Pink Floyd When Pigs Do Fly (The Making of Animals)
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- This is a documentary I put together on the making of the Animals album from various radio documentaries and used two narrators (Redbeard and Jim Ladd) and includes interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason and comments from the late Storm Thorgerson and the also sadly missed Rick Wright.
NOTE : Roger's hatred of Donald Trump was already apparent in 1992 when interviewed by Jim Ladd.
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It’s a darn shame this album doesn’t get the proper credit it deserves. It’s often described as the prog punk album sandwiched between the great Wish You Were Here and The Wall albums. It’s some of Gilmour’s best guitar work ever, and Rogers greatest lyrics ever.
Best guitar work ever yes, a great song writer too..
It DOES get the credit it reserves. Nowadays, every Pink Floyd fan and their dog either loves Animals or has it #1 and simultaneously tries to discredit DSOTM. I can't even count how many times I heard "Animals-#1" fans call DSOTM overrated, overhyped, how it's not as ambitious as Animals. So, in short, yes, it does get the credit it deserves...
Well it gets the credit from me. Still as obsessed with this album as I was when I was 16. Actually, more. I keep getting more obsessed.
I don't think he refers to ardent floyd fans. Becaues the songs aren't radio friendly MOST of the public doesn't even know the album exists. It comes and goes with me, I'm not sure you can 'objectively' state a 'better' when they are so different, and yet its not like one of them is a collection of television commercial jingles.
So for over rated, EVERYBODY knows Dark Side of the Moon, my 85 year old parents know OF it. That was largely the commercial machine, but the guys do admit that was them functioning at 'peak', at least as a band. At one point I was listening to it over and over again for months, but that seems to have driven it out of me, when I listen now I'm not that crazy about it. But maybe its beause we got a farm with a lot of animals and that makes me kind of dislike that whole anthromorphizing thing. I can't quite make out Rogers fascination with animals, Monty python talks about their fascination as well, maybe there are books or articles written on it somewhere but he certainly likes to rope them in as metaphors, analogies, whatever.
@@mikearchibald744Not just Roger, the idea came from Orwell's "Animal Farm" I believe. And to this day people who blindly follow the politicians are called sheep, or sheeple, and police are called pigs.
This new remix version is award-winning. This thing is absolutely gorgeous. It sounds more like a band performing together live than elements of recording sessions. Never before has Animals been so clear and full. Hats off to James Guthrie for his astonishing work on such a truly amazing album.
The first thing that struck me was that the bass guitar is so clear, it used to be so muddy
Where’s a good place to purchase the remix? And just a thought, is there a 7.1 mix? That could be great if done properly…
Original will always be my go to. New one sounds too ...clean and separated to me.
Not a fan, too much attack on everything, looses the warmth and classic feel to me.
@@user-yk4gd1fl4z bang on
This Record becomes more relevant day by day. Especially lyrically.
Got this album when it first was out in 1977. It was and still is my favorite Pink Floyd album. I listen to it all the time yet. Intense lyrics with such killer music. Love it!
Right on. Thanks for sharing.
Pigs still stands as one of Roger's best and one of my favorite Floyd songs 🐽
Easily my favorite Floyd album.
Gilmour's guitar work is his best ever.
Agreed, The Wall was a disappointment
@@patrickstep It's still one of their best and most ambicious albums, imo.
@@patrickstep I bought the wall when it came out and I wasn't as impressed as I had hoped, but over time I have come to realize that it is a really great album.
@@opinion3742 thats what I thought about the Final Cut....and still not impressed
@@andiman45 I don't get on with The Final Cut either. Whatever value it has to me gets lost in its uncompromising sense of drama. It just isn't a well balanced record. It demands too much of the listener. More like a friend in a hyper mood, just annoying.
Animals, Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music
Animals will forever be mysterious to me. It's a dark, filthy album that could be labeled "art punk". To this day, I still listen to this album quite often.
Absolutely, I always felt this was Rogers attempt at a punk attitude..which coincidentally was all around him in 77
@@rupowell2821 So, ok, I'll say it. Roger kind of invented Punk Floyd.
