It's a metaphor bro. Dogs here are ruthless cutthroat businessmen. Alienated from friends and family. Dragged down by their own greed. You've been heavy on the live pink floyd. Which is great. But this is who they really are. Long philosophical deep dark concept albums. Meant to be heard in one setting from beginning to end. Dogs, sheep, pigs... All songs from the "Animals" album. All depicting certain kinds of humans.

@POPE.

3 жыл бұрын

Now it’s making sense 😅

@leonarae8496

3 жыл бұрын

I recently bought myself a brand new record turntable (after not having one for over 30 years). I love having vinyls again and Animals was the first Floyd album I bought. It’s extraordinary

@flubblert

3 жыл бұрын

@@leonarae8496 nothing beats the full rich tactile experience of handling and listening to an original album. Jealous. (Although I have about a thousand such albums boxed up and put away that I never listen to anymore).

@leonarae8496

3 жыл бұрын

@@flubblert That is the perfect description, that feeling of sliding the record from its cover, setting the stylus and letting the music take you someplace else. The only place a lot of current music takes me, is reaching for the off button. I’ve got Floyd’s Meddle and Dark Side of the Moon also, some Led Zeppelin, Queen and Rod Stewart, with a lot more on my wish list. They’re expensive though, so I have to go slow. I’m loving it

@fredtello

3 жыл бұрын

I just had an epiphany the organic dog barking turning into digital dog barking represents the new digital overlords of Facebook and Twitter.. Our new ...societal tech dogs

Yes exactly those type of songs beautifully perfect

You must listen to Floyd in headphones! MUST

“That’s the longest song I’ve ever heard of in my life!” Me: (slowly reshelves “Shine on You Crazy Diamond I - IX”)

@GedUK

3 жыл бұрын

I mean, he's already listened to Echoes, though it's the Pompeii version split in two

@bobmeomartino2069

2 жыл бұрын

🤣😂

@johnnyringo1949

2 жыл бұрын

Facts

This is the first song from the album Animals, which is loosely based on the George Orwell book "Animal Farm". The Dogs represent cold and ruthless businessmen, Pigs, the next song, represents the politicians, and Sheep are the average citizens. All three songs are worth checking out with lyrics. This song makes clear that the cold and calculating approach to relationships that someone obsessed with success in the business world would have would leave that person "Just another sad old man, all alone and dying of cancer". This is lyrically one of Floyd's heaviest and darkest songs.

@psbarrow

3 жыл бұрын

It's not the first song on the album.

@jareczek1980

3 жыл бұрын

Darkest song pink floyd? Did you heard The Wall or Final Cut?😄 got I admit that I I miss the times when songs were based on books. They were created out of inspiration, something meant and had something to convey

@chadmatejcek1909

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting...a Gadsden Flag w/ the Ukraine flag. I mean it makes sense.

@Wolverines77

2 жыл бұрын

Politicians AND the Church (all religions)...

@bebedordecoca

Жыл бұрын

I don't know how a ancap can be a Pink Floyd fan...they're talking about you in "Sheep"

Best. Album. Ever.

@ladrum6623

2 жыл бұрын

This is the best floyd album for sure

@bobmeomartino2069

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@michaeldinsen7641

5 ай бұрын

Agree

You have to listen to shine on you crazy diamond.

THANKS for being so much fun. AND i love Pink Floyd! All the best ... Gail

Admit it: your longest song yet at the time, and yet you weren’t bored for one second of it. With something to think about for afters. That’s the Floyd in a nutshell. They’ve done longer stuff, too

The classic Echoes is 23 minutes, the time just flies!

@leonarae8496

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! It takes up the entire B side of Meddle. Unbelievable, an absolute psychedelic trip

@cityhonors1

3 жыл бұрын

#Facts 🤷🏿‍♀️

I love listening to this album on vinyl, great background ambiance. Classic 👍

@AfterDaNoon

Ай бұрын

Vinyl got more and more relevant over time

Roger Waters is one of the great Existentialist poets. This song personifies the way in which the fear of death infects the incognizant life of the individual who allows an external locus of control as the guiding light of their life. It condemns the failure of personal responsibility, and the failure to embrace the opportunity to live life well on one's own terms, with insight, vigor, and care. It bemoans from the depth of the final trauma the enraged recognition that one has bought into the lies of the pack and deprived themselves of real life, to be dragged down by the blood turned through vitriol to stone in a perverse alchemy.

