The album sleeve cover image of a pig floating between two chimneys on Battersea Power Station was conceived by Roger Waters and executed by long-time collaborators Hipgnosis, who organised the three-day shoot. 1 in The Netherlands, followed by Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, West Germany and Portugal. 3 in the US, going Gold there on the day of release. NME called it ‘One of the most extreme, relentless, harrowing, downright iconoclastic pieces of music this side of the Sun’, which didn’t prevent it from hitting the album charts in the UK at No. In an ironic coda, in 1977 Nick Mason was to produce actual punk band The Damned’s second album Music For Pleasure at Britannia Row. Since it was written and recorded throughout 1976, when punk in the UK was only just getting started, it actually predated punk, but nevertheless reflected the mood of the times: dark and dangerous. With a harder sound than the most recent Floyd albums, it was wrongly regarded by some as having been influenced by punk rock. Sheep was a re-working of ‘Raving And Drooling’, and ‘Dogs’ was a makeover of You’ve Got To Be Crazy, to which were added an acoustic ballad ‘Pigs On The Wing’, in two parts, and a further number, ‘Pigs (Three Different Ones)’.Īlthough the two parts of ‘Pigs On The Wing’ are very short, at 1:25 each, the other songs make up for it, ‘Dogs’ weighing in at an epic 17:04, ‘Pigs (Three Different Ones)’ at 11:22, and Sheep at 10:24. Roger Waters’ Animals theme relates some humans as having the characteristics of three classes of creature: sheep, dogs and pigs, so accordingly the lyrics from the two existing songs were rewritten. The Wish You Were Here album and related touring were major successes, so Pink Floyd were able to dedicate time in 1975 to setting up their own recording studios, three linked spaces at 35 Britannia Row, Islington, London, and from Spring 1976 began recording their next album there. With the emergence of the central theme that was to link together the songs to be included on Wish You Were Here, ‘Raving And Drooling’ and ‘You’ve Got To Be Crazy’ were set aside. Working at Unit rehearsal studios, near London’s King’s Cross, Pink Floyd had created two songs that were ultimately left off the Wish You Were album: ‘Raving And Drooling’ and ‘You’ve Got To Be Crazy’.
'Animals' been described as "one of the most extreme, relentless, harrowing and downright iconoclastic hunks of music to have been made available this side of the sun.The genesis of the Animals album was in the writing rehearsals that produced Wish You Were Here.
The album's cover image, a pig floating between two chimneys on Battersea Power Station, was conceived by bassist and writer Roger Waters, and photographed by long-time collaborators Hipgnosis. 'Animals' is Pink Floyd's tenth studio album, first released in January 1977.Īs a concept album, 'Animals' provides a scathing critique of the social-political conditions of late 1970s Britain, and presents a marked change in musical style from their earlier work. 'Animals' was recorded at the band's studio, Britannia Row, in London, but its production was punctuated by the early signs of discord that three years later would culminate in keyboardist Richard Wright leaving the band.
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