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[CRAZY-HORSE]

PINK FLOYD "animals" 2011 remastered version...courtesy of gotta-love-music

ok...for starters,
i'd have never heard this one if it wasnt for Danielle's insistance that i do so, but i did, not sure if one complete listening is really enough to praise or condemn any album, but here goes...
Animals appears to me, lyrically, to be a loose re-write of George Orwell's Animal Farm, whereby the use of analogies of comparing humans to various species of animals to get across a political/social comment....am i correct in this assumption Tiggi and Jerome???
overall, this appears to be a well crafted album and it works well as a remastered disc.
the two Pigs On A Wing tracks are good but at only a solitary minute in length each are too short for my liking.
the songs for the most part seem quite dark on a lyrical level, obvious a forerunner to Waters deep,dark, foreboding follow up classic The Wall.
Dogs, the track, is a reasonable affair IMO but it just drags on too long for liking clocking in at seventeen minutes, thus it gets a borderline like/ dislike for me here, it just doesnt seem to be able to hold my attention for that amount of time.
Pigs(3 different ones) is a reasonable affair, but again too long IMO to get past the "like" rating, some nice guitar stuff happening there though.
Sheep, another good track but i cant listen to three tracks in a row that take up a total of 38minutes....der,boring!!!

i guess with further listens i may get to appreciate the longer tracks a bit more, but on one listen i dont see anything outstanding here, just a reasonable album but without the class of Dark Side Of The Moon and The Wall. if i wasnt under the spell of Danielle, i might say this belongs on a farm in the manure pile....but i am not allowed to even suggest it!!!

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

best track: Sheep
worst track: Dogs

tracks:

1. pigs on the wing #1 **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8fQHaXx7t0 audio

2. dogs *(1.6)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HxHwuiDPgk audio

3. pigs(3 different ones) **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCM-dDQSM8g audio

4. sheep **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEaW8QZLT3c audio

5. pigs on the wing #2 **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvPT4ZOQ0ho audio

3s=0
2s-4
1s=1

rating: 1.9