I first listened to this masterpiece at the age of 10. I'm 49 and the impact is still there. One of my favorite Pink Floyd albuns
For me at 9 on cassette in February 1985 and Pigs (Three Different Ones) was cut up, the first verse on Side 1, the rest of the song on Side 2.
@@pinkfloydcentral6384 I was 8 in 1978, and I found the Animal's LP cover In my grans street,
the incredible artwork stoked my curiosity, so I had to put it on my bedroom wall,
but It wasn't until the wall came out, when almost every house where I lived had the Wall playing on repeat,
and I realized the link to the pic on my wall.
That was when I realized I was going to love Animals before I even heard it, which would have been some years later.
But the very first Floyd album I did buy, was Relics on a bargain-basement cassette tape in 1980, It was on a label called fame.
Money was an issue for a council estate kid at the age of 10, but, man, am I so grateful for it, because I fell in love with early with Floyd before I got to own the most up-to-date albums...
Live pigs three different ones from 1977 is so much more epic than the studio version! Its the grand finale of the set!
I concur. It ended the first set and the fact that Rick got to play a synthesizer solo where the voice box solo was.
This was the second Floyd album, after DS of the M, that I was turned on to. I loved it and completely went deep into the lyrics and symbology. I remember it so well, it must have been the summer of '78. The musicianship is incredible. The album I had only had Pigs on the Wing, Part 1. It wasn't until a few years later that a friend had the cassette (or 8 track?) and I learned there was the Part 2. So much pot smoked that summer and so deep into the grooves. An all time favorite record.
First listened to this album at 15 years old when it first came out , on acid with a few friends at one of their parents house, there dad had an amazing stereo system with 4 Bose 1201 speakers, every time I hear this album it takes me right back there, incredible album!!
Man you are a lucky one 🎉
Wow man...Cosmic debris.😅
I loved this album when it came out. It was vocally more ambitious than anything they'd done before and the aggression was a great change for them.
Wow, you found amazing pictures of the Animals era that I had never ever seen before! Animals is my favorite Floyd album so thanks!
Some of Roger's best and most bluntly honest lyrics
Sharing his narcisissim with the world.
That was really interesting, many thanks.👍
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Many are a lot better. But i love what was done at the time.
A Timeless Classic. Bitter and cynical but deeply insightful that is more true in 2022 than when it was released.
My favourite Pink Floyd LP.
I've always had this album in my collection since 82. But for some reason last year it resurfaced. There's something to be said about your conscience raising with age. This album in particular has some spooky resonance right now.
“This album…has some spooky resonance right now”
This.
I got the album in 1977 right off the press
And went to the concert Spectrum in Philadelphia
I remember hearing these interviews on the radio in the 90s. I dubbed the interviews to cassette and listened to them over and over. It was during my formative years as a Floyd fan and I couldn't get enough. Nostalgic to hear them again here in such clarity. Thanks for sharing them!
I did the same thing. Transferring to CD was a nightmare but worth it. I am now doing Wish You Were Here in the band's own words with narrators Jim Ladd, Redbeard and Alan Parsons and bits of Dan Neer.
Same here. A lot of the discussions here are from interview series done by Jim Ladd (who also features on Radio K.A.O.S) on 25 years of Pink Floyd. I still have it on tape somewhere, but "I got nowhere to" play it on.
@@paf432 To me that was the definitive Pink Floyd radio documentary plus the In the Studio episodes are helping me create these in depth documentaries. The Wall may be an undertaking. Again using interviews with all four members for the documentary. I will air Wish You Were Here next (finished, took me a few hours)
My fav. albumof all time. 10 yrs old when my neighbor picked it up, paying extra for shipping as an overseas import and a three week wait for it to be delivered to record store. I was fascinated with the album art. I pored over google map images of the Battersea area one day. Totally different. I always loved the red brick and railways. Truly a historical photo.
Their greatest work, been listening
to this album since it came out.
It never grows old. Timeless music.
Dark side gets all the glory, but fans
know better… Gilmours greatest
solos reside in the track “Dogs”
Thanks for compiling such an amazing piece of information!
