when did pink floyd the wall album come out

The album was also a prog-rock masterpiece at a time when punk rockers were bashing prog rockers for bloated excesses. He spit out word-bullets (“You radiate cold shafts of broken glass”). He complemented Gilmour’s biting guitar with a whining voice that dripped with sarcasm. Roger Waters came into his own as a vocalist. Richard Wright’s keyboard solos and moody introductions to “Pigs” and “Sheep” set the tone for both songs in completely different ways (frightening on “Pigs” and foreboding on “Sheep”). David Gilmour’s guitars bit like the dogs portrayed in the title track, and his use of a talk box (a first for a Pink Floyd album) added a nasty sting to “Pigs.” Nick Mason’s pounding drums carried the entire album forward with a propulsive energy. The music and singing were equally corrosive. It wasn’t just the finger-pointing in the lyrics that made Animals so harsh. (Little did anyone know at the time, but in two years, the interplay between self-loathing and society’s ills would reach its apex with the release of The Wall.) With Animals, it was if Roger Waters took all the fears and neuroses from the previous two albums and pointed them outward toward the forces of society that had caused them. Wish You Were Here was a melancholy meditation on loss and regret. The Dark Side of the Moon famously explored themes of madness, aging, and the pressures of modern-day life. Both those albums were largely reflective and inward looking. To Pink Floyd fans, Animals felt like a departure from the Floyd’s two most recent albums, Wish You Were Here (1975) and The Dark Side of the Moon (1973).

When did pink floyd the wall album come out