“So have a good drown, as you go down, all alone,
Dragged down by the stone.”
This may well be my favorite lyric in all of music.
Dogs is a magnificent song. Gilmour’s vocals and rifs in that song are magic.
Pigs is my second favorite, being a perfect vehicle for Water’s sort of sarcastic biting voice.
“Ha ha, charade you are.”
I just love that, and the talk box rif in the middle with the picked bass notes is legendary.
Sheep is my third favorite of the album. I love Wright’s notes in the intro on top of what seems like One of These Days’ bass notes. I guess there are some reoccurring themes in some of their songs. This is a fitting cap of the previous two, and plays out the album with sufficient fanfare at its end.
As far as who is better, Waters or Gilmour? Neither. They are both the best musicians I’ve ever heard. Each one has their own strength and weaknesses, and they compliment each other to absolute perfection.
Rogers is a creative genius, and Gilmours voice and guitar style are so perfect for Pink Floyd that it boggles the mind.
It’s too bad that in the end these men could not see eye to eye. But while they were Pink Floyd, they gave the world some of its most unique music that will not be imitated or replaced or forgotten.
Nothing else from even then or now comes even remotely close to what they did.