Pink Floyd: Animals [PINK FLOYD RECORDS]

Why you'll love it

Animals went Top 3 on both sides of the Atlantic and is the angriest, most guitar-heavy record Pink Floyd ever made. Three long songs ("Dogs," "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" and "Sheep") bookended by Roger Waters' tender "Pigs on the Wing."

This edition

• Pink Floyd Records pressing (cat# PFRLP10)
• Gatefold jacket with the famous Battersea Power Station pig cover

About the album

Punk was spitting at bands like Pink Floyd in 1977, and Pink Floyd answered with the most bare-knuckled record of their career. Loosely inspired by Orwell's Animal Farm, Animals divides humanity into three species: the dogs (the ruthless climbers), the pigs (the people in charge) and the sheep (everybody else), and it doesn't think much of any of them.

Musically it's a guitar album, with David Gilmour tearing through "Dogs" and Roger Waters snarling his way through "Pigs (Three Different Ones)." Then there's that cover: a 40-foot inflatable pig floating over London's Battersea Power Station, which famously broke loose during the photo shoot and drifted off towards Heathrow. You can't make this stuff up. It's an underrated gem in the Floyd catalogue and a favourite among the faithful.

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On Pink Floyd Records (cat# PFRLP10), a reissue of the 1977 album.