Pink Floyd Animals Documentary.

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  • Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
  • An in-depth look at Floyd's 1977 album, starting with early versions of Dogs and Sheep on their 1974 tour. This documentary contains many new mixes, new graphics and 100s of cleaned-up photos. It is purely made for the love of this music and to celebrate it, all advert money goes to the copyright holders. However, donations are welcome to:
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    Link to Subtitles file (English)
    If you want to translate this, change the words, NOT the times and email me it back and I will add it to the video. lrymill@yahoo.co.uk
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    Video Credits:
    The Hamilton 1975 (Jim Kelly AKA "Speedy")
    The Landover 1975 (Jeff Randolph / The Madcap Collective)
    The Montréal 1977 (Daniel Graham)
    The Cincinnati 1977 (Charles Miller / The Genesis Museum)

Комментарии • 706

  • @progrockdocs
    @progrockdocs  Год назад +183

    This a second upload. The first was flagged as having 'adult content'
    Presumably the Scarfe drawings having half a cock in them or something (or Waters Swearing?) both fine for 1977 but not in today's more enlightened times. I've censored the Scarfe drawings for this upload. They were due to be used on the Animals tour no less!
    If this video remains a week, I'll remove the old upload, but the old comments
    go with it, so consider adding again here as many enjoy reading them.

    • @pottedrodenttube
      @pottedrodenttube Год назад +9

      Maggie Thatch's ghost cursed it.

    • @alvarhanso6310
      @alvarhanso6310 Год назад +4

      Thanks for the upload, great stuff!

    • @clemclemson9259
      @clemclemson9259 Год назад +2

      thanks RUclips....

    • @greendragonreprised6885
      @greendragonreprised6885 Год назад +1

      Don't worry about RUclips censoring Scarfe's artwork. I've watched this video sitting between the Wife, a flying vagina with fangs, and the Judge, a wig-wearing taking anus from The Wall I picked up at Christie's back in 91. I dare say both would be considered unacceptable today.

    • @patgalvez4563
      @patgalvez4563 Год назад

      i MISS THE 80'S...

  • @booley4512
    @booley4512 10 месяцев назад +72

    The album holds more true today than when released. IMO a rock masterpiece!

    • @CaptainGanja
      @CaptainGanja 5 месяцев назад +2

      Animals was ahead of its time and so misunderstood. Definitely one of my favorites. I like this one and most of their albums before Dark Side Of The Moon a lot better than the more commercial ones.

  • @ewanfraser
    @ewanfraser 11 месяцев назад +78

    It’s crazy to hear how rough these songs were before they got polished up for the album. Just shows you how much work goes into these songs.

  • @theo9952
    @theo9952 9 месяцев назад +30

    Most critics praise The Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Were Here, but for me , it is Animals, Meddle and Atom Heart Mother. My three most favorite Pink Floyd albums.

    • @MoncoField
      @MoncoField Месяц назад +3

      Dont forget live at Pompeii thats the best one ever

    • @theo9952
      @theo9952 Месяц назад +1

      @@MoncoField
      Not an album but the best Pink Floyd live film. I have the director's cut on dvd. Great film.

    • @newforestpixie5297
      @newforestpixie5297 Месяц назад +2

      Yeah i think i feel the same plus as the other fella says the Pompeii live show. i first heard AHM on a Mini 1275 car stereo coming up on something at Stonehenge festival in 1982 . The brass section opening part had us pissing ourselves & it only got better . Being 18 was great !😃👍

    • @dannylgriffin
      @dannylgriffin 24 дня назад

      For me it is 1) Wish You Were Here 2) Animals 3) DSOTM. If someone else wanted to switch the 1 and 2 positions I wouldn't complain. Both are quite a bit better than DSOTM IMO.

  • @ZAPPAFREAK59
    @ZAPPAFREAK59 Год назад +68

    My favorite Pink Floyd album. Absolute phenomenal music and lyrics!

    • @terminallygray
      @terminallygray Год назад +1

      Say listen, do you have a pair of zircon encrusted tweezers ??

    • @newforestpixie5297
      @newforestpixie5297 Месяц назад

      @@terminallygrayi was a plumber & it was a bummer every summer

  • @ShaighJosephson
    @ShaighJosephson 8 месяцев назад +16

    I used to smoke weed and listen to this album all the time with my high school friends... I later learned to play guitar by trying to emulate Gilmour's sound... Now I score my own videos... Pink Floyd had quite an influence in my life...

  • @adammatthews1984
    @adammatthews1984 Год назад +88

    Animals has become my favourite Floyd album.
    It’s amazing they got any work done at all with all the inner turmoil.
    Great work, sir, keep up the good work!!!!

    • @FreedomFighter485
      @FreedomFighter485 Год назад +3

      I agree about Animals being the best but for me it was only after getting the remix & remastered version it is utterly incredible!

    • @freddyboombatz
      @freddyboombatz Год назад

      Animals is my favorite too and everything before DSOTM.

    • @Shaun.Stephens
      @Shaun.Stephens 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@FreedomFighter485 I actually prefer the original mix. My stereo is very transparent and revealing and I find the remix version to be too harsh and brittle.
      It could also be partly due to the fact I've been listening to the original pretty regularly since I first bought it in 1977 and the remix sounds 'different'.

  • @DJRayBoston
    @DJRayBoston 9 месяцев назад +25

    Almost everyone knows about the Dark Side of OZ but almost no one knows about Animals with Casablanca. it's amazing!

