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[ivyfic]

I just have to take a moment to praise Pink Floyd's Animals. At the moment, this is one of my absolute favorite albums; it may even displace Sting's Soul Cages for the top spot.

It's amazing - I can listen to it on repeat for days and never get tired of it. It's the musical equivalent of glucose: everything is carcinogenic when ingested in sufficient quantities except for glucose. You can feed rats a 100% glucose diet, make them live over a vat of it and breathe glucose fumes, and it won't cause cancer. Animals is like it. I just can't overdose on it.

Of course, to this I have to add that when my brother played this album for me when we were in high school, I thought it was the most boring thing ever written. But then, I used to think I hated Boston Creme Pie too.

Comments

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

Did you really just compare yourself to a lab rat? ;-)

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Yeah?!? Well...um...shut up!

[katertoticus.livejournal.com]

Displace Soul Cages! Blasphemy! :P

I still have fond memories of Christina smiling at the two of us alternately analyzing and singing along with that album while driving back from Baltimore Beach Week...before she fell asleep, that is.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Ah... Good times... I can't say for sure which has the top slot, but both are on my short list of rock albums that are truly good music; albums that work as a whole, one composition with different movements; albums that I am always happy to here.

Animals is actually an interesting case because performing this album is what caused the nervous breakdown that is the subject of their subsequent album, The Wall.