@paulmchugh5646

2 жыл бұрын

Take it easy Ian...Poor guy can't even pronounce those words.

@angelagraves865

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, pedantic much? 🤣

@s.r.345

Жыл бұрын

Well said !!! who ever u are

David Gilmours best work on the best song on the best Album ever Period !

I love the way you are so patient with the music. I think a lot of young people would have checked out 5 minutes in. You really do get this music in your soul. It gets better with each listen too. I hope you enjoy your journey you've started here.

Please do their album Dark Side of the Moon in two parts for a reaction. The album is meant to be heard in one sitting as the songs all join together (like Wish You Were Here album). Great reactions to Pink Floyd btw.

I've seen Pink Floyd live in concert twice in my life. I'm from Milwaukee & they sold out the entire baseball stadium. This was in 1979 and my 1st PF live experience. They were promoting this album. It was just called "The Animals Tour". They had huge pink pigs floating hundreds of feet above the stadium, (which you could see for miles.) including all the light show effects and lazars pointing towards the sky. 50,000 people sold the stadium out for 3 nights. My friends and I had seats behind home plate. Their stage was set up around second base, so I was pretty close. Even back then Floyd was way ahead of their time. Their guitars were cordless and David Gilmore came off the stage and played a guitar solo within 15 feet of me, which was synchronized to the light show. They even had to shut down the air space near the stadium so the pyro-technics and lazars wouldn't blind pilots. (If you saw the 1994 "PULSE" shows) then you understand what I mean. It was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. They played for over 3 hours!

@flubblert

3 жыл бұрын

Cool!! I saw the Pulse tour in Chicago Soldier Field in '94. There used to be a small executive airport near there. Pink Floyd begged the city to shut down the airspace so they could use their lasers. Chicago refused to do it. Then they promised to use it on a limited basis within the confines of the stadium. City the refused that too. Thus Chicago was denied the full laser show. That's OK, considering how spectacular was the rest of that light show we barely even noticed. Including all the pyrotechnics at the end.

@jareczek1980

3 жыл бұрын

You don't even know how lucky man you are. I'm from Poland and those time we have deep comunism. Luckly i was born one year after those concert, but when I was eleven i read about those concert. And I dreamed that though once to see them live. To this day it has not met. I envy you

It's unbelievable to me (I'm 70 years old) that I can have something in common with a young American man.......and that is listening to great music

@POPE.

3 жыл бұрын

Music is magic.

@christinerobinson3819

3 жыл бұрын

@@POPE. I'm in the UK by the way

@POPE.

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome, everything seems more classy when I think of Great Britain 🥂

@michaelmcbreen4025

3 жыл бұрын

Your not wrong there christine I'm just 2 years younger than you and I grew up with pink floyd from the 60s and in my mind the best of any band in the world of that genre of music.

@michaelmcbreen4025

3 жыл бұрын

I'm from London by the way.

The gloomiest but best PF album. Always loved it from the start.

"Animals" is finally being released soon as a lossless 24/96 DTS-MA 5.1 mix on Blu-ray, as Gilmour and Waters have agreed to drop the liner notes (long story, but up on the web). Surround is the best way to hear Floyd which is why their concerts back in the day were in quad.

@flubblert

3 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to that drop. And yes... Floyd live concerts were in full quadraphonic surround sound. So the music and sound effects came at you from all around the stadium/arena just like it did in your living room or bedroom back in the day. They were true perfectionists.

@dimitarvel1441

2 жыл бұрын

Is it released yet? I was looking yhrkugh Roger's website but couldn't find it. This is an album I MUST have in my lossless collection.

@psbarrow

2 жыл бұрын

@@dimitarvel1441 No, the latest I heard for a release date was June, but that was months ago.

another absolute gem of a song

Masterpiece 😎👍🎶✨

To say they don’t make like this anymore is a gross understatement. Between Waters deep songwriting, and anytime Gilmour lays down the guitar work it’s perfection and a masterpiece is was always the result.