    • @BaconTomatoCheese
      @BaconTomatoCheese Месяц назад +1

      No, I’ve never heard about this before! At what part of the movie does the music begin?🤔

    • @DJRayBoston
      @DJRayBoston Месяц назад +6

      @@BaconTomatoCheese press play right at the WB logo and repeat till end of movie.

    • @tomgebarowski8156
      @tomgebarowski8156 Месяц назад +1

      Agreed

  • @dmytromorozov2593
    @dmytromorozov2593 9 месяцев назад +30

    This album is phenomenal, always was one of my favorites. Shame it was somewhat underrated for decades and only recently (for the last few years maybe) it started getting widely positive acclaim. Such a dark, gloomy and haunting sound...Masters!

    • @tonycook1624
      @tonycook1624 Месяц назад

      The existance of Trump and Roger's Us& Them tour helped bring Animals back into focus
      ruclips.net/video/QWLBtMz5OuY/видео.html

  • @LeonBerrange
    @LeonBerrange Год назад +44

    Definitely their greatest work. Such intensity and clarity. And lyrics which still mean something today. The only Floyd album I still routinely play. Sometimes you get to feel that way that the only thing you want to hear id Animals. Great video, thank you so much.

    • @keep_walking_on_grass
      @keep_walking_on_grass 11 месяцев назад +1

      after the release and the years after, the critics were bad, they said it is their weakest album compared to all the others which have been released before. and even the fanbase was like that. which of course was nonsense. Animals it is part of the big 3. The zenith of Pink Floyd was from Dark Side until Animlas inclusive. The Wall was a step back, mainstream and a dispointment for me personal back then. I learned to love it but it is not the zenith.

    • @SuperPatrick777
      @SuperPatrick777 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@keep_walking_on_grassYeah because it's a pink floyd album not because its necessarily good .

  • @kenshin73himura70
    @kenshin73himura70 11 месяцев назад +12

    To me. The best Floyd album!!! Don't get me wrong, anything Floyd is the best. But Animals, back in the day was my introduction to them. And you never forget your first!🫣😉🤘🤘🤘😎

  • @treesquatch9150
    @treesquatch9150 3 месяца назад +6

    I was at a show, Waters yelled at us for cheering during the songs, Clapton came out after a break and apologized for Waters' out busrt.

  • @timcase2494
    @timcase2494 9 месяцев назад +6

    Animal is my favorite Pink Floyd album, indeed one of my favorite albums period. When i first listened to it in the late 90s when i was in high school i was hooked.

  • @sideshowbobrobert
    @sideshowbobrobert Год назад +35

    Animals is a criminally underrated album. sadly it will probably forever dwell in the shadow o' Dark Side and the Wall. it is one o' those slabs o' sonic exploration perfectly suited for headphones, and since i first heard it in the early 80s it remains my favorite o' their catalog......cheers for re-uploading this

    • @HardRockMaster7577
      @HardRockMaster7577 Год назад +2

      It didn't have radio "hits". I could care less. Radio today is a wasteland of a handful of over-played songs by each artist. Let the rabble that don't appreciate Animals stay in their cesspool I say.

    • @davefink2326
      @davefink2326 Год назад

      ​@@HardRockMaster7577I always believed Sheep could have been sliced and diced into a perfect 3 and 1/2 minute radio friendly single.
      Kind of wish they had done this, yet relieved that they didn't.

    • @nectarinedreams7208
      @nectarinedreams7208 Год назад +2

      It's not underrated lol it's the fourth highest selling album of one of the top ten highest selling bands in the history of mankind. Everyone who knows it (millions and millions of people) considers it one of the band's best.

    • @sideshowbobrobert
      @sideshowbobrobert Год назад +1

      @@nectarinedreams7208 ...stats aside, the overwhelming majority o' the people i know do not recognize this album at all - but most can at least name 'the wall' or 'dark side...' just say'n...

    • @jeanguy3400
      @jeanguy3400 Год назад

      @@nectarinedreams7208 From my personal experience, i was a fan of The Wall and DSOTM and didn't know much about Animals until i went to a weekend cottage trip with some friends. Once i listened...truly listened...to the album, that was it! I was moved by the lyrics and music and in a trance every time in listened. The aggressive and powerful lyrics combined with the soft welcoming music has made this album a true masterpiece. With their songs being over 10 minutes, it was not meant to be played on the radio and obviously hurt them in sales. With total sales of 6.5M albums compared to 50M albums with DSOTM and 33M albums with The Wall, of course it was underrated. But they didn't care about sales or popularity with this album...hence the long tracks. It was meant to be lived and experienced by true hard-core Pink Floyd fans

  • @mauriceholder1386
    @mauriceholder1386 Год назад +42

    My favorite Floyd album. It got zero radio play, but I played my 8trck of it to death. I still love this album, I have it on vinyl and play it often.

    • @patmayer7222
      @patmayer7222 Год назад +1

      Still have the 8-track carcass,,,no tape,,my original one,,wore out,beat ,can't read much on it,,,but still kept it,,,......my look back tunes for sure,,,....no other album does what this does to me....😮land o' lakes,wi..usa.

    • @mauriceholder1386
      @mauriceholder1386 Год назад

      @patmayer7222 that's really cool. I so wish I kept my giant box of 8 trks. here in Charleston S.C.

    • @danielprivate7442
      @danielprivate7442 Год назад +2

      There's no single on Animals. Most radio stations aren't going to play a 17 minute song. That's why the records before and after Animals all went gold but Animals didn't. That was the music business back then. No single. No sales.

