Obscure Titles Not in the Songs: Pigs (Three Different Ones) (#6)

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The tooth is out! My poor dentist had to fight tooth and nail (excuse the pun) to get it out, but he eventually won. I’m starting to look like a real Kentuckian now! Enough of that, it’s time for another song without the title in the lyrics. Another artist you’ve heard of, and a song you probably haven’t heard. #6: Pigs (Three Different Ones) - Pink Floyd Now, I’m not a big Pink Floyd fan (“by the way, which one’s Pink?”); however, leave it to my weird music tastes to pick a relatively obscure song of theirs as my favorite. This wasn’t released as a single (it’s almost twelve minutes long, couldn’t fit on a 45! ), but it did get airplay on FM rock stations before the program directors got suckered into believing all they could play from PF was “Money,” “Another Brick in the Wall,” and “Comfortably Numb.” Animals is a concept album (Pink Floyd? Doing a concept album? Imagine that!) about the political atmosphere in England in the mid-70s. They used George Orwell’s Animal Farm as a starting point of inspiration, and went from there. BTW, it’s not “White House” in this song, but “Whitehouse,” as in Mary Whitehouse, who can best be described to Americans as the British Jerry Falwell. Oh, and hats off to MST3K, who referenced this song in their riff of The Projected Man (given that scenes were shot at the Battersea Power Station, which is featured on the cover of the Pink Floyd album): MIKE: Shouldn’t there be a pig floating above there? TOM SERVO: Ha-ha, charade you are! Pigs (Three Different Ones) Written by Roger Waters Recorded by Pink Floyd From Animals, 1977 You’re nearly a laugh: