Forget “Dark Side of The Moon,” “Animals” is Pink Floyd’s Best Album
“Dragged down by the stone!”
In 1973, Pink Floyd released their eighth studio album, “Dark Side of The Moon’’ to critical and commercial acclaim. “Dark Side” was a psychedelic masterpiece, it takes listeners through the journey of human life, beginning and ending the album with a heartbeat. Floyd tackles themes of religion, wealth, mortality and mental illness; it’s one of the greatest albums of all time, a defining moment in music, and it’s not Pink Floyd’s best.
Four years later Floyd would release their tenth studio album, “Animals,” their often forgotten magnum opus. An album highly influenced by George Orwell’s 1945 classic novella “Animal Farm;” it was one of their darkest, most venomous projects ever released, casting humans into three subcategories: pigs, dogs and sheep.
- Pigs — Those who perpetrate injustice and hardship whilst maintaining their grip on power.
- Dogs — Success chasers who would do whatever it takes to make it to the top
- Sheep — People who get all their news from social media (Baaaa!)
Coming off “Wish You Were Here,” bassist Roger Waters was the primary writer for Floyd and racked in success as a consequence. Creative disagreements were now common between…
