Originally Posted by
GuitarGeek
Count me amongst those who like Animals, mainly because it's really the only album they made where they sound like that. They really rocked out on that album. There was some wag, I've forgotten who reviewed the album at the time and suggested they should change their name to Punk Floyd. Yeah, it's not quite Punk (except maybe in the lyrical department...Roger basically carves the human race into three groups of people, and paints a not-very-flattering portrait of each), but it's still a lot heavier than Wish You Were Here. And it took balls putting out a record that didn't really have any "radio friendly" material (yeah, there's Pigs On The Wing, but other than the 8-track version, it's more or less just a couple of soundbites bookending the album, as opposed to a proper song, as such). Yeah, lots of bands did that, but not in 1977, they weren't. I think by then everyone else had figured out that you gotta to have the "single" even if you were going to still do the 17 minute long stuff.
BTW, talking about Muscle Of Love, wasn't that the last album by the original Alice Cooper band, ie the one with Glenn Buxton, Dennis Dunaway, etc? I seem to recall they had gotten to the point where they were arguing because the rest of the band felt the "image" was overshadowing the music, etc. Bob Ezrin said he quit because he'd make the kind of suggestions he always made during recording sessions, and whoever he was talking to would respond "No, I know how this song goes, you're not changing it" or whatever. Bob figured if know was gonna listen to him (and that was the whole reason he was there) he might as well quit, so the band produced the album themselves.
So that all might be why it might seem to be not as good as Billion Dollar Babies or Schools Out or Welcome To My Nightmare.
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