown. 😮😎👍

@donovanjones4175 9 месяцев назад

The keyboard and synthesizer are the pink Floyd sound , just as integral as the lyrics and guitar work. The man was a wizard in soundscapes.

@baejiaoflying9434 10 месяцев назад

One of my favorites. Play the album in the car with nephews/nieces. Just planting seeds ;-)

@MegaRudeBoy69 Год назад

Roger Waters speaks to teen angst, as we grow up and discover that the magical world childhood promised doesn't exist, leaving us to wonder why our parents lied about Santa and how many other lies are out there. I feel lucky to have found Pink Floyd during my teens, they were a solid part of my soundtrack back then. Their music is still relevant and moving to this day.

@Nolan33177 11 месяцев назад

Darkest song of 77 is ANIMALS. Dogs has some uplifting feel. Sheep is vicious. Homicidal, mythical masterpiece. The outro, the electronic voice change waters has at every 1st line end. Epic

@1badjesus Год назад

"TALENT FOR GIVING LIFE TO TWISTED CONCEPTS CHURNING IN HIS HEAD, POET OF THE DARKEST ORDER HIS LYRICAL PROWESS TOWERED OVER BANDMATES SKILL WITH THE WRITTEN WORD"...🤘🏼well said Prof!