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The main theme features what were, for Pink Floyd, rather unusual chords. In the final version's key of D minor, the chords are D minor ninth, E♭maj7 sus2 /B♭, Asus2sus4, and A♭sus2. All these chords contain the tonic of the song, D—even as a tritone, as is the case in the fourth chord. [4] [5] [6]
"Pigs (Three Different Ones)" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1977 album Animals. In the album's three parts, "Dogs", "Pigs" and "Sheep", pigs represent the people whom the band considers to be at the top of the social ladder, the ones with wealth and power; they also manipulate the rest of society and encourage them to be viciously competitive and cut-throat, so the pigs can remain powerful.
Basically, I have gone with the Guitar World names for the chords. I find guitar-oriented magazines to be infinitely more reliable than those sheet-music books, which are basically for pianists who want to play a melodic arrangement, to carry the song by themselves. In fact, almost everybody's sheet-music books contain multiple errors.
"The Dogs of War" is a song by Pink Floyd from their 1987 album, A Momentary Lapse of Reason. [1] [2] It was released as a promotional single from the album.Live versions have an extended intro, an extended middle solo for the saxophone, a guitar and sax duel and a longer outro as compared to the album version.
"The Dogs of War" is a song about "physical and political mercenaries", ... Pink Floyd [80] David Gilmour – vocals, ... Tony Levin – bass guitar, Chapman Stick;
On Animals Roger played bass on "Dogs" and I played bass on "Sheep" and "Pigs." Most of the bass line on "Sheep" (apart from the ending) was what Roger had been playing onstage, as we had been performing it as "Raving and Drooling" for a couple of years. However, in the studio Roger had a rhythm guitar part he wanted to play, so we swapped roles.
The next time Waters performed live was with his former Pink Floyd bandmates at Live 8 in July 2005 at Hyde Park, musicians at that show were the bands Classic line-up of David Gilmour (guitar, vocals, pedal steel), Waters (bass, vocals, guitar), Richard Wright (keyboards) and Nick Mason (drums), as well as mutual collaborators Jon Carin ...
Animals is the tenth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 21 January 1977, [2] by Harvest Records and Columbia Records.Pink Floyd produced it at their new studio, Britannia Row Studios, in London throughout 1976.