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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Animals is the tenth studio album by Pink Floyd, released in 1977. Inspired by the recent rise of Punk Rock and its consequent ousting of "traditional" Progressive Rock as a mainstream force, it marks a shift to a harder, more arena-friendly sound and more overtly political lyricism, both of which would grow in magnitude during the remainder of Waters' tenure with the band.Specifically, Animals is a Concept Album inspired by Animal Farm, with a loose narrative acting as an allegory for bassist Roger Waters' discontent with the state of British society and politics at the time, hypothesising a setting composed of 3 types of people: greedy businessmen (Dogs), dogmatic authority figures (Pigs) and those with a groupthink mentality (Sheep). This album marks the point where Waters started to fully take over the band, writing or co-writing all the songs and singing lead vocals on all the songs (except for "Dogs", where he shares lead vocals and a writing credit with David Gilmour).Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The album was keyboardist Richard Wright's penultimate one with the band before he was fired during the making of The Wall; consequently, it is the last Pink Floyd album to be released while he was still a member of the band. He would come back to play on a few tracks on 1987's A Momentary Lapse of Reason and was fully reinstated as a member of Floyd when work began on The Division Bell in 1993.Animals was not supported by any traditional singles, owing to the fact that all the songs on it are either much too short or much too long to be conceivably released on a 7". That said, it managed to be yet another success for Pink Floyd, peaking at No. 2 on the UK Albums Chart and No. 3 on the Billboard 200, and topping the charts in the Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand, and Spain. The album was also certified quadruple-platinum in the US, double-platinum in Canada, platinum in France, Germany, and Italy, and gold in the UK and Austria.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Preceded by Wish You Were Here. Proceeded by The Wall. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: Many critics have noted the rougher sound and darker lyrics compared to previous Pink Floyd albums. | |
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Protest Song | |
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Protest Song: Barring parts one and two of "Pigs on the Wing", the album consists solely of these kinds of songs, being penned as an attack on capitalist overreach, government abuse of authority, and nationwide groupthink. | |
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New Sound Album | |
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New Sound Album: While not outright abandoning Progressive Rock, Animals marked a shift to a distinctly harder sound and more aggressive lyricism that would define the remainder of the band's output prior to Roger Waters' departure in 1985 in contrast to the jazzy textures of The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here, though the band kept its trademark sonic experimentation. This shift in sound can be attributed to a combination of Punk Rock rising to prominence during the second half of the 1970s (which Pink Floyd cited as more of a source of inspiration than something towards which to react), American FM rock radio shifting toward hard rock, and the then highly-acidic Waters growing increasingly controlling towards his bandmates. | |
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As the Good Book Says... | |
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As the Good Book Says...: "Sheep" has a modified version of Psalm 23: "he maketh me to hang on hooks in high places; he converteth me to lamb cutlets". | |
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Spiritual Successor | |
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Spiritual Successor: The original version of "Sheep", titled "Raving and Drooling (I Fell On His Neck With a Scream)", could be considered one to "One of These Days", with its similar bassline and tone. Ian Peel of The Guardian dubbed the final version of the song an example of this trope to "One of These Days" as well, noting in particular the shared Doctor Who-esque bassline. | |
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List Song | |
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List Song: The outro of "Dogs". | |
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Sophisticated as Hell | |
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Sophisticated as Hell: The corrupted version of Psalm 23 in "Sheep" mostly carries on the same Antiquated Linguistics as the actual Psalm, which provides one hell of a contrast when it ends with the following lines: | |
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Miniscule Rocking | |
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Miniscule Rocking: In contrast to the outrageously long "Dogs", "Pigs (Three Different Ones)", and "Sheep", both versions of "Pigs on the Wing" clock in at only a minute and a half each. | |
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Concept Album | |
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Concept Album: The album was mostly inspired by Animal Farm by George Orwell. | |
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Dystopia | |
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Dystopia: The world described on this album is not a happy future. Capitalist bigwigs eat at each other, despotic leaders grind down the people below them for their own pleasure, and the general populace attempts a revolution after years of complacency, only for it to come full-circle. | |
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Double Meaning | |
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Double Meaning: "Pigs on the Wing" could literally mean nearby people who are filthy like swines. Or just that the optimism on those tracks is as realistic as a pig with wings. | |
