What is the meaning of the song called animals {Pink Floyd}?!
Question: What is the meaning of the song called animals {Pink Floyd}!?
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1977 marked a time for change in the music industry--disco and punk were becoming popular, and established rock bands like Pink Floyd were on the decline!. The newer "musicians" like Johnny Rotten targeted progressive rock as being "lame" and "uncool", and Mr!. Rotten made this point known by taking Pink Floyd T-Shirts and writing "I hate" over the logo!. Even though Pink Floyd's followers didn't stray from the band, the music media had a very negative view of the Floyd!. The band, unfortunately, had no strength to do anything about their image because of the massive touring over the past few years, and took most of 1976 in the studios again to record a new album!. The band spent 500,000 pounds on the latest in studio equpiment and were eager to put it to use!. This was the last recording session in which Waters, Gilmour, Mason, and Wright were all on good terms with each other!. Waters was very much in control, but a weary Gilmour was passive about things and let Waters have his way!.
Nearing the height of his dominance in the group, Waters had become the only band member who could pen meaningful lyrics, and the band had relied on him soley for lyrics and the majority of the songs!. "Animals" found the band relying on him more than ever, with Waters writing all the lyrics and nearly all the music!. This marks a time when he moved from the ambiguity of the lyrics of "Dark Side of the Moon", and to an extent, "Wish You Were Here", to much more confrontational lyrics!. "Pigs (3 Different Ones)" is a direct attack on specific people, and the other songs reflect the very dark tone of the album, which is part of the theme--based on George Orwell's "Animal Farm"!. Waters claims he was "trying to push the band into more specific areas of subject matter, trying to be more direct!. Visually, I was trying to get away from the blobs!.!.!.there isn't much left for you to interpret!."
Oddly enough, the Floyd's best concept album began with no concept, just three songs accumulated from the past few years!. Halfway through the studio session, Waters realized he could use George Orwell's concept of people as being animals, and paralleled them in our social lives!. In the eyes of Waters, you are either a dog, pig or a sheep!. Dogs are the crafty cutthroats who travel in groups, in a pecking order, each one trying to screw the other over to achieve success!. Pigs are the overbearing dictators who have a great fear for what they don't understand, but claim to know what is best for everyone!. They impose this on the sheep, who are the meek and obediant subserviants to the world!. They realize what has become of them and revolt, but are eventually put back in their place and taken advantage of again!. It's human nature in a graphic display of our true inner selves, represented in animal form!. Waters' lyrics dominate the album, although the music is brilliant as well!. The album cover is one of the best ever, with Gilbert Scott's huge Battersea Power Station as the symbol for mankind's constant laboring, surrounded by industrial train tracks, trash and coal!. It has a very ominous and dark Orwellian feel, and evokes a sense of power!.
Waters came up with putting a pig over the station, symbolizing greediness, but didn't want it to be artificially created!. A giant pig was designed to be inflated and placed over the station, and was so big that the first attempt to send it up had to be halted because it was dark before it was blown up!. There were forty photographers and a man with a rifle (should the pig fly away), but he was removed because of cost!. The following day, the pig was launched, secured with ropes, but a huge wind blew the pig off the ropes and it flew off into the air!. The pig flew off south of London, interloping in the flight paths of airplanes, and Heathrow Airport was called about a flying pig--one pilot who reported it to the control tower was even given a brethalyzer test! Radar contact diminished after 18,000 feet, and it finally crashed to the ground and was recovered and sent back for more photos!. Even after all the effort to re-shoot the pig, they ended up superimposing a picture of the original pig shoot onto the picture of the powerstation!. Still, it remains one of the greatest album covers of all time!.
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Nearing the height of his dominance in the group, Waters had become the only band member who could pen meaningful lyrics, and the band had relied on him soley for lyrics and the majority of the songs!. "Animals" found the band relying on him more than ever, with Waters writing all the lyrics and nearly all the music!. This marks a time when he moved from the ambiguity of the lyrics of "Dark Side of the Moon", and to an extent, "Wish You Were Here", to much more confrontational lyrics!. "Pigs (3 Different Ones)" is a direct attack on specific people, and the other songs reflect the very dark tone of the album, which is part of the theme--based on George Orwell's "Animal Farm"!. Waters claims he was "trying to push the band into more specific areas of subject matter, trying to be more direct!. Visually, I was trying to get away from the blobs!.!.!.there isn't much left for you to interpret!."
Oddly enough, the Floyd's best concept album began with no concept, just three songs accumulated from the past few years!. Halfway through the studio session, Waters realized he could use George Orwell's concept of people as being animals, and paralleled them in our social lives!. In the eyes of Waters, you are either a dog, pig or a sheep!. Dogs are the crafty cutthroats who travel in groups, in a pecking order, each one trying to screw the other over to achieve success!. Pigs are the overbearing dictators who have a great fear for what they don't understand, but claim to know what is best for everyone!. They impose this on the sheep, who are the meek and obediant subserviants to the world!. They realize what has become of them and revolt, but are eventually put back in their place and taken advantage of again!. It's human nature in a graphic display of our true inner selves, represented in animal form!. Waters' lyrics dominate the album, although the music is brilliant as well!. The album cover is one of the best ever, with Gilbert Scott's huge Battersea Power Station as the symbol for mankind's constant laboring, surrounded by industrial train tracks, trash and coal!. It has a very ominous and dark Orwellian feel, and evokes a sense of power!.
Waters came up with putting a pig over the station, symbolizing greediness, but didn't want it to be artificially created!. A giant pig was designed to be inflated and placed over the station, and was so big that the first attempt to send it up had to be halted because it was dark before it was blown up!. There were forty photographers and a man with a rifle (should the pig fly away), but he was removed because of cost!. The following day, the pig was launched, secured with ropes, but a huge wind blew the pig off the ropes and it flew off into the air!. The pig flew off south of London, interloping in the flight paths of airplanes, and Heathrow Airport was called about a flying pig--one pilot who reported it to the control tower was even given a brethalyzer test! Radar contact diminished after 18,000 feet, and it finally crashed to the ground and was recovered and sent back for more photos!. Even after all the effort to re-shoot the pig, they ended up superimposing a picture of the original pig shoot onto the picture of the powerstation!. Still, it remains one of the greatest album covers of all time!.
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Well, I didnt read that other answer!.!.!.a bit long winded!. But Pink Floyd's Animals is actually an album not a song!. (my favorite PF album by the way) The album is very Orwellian, (Animal Farm, and 1984) in that it talks about different kinds of people!. Dogs (people who prey on others, Sheep (blind followers) and Pigs (gluttons who overindulge in everything they do) It is a very bleak look at humanity, but also a very poignant comment on the more negative aspects of man!. My favorite song on the album is Dogs, and if you dig the album, check out Les Claypool doing the whole album live!. Pretty awesome stuff!.Www@Enter-QA@Com