Pink Floyd The Story of Animals Documentary. 

This a second upload. The first was flagged as having 'adult content' Presumably the Scarfe drawings having half a cock in them or something (or Waters Swearing?) both fine for 1977 but not in today's more enlightened times. I've censored the Scarfe drawings for this upload. They were due to be used on the Animals tour no less! If this video remains a week, I'll remove the old upload, but the old comments go with it, so consider adding again here as many enjoy reading them.

It’s crazy to hear how rough these songs were before they got polished up for the album. Just shows you how much work goes into these songs.

The greatest Pink Floyd album of their whole catalog and of all time. Fight me.

The album holds more true today than when released. IMO a rock masterpiece!

This album is phenomenal, always was one of my favorites. Shame it was somewhat underrated for decades and only recently (for the last few years maybe) it started getting widely positive acclaim. Such a dark, gloomy and haunting sound...Masters!

My favorite Pink Floyd album. Absolute phenomenal music and lyrics!

Most critics praise The Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Were Here, but for me , it is Animals, Meddle and Atom Heart Mother. My three most favorite Pink Floyd albums.

Animals has become my favourite Floyd album. It’s amazing they got any work done at all with all the inner turmoil. Great work, sir, keep up the good work!!!!

Almost everyone knows about the Dark Side of OZ but almost no one knows about Animals with Casablanca. it's amazing!

To me. The best Floyd album!!! Don't get me wrong, anything Floyd is the best. But Animals, back in the day was my introduction to them. And you never forget your first!🫣😉🤘🤘🤘😎

In my mind its Pink Floyd’s best work. Waters at his most creative and incredible musicianship from the other 3 members especially Gilmour’s scintillating axemanship. Special mention also to Wright for his haunting intro to Sheep.

Definitely their greatest work. Such intensity and clarity. And lyrics which still mean something today. The only Floyd album I still routinely play. Sometimes you get to feel that way that the only thing you want to hear id Animals. Great video, thank you so much.

Not only is Animals my favourite Floyd album, but I firmly believe it is amongst the top ten greatest albums of all time. I have listened to this absolute masterpiece at least once a week for the last thirty years.

I remember listening to this over and over again. I loved Wish you were here but this album has the most memories for me. Skateboarding, weed and girls. Ah the 70s. It was a special time. Cynical but free too. We brought up a whole generation of cynics. Perfect!

My favorite Floyd album. It got zero radio play, but I played my 8trck of it to death. I still love this album, I have it on vinyl and play it often.

Animals is a criminally underrated album. sadly it will probably forever dwell in the shadow o' Dark Side and the Wall. it is one o' those slabs o' sonic exploration perfectly suited for headphones, and since i first heard it in the early 80s it remains my favorite o' their catalog......cheers for re-uploading this

I used to smoke weed and listen to this album all the time with my high school friends... I later learned to play guitar by trying to emulate Gilmour's sound... Now I score my own videos... Pink Floyd had quite an influence in my life...

I saw this tour live when it came to the U.S. It was cloudy and drizzling rain at an outdoor stadium. I will never forget the experience, and it will always be one of my favorite concerts and albums.

This album means a lot to me. Takes me back to a specific place in time. ❤

I agree, Gilmore is amazing on this record. It’s my favorite Floyd album.

One of my favourite Album's love Pink Floyd.

Quite possibly my favorite album of all time.

Excellent run-down of this truly incredible album. Like nursery rhymes that stay with us for life, the haunting melodies from Animals have been banging around in my head for the better part of 40 years. Dave’s solo record from the following year in 1978 I feel is a wonderful effort as well. You know it pissed Waters off too. You could feel the tension growing between them on Animals…and by The Wall things just got larger on most every front. It was bound for doom. Richard wasn’t treated all that well either by ‘79 and was basically a wage earner by then. Waters all but dismissed him from the sessions. The basic time frame for a band is generally 10 years so…by 1980 their course was about overdue.

It's incredible, I never heard that album. I guess at the time there was so much music. I liked Pink Floyd but for some reason I never heard that... very strange.

'Animals' has always been my preferred Pink Floyd album.....or at lest the one I find myself listening to the most often. I've seen Gilmour 3 times...( once on his 'About Face' solo tour.....3 times on his 'Momentary LAPSE TOUR....& twice on his 'Division Bell tour'....,but each time wondered why he wouldn't't touch anything from 'Animals'. '

Really an excellent documentary, although "The story of Animals", it's full reveal is not until about 14:00. Great display of how earlier pieces and concepts evolved in to Animals, e.g. Sheep and Dogs mainly. I've always thought that Animals is a very underrated record.

My friend I used to listen to this with has been gone a long time now and I never listened to this since. Forgot how great it is. I don't drink anymore but I got to go find something to pour out.

Best Pink Floyd album hands down! It's really sad, because I feel the band was circling the drain with best album.