    • @joe18425
      @joe18425 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@patmayer7222old skool 😮 😊

    • @axeman2638
      @axeman2638 11 месяцев назад +1

      Also my favourite Floyd album, sadly not as widely known as some of the others.

  • @betojdesigns
    @betojdesigns 11 месяцев назад +8

    I saw this tour live when it came to the U.S. It was cloudy and drizzling rain at an outdoor stadium. I will never forget the experience, and it will always be one of my favorite concerts and albums.

    • @Zoetropeification
      @Zoetropeification 10 месяцев назад

      Was that at the old Cleveland Stadium?

    • @betojdesigns
      @betojdesigns 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@Zoetropeification Robertson Stadium, Houston, Texas. The weather was what we call drizzerable. But it sure captured the mood.

    • @patgalvez4563
      @patgalvez4563 9 месяцев назад +2

      I was there. One of my favorite concert experiences....@@betojdesigns

  • @gnawbabygnaw
    @gnawbabygnaw Год назад +28

    This album means a lot to me. Takes me back to a specific place in time. ❤

    • @davidclark8132
      @davidclark8132 10 месяцев назад +1

      Me too. Municipal Stadium, Cleveland, Ohio, June 25th, 1977.

    • @Barnabas45
      @Barnabas45 10 месяцев назад +2

      It's like an acid trip without acid!

    • @slowery43
      @slowery43 10 месяцев назад +1

      you really think anyone else cares? You think people came here hoping to hear about you?

    • @gnawbabygnaw
      @gnawbabygnaw 10 месяцев назад

      @@slowery43 it’s a compliment to the artist that they created something I remember 45 years later.
      You can buy sex. Try that. Between voting for Trump. What is it really? Tiny weiner syndrome? Can’t get a date? Mommy and Daddy kick you out? It’ll be ok. Troll on. Bitch.

    • @davidclark8132
      @davidclark8132 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@Barnabas45 Well, for me, it was like an acid trip with the acid.

  • @DavidRamos-nz4bh
    @DavidRamos-nz4bh Год назад +15

    I agree, Gilmore is amazing on this record. It’s my favorite Floyd album.

  • @ALong-fo5so
    @ALong-fo5so Год назад +19

    In my mind its Pink Floyd’s best work. Waters at his most creative and incredible musicianship from the other 3 members especially Gilmour’s scintillating axemanship. Special mention also to Wright for his haunting intro to Sheep.

  • @bishopofbarf
    @bishopofbarf Год назад +11

    Brilliantly detailed and superbly constructed documentary. Absolutely loved it. Thanks for all the time writing and editing

    • @louise_rose
      @louise_rose Год назад +1

      Agree, beautifully researched, cut and edited - this is on a really professional level. 💗

  • @dougidoug
    @dougidoug Год назад +38

    This is really well put together and has a great deal of background detail that gives a good overview history of the album. Animals which is in my opinion one of their best albums. Some of Gilmore’s best guitar work is in this album. The texture, sound, style and solos that he plays is just incredible. The same goes for keyboard work for Rick Wright. It’s all just outstanding. You said it best yourself with phenomenal. Good job

  • @PeteGenesis
    @PeteGenesis Год назад +38

    As always. Fantastic work Rael. Learned a lot from your documentary. Animals is one of my favorite PF album.

  • @peterbustin2683
    @peterbustin2683 Год назад +46

    The bass line that Gilmour played is just so dirty and swine. Brilliant !

    • @captpicard6894
      @captpicard6894 Год назад +7

      Roger Waters is the Bass player, David Gilmour is the Guitar player

    • @peterbustin2683
      @peterbustin2683 Год назад +16

      @@captpicard6894 Gilmour played most of the bass lines on this album, not Waters.

    • @davefink2326
      @davefink2326 Год назад

      ​@@captpicard689421:25

    • @ALong-fo5so
      @ALong-fo5so Год назад +13

      Gilmour plays a lot of bass in Pink Floyd’s recordings mainly because he had written the bass lines (Comfortable Numb, One Of These Days, Sheep) or Waters was busy with the acoustic. And he played all the fretless bass (Hey You) as Waters wasnt accomplished with the instrument.

    • @eclipsedzeppelin
      @eclipsedzeppelin Год назад +3

      Wiki says Waters only played bass on Dogs

  • @Richard_Lush
    @Richard_Lush Год назад +10

    I remember listening to this over and over again. I loved Wish you were here but this album has the most memories for me. Skateboarding, weed and girls. Ah the 70s. It was a special time. Cynical but free too. We brought up a whole generation of cynics. Perfect!

  • @simonhodgetts6530
    @simonhodgetts6530 9 месяцев назад +2

    You can hear some early influence on Animals in Robert Wyatt’s Rock Bottom - produced by Nick Mason

    • @progrockdocs
      @progrockdocs  9 месяцев назад +1

      Just listening to it now for the first time - sounds good - thanks.

  • @georgegeysen6499
    @georgegeysen6499 Год назад +21

    Really an excellent documentary, although "The story of Animals", it's full reveal is not until about 14:00. Great display of how earlier pieces and concepts evolved in to Animals, e.g. Sheep and Dogs mainly. I've always thought that Animals is a very underrated record.