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Take That, Critics! | |
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Take That, Critics!: The third verse of "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" is explicitly directed against British Moral Guardian and noted Fundamentalist prude Mary Whitehouse. Since Whitehouse was only really known in her native UK, international listeners ended up mistaking the "hey you, Whitehouse" line for a jab at Gerald Ford, who was President during the album's making. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: "Sheep" ends with the implication that the sheep will overthrow their masters only to install a People's Republic of Tyranny ("You better stay home and do as you're told!") Luckily, there's still a verse of "Pigs on the Wing" to go. | |
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Incredibly Long Note | |
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Incredibly Long Note: "Sheep". The first two lines of the verses end on a really long note that slowly crossfades into a synthesizer. Its a really subtle and cool effect, and you don't notice until Roger's voice is completely unrecognisable. | |
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Full-Circle Revolution | |
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Full-Circle Revolution: While the song "Sheep" becomes more positive as the sheeps finally rise up, this trope is implied by the last verse. This is, after all a Whole Plot Reference to Animal Farm. | |
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Bookends | |
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Bookends: The album opens and closes with "Pigs on the Wing". Averted on the 8-track version of Animals, where both parts of "Pigs on the Wing" are presented as a single song, with a solo by guitarist Snowy White (who was a part of Floyd's touring band) in the middle. This special edit was made to lessen the pause due to the changeover inherent in 8-track tapes. note The nature of 8-track tapes required an album's tracklist to be split into four sections (labeled as A, B, C & D). If the sections were not timed out to be of a similar length, there would be notable pauses as the tape switched over to the next section. It's for this same reason that "Dogs" is split in two parts on the 8-track, with 'Part I' closing the A section, and 'Conclusion' making up the B section. "Sheep" begins and ends with the sound of birds chirping and sheep bleating. | |
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Gratuitous Panning | |
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Gratuitous Panning: The bridge of "Sheep" features a vocoded Roger Waters in the left channel and an echoing David Gilmour in the right channel, both reciting a corrupted version of Psalm 23. | |
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Non-Appearing Title | |
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Non-Appearing Title: "Dogs" and "Sheep", though Dogs' working titlenote "You've Gotta Be Crazy" and both of their respective animal sounds appear. | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Epic Rocking: "Dogs" (17:04), "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" (11:26), and "Sheep" (10:18) make up the middle and meat of this album. Ironically, the album is book-ended by the two-part "Pigs on the Wing", which when played back-to-back don't even break three minutes. David Gilmour even said he was all right with only one credit on the album, given "Dogs" takes up almost half of Side A on the LP release. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: The album makes repeated mentions of "the stone," representing the accumulated guilt formed by maintaining one's role in a cruel and unjust society. | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran: Becomes the case towards the end of "Dogs". You can't spend a lifetime doing the Man's bidding without your conscience coming back to bite you in the ass. | |
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Breather Episode | |
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Breather Episode: Both parts of "Pigs on the Wing" at the start and finish. A hopeful love song about the importance of companionship and trust, Waters believed its inclusion on the album was important, saying that without it, Animals "would have just been a kind of scream of rage". There's also an interesting subversion in "Sheep", which starts with a peaceful, pastoral sound until it grows much darker and harsher, and you realise the worst is yet to come. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: In the middle section, Roger Waters starts to show the unrestrained bombast that would permeate The Wall and The Final Cut, with Incredibly Long Notes and plenty of passionate/angry delivery. | |
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Capitalism Is Bad | |
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Capitalism Is Bad: Most clearly seen in "Dogs" (though Waters implicitly identifies himself as a dog as well, incidentally, tying in with the theme of The Man Is Sticking It to the Man from Wish You Were Here). | |
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I Am the Band | |
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I Am the Band: This album is where Roger Waters really started to dominate the band. While Roger Waters had written the lyrics to all of the band's songs on previous albums, he took over composing the music as well. David Gilmour gets a co-writing credit on "Dogs", and no songs were credited to Richard Wright, who sang none of the lead vocals either. Gilmour only sings lead on "Dogs", with Waters singing lead on the rest of the tracks. | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: A recurring motif in "Dogs". As terrifying as they might seem, society's ruthless enforcers will always die alone and unloved — like old dogs being drowned in a lake — when their masters no longer have any use for them. | |
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Anaphora | |
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Anaphora: The breakdown at the end of "Dogs" begins every line with the words "who was": | |
