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Only dimly aware of a certain unease in the air.
You better watch out,
There may be dogs about
I've looked over Jordan, and I have seen,
Things are not what they seem.
What do you get for pretending the dangers are not real.
Meek and obedient you follow the leader
Down well trodden corridors, into the valley of steel.
What a surprise!
A look of terminal shock in your eyes.
Now things are really what they seem,
No, this is no bad dream.
''The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
He makes me down to lie.
Through pastures green He leadeth me the silent waters by.
With bright knives He releaseth my soul.
He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places.
He converteth me to lamb cutlets,
For lo, He hath great power, and great hunger.
When cometh the day we lowly ones,
Through quiet reflection, and great dedication,
Master the art of karate.
Lo, we shall rise up,
And then we'll make the buggers eyes water.''
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.
Have you heard the news?
The dogs are dead!
You better stay home
And do as you're told,
Get out of the road if you want to grow old.
The vast reeking herd of American Sheep will be our downfall.
Bill, don't forget there is a new remixed version of Animals that has been released.
There is no way that I’m going to listen to the shit Waters has done whith this masterpiece
Lying on my crappy, beloved, bed; headphones on; a mild daze of cannabis growing upon me, like mist drifting in across the dusk ... (sighhhh)
One of my Fav's
Sheep go to Heaven, goats go to Hell!
hah, not many radio stations play a 10 + minute song
hah, not many radio stations play a 10 + minute song
listened to this song alot for the awesome guitar and keyboard, never listened that close to the lyrics. damn...
Back in those days, everything was simpler and more confused...
Floydian lyrics ruled back in the day! My friends and I would pull out the record sleeves and study them like holy scriptures... For this album, I recall, the words were in handwritten characters in white upon a black background, so when I went to make copies for my buddies on the copier in Dad's office, it was hell to try to make it readable -- each page would take forever, and it would use up all the black toner pretty quickly -- so I ended up doing it on the high school school library machine instead! We would distribute them, discuss them, tack them up on our bedroom walls...and quote random blurbs to freak out our parents and teachers...
Deep dude.
An easy 10 for my part.
He makes me down to lie
Through pastures green He leadeth me the silent waters by
With bright knives He releaseth my soul
He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places
He converteth me to lamb cutlets
For lo, He hath great power, and great hunger
When cometh the day we lowly ones
Through quiet reflection, and great dedication
Master the art of karate
Lo, we shall rise up
And then we'll make the bugger's eyes water
...
That would make a great tattoo.
My favorite Pink Floyd song Freaked me out as a kid, as a church kid who read the lyrics and thought (?!@#?) Still gives me chills
lyrics freak me out too, make me sad, but damn i love this music.
Animals + LSD = Fantastic.
I've never needed anything .... just Floyd
finest song about mutton, ever
And, goats go to hell!
He makes me down to lie
Through pastures green He leadeth me the silent waters by
With bright knives He releaseth my soul
He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places
He converteth me to lamb cutlets
For lo, He hath great power, and great hunger
When cometh the day we lowly ones
Through quiet reflection, and great dedication
Master the art of karate
Lo, we shall rise up
And then we'll make the bugger's eyes water
...
listened to this song alot for the awesome guitar and keyboard, never listened that close to the lyrics. damn...
The new 2018 mix is so well done you can actually hear and make out the words in this part.
And to the others about the fadeout ... yes one of the best ever. Saw Waters live a number of years ago. Snowy White was doing the guitar and he did a whole entire repeat of the outro after the first time through. Pure joy !
I Love it
Yah that guitarist might make something of himself one day....
Amazing album, the instrumental part towards the end makes the album for me!
He makes me down to lie
Through pastures green He leadeth me the silent waters by
With bright knives He releaseth my soul
He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places
He converteth me to lamb cutlets
For lo, He hath great power, and great hunger
When cometh the day we lowly ones
Through quiet reflection, and great dedication
Master the art of karate
Lo, we shall rise up
And then we'll make the bugger's eyes water
...
listened to this song alot for the awesome guitar and keyboard, never listened that close to the lyrics. damn...
Pour moi, cet album fait parti des meilleurs de Pink Floyd.
Pour moi c'est le no.1 de toute ma vie.
Much better album than "The Wall"!
My top 1 album ever
What a great band/track/album - to think this still works and it's 24 years old! Not many tracks make me stop and listen again and again!
44YRS OLD!!!
What a great band/track/album - to think this still works and it's 24 years old! Not many tracks make me stop and listen again and again!
Maybe my math is off?
Which one's Pink?
Which one's Pink?
I could not agree more!!!!!
No argument from me...
Who is the better bass player? David Gilmour or Roger Waters?
Curious minds want to know.
Everybody say Roger W. is not very skilled in playing. Maybe.
Maybe Gilmour he's even better at playing Bass. Maybe.
I personally love Gilmour. but take Gilmour without the Genius of Water....
without him he's just a fantastic guitar player. The last reunion is an example. not perfect under the technic point of view ( waters ) but man.. what an emotion!!!
Never knew there was a "Gilmore" in the band.
LLRP!!
Can't win em all, but for a draw, this ain't bad :)
Because he played the bass guitar on this particular song. The "favorite" part is likely tongue-in-cheek.
Gilmore also played the bass on Pigs (three different ones) from this album, Fat Old Sun (Atom Heart Mother), Hey You (The Wall), The Narrow Way (Ummaguma), and shared the duties with Roger Waters on One Of These Days and Echos (Meddle).