    • @progrockdocs
      @progrockdocs  Год назад +12

      Yes, I toiled with the amount of pre-animals information I had, but the Raving and Crazy are essentially over half of the Animals album. I wish in retrospect I'd have gone the whole hog (excuse the pun) and made this video longer. Talking more about the cover and the lyrics.

    • @georat16
      @georat16 Год назад +4

      Fear not--It's perfect as it is. Quickest half hour I've spent on RUclips in a long time. Beautiful.
      And remember, if you want, you can always do a re-make 50 years later...Just like Roger has with Dark Side!!
      ;-)
      Nice work!

    • @jimmyvuletich9453
      @jimmyvuletich9453 8 месяцев назад

      @@progrockdocswhat is the story behind the cover?

    • @progrockdocs
      @progrockdocs  8 месяцев назад

      ​@@jimmyvuletich9453 A power station - the ida of corporate/ political power. The 4 chimney's - the four members of the band... that sort of Hipgnosis stuff.

  • @fractalmusicj
    @fractalmusicj Год назад +18

    I love hearing the versions of the songs in concert and demo's sounding so clean and good, your insight into this band is deep and grounding. I thought I was a fan it seems I know nothing, keep up the great work

    • @progrockdocs
      @progrockdocs  Год назад +8

      Trust me, half of what I present is new to me. It just takes a lot of digging around, reading and joining dots together.

    • @fractalmusicj
      @fractalmusicj Год назад

      You have a good shovel and you must have dug a lot holes to find this treasure give that ape a cigarette @@progrockdocs

  • @murraymaunder8754
    @murraymaunder8754 9 месяцев назад +5

    Nice work. To me this represented the peak of the Floyd run from Meddle to The Wall. Plenty of bite in the playing and the lyrics, David cemented his place in guitar greatness and Rick was his perfect foil with keyboards that wove "the Pink Floyd sound" together. It's possibly the Floyd album that has aged the best, and that's saying something.

  • @genuinefreewilly5706
    @genuinefreewilly5706 Год назад +14

    Sheep is my favorite track on the album. The beats, the base are wonderful and its great story telling. I was alive at the time, it almost makes more sense these days

  • @brunobucciaratiswife
    @brunobucciaratiswife Месяц назад +1

    It took me a while to realize the connection between Animals and Animal Farm. It’s a mash up of two of my favorite things! I was so stoked.

    • @progrockdocs
      @progrockdocs  Месяц назад

      As Rog says... "You either get it or you don't"

  • @riggers1977
    @riggers1977 Год назад +15

    Not only is Animals my favourite Floyd album, but I firmly believe it is amongst the top ten greatest albums of all time. I have listened to this absolute masterpiece at least once a week for the last thirty years.

    • @progrockdocs
      @progrockdocs  Год назад +3

      Yikes, that's some Animals!

    • @riggers1977
      @riggers1977 Год назад +2

      @@progrockdocs 😂a veritable Orwellian Arc in fact🐖🐑🐕‍🦺
      It’s a testament to the genius of Floyd that someone can continuously listen to one of their albums for 3 decades & still find new treasure within it. Thanks for this great video, I found it really insightful & entertaining!👌

    • @harduspretorius4961
      @harduspretorius4961 Год назад +1

      I find myself now doing the same for the last 4 years. Few albums were ever made that you can listen so much to

    • @globalado2593
      @globalado2593 11 месяцев назад +1

      The first music video I have posted on my channel was deeply inspired by the Animals vibe.
      As a dedicated Floyd fan, I guarantee you'll appreciate our original, raw as it is.
      If I add a link, you probably wont see this. Just click my penny.

    • @riggers1977
      @riggers1977 11 месяцев назад

      @@globalado2593Cheers man, I’ll certainly have a watch👍

  • @luvbasses5487
    @luvbasses5487 Год назад +15

    Excellent run-down of this truly incredible album. Like nursery rhymes that stay with us for life, the haunting melodies from Animals have been banging around in my head for the better part of 40 years. Dave’s solo record from the following year in 1978 I feel is a wonderful effort as well. You know it pissed Waters off too. You could feel the tension growing between them on Animals…and by The Wall things just got larger on most every front. It was bound for doom. Richard wasn’t treated all that well either by ‘79 and was basically a wage earner by then. Waters all but dismissed him from the sessions. The basic time frame for a band is generally 10 years so…by 1980 their course was about overdue.

    • @cjo2012
      @cjo2012 Год назад +1

      Sadly absolutely true. Every word. Well stated.

    • @luvbasses5487
      @luvbasses5487 Год назад +1

      …I’ll love what they’ve created until the lid is closed on my coffin. It’s changed my life in many ways. After watching the Pompeii film so many years ago, I just HAD to run out and find a Fender Precision Bass! Just had too! Even at 55 years of age, the sight of a Sunburst Fender Bass still excites me. Waters just had “that sound” largely because he played with a pick. There’s no other sound like it. It’s still very sought by producers and studio engineers. Waters along with John Deacon, Tom Hamilton, JPJ, Johnny Entwistle, Kelly from ELO and dozens of others I can’t think of at the moment in one way or another have inspired me to pick up the instrument. What do you think of the re-release of Dark Side?

    • @pfos
      @pfos Год назад

      The Pink Floyd iz proof we're living in a simulacrum =PF

    • @nectarinedreams7208
      @nectarinedreams7208 Год назад

      Why would David's solo album piss Waters off? It was a mediocre effort and didn't exactly set the world on fire. Waters had been making solo albums since 1973.

    • @luvbasses5487
      @luvbasses5487 Год назад

      @@nectarinedreams7208 I’m only assuming it did. It’s the vibe I get that’s all. I certainly don’t know them personally but Waters is the controlling type as we know. Maybe you’re right. Maybe he didn’t care at all. And as far as Dave’s record, it’s personal preference. It may not have went to number one but I think Dave did what he felt the direction of Floyd should be going in - without the psychedelic element nonsense that Waters liked.

  • @AbigailJrney-1
    @AbigailJrney-1 Год назад +22

    This was sooooo excellent! Great job!👏👏👏 I think "Animals" is a great album, and I love the new 2018 remixed version!

  • @195511SM
    @195511SM Год назад +5

    'Animals' has always been my preferred Pink Floyd album.....or at lest the one I find myself listening to the most often. I've seen Gilmour 3 times...( once on his 'About Face' solo tour.....3 times on his 'Momentary LAPSE TOUR....& twice on his 'Division Bell tour'....,but each time wondered why he wouldn't't touch anything from 'Animals'. '

  • @jackbringe2473
    @jackbringe2473 Год назад +7

    bruh your Floyd videos are better than most professionally produced docs I’ve seen on RUclips lol. Keep it up!

  • @ArtistontheBorder
    @ArtistontheBorder Год назад +9

    I still maintain that you are dangerously good. This ought to be a recurring series.

  • @artgreig7069
    @artgreig7069 Год назад +6

    Best Pink Floyd album hands down! It's really sad, because I feel the band was circling the drain with best album.

  • @Gormit
    @Gormit 11 месяцев назад +7

    What a great documentary. I can imagine it wasn’t easy to find footage from this era but you did an amazing job by picking pictures that matched really well with the audio which results in a very smooth viewing. thank you very much!

  • @ScottGarland-r4v
    @ScottGarland-r4v Год назад +3

    Just graduated high school when this album came out. Then , I was in the military , and overseas for several years.

  • @anthonyintexas
    @anthonyintexas Год назад +4

    I saw this tour in Ft.Worth 1977, when I was 11 years old. 5th row, center. It changed my life. About 10 years ago, I found a bootleg of that exact concert. It was like finding the Holy Grail!! I personally don't think there is a "best pink floyd album", my favourite is still Meddle.

  • @paulnolan4971
    @paulnolan4971 Год назад +5

    Blew my mind hearing them songs on the 74 tour after listening to the album versions. Raving and drooling and Gotta be Crazy are raw AF. 75 tour too. It's mad that the only year from 66-81 that they didn't tour was 76.

  • @TheAlbumReviewGuy
    @TheAlbumReviewGuy 7 месяцев назад +2

    Hey Lee. So great to see you uncovered on @progcorner channel this evening. It was a joy to listen to you and how you put these great videos together. Looking forward to your next video in a few weeks time. An absolute pleasure to listen to you my friend. Your Stokie mate. Dave✅✅

  • @hankhillsnrrwurethra
    @hankhillsnrrwurethra Год назад +2

    My friend I used to listen to this with has been gone a long time now and I never listened to this since. Forgot how great it is. I don't drink anymore but I got to go find something to pour out.

  • @classicrockalbumreviews19
    @classicrockalbumreviews19 11 месяцев назад +3

    Rael nyc you are definitely right about Gilmours guitar being the highlight of the album …. Pure brilliance . The day Animals was released , I was in London’s west end , back then there were tons of record shops , everyone it seemed was playing the album . A surreal experience to wander from shop to shop accompanied by the Floyd .

  • @thornil2231
    @thornil2231 9 месяцев назад +3

    It's incredible, I never heard that album. I guess at the time there was so much music. I liked Pink Floyd but for some reason I never heard that... very strange.

  • @lukegoss7790
    @lukegoss7790 9 месяцев назад +2

    I live for these video essays and you’ve done an amazing job documenting the creation of this album and capturing the tone. Awesome stuff keep it up!

  • @jasonpaulelder
    @jasonpaulelder 8 месяцев назад +1

    I've listened to Pink Floyd's "Animals" LP many times when taking a long afternoon's drive, where there are winding turns showcasing a seemingly endless assortment of trees, and even a farm or two on the way. It works so well in a meditative sense, that even listening to it in and out of a nap has been extremely pleasurable for me as well.
    With all that recurs in certain sounds and progressions in one regard or another, "Animals" is the album that I've cited as my favorite by Pink Floyd on multiple occasions. The only conflict with stating that though, is that there is so much to appreciate throughout their catalogue (with the same degree of difficulty that I feel in choosing a favorite album by the Beatles or XTC), that I don't want to ever give the impression that I don't regard the others strongly - such as Obscured by Clouds, Atom Heart Mother, Wish You Were Here, and (of course), The Dark Side of the Moon.
    As for The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, I look at that as my favorite album by "The" Pink Floyd, since it's fully done with and through Syd Barrett.
    I'm sure that there are others who can relate to these sentiments, and am grateful for the focus made on the "Animals" LP throughout the video itself.

