Animals or Wish You Were Here?

[polishdog90]

Enough of this Wall and Dark Side nonsense! It's time to compare 2 great Pink Floyd albums that aren't their most popular. I thoroughly enjoy every track on both of these albums and I believe that they are masterpieces. If you even remotely like Pink Floyd, you have to listen to these albums.

So which do you prefer, Animals or Wish You Were Here?

[Eaglediveofsex]

Animals is their best album.

[Lolicat]

I still prefer the Wall, but Wish You Were Here is good without being based on a horrible piece of literature.

[packerfan8675309]

I really enjoy Wish You Were Here. although I have never really given Animals a thorough listen.

[a21schizoidman]

Animals

/thread

[Rockbandfan23467]

I really enjoy Wish You Were Here. although I have never really given Animals a thorough listen.

Basicly QFT.

[theantkid12]

Animals will overcome Wish You Were Here any day, but that doesn't mean WYWH is a bad album. Shine On You Crazy Diamond is pure epic.

[Hungryfreak]

I really enjoy Wish You Were Here. although I have never really given Animals a thorough listen.

Buy it. You'll love it. It's a way of life!

[[the]whorocks]

that's a tough one. personally, I absolutely LOVE both albums. however, pigs on the wing, amusingly enough, tips the scales for me. dogs can get a little tedious, but the lyrics on sheep are amazing and pigs is just a great song all around. wish you were here was my favorite for a long while, but animals beats it by that tiny, tiny bit.

[a21schizoidman]

Buy it. You'll love it. It's a way of life!

zing!

its our religion!!



(AIM!!)

[Oscar-Rio]

Animals is my 2nd favorite floyd album. My vote.

[polishdog90]

whorocks;1879344']that's a tough one. personally, I absolutely LOVE both albums. however, pigs on the wing, amusingly enough, tips the scales for me. dogs can get a little tedious, but the lyrics on sheep are amazing and pigs is just a great song all around. wish you were here was my favorite for a long while, but animals beats it by that tiny, tiny bit.

I'm pretty much the opposite. Animals used to be my favorite, but I think that Wish You Were Here is just a little bit better now.

[WingsOfSteel]

Animals is way cool, and it has some of Gilmour's best material.

Wish You Were Here is a good album too.

[zeldazeppelin]

WYWH> animals just because of the song WYWH and the wall was good but it was pink Floyd's worst album even with their best song hey you on it.

[afterstasis]

animals, though piper's my fave.

[Electric_Zen]

Dogs and Pigs (Three Different Ones) do not hold up well for me under repeated listenings. They start to grate on me.

I think Wish You Were Here is a great album from start to finish, and is much more enduring than Animals.

[cherokeesam]

Gotta go with WYWH. Crazy Diamond, WYWH, Have A Cigar, Welcome To the Machine = Pink's Greatest Hits, Vol. 1.35.

Animals was a great experiment, and if you're in a certain chemically-altered state of consciousness, it can reveal the Meaning of the Universe to you and all that....but if you're stone-cold sober, the music doesn't remotely compare to WYWH.

[classicrockdude]

tough choice.....i'l have to ge with wish you were here

[MovieFreak921]

It's a tough choice, but WYWH gets my vote.

[gsmorgan]

Animals was brilliant, but I also agree with those who say that Dogs does get tedious on repeated listening - in that sense I consider it the weak track on Animals.

Wish You Were Here, on the other hand, does not (IMO, anyway) have a weak track. I can listen to it any time - start to finish - without ever feeling the desire to skip a track.

Both are excellent - but WWYH (for me) edges out Animals.

Edited to add... although Dogs gave us a classic scene from WKRP...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb-gdaHkbmM

[WingsOfSteel]

Gotta go with WYWH. Crazy Diamond, WYWH, Have A Cigar, Welcome To the Machine = Pink's Greatest Hits, Vol. 1.35.

Animals was a great experiment, and if you're in a certain chemically-altered state of consciousness, it can reveal the Meaning of the Universe to you and all that....but if you're stone-cold sober, the music doesn't remotely compare to WYWH.

I feel almost exactly the opposite. Dogs wore me out on my first listen, but I love it to death now, and while I liked Shine On You Crazy Diamond the first time I heard, I can't really sit still through the whole thing now.

Besides, Dogs has several of David Gilmour's best solos.

[Bub]

I like "Animals" a lot but "Wish You Were Here" is one of my favorite Pink Floyd albums period.

[Insane3]

I still prefer the Wall, but Wish You Were Here is good without being based on a horrible piece of literature.

Haha! So true. 1984 was excellent.

[Lolicat]

Haha! So true. 1984 was excellent.

I agree, although sometimes I feel like siding with Huxley and thinking Brave New World tops even 1984. My favourite dystopia (lawds, that sounds like a metalcore band) is probably The Handmaiden's Tale.

[jrcronlakers]

Man I wish I could pic one but I love them both and would be happy no matter which one was playing at the time.

[Limelight]

I agree, although sometimes I feel like siding with Huxley and thinking Brave New World tops even 1984. My favourite dystopia (lawds, that sounds like a metalcore band) is probably The Handmaiden's Tale.

