Pink Floyd Animals live by Colonel Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade
I only have Set 1 on CD. This is my first listen to Set 2.
I only have Set 1 on CD. This is my first listen to Set 2.
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Trivia...
THE PHONE CALL HOME
The last 43 seconds or so of the album version are obscured with sound effects. In the story, while he’s on tour, Pink places an international collect call home. Expecting to hear his wife, instead a man answers, says “Hello…” then abruptly hangs up. Repeat. This actually happened to Roger Waters during the band’s 1977 tour.
Chris Fitzmorris is the voice of Pink’s wife’s lover in the call. The voice of the operator was a real long-distance operator who apparently was unaware that she was being recorded. She has never been identified. James Guthrie explained how they got the recording:
“We were in L.A. at Producer’s Workshop so I phoned my neighbour, Chris Fitzmorris in London. He had the keys to my flat and I asked him to go there and said that I would call him through an operator. “No matter how many times I call”, I said, “just pick up the phone, say ‘Hello’, let the operator speak and then hang up”. I placed a telephone in a soundproof area, got on to an extension phone and started recording to 1/4″ tape. It took a couple of operators – the first 2 were a bit abrupt, but the 3rd was perfect. I told her that I wanted to make a collect call to Mrs. Floyd. “Who’s calling?” she asked. “Mr. Floyd”, I replied. Chris’ timing was terrific, over and over he would hang up just at the right moment and she became genuinely concerned. “Is there supposed to be someone there besides your wife?” I was playing her along saying things like “No! I don’t know who that is!” and “What’s going on?” and she would try the call again. Unwittingly, she was helping to tell the story. Afterwards I went through the 1/4″ and edited my voice out, just leaving her and Chris. I sometimes wonder if she ever heard herself on the record.”
Roger Waters also loved this bit:
“I think it’s great. I love that operator. I think she’s wonderful. She didn’t know what was happening at all. The way she picks up on — I mean it’s been edited a bit, but the way she picks up all that stuff about “is there supposed to be anybody else there besides your wife” you know? I think is amazing. She really clicked into it straight away. She’s terrific.”
"Cul-de-sac"
Wake up now, this is the time you've waited for.
Far below, where shadows fester as they grow,
An army thousands strong, obsessed by right and wrong,
They sense their time is coming near.
So they turn towards the light from their region of the night,
Marching on and on,
They near the air, it won't be long.
You know you're on the way out,
It's just a matter of time.
You thought you'd rule the world forever,
Long live the king, and don't spare the loser.
After all, you're not what you thought you were at all.
You're just a natural fact, another cul-de-sac
On nature's hard unfeeling trail.
Now all those dreams of old will be stories left untold,
Cut off in your prime, extinct until the end of time.
You know you're on the way out,
It's just a matter of time.
You thought you'd rule the world forever,
Long live the king, but don't spare the loser now...
Now the host emerges, and a shadow starts to fall.
Not one knows what hit them, none can see at all.
Even as the end approaches still they're not aware,
How can you fight a foe so deadly
When you don't even know it's there?
And now that the job is almost done
Maybe some escape, No!, Not Even One.
You know they're on the way out,
It's just a matter of time.
You thought you'd rule the world forever,
Long live the king, and don't spare the loser.
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