    • @joe1972
      @joe1972 7 месяцев назад +1

      I enjoyed reading your comment and have the same hang-up citing a best PInk Floyd album. I remembered once upon a time when I was playing guitar around the age of 16 in 1988, I was mesmerized by ummagumma and my mother thought I was on drugs, lol. I was some of the time, definitely not most of the time... I love the whimsical Piper, the organic sounding Atom Heart Mother, and Dark Side... and and and... DSOTM to me is imo, the album relatable to most as it deals with life's struggles in a generalization, yet brilliantly written way... Having heard it so many times over the years, I feel less drawn to it as I put it in the same class of best, yet overplayed albums / songs as say, Stairway To Heaven... As I've gotten older, Animals has become more of a favorite and is my go-to album to play beginning to end. That one and Rush's Exit Stage Left are definitely personal favs

  • @mountaintruth1deeds533
    @mountaintruth1deeds533 10 месяцев назад +1

    I wore this album out on vinyl, similar to Robin Trower, hardly ever heard on the radio.

  • @rondarnell949
    @rondarnell949 Год назад +5

    This album shot immediately upon first hearing it to one of my favorite albums of all time. You did a fine job bringing such an iconic album to the forethought of many other people's mind. I always said if there was 1 album i could choose to call my own, this would be that album. Such genius throughout its entirely, and such a hard hitting in your face kick ass ROCK-N-ROLL

    • @davefink2326
      @davefink2326 Год назад

      As this creator reminds us, "sheer perfection!"
      It took time for me to warm up to Animals, but it was my favorite album by the end of the year 1977 and it has stayed at the top of my list ever since.

  • @Twongo
    @Twongo 11 месяцев назад +2

    I was 16 when this came out. I had a stereo and shrooms. This album was skating fuel for at least two years.

  • @visionproductionsnz7828
    @visionproductionsnz7828 Год назад +14

    Fantastic work Rael, maybe even your best. More what I'd call "indie film" for it's fluidity I love the way it further explores the emergence of the two "left over" tracks and how playing and touring evolved the songs we now know as "Dogs" (my favourite Floyd track) and "Sheep" into the creative masterpiece that is Animals. I agree with your closing sentiment that returning to the seventies album reveals the musical mastery that to many of us elevates it beyond just an Orwellian vehicle that to the most avid Floydies is their pinnacle.

  • @ocean686
    @ocean686 10 месяцев назад +7

    This was the last of their trio of best work. The rest are patchy with parts good and parts not so good, but these 3 were end-to-end masterpieces.

  • @psychkosys
    @psychkosys 11 месяцев назад +2

    That Dole banana commercial was incredible.

  • @TheChadTI
    @TheChadTI Год назад +4

    A new Rael NYC upload is always a gift! Thank you sir and may God bless you! 🙏

  • @batuhandemiriz
    @batuhandemiriz Год назад +4

    By far the best album review.you're great and thank you

  • @ENGBriseB
    @ENGBriseB 11 месяцев назад +4

    One of my favourite Album's love Pink Floyd.

  • @bobtaylor7197
    @bobtaylor7197 Год назад +5

    I've got to re-listen to this album!

    • @progrockdocs
      @progrockdocs  Год назад +2

      Ha! That's the whole purpose of the videos! To breathe new life into this music. "Breathe, breathe in the air...."

    • @terminallygray
      @terminallygray Год назад

      I would also re-listen but.... I really have to be in the mood for this one. It not an album I can listen to "whenever".

  • @timherrera8500
    @timherrera8500 9 месяцев назад

    A band that I was in at the travailed from Minnesota to Wisconsin to see Pink Floyd live June 77. I was in awe from the time the lights went dim and until the show was over. Still one of the BEST live concerts I have ever been to and on the top 5 right along with ELP, Led Zepplin, The Tubes and KISS back in the early to mid 1970s.

  • @tomtaylor9557
    @tomtaylor9557 Год назад +19

    Once again Rael, brilliant documentary. You should have been snapped up by the BBC long ago! Absolutely loved the Genesis vids. Both PF and Genesis being my favourite bands. Just listened to the 2018 animals remix then your latest offering. Brilliant! Would love to see you do one on Then there were three at some point?

    • @progrockdocs
      @progrockdocs  Год назад +9

      BBC? The Biased Broadcasting Company? No-chance.
      And Then There Were Three.... watch this space....

    • @crazyralph6386
      @crazyralph6386 11 месяцев назад

      BBC? Haha, good one. They haven’t been relevant for ages now.

  • @plev10
    @plev10 Год назад +10

    Brilliant analysis my man. And as usual Gilmour For the Win. 💯👑

  • @MARIO-uf1no
    @MARIO-uf1no Год назад +5

    Quite possibly my favorite album of all time.

  • @EannaButler
    @EannaButler Год назад +4

    The fact that you weaved the original multitracks thru this video too tho... Outstanding!
    Thanks! Subbed - all day..

  • @sfeudy20
    @sfeudy20 7 месяцев назад +1

    Very well done documentary for 30 minutes time. Nice reflection on the lyrics interpretation, band members personalities and the song development. I enjoyed this very much

  • @ericligotke3542
    @ericligotke3542 9 месяцев назад +1

    It’s so cool that Pink Floyd kept going over and retooling these songs

  • @markcunningham1963
    @markcunningham1963 11 месяцев назад +1

    A very enjoyable half hour. Full of intrigue, insight and alternate sounds. Well done and thanks.

