Which is better Animals or Meddle?

A big 'AMEN' to that!!

I've just recently got into the wonderful world of bootlegs.

The live performances during the 1977 'In The Flesh' tour are awesome. Dave's guitar work is much more free-wheeling and inventive than on the studio albums (Animals & WYWH), and with Snowy White there playing with him, it's a Floyd/guitar-lover's dream-come-true. I especially love SOYCD part 8, where Snowy's Les Paul tones blend with Dave's Strat in one of the great jamms of PF history.

The vocals are rougher, cause Roger & Dave are obviously going hoarse from the grind of the tour, but it's also charming, 'cause a couple of times they screw up the lyrics and break out laughing together. It makes one feel that there was a time when the two of them actually got along well.

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my favourite live PF

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In the womb, the baby thinks that it's the universe. And when the baby is born, there is a glimmer of light.
I was there, but now I am here. So there are two things - me and the universe. The universe is there for me.
Then what happens? Other people. But the universe is there for you. Now tell me what happened in the glade.
I did something to myself. Like entertainment, like music, like a daydream. There was nothing there and I saw something.
I saw his head on the bonnet of the car. You can say what you like but I saw the bird of paradise spread its wings.
DO YOU PLAY BRIDGE?

Alright smartypants, where would it go in the running order?

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what do you teach your little children about me?
pimp, thug, bling drug lord of the undergrounded kings
how can you be so sure i won't call down the rain?
what do you teach your little children about me?
you point your gun, wait, hide and run. i see it plain

I'd put it in as the outro solo to PotW1. Extend it just a bit and let it fade out into the intro of "Dogs".

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Taking away from you for the greater good.

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery".-- Winston Churchill

"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant" - Omar Ahmed, C.A.I.R.)

Animals is the better album
Meddle is generally boring apart from Echoes

I like Animals better, more orignal..
Although, I love the song Echoes

BTW....With the search feature, I would use, but I feel terrible bumping old topics up. I've been to forums where if you bump an older topic up, you can be banned or giving a warning if do so. This site is awesome on how leanant it is on that rule..

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hrmph

What exactly does the cover of Meddle symbolize anyway?

To quote Nick Schaffner:

"Meddle's physical appearance is also far less striking than that of its predecessor, and evinced little of the care and imagination that would go into packaging DSOTM and WYWH. Many fans are still unaware that Bob Dowling's cover photo, which looks at first glance like a random shot of a psychedelic blob show, actually depicts an ear picking up waves of sound, represented by ripples of water. Meddle remains Storm Thorgerson's least favorite of all hipgnosis Floyd album designs, though he demurs that the concept was essentially dictated by the band. His original suggestion, vetoed by the powers that be, had been a close-up of a baboon's anus."

That definitely would have been better.

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Taking away from you for the greater good.

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery".-- Winston Churchill

"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant" - Omar Ahmed, C.A.I.R.)

I voted for Animals for 'Dogs' and 'Sheep'. Echoes rules as a song, and OoTD(IGtCYitLP) is also a classic, but song-for-song, lick-for-lick, Animals can't be beat!

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"David Gilmour can do more with one note than most guitarists can do with the whole fretboard."

Dave Mustaine (Megadeth)

The very first Pink Floyd Album I ever got was Dark Side. A very good friend gave it to me on my 14th birthday. I really enjoyed it but because I heard Money, Us adn Them and Time so much on the radio I felt the album was just another "commercial" rock band out there.

The next Pink Floyd album I got was Animals. I bought it myself and listened to it with fresh ears. I was so different, in my assessment, from DSotM that I feel I first really discovered what Pink Floyd was all about.

Dogs is one of my faves to this day. Pigs on the Wing changed my life....

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I have always been here.
I have always looked out from behind these eyes.

animals - five songs that blend seamlessly and effortlessly together, the middle section being as close to perfect as you can get.

meddle- six songs- two fantastic, two good, one mediocre, and one which really shouldn't have been considered for any floyd album.

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they must've taken my marbles away

The search facility isn't very efficient!

I searched for tears pink floyd (has pink floyds brilliance ever brought tears to your eyes?)

guess what came up as a suggestion?... something along the lines of - whats Dave Gilmours best solo?

Anyway, Meddle is far superior to Animals because basically it sounds better, also the lyrics are wonderfully ambiguous compared to Waters self-indulgent dreary lyrics (and nasally vocals) on Animals. 'Echoes' alone is better than the whole of Animals, I think a lot of Floyd fans would echoe this sentiment.

I base this on a choice of listening to all of Animals or just Echoes (maybe twice) if you had a spare 50 minutes to fill.

A 23 minute album would be ridiculous. (to avoid argument)

I enjoy Meddle, mainly because it reminds me of a period in the band's lifetime where everyone had equal power, and there was no big disputes and everything. While I do enjoy Animals a lot, Roger comes through a lot more creatively then the others, and I can't tolerate his cynicism for a whole lot on that album. If I had to choose between spacing out for 40 minutes or listen to an economic critique for 40 minutes with some neato guitar solos, I'd rather space out!

I can't help thinking this isn't your reasoned opinion.