I Just Submitted This Review of Pink Floyd's Animals to iTunes
After a lifetime of listening to every Floyd album pretty much all the time--they're etched-- Animals is the one I can listen to again and again. I mean out of both Syd ones and non-Syd ones, even. It doesn't hurt that they gigged what turned into "Dogs" and "Sheep" for years before they put them down on vinyl. For me, Animals is paired with Meddle , which is all about inner space (this one is about social space). Both predate one of the canonical "best" ones ( Dark Side and The Wall respectively). Yet both are somehow really amazing, especially in how they show the band as a tight unit that can rock out. "Dogs" is the "Echoes" of this one while "Sheep" is an obvious rhythmical successor to "One of These Days." Both covers feature One Thing and both are greenish. Meddle has dogs and crows and simulated whales. On Animals we hear Gilmour entering his majestic phase with a widescreen coldness that is also f...