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Song of the Day #6,486: ‘Sheep’ – Pink Floyd

Continuing a countdown of my favorite albums of 1977…

#7 – Animals – Pink Floyd

I was four years old for most of 1977, so I didn’t listen to any of these albums at the time. But it’s funny how many have a nostalgic pull for me nonetheless, based on the time in my life I first discovered them.

Pink Floyd’s Animals is the most prominent example. My Pink Floyd era, like that of most men who had one, came in high school. That’s when I gobbled up the progressive rock band’s catalog and memorized every spacey note.

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Song of the Day #882: ‘Pigs (Three Different Ones)’ – Pink Floyd

It’s funny how these days, when CDs and digital music are the norm, you still see so many artists sticking to the concept of “sides.” Often track listings on CDs are broken into two groups and even labeled as distinct sides of music.

Increasingly, too, artists are releasing vinyl versions of new albums. It’s nostalgia, I guess, for a time when the physical limitations of the medium forced artistic decisions. Why not have a “hot” and “cold” side, say, if vinyl demanded that you split your album in half?

But today I’m featuring an artist that was way ahead of its time, looking past the idea of sides to the yet-to-come full-length CD format years before it was available.

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