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Big man, pig man, ha ha charade you are.
You well heeled big wheel, ha ha charade you are.
And when your hand is on your heart
You're nearly a good laugh,
Almost a joker,
With your head down in the pig bin,
Saying, "Keep on digging."
Pig stain on your fat chin.
What do you hope to find?
Down in the pig mine. [[#Notes|1]]
You're nearly a laugh,
You're nearly a laugh,
But you're really a cry.
Bus stop rat bag, ha ha charade you are.
You fucked up old hag, ha ha charade you are.
You radiate cold shafts of broken glass
You're nearly a good laugh,
Almost worth a quick grin
You like the feel of steel,
You're hot stuff with a hat pin,
And good fun with a hand gun.
You're nearly a laugh,
You're nearly a laugh
But you're really a cry.
Hey you, {{wp|Mary Whitehouse|Whitehouse}}, ha ha charade you are.
You house proud town mouse, ha ha charade you are.
You're trying to keep our feelings off the street
You're nearly a real treat,
All tight lips and cold feet,
And do you feel abused?
.....! ......! ......! ......!
You gotta stem the evil tide,
And keep it all on the inside,
Mary you're nearly a treat,
Mary you're nearly a treat
But you're really a cry.
| marty88210 | Posted: May 18, 2013 - 15:00 nelsonha wrote: There really needs to be an 11 for songs like this. Right on nelsonha. An 11 just about for everything the Pink Floyd put out over the decades. Their music and lyrics are just as timely today as they were in the late 60's, early 70's, etc., etc. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| nelsonha (NOR ¤ CAL) | Posted: May 18, 2013 - 14:50 There really needs to be an 11 for songs like this. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| kdarwish (Turku, Finland) | Posted: May 03, 2013 - 23:48 Magnificent quality, cowbell too, timely "treat", thank you Radio Paradise DJ. :)) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ottovonb (San Francisco) | Posted: Apr 23, 2013 - 21:58 Just freakin great and the furious lyrics ice the cake. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| coloradojohn (A Mile High and then some, Cherry Creek, Denver) | Posted: Apr 23, 2013 - 21:58 Hey, You, Whitehouse, haHa, charade you are! Even if it's a Thatcher-era Brit context we Yanks can only glean the slightest glimpse of, it's A RANT WORTHY OF ALMIGHTY PRAISE! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| bb_matt (Hampshire, England) | Posted: Apr 17, 2013 - 07:17 Oh my. Listened to this album so many times, it's scary, yet it *still* sounds new. Not the most uplifting music in the world, but damn it, master craftsmanship at work here. Every single element perfectly fits. Got those classic blues lessons melded throughout - the instruments & voice mimic and echo each other. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| unclehud (now 50 feet above the planet in Boston) | Posted: Apr 06, 2013 - 17:07 kurtster wrote: ... if it isn't, it just sounded really damned good this time around for some reason. Don't know what to suggest except, 1) absence makes the heart grow fonder, 2) set and setting, and 3) this always sounds damned good to me. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| kurtster (Back in Ohiya, for now ...) | Posted: Apr 02, 2013 - 20:23 Ok, this sounds different from what my ears have been listening to since it was new. Remaster from the latest box set ? ... if it isn't, it just sounded really damned good this time around for some reason. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chumbawamba-1984 (West Chester, OH) | Posted: Mar 23, 2013 - 11:00 tutakea wrote: i´ll never understand why this album is so underrated. being one of the "syd-barrett-fundamentalists", ANIMALS ist the only "post"-Barrett work of PF which really counts, imho I have to agree with your statement. IMHO only WYWH - dedicated to Syd - made a decent comeback to the roots. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| riker1959 (Phoenix, Arizona, USA) | Posted: Mar 23, 2013 - 10:39 It may not be the best that Pink Floyd has ever done but Floyd at their worst is still better than most bands at their best.... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tutakea | Posted: Mar 23, 2013 - 10:37 thanks 4 playing songs from PFs best album (with the exception of "The Piper ...", of course). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| spiggy | Posted: Mar 06, 2013 - 05:20 Dull dull dull - an assumption of greatness assumed is still an ass...um...P.... I can listen to Floyd on a good night, but this ...ugghhh.. PSD clicked half-way through..could not listen to more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bargamon (Carolina) | Posted: Feb 13, 2013 - 11:39 Not kosher is it? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| clickfaster | Posted: Feb 13, 2013 - 11:33 Synthesized pigs and calling Margaret Thatcher a "f***ed up old hag." Can it get any better than that? 11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highlowsel (New York City) | Posted: Feb 13, 2013 - 11:33 blotto wrote: try listening to it on drugs some time. jagdriver wrote:  I've been a Floyd fan since Saucerful of Secrets in '68. however, I've always found this track to be just downright depressing, with little going on musically to give it a passing grade. After eagerly purchasing the LP when it first came out, it's one that I never returned to and, although I had a cassette of it in the van, I just never was motivated to pull it out and give it another go. And don't forget those headphones!  Highlow American Net'Zen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| maxmox (Broome, Western Australia) | Posted: Feb 02, 2013 - 21:29 blotto wrote: try listening to it on drugs some time. jagdriver wrote: I've been a Floyd fan since Saucerful of Secrets in '68. however, I've always found this track to be just downright depressing, with little going on musically to give it a passing grade. After eagerly purchasing the LP when it first came out, it's one that I never returned to and, although I had a cassette of it in the van, I just never was motivated to pull it out and give it another go. Snap! Had it on high rotation on my cassette player set at 11 and a spliff to hand, doing 60mph on the inside lane. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chumbawamba-1984 (West Chester, OH) | Posted: Jan 19, 2013 - 16:28 The boredom came from the van - if not a VW minibus! - not from the music, IMHO blotto wrote: try listening to it on drugs some time. jagdriver wrote: I've been a Floyd fan since Saucerful of Secrets in '68. however, I've always found this track to be just downright depressing, with little going on musically to give it a passing grade. After eagerly purchasing the LP when it first came out, it's one that I never returned to and, although I had a cassette of it in the van, I just never was motivated to pull it out and give it another go. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SensorJ | Posted: Jan 19, 2013 - 16:20 Great song from an often overlooked album. The guitar solo from the song Dogs makes me weak at the knees. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| gypsyman (just passing through....) | Posted: Jan 19, 2013 - 16:16 I hate the pigs. All of them. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| paradisepig (Inverness-Scotland) | Posted: Jan 13, 2013 - 03:41 apd wrote: is that Rupert Everett?! Interesting use of cotton wool balls ↓  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| apd (Toronto, On) | Posted: Jan 02, 2013 - 13:27 (former member) wrote: We be dancing... love it...  is that Rupert Everett?! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| blotto (127.0.0.1) | Posted: Jan 02, 2013 - 13:17 try listening to it on drugs some time. jagdriver wrote: I've been a Floyd fan since Saucerful of Secrets in '68. however, I've always found this track to be just downright depressing, with little going on musically to give it a passing grade. After eagerly purchasing the LP when it first came out, it's one that I never returned to and, although I had a cassette of it in the van, I just never was motivated to pull it out and give it another go. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dinges,_the_Dude (below sea-level, N52°37', E4°88') | Posted: Dec 19, 2012 - 07:51 Great as most of the songs of PF are. Is my perception correct that the song Pigs is played more often (but not enough  ) these days? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ziakut (Slightly North of Obvlivion) | Posted: Dec 19, 2012 - 07:51 Call this tune what you will, but it certainly has a point and a poignant one at that. When you think of all the 'baby, baby'...tunes out there...this one comes in and harpoons the fluff! ...and by the way...more cowbell. (wimpy cowbell if you ask me!) Maybe it's a woodblock. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| black321 (A sunset in the desert) | Posted: Nov 28, 2012 - 08:25 Talula wrote: Very interesting to see the songs in the top 20 in 1977. As to the lyrics of Pigs (which is an amazing song and they are one of my all time favorite bands)...the irony of course is...there never was a more capitalistic rock band than Pink Floyd. See the Rolling Stones, ha. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| xtalman (What dimension?) | Posted: Nov 28, 2012 - 08:24 three_crows wrote: This is how speakers get blown out. haha!  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| max_p | Posted: Nov 28, 2012 - 08:22 coloradojohn wrote: Back when I was in high school, we used to play this album before school, to get the energy up to go and confront The Establishment. During school, we'd talk about the screaming guitars, the spacey keyboards, the thundering bass, the fabulous drums. In the cafeteria, the school radio even played it sometimes. (Although usually Styx or REO Speedwagon or The Cars or Kansas; not bad but not Floyd...) After school, we'd go home and light up some weed and play it again. And we'd get the lyrics — in those days copied in handwriting in white script on black paper that was also the inner liner — and dig in, deeply. And go all kinds of places as the music played around us. I can still get that feeling, thanks to RP and the Colorado vibe! How much electricity is going to be consumed growing this legal MJ in Colorado? think about it | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| three_crows (In the trees and hills of Geauga County, Ohio, USA) | Posted: Nov 28, 2012 - 08:17 This is how speakers get blown out. haha! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fi-Wi (De Bilt, the Netherlands) | Posted: Nov 11, 2012 - 09:43 Even after all those years it keeps me rocking. Solid 9! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Oct 17, 2012 - 14:26 We be dancing... love it... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ziakut (Right Here) | Posted: Sep 30, 2012 - 09:45 The amazing thing here is that this song can apply to so many aspects of life. The earlier posts showing Billboards top 20 in 1977 is interesting. Mostly because like most of the 70s, the vast variety on mainstream radio is a thing of the past. It's all formulaic, calculated and mechanical...meant to appeal to a very narrow scope of ticket paying, mp3 buying public. No longer are the days when you heard a single on the radio and decided to 'take a chance' on an album from which it resides. Nowadays, people fulfill their instant gratification by buying ONE song only that interests them. The artist these days has a harder sell. Thank you Radio Paradise for showing us the variety. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| xtalman (What dimension?) | Posted: Sep 26, 2012 - 12:23  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| lily34 (lexvegas) | Posted: Sep 26, 2012 - 12:16 fuzzy wrote:   that's funny.and, i do like this song very much. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MsJudi (Houston, TX) | Posted: Aug 29, 2012 - 20:45 Why is there no "11"??? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| k-man (SCruz, CA) | Posted: Aug 15, 2012 - 13:56 VignaleGamine wrote: A song about time - clock sound effects. Indeed, very imaginative! Using sound effects to pass on a notion of what the song is about. Sound effects. Get it? You hear them in the music. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| On_The_Beach (The Blue Planet) | Posted: Aug 09, 2012 - 00:22 oldsaxon wrote: That's the top 20 songs of 1977 from Billboard, just for perspective The song is deeply important, it's scathingly political, it's musically oppressive on purpose and it was obviously quite different from what was popular at the time. That's one scary list. Interesting that the 3 best songs on the list happen to be the last 3. Proof once again that popularity and quality rarely go hand in hand. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Talula | Posted: Jul 29, 2012 - 11:01 oldsaxon wrote:
