It's the end of the week of Pink Floyd, and we've covered the entirety of "The Wall." We've listened to it be built, brick by brick, and we've listened to it crumble. But now we come to how the concept of "The Wall" came to be in the first place. Sure, we've talked about the major themes and how Pink, the character, is an amalgamation of both Roger Waters and Syd Barrett's lives, but what about Pink... Floyd? How did they build the wall between each other--culminating in decades of bad blood (Waters on one side, and David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright on the other)? The answer for that lies somewhere in the creation of "Animals." At this point in their lives, Mason & Wright had already started families and Gilmour & Waters had just had their first kids. Most of the members of the band were for the first time distracted by their personal lives, Gilmour being uncharacteristically absent from the songwriting, with the exception of "Dogs," which he co-wrote. However, Waters did not want to slow down. He took the lead on this project and it was then that "The Division Bell" started to ring, as he started resenting the other members' contribution to the writing. Brick by brick, through arguments about royalty divisions and being unsupportive of other members' attempts at creative contributions, Waters started building his wall. By the end of the recording process, Wright was not even given a writing credit, due to Water's insistence that he wasn't contributing enough. Though, however fraught with creative conflicts, Pink Floyd managed to bring it together for a beautiful album in "Animals." Diving into a critique of capitalism, which is a contrast to the critique of bolshevism in the book "Animal Farm," Waters really gets into the divisions within capitalist society. Whether you are a dog or a sheep, the pigs on the wing are the ones running the show. Join Brad LeBaron, Jon Acker, David Gallagher, and special guest & Dave's good friend (and fellow beer connoisseur) Moses Wolfenstein, as we break down, what each animal represents and what it means for society.
COMING UP: (08-03-20) Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
(08-10-20) 30 Seconds to Mars - This Is War
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