Pigs (Three Different Ones)
| Pigs (Three Different Ones) | |
|---|---|
| Pink Floyd | |
| publication | January 23, 1977 ( UK ) - February 2, 1977 ( US ) |
| length | 11:28 |
| Genre (s) | Avant-garde rock , progressive rock |
| Author (s) | Roger Waters |
| Publisher (s) | Harvest Records ( UK ) - Columbia Records ( US ) |
| album | Animals |
Pigs (Three Different Ones) is a song by the British rock band Pink Floyd . It appeared on the concept album Animals in 1977 .
The song was recorded in April and May 1976 at Britannia Row Studios , Islington , London . The studio owned the band and the work on Animals resulted in the first production in it.
Text content
The composer of the work, Roger Waters , leaned the text content on George Orwell's novel Animal Farm . The album, which is framed by the song Pigs on the Wing , which is split into two parts , describes three categorical human types, Dogs , Pigs and Sheep , with pigs represents those people who are the highest on the social ladder and who have wealth and power . As the ruling class, they abuse the interests of political communities both morally and economically and interpret the rules in a complacent and arbitrary manner. The foreseeable consequences: Unscrupulousness, manipulation, crime. What remains in this system are the strong ones, the pigs .
The title addition Three Different Ones goes back to the fact that the song is divided into three verses. These show a different character of the pig, but an interpretation would be subject to pure speculation; only the third stanza clearly addresses the morality of the English social activist Constance Mary Whitehouse , who is laughed at as the house proud town mouse .
Musical conception
To mimic the pigs' grunts, David Gilmour used a healing talk box . In contrast to the vocoder used in Sheep , with the Talkbox an acoustic signal is passed through the mouth and not the spoken language (via microphone) is electronically analyzed. Gilmour used the talk box for the first time in the band's history. Gilmour also plays a fretless bass guitar on this piece using a plectrum , breaking up the accentuation scheme of the measure with syncopation . In this way he delivers two short bass solos before the first and third song verse. After the third verse, a screeching guitar solo begins, which is accompanied by the bass line in a sixteenth- note rhythm in E minor , with the "up and down" jumping through the octaves and major sevenths . Roger Waters, the band's traditional electric bassist, played on Pig's rhythm guitar .
On some cassette tapes, recordings of the song can be heard in which Pigs was fractionated into two parts, with the first part slipping out the first side and the second part opening up the second side. The caesura was set after the first verse.
Live versions
The studio version of the song has a length of 11:28 minutes. Live performances, on the other hand, were almost 17 minutes long and could even exceed 20 minutes. Regular differences were that was played on the guitar after the second verse an extra solo, the talk box used by a Minimoog was replaced -Solo and finally set down a quiet Hammond organ -Use by Richard Wright came. A repeated, swelling guitar solo and a powerful use of drums by Nick Mason rounded off the performance. Roger Waters came up with his legendary screams.
During the 1977 tour, Waters reportedly called out a separate code for each concert, which is said to have been used to identify bootlegs .
In Montreal , on July 6, 1977, at a concert in the Montreal Olympic Stadium, which had recently opened, a historical concern for the band should have occurred . A rioting spectator approached the stage and intended to thoroughly anger Roger Waters; he threw him a beer bottle on the stage. As the song climaxed, Waters used the microphone to prompt the viewer to return to the stage and spat in his face. This moment is said to have served Waters as a key experience for the upcoming production, The Wall .
Waters toured worldwide in 1987 with the lavish Radio KAOS Show, based on the concept album of the same name. He played a short version of the song that only included the first two verses and significantly shortened the guitar solos.
Staffing
- David Gilmour - electric guitar , electric bass , talk box
- Nick Mason - drums , percussion ( cowbell )
- Roger Waters - lead vocals , rhythm guitar , tape effects, vocoder
- Richard Wright - Hammond Organ , ARP String Synthesizer , Organ , Clavinet
Trivia
As part of a solo performance in Mexico in September 2016, Roger Waters criticized the US presidential candidate Donald Trump . Parts of the lyrics were changed and Trump's appearance was part of the choreography.
Individual evidence
- ^ Martin C. Strong, The Great Rock Discography (7th ed.), Edinburgh: Canongate Books. Page 1177 (2004). ISBN 1-84195-551-5 .
- ↑ Fitch, Vernon. The Pink Floyd Encyclopedia (3rd edition), 2005. ISBN 1-894959-24-8
- ↑ Nicholas Schaffner, Saucerful of Secrets , first edition, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, (1991). ISBN 0-283-06127-8
- ↑ Editors: Alan Di Perna, Jeff Kitts, Brad Tolinski: Guitar World Presents Pink Floyd , 27
- ^ Mark Blake, Comfortably Numb - The Inside Story of Pink Floyd , Da Capo Press, (2008). ISBN 0-306-81752-7 .
- ↑ Animals: Trivia and Quotes - A Pig Tale (from Animals to present day)
- ↑ THE ROGER NUMBERS GAME
- ^ Pink Floyd - Olympic Stadium, Montreal, Canada, July 6th 1977
- ↑ See Roger Waters Begin Trump Resistance With 'Pigs' Live Video . In: Rolling Stone . ( rollingstone.com [accessed January 24, 2017]).