With 'Animals', Roger carves up the human species into three categories, each heralded by the title of one of the album's main pieces....The pigs: moralists, self-righteous and tyrannical, yet ultimately pathetic...The dogs: cutthroat pragmatists out to claw their way to the top of the heap... The sheep: comprise a mindless and unquestioning herd (Roger's vision of PF's audience?), dim dreamers whose sole function in life is to be used and abused by the dogs and pigs. While somewhat in the manner of Orwell's Animal Farm, 'Animals' was not an outright adaptation of it, rather...Roger's target was is his own society's dog-eat-dog capitalist system. Tuesday, August 11, 2009
When pigs fly...
With 'Animals', Roger carves up the human species into three categories, each heralded by the title of one of the album's main pieces....The pigs: moralists, self-righteous and tyrannical, yet ultimately pathetic...The dogs: cutthroat pragmatists out to claw their way to the top of the heap... The sheep: comprise a mindless and unquestioning herd (Roger's vision of PF's audience?), dim dreamers whose sole function in life is to be used and abused by the dogs and pigs. While somewhat in the manner of Orwell's Animal Farm, 'Animals' was not an outright adaptation of it, rather...Roger's target was is his own society's dog-eat-dog capitalist system. 
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"Drunk at the matinee" is a collection of candid poetry about stupid shit that we all experience from day to day.
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