IIRC, David Gilmore plays bass on Animals.
Nobody has ever claimed that Roger Waters is a 'great bass player'. But his artistic vision and directing abilities are beyond dispute.
Nope. 0 nada, the empty set.
Who is the better bass player? David Gilmour or Roger Waters?
Curious minds want to know.
Gilmore was quoted in '98 stating that Waters wanted to play the rhythm guitar part instead for the album track. Gilmore also complained privately that Waters couldn't pull his weight as the band's bassist, and that he (Gilmore) would often need to cover for Waters. Waters denies this. Maybe Bill was taking a swipe at Waters? Or maybe just making the statement that Gilmore is a bassist in his own right.
And soporific!
You are. Now, go to your room. And no more Pink Floyd for you, until you readjust that attitude young man!.
Yes, something from Meddle. Look here in the RP library: https://www.radioparadise.com/?song_id=30757 AFAIK it still hasn't been played. Come on Bill, we KNOW you WANT TO!!
Very cool that as of today (12-03-18) about 7 years after your post, with 2492 ratings, it is still at 8.3
He makes me down to lie
Through pastures green He leadeth me the silent waters by
With bright knives He releaseth my soul
He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places
He converteth me to lamb cutlets
For lo, He hath great power, and great hunger
When cometh the day we lowly ones
Through quiet reflection, and great dedication
Master the art of karate
Lo, we shall rise up
And then we'll make the bugger's eyes water
...
Wow. I just read this.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/28/apple-moves-british-hq-into-battersea-power-station-boiler-room
My father was a brick layer and worked on Battersea Power Station. He was on of those poor buggers laying a thousand bricks a day for a couple of years. It was work that was commonly called "slashing" because you got paid by the yard.
Thank you, sir. May I have another ?
Sensible policy—if you want a simple outdoor free range lifestyle with no one bothering you and no existential dilemmas—is to leave no witnesses to your excesses.
Wow. I just read this.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/28/apple-moves-british-hq-into-battersea-power-station-boiler-room
"...Tonight, on Headphones Only..."
I have to admit to heresy: I find The Wall over-played, over-rated and over-conceived.
1. Dark Side of The Moon. (ya goes without saying)
2. Wish You Were Here. A great, but "conventional rock" album - a collection of great songs.
3. Animals. Great as a concept album, without putting the concept ahead of the music.
4. The Wall. Great music taking a backseat to the Concept.
IMO. YMMV.
Slainte.
Yep, I'd concur with that, though I'd add Meddle as a classic before Dark Side - the early psychedelic soft Floyd is severely underrated IMO. The Wall was quite literally self-indulgent, for all that its songs were well crafted. Animals was a cracker on its release and brutally polemical, and for all that some of its targets (such as Mary Whitehouse) are no more, it stands up well to age, I think.
Me, I've a lot of time for sheep, having seen gadzillions on my hillwalkies. Living a simple outdoor free range life, not bothering anyone, and free of existential dilemmas. Ok, so they mostly snuff it under the knife at the end, but as they don't have feelings of mortality it's but a sharp coda to their otherwise sedate lives. If they're roused they can give dogs grief - I've seen sheepdogs getting a bit of their own back now and again when their 'prey' combine. I've not yet seen "wave upon wave of demented avengers", mind ;-)
Surely, the best Pink Floyd album, at least, in the classic formation: creative, unpredictable. Like animals.
Taught me a lot of respect for fast moving heavy machinery. :-)
It is OK Nurs. Lie back and tell us about your problems.
You have not Fucking idea
I remember the feeling I had upon hearing the first sounds from "Animals" (on vinyl I'd purchased at a used record store), especially "Pigs (Three Different Ones)", and thinking "This is gonna be good".
Animals, TDSOTM, and WYWH (and for that matter Meddle, esp. Echoes) — equally wonderful PF albums ... aw heck, so is "The Wall"
But IMHO, PF w/o Waters just isn't very good.
Rogers is the lyrics man specifically, and Gilmour makes the music better.
They need each other ... like Lennon/McCartney, to make the great music.
By themselves, it's only "okay" ... and PF minus RW is campy lyrics and way too many drawn-out guitar solos.
I find both "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" as well as "The Division Bell" barely tolerable, and have no interest in the "new" PF album.
You can listen to the whole new PF album on Spotify to see if you're interested in purchasing it (yes, I still buy CDs).
Oddly enough, Dave Gilmour's first solo album is probably the best of the individual bandmember's efforts, but it still doesn't rank into any of my "fave album" lists. Hmm ... then again, I do like Syd's "The Madcap Laughs" and "Barrett".
It's a mixed bag.
Still have the original vinyl somewhere. You appreciate the covers more.
Yes. Those were the days. Yes was notorious for this. It make listening to the albums much more enjoyable before big money took over.
What is great is that the lyrics *almost* end on a positive note as the sheep rise up and kill the dogs, then Gilmour's amazing guitar starting at that point sounds so celebratory. Like a victory in the music. Only Gilmour could do that.
So what is this about a new PF CD?
Still have the original vinyl somewhere. You appreciate the covers more.
So what is this about a new PF CD?
Just released new disc....updated outtakes from their last PF album (made into proper songs) is my understanding, Not heard any reviews about it...
So what is this about a new PF CD?