Fun to watch you react to this. The two "verses" are the mentor advising his young pupil on how to be a proper cutthroat. After the break etc, the next verse is the young guy expressing disillusionment and disgust with his mentor and the situation he finds himself in.

“Now it’s too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around” Insert tRump here

lol nice air drums...you frogot the cymbol that was constantly ringing...lol love it

When you get to "Pigs" the reference to Whitehouse is Mary Whitehouse an English campaigner for censorship and such.

still getting chills 40some years later. fantastic. as stated below thought....floyd is best consumed one album at a time. they weren't hitmakers by any means....

Dogs = businessman. Greed weighs down the blood & turns it to stone. The whole Animals album is my favorite. Sheep & Pigs next! Pigs = politicians Sheep - the common man 🐕🐖🐑

@somegeorgedownthehall9392

3 жыл бұрын

Although ironically the sheep become dogs in the end! I love the pigs on the wing bookends too! But this song is sublime

@leonarae8496

3 жыл бұрын

Lynn Hoffman I didn’t know you are a Floyd fan also. I’ve seen you in the Queen comments regularly. Queen, Floyd and Led Zeppelin, Phil Collins, Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac…I love them all but Freddie is my favourite

@fredtello

3 жыл бұрын

@@somegeorgedownthehall9392 I just had an epiphany the organic dog barking turning into digital dog barking represents the new digital overlords of Facebook and Twitter.. Our new ...societal tech dogs

@fredtello

3 жыл бұрын

@@somegeorgedownthehall9392 please explain further I miss that when listening to the album

@somegeorgedownthehall9392

3 жыл бұрын

@@fredtello yeah sure! Second to last verse - Bleating and babbling we fell on his neck with a scream Wave upon wave of demented avengers March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream - the sheep rise up and overpower the dogs. ( and probably one of Rogers greatest lines of lyrics ever, and there’s plenty of amazing lyrics from Roger generally throughout their albums). Last verse- Have you heard the news? The dogs are dead You better stay home And do as you're told Get out of the road if you want to grow old - the sheep that overpowered the dogs assume the dominant role over the rest of the sheep, threatening them to stay in line for a peaceful life ( hence replacing the dogs) just like the pigs did in the book animal farm once they started dealing with the humans, turning on their own kind.

It’s not going to seem like 17 minutes 😂 Let’s go! 👍🏼

@geraldherrmann787

3 жыл бұрын

hey lady corlyn, we´re poaching the same territories.

@lynnhoffman247

3 жыл бұрын

@@geraldherrmann787 hey, you 🙃

@cityhonors1

3 жыл бұрын

@@lynnhoffman247 out there in the cold.... 😁 Hey Lynn! 😚🐰

@lynnhoffman247

3 жыл бұрын

@@cityhonors1 I wish it was cold! 😂 Hey 👋🏼

This is off of the Animals album, which has the same conceptual theme of human nature as George Orwell's Animal Farm. Accorfing to an article in Words in a Bucket, the album "describes various classes in society as different kinds of animals: the combative dogs, despotic ruthless pigs, and the “mindless and unquestioning herd” of sheep." 'Dogs' is about the cut throat nature of businessmen and capitalism and getting rich at the expense of others. It compares this to the life of a dog fighting for scraps and then growing old and dying of cancer or dragged down by the stone, the tricks played against them. By the way, I love your journey into the world of Pink Floyd. They are one of my favorites. When you do Pigs by them, you should watch the live version of it by Roger Waters on the "Us + Them' tour. It's incredible.

@ryanwolcott4464

3 жыл бұрын

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Intense ... hugs from Brazil >>>>

Never listen just1 song from any album from Pink Floyd. ALWAYS listen to the hole album because every album is 1 story

Thank you for reacting to this. My dad loved Pink Floyd and I’ll never forget when he showed me this album back when I was a teen in the 90s. It was his favorite. I miss him.

@POPE.

3 жыл бұрын

Sadly I can’t say the same but that is wonderful you shared that experience with your father!

