{"id":2507,"date":"2012-10-21T11:40:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T15:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=2507"},"modified":"2012-10-21T11:40:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T15:40:01","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-308-roach-days-revisited-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/10\/21\/my-musical-evolution-part-308-roach-days-revisited-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 308 Roach Days Revisited Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pink<\/a>I remember the day that I bought\u00a0Animals. It was during\u00a0The Roach Days which is why it is here but to be honest,\u00a0I was very tempted to hold off until we reach 2002 because\u00a0on a dark night on an island in the Canadian Bounrdary Waters is where I first really appreciated this album.<\/p>\n

For now, let’s roll back to 1987. A\u00a0Momentary Lapse Of Reason <\/em>was Pink Floyd’s <\/em>latest album and the first to feature the new Pink Floyd <\/em>that\u00a0did not include Roger Waters.\u00a0 <\/em>We’ll talk about that next. So with the supporting tour happening and Pink Floyd <\/em>scheduled to play the\u00a0Hoosier Dome<\/em>, Rock 104 was doing its part by playing the Pink Floyd\u00a0<\/em>catalog.\u00a0 I was in my little yellow\u00a0Comet one day and the song Pigs<\/em> was on the radio. Normally, Animals <\/em> doesn’t get a lot of airplay. It isn’t really known for being among\u00a0Pink Floyd’s <\/em>best stuff. So I hadn’t heard it before. Something about it spoke to me while I drove, it sounded pretty cool. It wasn’t Dark\u00a0Side<\/em> or Echoes<\/em> but it had something unmistakibly Floyd about it so I redirected myself to Wooden Nickel and picked up Animals\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0A Momentary Lapse Of Reason.<\/em><\/p>\n

You have already\u00a0heard about my involvement with The Wall\u00a0<\/em>and I think I’ve made it know that\u00a0Pink Floyd is one of my favorite bands of all time.\u00a0We haven’t talked about the break-up. I couldn’t believe that Pink Floyd<\/em> was over. I couldn’t believe that they could continue without\u00a0Roger Waters. <\/em>Afterall, he was the mastermind behind so much of their best material including\u00a0The Wall.<\/p>\n

So, I get\u00a0Animals\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0and listen to it a couple of times and for whatever reason, it gets shelved and almost forgotten completely. Yes, there were some completely\u00a0Floydian <\/em>aspects to it but there seemed to be some element that was missing. On the shelf it would sit for 15 years.<\/p>\n

Dogs<\/em>
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