Sheep is my favorite track on the album. The beats, the base are wonderful and its great story telling. I was alive at the time, it almost makes more sense these days

Dogs is absolutely one of the greatest Pink Floyd songs. So easy to get lost in it.

I was 16 when this came out. I had a stereo and shrooms. This album was skating fuel for at least two years.

As always. Fantastic work Rael. Learned a lot from your documentary. Animals is one of my favorite PF album.

This is really well put together and has a great deal of background detail that gives a good overview history of the album. Animals which is in my opinion one of their best albums. Some of Gilmore’s best guitar work is in this album. The texture, sound, style and solos that he plays is just incredible. The same goes for keyboard work for Rick Wright. It’s all just outstanding. You said it best yourself with phenomenal. Good job

It’s so cool that Pink Floyd kept going over and retooling these songs

Just graduated high school when this album came out. Then , I was in the military , and overseas for several years.

Hey Lee. So great to see you uncovered on @progcorner channel this evening. It was a joy to listen to you and how you put these great videos together. Looking forward to your next video in a few weeks time. An absolute pleasure to listen to you my friend. Your Stokie mate. Dave✅✅

This was sooooo excellent! Great job!👏👏👏 I think "Animals" is a great album, and I love the new 2018 remixed version!

I've listened to Pink Floyd's "Animals" LP many times when taking a long afternoon's drive, where there are winding turns showcasing a seemingly endless assortment of trees, and even a farm or two on the way. It works so well in a meditative sense, that even listening to it in and out of a nap has been extremely pleasurable for me as well. With all that recurs in certain sounds and progressions in one regard or another, "Animals" is the album that I've cited as my favorite by Pink Floyd on multiple occasions. The only conflict with stating that though, is that there is so much to appreciate throughout their catalogue (with the same degree of difficulty that I feel in choosing a favorite album by the Beatles or XTC), that I don't want to ever give the impression that I don't regard the others strongly - such as Obscured by Clouds, Atom Heart Mother, Wish You Were Here, and (of course), The Dark Side of the Moon. As for The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, I look at that as my favorite album by "The" Pink Floyd, since it's fully done with and through Syd Barrett. I'm sure that there are others who can relate to these sentiments, and am grateful for the focus made on the "Animals" LP throughout the video itself.

I love hearing the versions of the songs in concert and demo's sounding so clean and good, your insight into this band is deep and grounding. I thought I was a fan it seems I know nothing, keep up the great work

The bass line that Gilmour played is just so dirty and swine. Brilliant !

This was the last of their trio of best work. The rest are patchy with parts good and parts not so good, but these 3 were end-to-end masterpieces.

Brilliantly detailed and superbly constructed documentary. Absolutely loved it. Thanks for all the time writing and editing

I live for these video essays and you’ve done an amazing job documenting the creation of this album and capturing the tone. Awesome stuff keep it up!

Blew my mind hearing them songs on the 74 tour after listening to the album versions. Raving and drooling and Gotta be Crazy are raw AF. 75 tour too. It's mad that the only year from 66-81 that they didn't tour was 76.

I've got to re-listen to this album!

What a great documentary. I can imagine it wasn’t easy to find footage from this era but you did an amazing job by picking pictures that matched really well with the audio which results in a very smooth viewing. thank you very much!

Brilliant analysis my man. And as usual Gilmour For the Win. 💯👑

By far the best album review.you're great and thank you

I still maintain that you are dangerously good. This ought to be a recurring series.

A very enjoyable half hour. Full of intrigue, insight and alternate sounds. Well done and thanks.

I saw this tour in Ft.Worth 1977, when I was 11 years old. 5th row, center. It changed my life. About 10 years ago, I found a bootleg of that exact concert. It was like finding the Holy Grail!! I personally don't think there is a "best pink floyd album", my favourite is still Meddle.

This is a phenomenal video, thank you so much for making it !

This is totally awesome. New pics of the PF and a great commentary. Thanks from the US!!!

This album shot immediately upon first hearing it to one of my favorite albums of all time. You did a fine job bringing such an iconic album to the forethought of many other people's mind. I always said if there was 1 album i could choose to call my own, this would be that album. Such genius throughout its entirely, and such a hard hitting in your face kick ass ROCK-N-ROLL

Superbly curated footage here. I don't think I'd seen any of it before. Impressive work

Rael nyc you are definitely right about Gilmours guitar being the highlight of the album …. Pure brilliance . The day Animals was released , I was in London’s west end , back then there were tons of record shops , everyone it seemed was playing the album . A surreal experience to wander from shop to shop accompanied by the Floyd .

One of the finest works of music

Very well done documentary for 30 minutes time. Nice reflection on the lyrics interpretation, band members personalities and the song development. I enjoyed this very much

This video was excellent thank you! The live recordings used here was brilliant

this was great man, thanks for making and sharing! what an album, what a band, truly the best

The fact that you weaved the original multitracks thru this video too tho... Outstanding! Thanks! Subbed - all day..