@tourist1313

3 жыл бұрын

@@POPE. He was a great guy. Grateful he passed his good taste on to me. Also grateful I can see others like yourself enjoying the same great music. This stuff is universal

This song reminds me of my grand father in law, he was always pursuing money and success but by the time he was at the end of his road he was alone and regretful, as regretful as you can be with Alzheimer’s

I know I'm late to the party here but there is a cartoon depicting this album here on KZread. It was 1977 at the Olympia Halle in Munich, Germany. I was on 2 hits of black micro dot lsd, as much hashish and great german beer that I saw them preform 'Wish You Were Here', 'Animals' and a good portion of 'Dark Side of the Moon'. Being a Southern California boy I would have to say it was one of my most memorable times of my life. Great reaction young man.

When I saw Roger Waters (the bass player) do this on his solo tour in the middle section with just keyboards and drums, the rest of the band sat down at a table had a drink and played a hand of cards.

May I just say pop you are one cool dude my man great reactor and I'm so glad your playing a lot of pink floyd I'm a pink floyd nut best band in the world,just one last thing pop looking at you sitting in that chair with your hair the way it is you are the spitting image of another great singer his name is Seal watch the video called killer and you will see what I mean,great show by the way.👍☺☺

@POPE.

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting I’ll have to check him out…appreciate you watching ⭐️

@ginjamutha

2 жыл бұрын

Killer is one of my all time favourite songs

Listen to this album “Animals” in it’s entirety like most of Pink Floyd albums 🔥 There’s a flow between the songs that just grabs you ♥️♥️

My favourite song! Great álbum! Cheers men!

🤷🏿‍♀️ In the end you can't take it with you bro'! #Facts 🍿🐰

So get this. The album is called Animals. We are animals correct? We have Sheep, people who blindly follow dogs and we all answer to the pigs.(the man, government, whatever) This album was inspired by a book called Animal Farm by George Orwell. This is the most underrated, under appreciated album but in my opinion, one of their best! Musicianship is OFF THE CHAIN!!!

Out of all the PF albums , this one is on my top 5

Yo,respect from the UK. Keep on listening ,they Hawkwind,"Hall of mountain Grill"

I first heard this when it was released in 1977. I had it on cassette tape, so there were no lyrics to look at. I was just trippin' on their sound. I don't think it was until sometime in the late 90s that I understood it.

@billhiggins1882

Жыл бұрын

I have the vynal

Dude!! You are the man! Absolutely love your reaction to my favorite band! Please please listen to Shine on you crazy Diamond. You will be taken for a great ride!

I'm enjoying watching you discover Pink Floyd. I saw them in concert in Vancouver around 1971, I was 17 and think they were doing the Ummagumma album; so long hair, no light show or backup singers like more recent gigs. The big thing then was having speakers all around the arena which was a real mind blower, or was I already blown? I gotta say one thing man, you've got to get headphones - you'll hear the bass guitar and keyboards better, as well as low volume sound nuances.

I love how at first they sound like real dogs but you gradually notice it’s a synth so creative and visual

@jdc_2000

2 жыл бұрын

They just vocoded the tracks of the dogs barking, same thing they did in sheep with the “lord is my shepherd…” bit

If you like knowing the historical background behind this album, read the following: In 1976, the United Kingdom was swimming in troubled waters. Mired in an unprecedented economic crisis, Anglo-Saxon pride is battered by a rescue of the F.M.I. Musically too the country is lagging behind, having succumbed to the disco wave and it is ABBA a Swedish group that outrageously dominates the podium of the charts. But that is nothing compared to the tornado that is about to sweep over the British establishment. The punk movement, this new protest movement from the United States, will permanently shock a part of British society by rebelling against the archaic values ​​that rule it. Titles like: (Anarchy in the U.K) sum up all punk thought, they all cultivate, besides this hatred of the system, that of their elders (rock bands) whom they consider finished and good to throw away. With Pink Floyd at the head of the gondola, which sabotaged the true values ​​of rock and its three chords by making it too intellectual and sophisticated. To the point of finding Johnny Rotten (Sex Pistols) walking down Carnaby Street flanked by an "I hate Pink Floyd" t-shirt. Wounded in his increasingly voluminous pride, Roger Waters decides to deliver his point of view (philosophical anyway) on the new world order. The Animals album will be a social review inspired by a work published in 1945, The Animal Farm by George Orwell (also author of 1984). The In The Flesh tour that followed in 1977 was also famous for the Montreal concert where Waters spit in the face of a spectator, which led him to want to erect a wall between the stage and the audience: the birth of The Wall album.

