Animals (studio album) by Pink Floyd

Animals by Pink Floyd
Year: 1977
Overall rank: 35th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
88/100 (from 2,665 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 5 albums of 1977 (2nd)
Award Top 10 albums of the 1970s (8th)
Award Top 50 albums of all time (35th)

Pink Floyd bestography

Animals is ranked 4th best out of 37 albums by Pink Floyd on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Pink Floyd is The Dark Side Of The Moon which is ranked number 2 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 78,791.

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Average Rating: 
88/100 (from 2,665 votes)
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4 days ago redanbarros  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 21287/100
 
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05/16/2023 06:40 Squonk007  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 45720/100
 
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05/15/2023 12:17 replacementlevel  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 6,39971/100
 
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05/09/2023 19:12 Adam1  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 4185/100

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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 87.8/100, a mean average of 86.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 87.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.6.

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90/100
From 05/12/2023 14:25
Sheep is a masterpiece 👏🏻
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85/100
From 04/24/2023 22:50
One of if not the most nihilistic albums of all time. A love or hate situation. A hard pill to swallow.
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75/100
From 04/19/2023 10:17
Very good record, even if I don't often want to listen to it?
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95/100
From 03/07/2023 00:43
What I like most about Animals is how “throw caution to the wind” many of the performances are.

While Gilmour’s guitar parts never fail to be emotive and brilliant, on this album his parts feel more wild and free. From the cheeky acoustic chords, to the talk box soloing, to the outro leads dripping in funky swagger. Even Waters’ bass parts take voicing in ways they hadn’t before. Rick Wright is once again the secret weapon to the album’s success, but once more is a jack-knife instrumentalist filling out the record with handfuls of different sounds.

Animals sonically is almost like Wish You Were Here from a different, more dark and angular plane.
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90/100
From 08/31/2022 03:23
Great album
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95/100
From 08/18/2022 15:21
A very good angry political prog album with tons of great solos. It ranks as the third best Pink Floyd album ahead of the Wall in my opinion!
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100/100
From 05/20/2022 12:37
As always with Pink Floyd since Meddle great album, great compositions, brilliant lyrics, I love it.
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90/100
From 04/13/2022 17:10
The Pink Floyd album that is the least immediate requiring a higher level of concentration. The instrumentation takes over and shows just how talented the group really is with their instruments (like we needed reminding). A challenging and brilliant listen that grows on you.
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80/100
From 03/24/2022 22:51
I'm not even going to try to put Animals, Dark Side and Wish in order. What's the point? But this is the one I play the most.
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From 03/18/2022 02:28
One of the deepest albums I've ever heard. In a way, it's the complete opposite of The Wall, for it has basically three long tracks rather than a ton of shorter ones. It differs from Wish You You Here because it requires some research to fully understand the album. Just another one of the Floyd's many masterpieces.
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