From dwilliams20May day or labor day for Europeans a day of protest by doing nothing don’t shop, don’t drive, don’t spend any money. Just sit and think about how capitalism screws the masses. Liken it to animal farm as Pink Floyd does your either a pig, a dog or a sheep in the system. After releasing wish you were here and needing something to tour on animals was born from leftover material and rewrote and reworked into animals. This infomusly Pink Floyd's execistental crisis that nearly broke the band up. The picture of the pig over Battersy power station didn't go as planed the first pig got lost in the wind. If that wasn't the first of problems the tour went worse. Roger waters getting hepatitis and playing Philadelphia highly medicated. Floyd adds more inflatables causing the visual effects to be messed up. Quadrphonic sound which made playing hard. The fun of pig that would blow up. Wrong gas mixture exploding pig rains fire on the the crowd and band stage. A $70,000 airspace violation. Dark side of the moon money embezzlement. Ticket fraud in Chicago. Rodger waters staying at a separate hotel. Closing night in Montreal fans drunk and high. No opening act. Fireworks during the show. A person climbing on stage Roger waters spits on them. There Animals turns into The wall for Pink Floyd. Capitalism breeds isolation, and isolation breeds mental health problems and the animals begin feeding on you when you dare challenge the sytem.
- Dogs runs seventeen minutes — does its length feel earned by the end, or does the repetition grind you down?3 replies
- Waters uses pigs, dogs, and sheep as fixed human types — is that framework too reductive, or does the bluntness make it more powerful?1 reply
- Gilmour co-wrote Dogs but had little hand in the rest — how much does his presence or absence shape the feel of each track?No answers yet
- Compared to The Dark Side of the Moon, Animals is far less sonically lush — does the rawness feel like a strength or a loss?No answers yet
- The Pigs on the Wing bookends are tender and personal amid all the rage — do they redeem the album's worldview or just soften it?No answers yet
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