@POPE.

3 жыл бұрын

Really good insight for more prospective and knowledge on these guys 🙏🏿 thank you.

many a bong hit was smoked to this song

Probably been mentioned below, but this album is basically Animal Farm by George Orwell (yes, THE George Orwell) in musical form. Pigs are politicians, dogs are the police, and Sheep are the the ordinary people... Although Orwell wrote this when the USSR was a big threat, so Pigs are actually Stalin and co., and Dogs are the soviet secret police... Waters just put a modern spin on the idea.... "Modern" for the time, but the ideas are still solid...

4:20 incrible solo

Battersea power station as it was in winter `76/77.

About a bad guy business man who manipulated everyone for his own personal gain but got it all thrown back at him in the end. You reap what you sow....

Dragged down by the Stone=Dragged down by the weight of your sins.

Great! Now "Pigs" and "Sheep"! Oh, and BTW, the "Animals" album is loosely based on a novel by George Orwell called "Animal Farm" where certain animals represented different classes in society. Here "Dogs" represents businessmen. "Pigs" represent those at the top of the social ladder who have all the wealth and power, while "Sheep" are the rest of us, the followers.

What can one say about the gods that are Pink Floyd ❤🙏

Unfortunately, I never had the chance to see them live together, but I saw Waters live in 2002 where he also played Dogs (Snowy White & Andy Fairweather Low on Guitars). Amazing Performance.

I've been waiting for you to get to the Animals album. Hope you enjoy it

I know you listed to the live version of Echoes..... but you need to listen to the full 26 minutes of the studio version... preferably the remastered version.

It's about all of us

Wanna hear Gilmore use that talk tube on another guitar solo? See how it fits together! Go on to do Pigs. Then you have to do Sheep (my favorite) to top off the album - You'll still need the short album intro and outro tracks of Pigs On The Wing, parts 1 & 2. The cover photo is REAL. There are stories about that pig.

Shine On You Crazy Diamond is second only to Comfortably Numb. Awesome!

Dont listen to this in your room,grab a tapedeck,OOPS,showing age there,and walk along the beach,smoke a doob,and.....................

Great reaction . Important song . Legendary rock n roll wack jobs .

Another GREAT Pink Floyd album is “Meddle.” The opening song on that album is incredible.

Ancient and modern day philosophers struggled for over 7000 years to define the meaning of it all and yet failed to reach a rational conclusion . Floyd nailed it in two 45 minute albums in under a decade .

The song is a biting metaphor for those who work under people of authority and stab you in the back for a buck. The album is based off the book Animal Farm as it's been said 1000 times. Anyway I fuckin love this album. Hard to believe this came out in 1977.

check out this music in the "Roger Waters In The Flesh" Concert! Its even more epic! This whole show is, actually! For me is the best one and the choirs are on point, great solos, and the quality is ridiculous!

It's about business

“What was he talking about tho?” Life

🐕🦮🐕‍🦺🐩🐕

You've stumbled upon the third and maybe most crucial thing about the band, the first two being otherworldly gifted talent and incredible performance values. Namely, this music has a reason to exist. The reason comes first, then all the talent and performance flows outward. This is progressives calling utter bullshit on the world we all live in. You are listening to an album that breaks humans into Dogs (capitalist climbers), Pigs (the ruling class) and Sheep (most people). The judgment brought down with wrath on Dogs is the most viciously awesome judgment you will ever hear. This album came out in the teeth of the punk movement, which was a specific backlash by skinheads against Pink Floyd. I can understand their anger, realizing you are just not talented in comparison to this. It must have been frustrating, that inadequacy. Fighting moshing and copying the look of neo nazis is all they had inside them. The judgment Floyd brings down is as satisfying a thing as I have ever heard in my life.