I was dj on a college radio station when "Animals" was released. It was winter quarter, when very few albums were released. "Animals" was an oasis in the desert. How it slipped by Pink Floyd fans almost unnoticed baffles me! I still play it regularly.
Rumours by Fleetwood Mac, Songs From the Wood by Jethro Tull, Hotel California by The Eagles and Wind and Wuthering by Genesis were all also released in winter 1976/77.
I was 16 when this came out, I loved all their stuff before, in 1972 I started doing a lot of acid and Floyd's music was so perfect of a match, I liked them without it too, it's just one of those things.
Had my 1st acid experience with Wish you were here and my then best friend flipping the record over and over...at some point i was kind of losing it and my friend stopped the record...not sure how that would have ended if he hadn't.....and you are so right, _it's just one of those things._
WateRS’ version of “Sheep” on his recent tour in Birmingham, England was so astonishing - it really added a new dimension to the Animals version and the visuals were stunning. Love this album and also his “is this the life we really want?” As well.
He was lip syncing to a tape. Roger should have retired but I forgot DIVORCE NUMBER FOUR torpedoed retirement.
That whole event at the power station...how great it must be to be in a band who can do stuff like that! I absolutley love these photos and the entire event and their recollections of those 3 days! Oh man, those late 70s years...i was a 3 year old baby in 77 but i love that era so much.
I was on concerts of Pink Floyd in Canada, in Montreal and in Toronto in 1994. I still have one of t-shirts from those concerts.
I love this album. I can't say which Pink Floyd album is my favourite on any given day, but Dogs would be my most played Pink Floyd track.
I know the feeling. It would be easier for me to list the Floyd albums that _aren't_ my favorites, than to pin down a favorite. But if I did have a favorite, it would be Animals, or one of the album before DSOTM.
I was 15 when I saw this concert in 77. Been to many concerts and still go. But this was the best !
Boston Garden, 3rd row, June 1977 was one awesome show. We played the 8 track to death that summer. Party on dudes!
As a fan of Pink Floyd's previous work, I owned this but only by default. I never did "get it" for many years, but once I was driving a long distance and put this on. On that drive, it clicked, and all the parts fell together. Now when I've got time for a total work, this is right up there with Dark Side of the Moon!
I bought it in the 80s while I was still a teen. I really had trouble getting into it, but I've always preferred their early work, before DSOTM. I still listened to it over the years, but not a lot. It wasn't until I was closer to 50 that I found a true appreciation for Animals, and it has now became one of my favorites that I can listen to over and over.
My favorite one... A masterpiece.
This is the album that made me fall in love with this band.
In The Flesh Tour, I was there in Chicago's Soldier Field on 6/19/1977 with at least 85,000 other fans! Good time to be alive!
By far my favorite Pink Floyd record in one of my favorite records of all time
Even though the tracks were long, there was a certain beauty about Gilmour's simpler rhythm guitar tracks that really made the Album stand out.
When I was 17, and discovered it, the album had already been out for 9 years. It quickly became a favorite for its stripped down approach.
However, the dust that had just settled between Roger and David through the Court Case, made that Album a bit more understandable in the context of them beginning the breakup phase over The Wall and The Final Cut.
Meddle, DSOTM and WYWH will always be my Favorite PF Albums with Animals being that piece of work that coincided with the Late70s Punk Movement. Lyrically, it was Socially Aware Punk, at its Finest. Musically, it was the beginning of moving away from those psychedelic lavish soundscapes.
The Remixed Album is SOooo Much Better and Worth Being in Anybody's Playlist!
I was just a kid in the 80s when I first saw this "pig" flying in the LPs cover selling at the store. I happened to be the most iconic LP album I have ever heard from PF. I just knew it would have to be a magnificent album. Years went by. No later than 2004 I listened to it carefully for the first time. I already knew many others PF albums before and loved the band but this one just made it in the right time. It was time to listen to Animals. I needed suficient life and musical maturity to appreciate. My favourite ever.
Overall my favorite PF album and Rick Wrights best ambient work…
So true Rick wright doesn't get enough credit for his amazing work on animals
I remember tripping and listening to this on headphones miracle i didn't freak out LOL .My all time favorite album have the original vinyl.