That's the top 20 songs of 1977 from Billboard, just for perspective The song is deeply important, it's scathingly political, it's musically oppressive on purpose and it was obviously quite different from what was popular at the time. Very interesting to see the songs in the top 20 in 1977. As to the lyrics of Pigs (which is an amazing song and they are one of my all time favorite bands)...the irony of course is...there never was a more capitalistic rock band than Pink Floyd. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Talula | Posted: Jul 29, 2012 - 10:48 That's what I'm talking about. Now this is definitely "Godlike." Thank you. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| oldsaxon (Wales via Vancouver, BC.) | Posted: Jul 25, 2012 - 14:15
That's the top 20 songs of 1977 from Billboard, just for perspective The song is deeply important, it's scathingly political, it's musically oppressive on purpose and it was obviously quite different from what was popular at the time. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jagdriver (Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise) | Posted: Jul 25, 2012 - 14:14 ncollingridge wrote: Tedious. I've been a Floyd fan since Saucerful of Secrets in '68. however, I've always found this track to be just downright depressing, with little going on musically to give it a passing grade. After eagerly purchasing the LP when it first came out, it's one that I never returned to and, although I had a cassette of it in the van, I just never was motivated to pull it out and give it another go. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ncollingridge (Knebworth, UK) | Posted: Jul 25, 2012 - 14:09 Tedious. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| funkyalfonso (Vancouver Island) | Posted: Jul 25, 2012 - 14:09 Ljenny wrote: Pink Floyd bores me. That's just crazy talk. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| gypsyman (just passing through....) | Posted: Jul 25, 2012 - 14:07 Ljenny wrote: Pink Floyd bores me. Exactly. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| shellbella (so california) | Posted: Jul 25, 2012 - 14:04 My work day is so much better when I listen to Pink Floyd. AND, this is one of my favorite songs... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Jul 15, 2012 - 14:17 marcel wrote: Proclivities wrote: It could also have been more "imaginative". It doesn't really matter, though; it's far in the past and not very relevant. Once this was very renewing. And of course, anything that is new in one period, is old in a later period. And later artists may have improved on the original concept, and then the first version of the new concept seems old... But that doesn't make the original concept any less relevant. The whole idea is that the concept is so relevant, that other artists found it worth to reuse it as a part of their own concepts. In other words, very relevant... My 2 cents... Hindsight is usually the primary method of trying to consider a thirty-five-year-old song. I'm sure many people found this relevant when it was released, and many probably still do - that's great. This album and this song weren't very relevant or renewing to me in 1977, and the years have not made them so - for me. Obviously, what is relevant or renewing varies from one person to the next. -Rock on! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| marcel (some 10.000 km east of paradise) | Posted: Jul 15, 2012 - 03:22 Proclivities wrote: It could also have been more "imaginative". It doesn't really matter, though; it's far in the past and not very relevant. Once this was very renewing. And of course, anything that is new in one period, is old in a later period. And later artists may have improved on the original concept, and then the first version of the new concept seems old... But that doesn't make the original concept any less relevant. The whole idea is that the concept is so relevant, that other artists found it worth to reuse it as a part of their own concepts. In other words, very relevant... My 2 cents... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ljenny | Posted: Jul 08, 2012 - 13:48 Pink Floyd bores me. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Jul 08, 2012 - 13:45 VignaleGamine wrote: A song about time - clock sound effects. Mayasha wrote: It would have been awkward to mix them up, don't you think? It could also have been more "imaginative". It doesn't really matter, though; it's far in the past and not very relevant. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| stevendejong | Posted: Jun 24, 2012 - 03:36 Ah, that closing solo. So few notes. So bone-cutting. So sadistically fading out. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| stevendejong | Posted: Jun 24, 2012 - 03:33 shellbella wrote: You may be right about Animals.. It's brilliant. BUT, you are being harsh on Dark Side and The Wall. Those are incredible pieces of work. Agreed. Somehow even though Animals has some of the longest, dreariest songs in the catalogue, this album stays fresh for me. One thing I notice especially on this album though is how unspectacular Nick Mason's drumming was. Compare this song with the Porcupine Tree hommage Time Flies... |