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Silly Love Songs | |
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Silly Love Songs: "Pigs on the Wing" provides one of the rare examples in Pink Floyd's entire discography. As mentioned above, Waters felt it was crucial to the concept of the album. | |
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Rule of Three | |
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Rule of Three: "Pigs (Three Different Ones)". | |
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Alas, Poor Villain | |
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Alas, Poor Villain: The second half of "Dogs" is essentially a sombre eulogy for all ruthless enforcers who have ever died broken and alone after a lifetime of doing their masters' dirty work. | |
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Lost in Translation | |
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Lost in Translation: A geographic example occurred with "Pigs (Three Different Ones)", with many American listeners believing the "Whitehouse" of the third verse referred to Gerald Ford (whose presidency ended just a matter of days before the album's release). In reality, it actually referred to right-wing British moral guardian Mary Whitehouse, a notorious (and notoriously effective) figure in the British press. | |
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Demoted to Extra | |
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Demoted to Extra: Zig-zagged. Richard Wright contributed no songwriting or lead vocals to the album, but his keyboards are front and center on many of the songs, especially "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" and "Sheep." | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" with "You fucked up old hag!". | |
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Messy Pig | |
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Messy Pig: A metaphorical example with the "Pigs (Three Different Ones)". | |
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"The Villain Sucks" Song | |
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"The Villain Sucks" Song: "Pigs (Three Different Ones)". "Villains" because they're the ones popularly thought to be manipulating everything bad in this album, and "sucks song" because unlike the thinly veiled satire of "Dogs" and "Sheep", "Pigs" pulls out the stops and outright insults the subjects throughout the song. | |
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Re-Cut | |
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Re-Cut: The album had to be altered when it was released on 8-track, thanks to the technical limitations of the format that required it to be split into two more sections than an LP. Both halves of "Pigs on the Wing" were merged into a single track at the start (meaning that the album now ends with "Sheep"), bridged by a new guitar solo by session player Snowy White, and "Dogs" was split into two parts, with a fadeout/fade-in between them to make the division less abrupt. | |
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Censored for Comedy | |
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Censored for Comedy: The rapid panting in the third verse of "Pigs", given in the lyric sheet as ".....!.....!.....!.....!" | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The "Who was..." section of "Dogs" was inspired by Allen Ginsberg's poem, "Howl 1955". "I have looked over Jordan and I have seen," line in "Sheep" is based on the hymn, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot". | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title: Animals, "Pigs", "Dogs", "Sheep". | |
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You Are Not Alone | |
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You Are Not Alone: "Pigs on the Wing, Part II" | |
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Broken Record | |
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Broken Record: The last section of David Gilmour's vocals on "Dogs" ends with the word "stone" echoing repeatedly for over a minute, briefly making a return midway through "Sheep". | |
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Antiquated Linguistics | |
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Antiquated Linguistics: "Sheep" features a corrupted version of Psalm 23 that uses the same Early Modern English as the omnipresent King James translation of The Bible. | |
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Animal Motifs | |
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Animal Motifs: Pigs, dogs and sheep are recurring motifs on this album. Pigs represent dogmatic authoritarians, dogs represent greedy businesspeople, and sheep represent those who have a groupthink mentality and those who will ultimately overthrow the dogs. | |
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Whole-Plot Reference | |
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Whole Plot Reference: The album's storyline transplants Animal Farm to the late-'70s United Kingdom. | |
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Cue the Flying Pigs | |
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Cue the Flying Pigs: Invoked on "Pigs on the Wing" and the cover featuring a pig balloon, which the band then included on their concerts. | |
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Fading into the Next Song | |
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Fading into the Next Song: "Pigs (Three Different Ones)", "Sheep", and "Pigs on the Wing 2" all segue into one another. | |
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Dying Alone | |
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Dying Alone: The fate of the dogs. | |
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The Dog Bites Back | |
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The Dog Bites Back: Well, more "The Sheep Bite Back" at the end of "Sheep", where the titular animals finally rise up and overthrow the dogs. | |
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