This was my very first Pink Floyd album I owned and still my favorite of all their works!
It was my fifth album after Dark Side, The Wall, The Final Cut and Wish You Were Here in February, 1985 as a 9 year old boy, My mom (may she RIP) got me into Pink Floyd.
It’s kind of strange how “Animals” is not such a more well-known album, when the flying pig is one of the most recognized icons of rock.
I always preferred this one to 'The Wall'. Much more compact and musically more interesting...
It’s my favorite Pink Floyd album.
This album was not too “accessible” for many of the young listeners. Many of the record buying public were young, not naive, but didn’t have life experiences to reflect back the stark realities of Animals. Musically it is as aggressive as anything done - disconcerting and dissonant chordal structure with almost trance-like repeating bass lines.
I was 15 when I bought it. It frightened me and fascinated me.
The US by then were playing shorter songs on the radio and this was the least selling until The Final Cut.
Love all the music. Do not care for Roger's politics. But that is fine, everyone should be able to express their views whether I agree with the point or not.
I thank all members of the band and production crews for the fantastic music.
On the song or songs pigs, three different ones. Is that David Gilmour playing that guitar solo towards the end? Damn, if it is he is really kicking ass on that one. Everybody points to his solo on comfortably now but I always listening to pigs three different ones, and it was just rocking out the job site when I was working indoors on my large Bluetooth speaker.
The guy interviewing sounds like the DJ on Radio KAOS?
I Love Pink Floyd animals my friends and I listen to the album out in the yard blasting it for years.
(Oh yeah on a turntable)
Listen to those Gilmour's solos on Dogs. 💥
They're haunting, genius!
Best Floyd album ever....hands down
We need Animals Live
Always bend my favorite pink floyd album very underrated
At solders field Chicago. They started to bring the pig out over the crowd till they started to throw things at it. Short flight. Loved the fireworks waterfall at the end. Great show.
Very cool
I love this album. Wish I had seen a show especially since it would have been the Oakland gig which I understand might have been the best gig of the tour.
Enjoyable tid bits well worthy of the band’s accomplishments
Pink Floyd will go down as the GOATs
Amen!
My all-time favorite PF album. It was a shame that David refused to do ANY Animals tracks during his solo tours.
Pink Floyd rehearsed 'Sheep' in Canada in 1987 prior to the 'Momentary Lapse' tour, awkward choice. 'Dogs' would make more sense, but it never made it into the final setlist for when the tour started. Early concert posters had the albums represented pictured, and 'Animals' was one of them.
It’s not a shame, it’s unbelievable. Imagine writing the riffs and solos on Animals and then literally never playing them again. I guess it shows what an absolute GOD Gilmour is.
Thank You! This one of my favorite albums
Took me a few days to complete and master.
And this is my favorite Floyd album.
Amazing work putting this together!!! Thank you
Working on Wish You Were Here next and may do a proper visual documentary with band interviews on The Wall, Dark Side Of the Moon and the post-Waters albums.
Pink Floyd's greatest album....bar none.
What an album. Top notch.
Gracias PINK FLOYD CENTRAL !!!
TDS is everywhere, even Pink Floyd documentaries.
Animals by far is my favorite Floyd album.
This is awesome! My favorite album of all time
I couldn’t agree more.
Thanks I appreciate it. I saw no proper documentary on the album was ever done so I had two separate radio specials and also borrowed from the BBC 1994 documentary to make as precise a documentary on the album.
Pigs on the wing extended version guitar solo is stunning,but too short,I think snowy White play's it, always thought it was gilmour
It is Snowy White.
It’s a good album but when I listen to it I’m left feeling hopeless at the end,
Thatcher is not mentioned in Pigs. Waters mentioned Mary Whitehouse in the third verse. I think he changed it to Thatcher during one of his tours in the 80's.
He had her in mind in 1976 as she was in the UK House of Parliament. Both political parties are a joke.
He didn’t specifically mention her but he was definitely writing about her.