  • @nitro102
    @nitro102 9 месяцев назад +2

    The original Pink Floyd pig, a 12-metre (40 ft), helium-filled balloon, was designed by Roger Waters and built in December 1976 by the artist Jeffrey Shaw with help of design team Hypnosis, in preparation for shooting the cover of the Animals album. Plans were made to fly it over Battersea Power Station for a three-day photo-shoot, with a marksman standing by to shoot the pig down if it broke free. On the first day, poor weather and delays meant the pig was not launched, and the marksman was told he was not needed.[3][4]
    On the second day, 3 December 1976, the marksman was again not present because no one had told him to return. A gust of wind tore the pig loose. It disappeared from sight within five minutes and was spotted by airline pilots at thirty thousand feet in the air. Flights at Heathrow Airport were cancelled as the huge inflatable pig continued eastwards across flight lanes and out over the English Channel, finally landing that night on a farm in Kent, where it frightened a herd of cows. The pig was recovered and repaired for the resumption of photography for the album cover, but the sky was cloudless and blue, thus "boring". However, the pictures of the sky from the first day were suitable; the album cover was created using a composite of photos from the first and third days.

  • @latkagravas2967
    @latkagravas2967 3 месяца назад +1

    This album represents power for me - but not just the corporate power and greed the lads were lamenting, (although that has never been done better than on Animals) - but the power of music to (potentially) drive emotions to incredible heights. I only listen to it once a year or so, and must choose when (to listen) carefully, b/c the volume will inevitably be turned to 11, and I will not be able to do anything else while it is playing, just listening and experiencing, and must have time to listen in full. Can't say this about ANY other album in my fairly large collection. Those (in these comments) who think it's one of the greatest albums ever released, well, I feel they make a strong argument. It's a great gift to be able to appreciate it. Great work on the video.

  • @chriswebb592
    @chriswebb592 11 месяцев назад +6

    Their best album. I always wished they'd have made Animals a movie as opposed to The Wall. In my head it would have been a Twilight Zone-esque anthology movie, each song being it's own little short movie. I have played this over over and over in my head for years and it just WORKS. Best example I can give you is on Pigs; during the solo where Gilmour is using the talkbox (I think?) before the third verse, I picture a bunch of sleazy, old, fat and out of touch politicians all slowly (and very graphically!!!) turning into pigs from humans... American werewolf in London style, then going ahead and eating/feasting on the young, naive and genuine newcomers who want to do good, but get eaten (literally) by the system... All in the House Of Commons.
    I've played this whole fucking album as a movie so many times in my head, Dogs and Sheep would take an age to describe, and I already know maybe two people will read this comment, so I'll save my breath 😂

    • @johnwilliams1223
      @johnwilliams1223 11 месяцев назад +1

      Great comment Chris. It sounds really cool and interesting. If you could hook up with someone who could put your ideas into a video, that would be awesome.

    • @chriswebb592
      @chriswebb592 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@johnwilliams1223 it's such a well written album, I mean, Floyd can usually paint a picture of what they want to say but Animals is that one that feels incredibly personal. Obviously The Wall is probably their magnum opus (by they I mean more Waters) but it's a very dreary, downbeat album that isn't very easily accessible without looking it up first, but Animals is pretty clear in what it wants to say.
      Mate, I'm now gonna scout anyone with any film or animation experience to try bring this to life!

  • @earlbrackett6508
    @earlbrackett6508 Месяц назад

    Wright & Gilmour not receiving credits on Animals is a crime...it's acoustic Rog and a few chords without the stunning brilliance of Dave & Rick...superb documentary making. thx for a yeoman's job on your docs.

  • @tmcb_
    @tmcb_ Год назад +3

    Excellent retrospective. Thanks for calling out Gilmour's musical contributions...

  • @maplechill75
    @maplechill75 8 месяцев назад +1

    Dogs is absolutely one of the greatest Pink Floyd songs. So easy to get lost in it.

  • @5150JAM
    @5150JAM 7 месяцев назад

    saw them in NYC on July 3rd, 1977.....we sat 3rd row center for an awesome show.....glad I saw them once

  • @marxman00
    @marxman00 9 месяцев назад +1

    My go to Floyd album... stunning, fully immersive recording. This doc is enlightening ,fantastic work !

  • @alvarhanso6310
    @alvarhanso6310 Год назад +1

    That Dole commercial with Great Gig made this worth watching all by itself, but wonderful footage.

    • @progrockdocs
      @progrockdocs  Год назад

      It was insane! Sadly, probably banned today.

  • @robgoodman7303
    @robgoodman7303 Год назад +3

    Very well done! This period always gets overshadowed by the albums on either side of it. But it is a gem!

  • @davidtexter913
    @davidtexter913 11 месяцев назад +2

    My favorite Floyd album by far. Thanks for your presentation.

  • @pewsterbaby
    @pewsterbaby 11 месяцев назад +2

    Great visuals man. I didn't have high hopes for this but when you went into depth about the Animals songs being wheeled out during the '74 and '75 shows I knew I was listening to a narrator who knew his shit. Bravo, homeslice.

  • @wings4victory
    @wings4victory 9 месяцев назад

    I saw them do this in 1977 at the Bingley Hall, Stafford. No seating - we all sat on the floor. They did Animals, followed by Wish You Were Here, followed by Dark Side of the Moon for the encore.

  • @iannash1027
    @iannash1027 Год назад +4

    Another excellent doc - always new things to learn, even for us old dogs that think we know our prog history - and I completely agree re' Gilmour's playing on Animals; yep, it's his finest work.

  • @1983armourer
    @1983armourer 10 месяцев назад +2

    Animals is an absolute masterpiece. In classic Floyd fashion you need to listen from start to finish with headphones on. Gilmour makes it what it is.