As a dinosaur close too extinction, there are a few things I do wear like a "badge of honor" from living a long, long, looong life. Of course family and career but we're not here for that. Nope, were here for "THE MUSIC" As a lot of you know, I've attended 1008 concerts in my life since the early 70's. Seen just about every band in every type of genre of music. Blessed and total luck, are the 2 reasons why. Out of those 1008 shows, yes, of course, there has too be someone taking the #1 spot. June 28th 1977, South Phillys Spectrum. Pink Floyd promoting the "Animals" album during their "In the Flesh" tour. Simply perfection in a live environment. Clean, pristine sound coming from their Quadrophonic sound system. Unforgettable lighting and laser show. A very impressive huge inflatable 🐖 and a mind blowing movie in-synch with the music being performed. The music performed that evening was 3/4 of Dark Side of the Moon, 3/4 of Wish you Were Here, and ALL of the Animals album done too perfection. This is why it has held onto the #1 position on my list for all these years.

A couple of things. These songs are all my favorites. Do the individual reactions for each cut, but do yourself a favor and listen to the entire album/cd nonstop. It's meant to be heard that way and you'll love it! One other thing, I don't know if you've heard " The Wall" yet. That is also meant to be heard straight through. And. There's a movie "Pink Floyd The Wall". It's basically a nonstop music video of the whole thing and nothing short of amazing. You have to watch that. I hope your TV has a good sound system. Enjoy 😉 🤙

This song is about the perils of existing within the realm of corporate purgatory

Context my friend. This album explains all people… how we move through this life. It’s deeper than we can stand

Love how you love this band and others time to explore Tool and his side projects Puscifer and Perfect Circle

Definitely, the Stone is Greed. Much like the smoke out of the bottomless pit. GREED seduces

Welcome to the world of psychedelick and progressive rock. Progressive and symphonic rock and metal take the time to play a song, so no three minute quickies here. Pink Floyd is one of the greatest bands ever. Animals is a great concept album. You have to listen the whole album because it tells a story. See Wikipedia for the meaning of the album and songs. Try the song Echoes (23 minutes long), from the album Meddle. Do the studio version because in the live version a lot a the subtle things get lost. It’s probably their best song. Also try the concept albums: Wish you were here Dark side of the moon The Wall Pulse live album

Once again you picked my favorite song from a Pink Floyd album. The biting lyrics talking about back-stabbing two-faced people and Gilmour's great guitar is awesome. I really like how you listen to music and follow the lyrics. The best way to get the most of Floyd.

Next on that album is "Pigs, 3 different ones", and then "Sheep", if you're interested.

Man you gotta react to Echoes

@POPE.

Жыл бұрын

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PF lyrics were also socially critical during this period. They describe the life of a businessman in an unscrupulous capitalism, who himself is only exploited and who ends up dying alone because his life consisted only of business matters. So, they spoke to the Businessman, not to you.

Check out "Time" by them next. Studio version.

2:25 :)

Animals farm (Gerorge Orwell)

They worked the man to death. Made him conform. Treated him like a dog.

IT'S ABOUT DOGGIES!!!!!! :D DOGGIES!!!!!! DOGGIES!!!!!!!! DOGGIES!!!!!!! :D :D :D

Cool

If you really want to know what it's about. Check out the book by George Orwell called Animal farm. It's very political and its an incredible story. Or....or you can just listen to PINK FLOYD interpret it for you. 😉❤🙂

@sollatzo

Жыл бұрын

Pigs = bureaucrats politicians Dogs = policing force Sheep = Followers

It is a masterpiece for sure been listening to this album since it came out 76 I think

the dogs are the politics the marionets..

The problem with focusing on the lyrics is that you’re not truly appreciating the music. Oh well.

You don't listen to Pink Floyd you experience it.

It is a critique of capitalism and late 70s England's society.

🗿

They couldn't call it "Wolves", Good Dogs, and Bad Dogs. Good Dogs are supposed to help The Sheep.

George Orwell ala Pink Floyd

This entire Album is pure #Facts 🤷🏿‍♀️🐰

dude ..., 40 years from now when you're all alone in some lame ass flat dying of cancer ... think back to this day. I'm 59 and been listening to this since late 70's weird how it all comes true. Dark Side Of The Moon spans time too.