Great doc man! My almost-fav Floyd album.

My favorite Floyd album by far. Thanks for your presentation.

My go to Floyd album... stunning, fully immersive recording. This doc is enlightening ,fantastic work !

Fantastic work Rael, maybe even your best. More what I'd call "indie film" for it's fluidity I love the way it further explores the emergence of the two "left over" tracks and how playing and touring evolved the songs we now know as "Dogs" (my favourite Floyd track) and "Sheep" into the creative masterpiece that is Animals. I agree with your closing sentiment that returning to the seventies album reveals the musical mastery that to many of us elevates it beyond just an Orwellian vehicle that to the most avid Floydies is their pinnacle.

Great visuals man. I didn't have high hopes for this but when you went into depth about the Animals songs being wheeled out during the '74 and '75 shows I knew I was listening to a narrator who knew his shit. Bravo, homeslice.

Another excellent doc - always new things to learn, even for us old dogs that think we know our prog history - and I completely agree re' Gilmour's playing on Animals; yep, it's his finest work.

bruh your Floyd videos are better than most professionally produced docs I’ve seen on RU-vid lol. Keep it up!

Nice work. To me this represented the peak of the Floyd run from Meddle to The Wall. Plenty of bite in the playing and the lyrics, David cemented his place in guitar greatness and Rick was his perfect foil with keyboards that wove "the Pink Floyd sound" together. It's possibly the Floyd album that has aged the best, and that's saying something.

Really enjoyed this. You packed so much into this half hour that it seemed much longer than that.. thank you ..

Sorry you had to re-up this! I watched the other one and really enjoyed it, so I'll watch it again to help out.

Great documentary as always! That comic book... never even realized that exists! One of my favorite LPs of all time. My Dad blasted it on the stereo when I was a lad. It really does fit in with punk and the political environment of England at the time. Lyrically as important today as it was back then. Thanks for the insight and history!

Fantastic video. Very Interesting and full of new Information. I wouldn't call myself the biggest Pink Floyd fan In the world, but Animals Is my favorite album of all time. It comes from a different place to all their other albums. It's a masterpiece. Rick Wright's work on here Is peerless.

❤️❤️❤️awesome job covering the development of this magnificent sublime release Thank You ✌️❤️

Wow! Another absolutely fantastic well made video. Brilliant stuff. 👏

Great Insight into this Amazing Album .. One of my favorites from PF 👍💯🎸🥁🎹🎧🎵🎼🎶

It's always been my favourite album, I was in The Uk from mid 1976 until 1980, great time's magic musical area, I saw the Floyd many times live but Animals will always be my favourite, I was in London on the day they launched the Pig at Battersea power station, the first broke the mourning lines and had to be destroyed as it was a danger to Heathrow Airport flight path. Thanks for posting.

I wore this album out on vinyl, similar to Robin Trower, hardly ever heard on the radio.

A new Rael NYC upload is always a gift! Thank you sir and may God bless you! 🙏

Very well done! This period always gets overshadowed by the albums on either side of it. But it is a gem!

This is some great music journalism! Well written sir ! THANKYOU !

Nice in depth retrospective. Thanks.

Nicely done. A fantastic video on a fantastic album.

Magnificent documentary. Congratulations.

I have worn out at least 5 Animals LPs. DSOTM as well. The two best PF albums of all time. Well at least in my humble opinion. Don't like it? LUMP IT!

This was absolutely class. Bravo! 👏👏

Great video! Thanks for making this!

I have this Gini ad Great work as always,thank you !

Excellent retrospective. Thanks for calling out Gilmour's musical contributions...

Animals is an absolute masterpiece. In classic Floyd fashion you need to listen from start to finish with headphones on. Gilmour makes it what it is.

your channel is GOLD in the youtube urban jungle - thx for your fine work

DAMN!. Thank you for this documentary. A lot of things i haven't seen or heard before. WOW!

Wow excellent work!!! Great docu on my favorite Floyd album. Thanks!!!

Killer video! Never see much about the Animals album but it's got some incredible stuff.

A band that I was in at the travailed from Minnesota to Wisconsin to see Pink Floyd live June 77. I was in awe from the time the lights went dim and until the show was over. Still one of the BEST live concerts I have ever been to and on the top 5 right along with ELP, Led Zepplin, The Tubes and KISS back in the early to mid 1970s.

It's always been my fav Pink Floyd album, in fact my favourite album full stop!

Brilliant Channel, my fave Floyd ride!

This is such a brilliant documentary and breakdown - I learned a huge amount. Thanks!

Great video. Thankyou so much for posting. I agree about Roger remaining angry and uncompromisingly.

Great Mini Documentary. Always loved this album, so it’s good to learn more about it. I saw PF on the Animals tour in the UK in 1977, age 16. They just played Animals and WYWH in their entirety (can’t remember in what order) , with a break in between , and then did Money for an encore. Brilliant.