'Animals' (1977). The image shows the now infamous pig, which is synonymous with Pink Floyd's live shows, floating over Battersea Power Station in south west London. It took three days to get the shot which was used, and on the second day the pig escaped and floated into the path of planes bound for Heathrow Airport. Thirty years later the porcine gadabout escaped again, this time at Roger Waters' performance at Coachella Festival.
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In Children of Men, there's a sequence set near the Battersea power station, and the filmmakers included the Pink Floyd pig. (In other words, in the dystopian future of the movie, an inflatable pig is always floating over the Battersea power station.)
Helluvan album, that one. What do you think - overrated or underrated?
underrated Pink Floyd album = no such thing.
I LOVE "Animals." I listen to it more regularly than Dark Side, actually.
It's my absolute favorite Pink Floyd album.
I love getting lost in "Dogs," that continent-sized song. It dips and curves through the same lazy circles like a kite.
I didn't realize Animals was your favorite JPX! After all the dust settles mine is probably Wish You Were Here though in the past few years I've probably given more attention to Piper at the Gates of Dawn and Relics.
I don't know, the albums More and The Final Cut could both be deemed underrated in my book..
i love "animals," but to be fair, i adore all pink floyd up to and including "final cut." i can't choose one album over another, but i've probably listened to "the wall" most often.
I'm in the middle of giving Animals a proper listen right now.
I always love the well placed "Whooh!" 1:22 into Pigs..
I used to dislike post-Waters Floyd, and then I got that live album (Pulse) which changed my mind and got me to appreciate the Division Bell songs.
Animals really is fantastic. That guitar work in "Dogs" is wonderfully soulful and expressive; much more regularized into patterns than the equivalent material in, say, Dark Side or The Wall.
My favorite moment in Animals is the shift into the major key for the guitar riff at the end of "Sheep."
"Get out of the road, if you want to grow old!"
WHAM!
Somewhere I have a picture I drew of a sheep karate-kicking some guy in the face, inspired by Sheep the song.
My fave? Hmmmmm... Right this second I'm feeling pretty good about "One of These Days," aka the "is this the Doctor Who theme?" from Meddle. But I probably listen to Wish You Were Here or The Wall the most.
Huh, I never realized that's what he said in Sheep. Yup, after my most recent spin of Animal, my diagnosis - nearly flawless.
David Gilmore's recent solo album On an Island is much better than I expected although it's somewhat of a chore to listen to beginning to end. The title track is solid though. His wife wrote lyrics on both that and Division Bell. He's openly admitted that lyrics are not his strong suit but that doesn't really matter when you play guitar like he does.
That pitch-bend at the beginning of the first Comfortably Numb solo... leaves me speechless. He just flings an Olympic javelin clean through that first high note.
Keeping up the rock 'n' roll tradition of "the most effective moments frequently involving the simplest language in the lyrics:" that incredible way Waters goes "You know it's going to get HARDER" (HARDER.. HARDER...) (with the sudden echo effect) "Harder and harder as you get older..."
(And then, because he knows he nailed it vocally, the little spoken "Yeah." Before going on to "And in the end you'll pack up" etc.)
I mis-typed the song name above. I'm complimenting the guitar work (lazy kite-circles etc.) in SHEEP, not "Dogs."
Jordan you're so right about that Comfortably Numb note. Gets me every time.
No, it IS Dogs! I was right the first time! Pigs on the Wing, Dogs, Pigs, Sheep, Pigs on the Wing. Symmetrical.
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