1984 is still the most disturbing novel I have ever read. The last third of the book is a mind-rape to end all mind-rapes.

[Lolicat]

1984 is still the most disturbing novel I have ever written. The last third of the book is a mind-rape to end all mind-rapes.

Written? Hello Mr. Blair!

[Insane3]

I agree, although sometimes I feel like siding with Huxley and thinking Brave New World tops even 1984. My favourite dystopia (lawds, that sounds like a metalcore band) is probably The Handmaiden's Tale.

I didnt read the Handmaiden's Tale but if you tell me the author, I'll surely take a look at it. The only part I find interesting about Brave New World is the intro about embryos and everything. My favorite was clearly Farhaneit 451.

[Lolicat]

I didnt read the Handmaiden's Tale but if you tell me the author, I'll surely take a look at it. The only part I find interesting about Brave New World is the intro about embryos and everything. My favorite was clearly Farhaneit 451.

Margaret Atwood, she's a Canadian and a Feminist, so I think the 'Muricans haet her.

I read Brave New World as a comedy (with tragic elements, obviosuly), though, which I think works far better than the usual straight-tragedy reading of the likes of 1984.

[Insane3]

Margaret Atwood, she's a Canadian and a Feminist, so I think the 'Muricans haet her.

I read Brave New World as a comedy (with tragic elements, obviosuly), though, which I think works far better than the usual straight-tragedy reading of the likes of 1984.

I never saw Brave New World as a comedy... But maybe we're simply living in two parallel universes with different versions of this book.

[Lolicat]

I never saw Brave New World as a comedy... But maybe we're simply living in two parallel universes with different versions of this book.

I don't think it was written as a comedy, but there are some very comic elements, such as 'Our Ford', the attitudes of the populace which are so contrary as to be comical, and their reliance on routine. I feel it works better to lagh at it, but still heed the warning.

[Insane3]

I don't think it was written as a comedy, but there are some very comic elements, such as 'Our Ford', the attitudes of the populace which are so contrary as to be comical, and their reliance on routine. I feel it works better to lagh at it, but still heed the warning.

Oh right, I can see what you mean. But still, I don't see it as a comedy... it's simply pathetic.

[Lolicat]

Oh right, I can see what you mean. But still, I don't see it as a comedy... it's simply pathetic.

I find it interesting in relation to Huxley, he was a man of great contradictions, and his last words are worth googling to find out.

[Insane3]

I find it interesting in relation to Huxley, he was a man of great contradictions, and his last words are worth googling to find out.

I don't actually understand what you meant. To be more precise, I don't understand this sentence part: "I find it interesting in relation to Huxley". What does that mean?
(I'm not stupid, I'm simply french)

But about Huxley, I guess I should read The Doors of Perception. And that last sentence's purpose was to prove I'm not stupid by pluggin some facts containing a weak link to the conversation.

[Lolicat]

I don't actually understand what you meant. To be more precise, I don't understand this sentence part: "I find it interesting in relation to Huxley". What does that mean?

(I'm not stupid, I'm simply french)

Same thing, har har! Kidding...

I meant in relation to Huxley's own life and the views he espoused.

[Insane3]

Same thing, har har!
I didn't said I was french from France.


I meant in relation to Huxley's own life and the views he espoused.

I don't know enough about his lifestyle to do anything but nod slowly. Seriously, though, I find it quite surprising how precise were some predictions made in the 50's and that's why I love Farhaneit 451. Ray Bradbury understood something few people did at the time: the things people don't buy don't evolve very fast. Nobody buys spaceships, but everybody buys TVs.

[Lolicat]

I didn't said I was french from France.



I don't know enough about his lifestyle to do anything but nod slowly. Seriously, though, I find it quite surprising how precise were some predictions made in the 50's and that's why I love Farhaneit 451. Ray Bradbury understood something few people did at the time: the things people don't buy don't evolve very fast. Nobody buys spaceships, but everybody buys TVs.

I know where you're from.

Huxley was anti-leftist, yet opposed a lot of right-wing ideals. He was interested massively in the development of technology, yet afraid of where it was leading.
Add all this to the fact he promoted the use of LSD constantly, interseting guy.

[Insane3]

I know where you're from.
I know you know. I simply wanted to insult France. I mean... they elected Sarkozy. I like to judge a country on who they vote for.


Huxley was anti-leftist, yet opposed a lot of right-wing ideals. He was interested massively in the development of technology, yet afraid of where it was leading.
Add all this to the fact he promoted the use of LSD constantly, interseting guy.

Who was not anti-leftist in the 50's in the western block? But you learned (error, i'm on phone)

[Lolicat]

I know you know. I simply wanted to insult France. I mean... they elected Sarkozy. I like to judge a country on who they vote for.



Who was not anti-leftist in the 50's in the western block? But you learned (error, i'm on phone)

The French only elected him because they have to have something to strike about, and things were looking too good for them.
Huxley was about in the 1920s though, I think he wrote Brave New World during that decade.

[Tsavo]

I'd rather play Wish You Were Here over any other album anytime.