Apparently, this version only appeared on the 8-track; I’ve been listening to Animals in various media for 25 years and I’ve never heard this before. Also: Animals is the best Pink Floyd album, and I’ll brook no insolence from any of you on this. Second-best is Dark Side. Do not befoul my Comment Section with your Ummagumma blather. Just accept that I am right with dignity and quiet gratitude.
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Battersea Power Station has to be the most famous power plant in the world, right? Is there even a list, or is the iconic brick building sui generis? Are we counting Chernobyl? I would argue that the event that is now referred to as “Chernobyl” is well-known, but not the actual building.
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The technology existed in 1977 to fake the image, but Pink Floyd was a big-time rockyroll act, and were therefore allowed to do whatever they hell they wanted, so a giant inflatable pig was created, filled with helium, and tethered to the south tower, where it remained for a good three or four minutes before floating directly into the flight path of Heathrow Airport. I am not making that up.
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When I mentioned 8 -track cassettes, every Enthusiast of a certain age heard the kuh-CHACK of the tape reversing in the dashboard of their mom’s Vega.
I don’t want to be banned. So all I’m going to say is “mom didn’t own no Vega.”
I had heard that before, years and years ago, but I did not know it was Snowy on the solo, huh! I saw “The Wall” live show at Nassau Colisseum in 1980 with Snowy as one of the four fake Floyds. Epic!!
As is “Animals,” yes. And Battersea. (Though I visited it last year, and they are turning what remains of it into condos and latte shops and boutiques and suchlike for the poshy types, alas).
In re the KER-CHUNK . . . Since it often happened in the middle of a song (which would then be listed in “Part 1” and “Part 2” segments on the label), there are loads of cuts that I hear intact now, but my brain still remembers exactly where the KER-CHUNK happened, and the songs somehow don’t feel quite right without it.
You know how business writers say bullshit like..
Your business should be like The Dead, they allowed tapers, you should do some business bullshit like that in some way?
Forbes just did a “Your business should be like Dark Side of the Moon”
And I am like, trying to translate that..
“Your business should be designed with LSD in mind”
“Your business should honor madness and the mysteries of insanity”
“Your business should be designed so that leadership ends up hating each other”
Perhaps they mean that for about 5% of the time, the cash register goes constantly, then the rest of the day, nothing?
Doesn’t really help either, does it.
Both Tom Hanks and astronaut Jim Lovell (in good nature) bemoaned the fact that Floyd got ‘Dark Side’ popular over their preferred and more accurate ‘far side’. Same amount of light all the way ’round…
With the solo interlude it basically makes the record one gigantic loop that could potentially never end until your 8-track machine died?
I believe Gilmore’s solo got deleted by accident so they had Snowy White do an ok imitation for who knows why.
The wall 8 track had one of those interludes too ( I think after empty spaces but I might be wrong and I know the Floyd all together saw the dead in England one time.
I think it was the cassette version of the wall that had an extra special interlude to equalize the playing times of each side. Stoners looking out for stoners, meanwhile Dave’s picks STILL don’t have CD- text encoded. Why oh why! The inhumanity!
My stepmom had a Vega in 77. And her hubby (my Dad) had the Eight-Tracks…including Sgt Pepper & Lumpy Gravy of all things. A few years later I had a stereo unit that also had an 8-track player, so in ’82 I bought the 8-track of Whistling Down The Wire, so I inadvertently turned myself into a Crosby-head. Which indirectly and thoroughly brought me to Kantner’s Blows Against The Empire, which in turn made me into a Deadhead in ’83….
And the Floyd albums are indeed something LIKE ToTD’s ratings.
The Wall is Overrated and Animals is UNDERrated.
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My grade 2 teacher Miss Sparks had a Vega. She looked like Twiggy with red hair, was English and didn’t know from Cars. Unlike Miss Murray, who we had a 68 Mustang, smoked Mores and gave us a ride from Uptown when we skipped class to buy Parachute Men