Well this is the first of hopefully many "Blast From The Past" editions of this blog, let me know what you think of the idea in the comments section.The album for today is Pink Floyd's Animals a wonderful 5-track epic based on Orwell's Animal Farm. This album marks the end of an era where the band would perform songs live, and develop them from there, as the next album The Wall was worked out in basic by Roger Waters and then finished in the studio with David Gilmour.
The entire album is filled with Pink Floyd's signature space rock sound, and every track, including the two short songs that bookend the album, are epic in every sense of that word. The end solo in "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" as well as the use of a talk box closer to the middle of the song. But I could go on forever about David Gilmour, or I could give light to another member of the band, Richard Wright, their keyboardist.
I've always loved the way he filled in the gaps in the music that Gilmour and Waters left for him to fill, even though he didn't have much clout in writing on this album, his playing is nothing less than spectacular, as I always find it to be.
I feel this album is essential for Pink Floyd fans, it's a very easy listen, although if you tire of long songs...you should give it a miss.
That's all for now, hope you enjoy.
-Jawn Dee
I've always liked Animals and thought it played in the shadows of Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here. Animals can stand on it's own merits.
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