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Live Frogs: Set 2 [LIVE]

Les Claypool, Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade
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Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade
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  • Audio CD (August 7, 2001)
  • Original Release Date: July 24, 2001
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Live
  • Label: Prawn Song
  • ASIN: B00005MJVS
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #71,269 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Pigs On The Wing (Part One)
2. Dogs
3. Pigs (Three Different Ones)
4. Sheep
5. Pigs On The Wing (Part Two)

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Les Claypool's premature midlife crisis has resulted in the second of two grandiose albums in under four months. But Live Frogs--Set 2, recorded at the same two-night stint in San Francisco as the first set, is a much different beast than the inventive jam-band noodlings of its predecessor. And beast is the operative term. The bass master decided to take on the darkest of Pink Floyd's albums, doing an almost note-perfect rendition of Animals. Claypool and company have subsumed Roger Waters's nihilistic lyrics and rendered them even spookier by giving them a more ominous comic-book feel--imbuing the words with much more irony and adenoidal bite than Waters and David Gilmour's original sterile, android-like vocals. Although Frog Brigade's made-for-TV version of the bleak anthropomorphic classic lacks the subtle orchestration of the original, they do make up for it in sheer zealousness and invention. --Jaan Uhelszki

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Incredible Musicianship, Jaw-Dropping Performance, September 6, 2005
By Todd and In Charge (Miami, FL) - See all my reviews
  
I bought this disc unsure of what to expect: I am a casual fan of Primus, enjoyed some of Claypool's collaborations and excursions with Buckethead and others, and certainly am a big Pink Floyd fan, though Animals is not one of my favorites, so I was not sure what this would sound like.

Here's the answer: Amazing! It's a jaw-dropping showcase of top-flight musicians, jamming and grooving on an album they obviously know and love. It's clear they are enjoying every minute, and the results speak for themselves, the music recalls the album but does not mimic it, with pure inspired performances from start to finish. Indeed, I have new-found appreciation for both this band and for the original Animals, which I promptly pulled out to listen after hearing this re-imagination.

It's also a bit different from other "stunt" albums along these lines, such as Phish's live Halloween tributes to the Beatles or The Who, which are ok but have more of a loose, fooling-around kind of vibe. This is the real deal, these musicians are deadly serious about making it work, they are invested in the material and the performances and it shows. Although Gilmour and Waters have nothing to worry about as far as Claypool's vocals are concerned, this one is a winner and I highly recommend.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A testament to the universal appeal of music, March 21, 2003
By Sandy Starr (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This album is a testament to the universal appeal of music. You can't imagine two more different bands - in terms of geographical origin, philosophical outlook and musical disposition - than late-70s Pink Floyd and early-noughties Frog Brigade. And yet the Frog Brigade play Pink Floyd's album `Animals' live in its entirety, and something magical happens.

Do the Frog Brigade even know what they're singing about on here? `Animals' is a terribly bleak album. Its three major songs are cruel dissections of 1970s British society, with lyrics penned by the miserabilist Roger Waters - `Dogs' is about mercenaries and tyrants, `Pigs (Three Different Ones)' is a portrait of three unsavoury figures in British public life, and `Sheep' is an awfully scathing, not to mention awfully patronising, attack on ordinary Joes. That's you and me, folks. The drab sepia picture of London's Battersea Power Station on the cover of `Animals' says it all (this picture is reproduced on the back cover of `Live Frogs Set 2', but with the inflatable pig next to Battersea Power Station irreverently replaced with an inflatable frog).

The Frog Brigade, by contrast, are exuberant people, American through and through, who enjoy playing protracted jams wearing wacky costumes. And yet somehow, their rendition of `Animals' works. The Frog Brigade are clearly enormous fans of `Animals' (in the sleevenotes, Claypool touchingly recounts his first encounter with the album as a boy), and have worked hard to do justice to it.

The vocals are passable, if workmanlike. But the playing is phenomenal - although even in this department, the band is careful not to overdo it. After the barnstorming version of Pink Floyd's `Shine On You Crazy Diamond' that closed `Live Frogs Set 1' (followed by Claypool's inimitable words `we'll be back in 20 minutes with more Pink Floyd than any human being should ever withstand'), I was looking forward to the Frog Brigade really stretching out on the `Animals' numbers. But they restrain themselves - oh well.

The one song where the band does seem to let go a little, and undoubtedly the best song on the album, is `Pigs (Three Different Ones)', which has some awesome instrumental passages. (Again, reading Claypool's sleevenotes I discover that `Pigs (Three Different Ones)' is his favourite track on `Animals', so it makes sense that it would be the best performed.)

What would be really nice would be if Pink Floyd fans who have never heard of Les Claypool - hell, if the actual members of Pink Floyd - buy this album simply because the prospect of `Animals' played live in its entirety by another band intrigues them. I'm certain they would love it.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Les does Pink, June 14, 2002
By "fat_hand" (NYC, NY) - See all my reviews
This entire album is a live recording of Les Claypool's band covering Pink Floyd's "Animals" album. This happens to be one of my favorite Pink Floyd albums, so when I happened to hear that he did this I picked it up. It definitely does not disappoint, staying relatively close to the album throughout. The musicianship is definitely on par with Floyd, and the vocals are surprisingly well done. A great effort and a great listen for any Floyd fan.
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5.0 out of 5 stars As good as it gets!
The idea of hearing Les Claypool playing the Animals of Pink Floyd was to good to be true. And it ends being waaayyy to good!! Read more
Published 5 months ago by Alvaro Moya

4.0 out of 5 stars Quite good!
I'm a hardcore Floyd fan and really enjoyed this album. I do prefer the Floyd version but the Frog Brigade did a good job on this cover. Read more
Published 16 months ago by homer simpson

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome
I love Animals and this is as good as it could ever be covered. I don't care for the first set as much but this is great.
Published 16 months ago by reviewer46032

5.0 out of 5 stars Not simply a cover
What all of these reviews seems to miss, is that this is not just an ordinary studio cover - it's the entire album from end to end - LIVE, in a club! Read more
Published 23 months ago by J. Roberts

5.0 out of 5 stars Floyd's Animals done justice
If you are a Floyd Fan ~ this is truly an experience you will want to hear. It's the full album ~ as it should be. I recommend it highly.
Published on February 1, 2007 by Coachdbw

5.0 out of 5 stars best Les Claypool offering
Not only is this the best Les Claypool offering, it's only the second CD I have kept of him. Oysterhead is another, but I rate that second to this one. Read more
Published on January 28, 2007 by K. Tarin

5.0 out of 5 stars 99% Flawless, Extreme detailed atmosphere!!!
I've been a huge Pink Floyd fan for the last 20 years and Animals was always the "Dark" albumn you'd listen to when in certain moods... Read more
Published on August 13, 2006 by Manic

1.0 out of 5 stars 4 Star Musicianship - 0 Star Vocals
Incredible musicianship and overall energy, but -- sadly -- the vocals make this almost unlistenable for me. I'll stick with the original.
Published on March 9, 2006 by Kimolaoha

4.0 out of 5 stars Die Hard Pink Floyd Fan
Credit Les Claypool for recording a live version of Pink Floyd Animals, the most underated album of all time. An great addition to my collection.
Published on February 24, 2006 by Gregory Clancy

5.0 out of 5 stars Animals Animals Animals, Bark Bark Bark, Oink Oink Oink, Floyd, Floyd, Floyd...
Animals is covered here, in its entireity, in all of its glory. Not much else to say, except if you like Floyd and Animals, you'll be blown away by this powerful rendition... Read more
Published on September 15, 2005 by fats

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