Correct. Roger was referring to Mary Whitehouse.
@@GertrudePerkins thats in the third verse, i believe he writes about Thatcher in the second
All mistaken! Thatcher arrived (significantly as PM) into UK politics in '79 (the album was 77 of course = NO ref nor mention of her ANYWHERE!): she is referenced (pilloried) in Final Cut ('80) - so likely that RW interview is subsequent to that.
Animals is probably my favourite Pink Floyd album (though it is a close run thing between all of the album's from 73 to 83. Yes, even the final cut!). It is certainly the one I have listened to the most. I've never understood why some people just don't get it. Maybe it is just a bit too full-on and certainly there are possibly more guitar parts on this album than any from the Waters era.
I'm really not sure about the 2018 remix. It may be because I'm so fond of the originals careful blend of instruments, whereas the remix puts an emphasis on clarity. I certainly find that there seems to have been a removal of some of the ADT (automatic double tracking) on guitars, which was one of the aspects that I liked in the original mix. I guess it was a passing fad at the time.
Animals is my favorite album by pink floyd . Powerful lyrics amazing music
2:06 Can't seem to find this 1992 interview from anywhere? How did you find it?
@Terrence's Classic Rock Corner Podcast This was recorded in 1992? With Jim Ladd? I'm trying to do some research but can't find it. But these interviews are gold, thanks!
Mary Whitehouse did have an anti-violent streak in her as well, ask any Doctor Who producer through the 70s and 80s.
Hindsight being 20/20 and all, and for as much as I appreciate the genius of this album and of Pigs TDO, I dare say ol' Mary Whitehouse was right all along and our beloved R. Waters misguided in attacking her personally. The same could be said about his extremist and delusional political grandstanding.
@@pabloboy6397 If you knew what MW represented: the 'moral majority' deciding her/themselves what should be acceptable to society - particularly in regards to 'Christianity' correct sexual matters ('Festival Of Light' believer) in the 70's era you would realise Rog was COMPLETELY correct!
@@BOFsensaiMary Whitehouse and Mary Tipper Gore were both cut from the same cloth despite being politically opposite they had similar views on censorship.
A very interesting short film but I have to say the title is very misleading as there is absolutely nothing about the actual "making of" the album.
oh my gosh my most favorite edtiorial copy of the times pigs on te wing literally LOL
I saw this building IRL while in England, wasn't expecting it, just popped up while riding the bus from London to Portsmouth, and in the movie "Hell Raiser" while at the door of their house, in the background, I believe it's in the same building. Sure looks like it to me anyway, check it out.
The absence of Richard Wrights influence is obvious on this album, which may have improved upon an already brilliant work. But no complaints here...I find Animals a compelling album.
In no particular order, my 3 favorite Floyd albums are Animals, Meddle, and Wish U...... My least favorite is Ummagumma. I just can't get into it....and the live versions of songs aren't as good as I think they could be. I will say this - I saw Nick Mason's "Saucerful of Secrets" tour just 4 days ago. Wow! If you like pre-Dark Side vintage, OLDER Floyd - you absolutely MUST go. Incredible performance of Floyd songs YOU'LL most often never hear live.
Ummagumma never made sense to me either. Best thing about it is the cover. I also share your top 3 and i wish i had seen Nick Mason live.
thank you for putting this together, sub earned
I think the new remix works great for 5.1 but not so much for stereo. I'm glad we have both.
Is the guy narrating the same DJ from Radio Kaos? Sounds the same to me.
Jim Ladd, yes and I also had additional narration from Redbeard (In the Studio). Wish You Were Here will be next and I will be borrowing from several radio specials to create the definitive WYWH documentary with tidbits not on The Story of Wish You Were Here documentary.
I just commented asking the same thing! It sounds very much like him!
Thanks for making this video. Thanks to Pink Floyd for making music that they enjoyed preforming
underrated. As well as Davids work on this album. he played most of the bass, did songwriting, but Roger got the credits. not fair.
David would have got credits if he did it. Roger was not happy as Dave played a few cords, but Roger went home and finished the song but Dave got a credit.
@@turokforever007 David was distracted by his daughter Alice being born in 1976.
