Animals
by Pink Floyd

Roger Waters plays this whole thing live in support of his new album and this just shoots up the charts, funny how that works but it still has some climbing to do. It'd be a lot higher if it weren't competing so directly with Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, and The Wall, it deserves to be higher. Like steppenwolf666 down there, I also think it belongs ahead of The Wall in 3rd place as far as PF is concerned. Dogs, Pigs, and Sheep are some of the greatest, most epic songs and the other 2 are just bookends, a minute long or so. All of the notes are so beautiful and perfect throughout. It's all tied together so well, the theme, tone, structure, it's like a symphony. It works perfectly as a whole and is best by far listened to in its entirety with the lyrics out if you don't already know them. A lot of ppl actually think this is even better than DSOTM. (Edited)

It's so staggeringly obvious to me that this is Pink Floyd's greatest work I really don't know where to begin and where to end here. There's no wanking, no overblown sense of grandeur and importance, no musical or intellectual fat, just track after track of fantastically written music, brilliantly executed and sequenced and it's all completely in the service of its ideas and concept. The tracks are ridiculously long but never feel like it, they just never lose focus or momentum. Animals is Pink Floyd at their most stripped down, focused and cohesive, and it feels all the more epic and impactful because of it. Its tone is singular and its dedication is admirable. One of my absolute favorite albums of all time. (Edited)

It often gets overshadowed, being sandwiched in between WYWH and the Wall, but it's still as good as the rest of their 70's output. In fact, I rank it above the Wall by a good margin. (Edited)

Water's Orwellian critique of society with the population represented as dogs, pigs and sheep. Of course the Pink Floyd of 1977 has nothing in common with the punk movement happening at the time as we are lead to believe the Floyd were one of the main targets for the punks, but here Water's does sound suitably angry and possibly influenced by the rise of punk.

In a nutshell, Animals consists of three epic electric tracks bookended by an acoustic love song which has been chopped in half. Dogs is the key track here for me and features some of Gilmour's best guitar work and a fine vocal. (Edited)

Great to see this LP is gradually climbing the overall chart. I hope to see it overtake The Wall one day so that it gets to where it belongs.