  • @andrewhaines3259
    @andrewhaines3259 9 месяцев назад

    I have the comic book programme from this tour (not a reproduction) and a framed copy of the Scarf band characters, which is now a poster in the 50th anniversary live DSOTM issue. Both I've had since mid eighties, sadly not from going to the concerts. Stupidly, when I used to flip through the rack of Floyd vinyl at HMV, I ignored Animals as it didn't have many tracks on! When I did eventually pick it up, cycled home the ten miles or so from Preston and put it on the record player with headphones, it was an aural experience. It's a memory that returns whenever I play it.

  • @viking4130
    @viking4130 11 месяцев назад +2

    I have worn out at least 5 Animals LPs. DSOTM as well. The two best PF albums of all time. Well at least in my humble opinion. Don't like it? LUMP IT!

  • @BinaryDad
    @BinaryDad 11 месяцев назад +1

    Superbly curated footage here. I don't think I'd seen any of it before. Impressive work

  • @carlasker9285
    @carlasker9285 Год назад +1

    Animals is definately the PF album that has risen on my album list as I got older...

  • @Bryan8329
    @Bryan8329 3 месяца назад

    The 77 tour had its problems but musically speaking the spark was still there. Probably my favorite moment of the Oakland performance is during “Have a Cigar”, where you can hear Dave and Roger audibly stifling laughter in their attempts at singing the song. It’s a bittersweet note of unity, that somehow made this band for awhile more bigger as they were also at their most fragile to each other.

  • @steevieel
    @steevieel Год назад +1

    Great Insight into this Amazing Album .. One of my favorites from PF 👍💯🎸🥁🎹🎧🎵🎼🎶

  • @axeman2638
    @axeman2638 11 месяцев назад +2

    my favorite Floyd album.

  • @Suunder
    @Suunder Год назад +5

    Absolutely the best video ive seen on animals. i sent you 10 bucks as a small donation cause im just astounded by how good this video is. you are definetely getting a sub too

    • @progrockdocs
      @progrockdocs  Год назад +1

      Cheers my man, check out Vinyl Rewind also - he does an incredible analysis of Animals.

    • @Suunder
      @Suunder Год назад +1

      @@progrockdocs Yeah ive seen that one. but i have to admit that this one beats that one by a mile. i love the intrusion of animals live aswell. so good. and i see you got your hands on the montreal video aswell.

  • @MDS_R4
    @MDS_R4 11 месяцев назад +4

    Great doc man! My almost-fav Floyd album.

  • @paulhaynes3170
    @paulhaynes3170 Год назад +2

    This is some great music journalism! Well written sir ! THANKYOU !

    • @progrockdocs
      @progrockdocs  Год назад

      Thanks man. I wish I could do it for a living, I tell you!

  • @astrosjer822
    @astrosjer822 10 месяцев назад +1

    This should have been cleaned up and included in the Animals box set!

  • @GORDONMCGOOCHAN
    @GORDONMCGOOCHAN Месяц назад

    Thanks for that, a great analysis of my favourite Floyd album. Really informative and very well presented. Your commentary on Gilmour's playing on Pigs was spot on.

  • @stephenbrock7146
    @stephenbrock7146 4 месяца назад

    this was great man, thanks for making and sharing! what an album, what a band, truly the best

  • @marcusrios8517
    @marcusrios8517 Год назад +2

    Killer video! Never see much about the Animals album but it's got some incredible stuff.

  • @SeanChandler067
    @SeanChandler067 11 месяцев назад +1

    I first heard Animals when I was 9 or 10, and first read Animal Farm at 13. Talk about eye openers, as much as I did not release it then.

  • @puercoespineta
    @puercoespineta 11 месяцев назад +2

    Wow, how did you got hands on Pigs on the wings solo taking on account Waters "accidentally" wipe out of it?

  • @goodev88
    @goodev88 Год назад +1

    It's always been my fav Pink Floyd album, in fact my favourite album full stop!

  • @devans873
    @devans873 Год назад +4

    I saw them twice the first time in 73 in Chicago with Dart Side and some olers songs, the second Time in 77 in Tampa and i understand what he was talking about because i wanted to hear Animals and Wish you were here (they played both and i was happy about that) and there were a lot of drunks just shouting MONEY and generally making an ASS out of them self and just wouldn't shut up but all things considered it was one of the best Concerts i have ever been to

    • @devans873
      @devans873 Год назад +1

      I was at the Led Zeppelin show as well and it was great until about the 4 song and then it all went to hell, im still remember they started with the song remains the same and ended with nobody's fault but mine but don't remember the other 2 in the middle@@CP-tb4fl

    • @gordonwoodman4536
      @gordonwoodman4536 Год назад

      Soldier's Field

  • @carlorizzo5308
    @carlorizzo5308 Год назад +2

    Sometimes when you leave things alone to cook a little bit longer, it becomes your greatest meal

  • @peterer1960
    @peterer1960 Год назад +1

    Great Mini Documentary. Always loved this album, so it’s good to learn more about it. I saw PF on the Animals tour in the UK in 1977, age 16. They just played Animals and WYWH in their entirety (can’t remember in what order) , with a break in between , and then did Money for an encore. Brilliant.

    • @joe1972
      @joe1972 7 месяцев назад

      Must have been an incredible show. I was 5 in '77 and my 1st show was Billy Joel in '79 with my parents. Glad to have at least seen one show in the 70s, although it was not Pink Floyd. I sometimes wonder which tour/year I'd pick were I able to see one PF concert... Hard to say, but Animals would've been a top contender for sure.