The "pig & power station" icon shows up in the film Children of Men.
Great stuff!! Some of it I haven't heard before. Nice work on the mix. It's funny to hear the guys tell the stories differently from one interview to the next. I've listened to a lot of them and they do describe events differently from one to another. The pig flying away is a good example. Nicks memory of it is not the same as Storms version. David saying that the screaming people in the crowd didn't really bother him when he has said in other interviews that he hated it when that happened. I guess over time we all remember things a little differently. Thanks for the great work. I love the old photos.
The Anaheim Show when it toured was unforgettable, the Quad System would carry you around the Stadium.
saw this album debut live in munich,germany 1977
I like this album.
Disculpe mi ignorancia nada como Dark Side of the Moon...he escuchado todo de floyd y no encuentro uno mejor...todos son obras de arte..pero discrepo sanamente..no solo es cuestion de gustos tambien de sensibilidad abrazo..desde montevideo tengo 73 años y muchas discografias completas
Roger Waters was referencing Mary Whitehouse, NOT Margaret Thatcher.
Both.
Wrong.
Margot Honnicker of East Germany was a far worse human being than Margaret Thatcher yet funny Roger prefers the Marxist dictor who suppress free speech and expression
Correct. I believe it was David referencing Margaret Thatcher on his solo About Face with Blue Light.
Love this album! ❤
If you REALLY want to lose your pilots license...NEVER report an encounter with a flying pig !!!
Great input of information. Thank you for that ❤️
I'm happy that the Montreal show provided material for the composition of The Wall: an excellent double album that marks the end of the classic Pink Floyd.
Gilmour's guitars are so moving on this album (3 solos on Dogs, 2 on Sheep, 1 on Pigs...)! I am very happy that they have finally released a remastered version of this fabulous opus which remains for me one of their 5 best albums with DSOTM, WYWH, M, TW with the addition of the tracks AHM suite and Astronomy Dominé.
Too bad Waters put politics ahead of the music on his last tour (This is not a drill). During this show, the musicians had almost no musical freedom, as if the music was made soft at the expense of the political hammering so dear to Waters...
I feel bad for Dave Kilminster, he is a phenomenal guitarist who can play what he wants if given the opportunity. Jon Carin (the Karen) is happy being Roger's puppet. Even Harry Waters tackled Shine On Parts 6-9 better in 2002 and played what Rick did and also his own countermelodies to when Chester Kamen did the lap steel solo via bottleneck slide ala Rod Price of Foghat and Duane Allman.
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I was on the Quebec show recently and that was my opinion I had which was also similar to that of my friend who attended this same concert. We're going to a music performance, not a political rally.
The introduction/presentation of RW at the opening of the show also clearly places its position on the visual aspect and its words. I understand that, BUT it would be better to first highlight this fabulous music from the Meddle albums to The Wall...
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SHINE ON 💎 ✨️
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I love that album
The black and white photo at 16.53 looked odd to me. Then I realised that the portraits have been put together using the same side of the face mirrored. Both Roger and David look very peculiar! Less obvious on the other two at the back. Wonder why this was done? Copyright reasons perhaps?
Cover of Classic Rock Magazine in late 2001.
@@pinkfloydcentral6384 February 2002 edition. Had a look at the website back issues. I may even have that edition!
I do wonder about the idea that the making of the album was fraught with tension. Gilmour himself says that making the album was lots of fun.
Probably just the song credits ordeal
Rick Wright and Roger Waters fought during the album and also Rick was being shut out by Roger. As Rick said here he didn't like the album and also was the start of the Waters-Wright feud. David was distracted on his end with his daughter Alice being born. Roger and Nick were both happy. Rick was not happy and David enjoyed his playing but said it wasn't a creative highpoint.
@@pinkfloydcentral6384 so all in all quite fun lol
@@pinkfloydcentral6384 Which, re Rick, is quite ironic (=sad) isn't it, because some of the best atmospheric parts of the whole of 'A' is Rick's keyboard interludes: Sheep (+intro) and Dogs in particular & which became even more so on the 77 live tour dates. '