I don't remember ever hearing this song. The music reminds me a lot of "The War of the World" rock opera from the 70s.

liked animals from the beginning, & never understood why even pf themselves seems not to like it at all.
and, imho, animals aged far better than any other pf album (with exception of patgod, of course!) some of their most "famous" stuff sounds really "old" now, if not straightforward embarrassing, but the animals survived the decades astoundingly fresh ...

 TerryS wrote: 

200,000,000 million is 200 trillion.  That's a pretty big number.  Yeah, I know, I'm just being pedantic.

 Lazarus wrote: 

You're not fooling anyone, Laz.  Have a good time in your hotel room.  I mean church.

Perfect.  Lights off, staring out the window at so much snow falling I can barely see across the street, with a foot of it already perched on the balcony railing.

Pink Floyd is perfect.

One Of My favorites!  Thanks!

I've always loved the lines:

Bleating and babbling we fell on his neck with a scream
Wave upon wave of demented avengers
March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream.

Which occasionally comes to mind when I'm walking the hills past flocks of sheep, and which may well have been an inspiration for the excellent comedy horror film Black Sheep.

Personally, I think that sheep are cool, and get a bad press :)

 big stud Romeo Tuma wrote: 

Yes, very well said...  we be dancing...

 

Can't beat a bit of Floyd... Animals is a great record - Thanks Bill!

 linzie wrote: 
Hmmm, there are circles where all one has to do is state a musical opinion which differs from that of the congregation, and in exchange they are guaranteed never to experience hearing loss?

 drife wrote: 
In most circles this kind of comment could cause you permanent use of your ears....

One of the best foot stompin, head bobbin tunes they ever pounded out...!!!

Wave upon wave of demented avengers march cheerfully out of obscurity into a dreeeeeeeeeaaaaam...

 fuzzy wrote: 
LOVE IT!!!! ;-p

This song is baaaadass...  love it...

 

This song instantly transports me to the 70's, concentrating intently on the exact placement of the lighter to the small, pungent core emanating from my TM. My lungs expand whilst my ears fill w/the aural pleasure of the floyd reminiscing about all the good times ahead.

 fuzzy wrote: 

 fuzzy wrote: 
Yeah!

 TerryS wrote: 
BILLIONS AND BILLIONS SERVED
  

Do the sheep share in the royalties?

Doctor Who called. He want's his bass line back.

Is it that this album is just not as accessible as Dark Side of the Moon or Wish You Were Here?   This was the very first CD I bought - spent $950 on a player, then maybe $18 on this, expecting something great.  I never got it at all - the whole thing seems trite. . .full of cheesy metaphors.

I suppose it is tough to top the two previous albums. . .

 Stingray wrote: 
Yes they can, 200,000,000 million people though? Not likely.

PS that's the number of albums PF have sold. Roughly. 2 years ago.

 jhorton wrote: 
My call would be Atom Heart Mother >>> Animals.  As thematically interesting as The Wall is it's just nowhere near as musically good as the previous albums.

Piper at the Gates of Dawn is one of the greatest debuts ever, IMHO.  Too bad about Sid.

Thought it would never end. Repetitive guitar chords were simply tiresome.

Dark Side of the Moon>Wish You Were Here>Animals>The Wall.

Greatest burst of creative genius in the history of rock. 

One of many elements of artistic genius demonstrated by Pink Floyd is that their albums are often constructed thematically, which is as sophisticated as great poetry...  the album Animals is based on a theme of personification, where animals are metaphors for humans...  this song demonstrates how people can sometimes be much like sheep...

another element of the artistic genius of Pink Floyd is the awesome music...

love this song, and the whole thematic album...