Pink Floyd - Animals (1977)

Pink Floyd - Animals - Released Year 1977


Tracklist front / back album covers

Side one
1. "Pigs on the Wing (Part 1)" 1:24
2. "Dogs" 17:04

Total length: 18:28

Side two
1. "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" 11:28
2. "Sheep" 10:20
3. "Pigs on the Wing (Part 2)" 1:24

Total length: 23:12

Animals is the 10th studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 23 January 1977 through Harvest and Columbia Records. It was recorded at the band's Britannia Row Studios in London throughout 1976, and was produced by the band. The album continues the longform compositions that made up their previous works, including Wish You Were Here (1975). The album received positive reviews from critics and was commercially successful, reaching number 2 in the UK and number 3 in the USA.

Animals is both a progressive rock album and a concept album, focusing on the social-political conditions of mid-1970s Britain, and was a change from the style of their earlier work. Tension within the band during production later culminated in keyboardist Richard Wright leaving. The album's cover shows an inflatable pig floating between two chimneys of the Battersea Power Station, conceived by the band's bassist and lead songwriter Roger Waters, and was designed by long-time collaborator Storm Thorgerson. The band released no singles from the record, but promoted it through the In the Flesh tour. Waters' agitation with the crowd during this tour inspired their next record, The Wall (1979).