Editing Animals (Pink Floyd album) (section)

== Legacy ==
In his 2004 autobiography ''[[Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd|Inside Out]]'', Mason wrote that the album's perceived harshness, compared to previous Floyd releases, might have been the result of a "workman-like mood in the studio", and an unconscious reaction to accusations from some punk artists that bands like Pink Floyd represented "dinosaur rock".<ref>{{Harvnb|Mason|2005|pp=220–221}}</ref>  

Gilmour said on Westwood One's Pink Floyd 25th Anniversary Special about the album: "It wasn't one of the more productive periods of our life I don't think. We used those two tracks which went back to '74, changed the names, doctored them around and stuck them on the album. I love the album; it was exciting and noisy and fun. It really had some great bits and stuff of effects on there but it was not one of our creative high points really."{{citation needed|date=June 2022}} Wright, on the BBC Omnibus Special in 1994, said: "I didn't really like a lot of the music on the album. I didn't fight hard to put my stuff on the album and I didn't have anything to put on. I played well but did not contribute to the writing and also Roger was not letting me write. This was the whole start of the whole ego thing in the band, ''Animals''."{{citation needed|date=June 2022}}

=== Reissues ===
''Animals'' was issued on CD in the UK in 1985,{{#tag:ref|EMI CDP 7461282|group="nb"}} and in the US in 1987.{{#tag:ref|Columbia CK 34474|group="nb"}} It was reissued as a digitally remastered CD with new artwork in 1994,{{#tag:ref|EMI CD EMD 1060|group="nb"}} and as a digitally remastered limited-edition vinyl album in 1997.{{#tag:ref|EMI EMD 1116|group="nb"}}  An anniversary edition was released in the US in the same year,{{#tag:ref|Columbia CK 68521|group="nb"}} followed in 2000 by a reissue from Capitol Records.{{#tag:ref|Capitol CDP 724382974826|group="nb"}}<ref name="Poveyp347" /> It was also included in the ''[[Shine On (Pink Floyd album)|Shine On]]'' box set in 1992, in the 2007 [[Oh, by the Way|''Oh, By The Way'']] box set and in the 2011 ''Why Pink Floyd...?'' re-release series both in the box set and as a standalone 'Discovery' edition CD.{{#tag:ref|EMI 50999 028951 2 3|group="nb"}}

In an April 2020 interview, Waters said he had pushed for the release of a remixed and remastered vinyl of ''Animals'' by [[James Guthrie (record producer)|James Guthrie]], but that it had been rejected by Gilmour and Mason.<ref>{{Cite magazine|title='RS Interview: Special Edition' With Roger Waters|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/roger-waters-tour-postponed-2021-984579/|last1=Hiatt|first1=Brian|date=16 April 2020|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US|access-date=18 May 2020|archive-date=19 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200519021027/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/roger-waters-tour-postponed-2021-984579/|url-status=live}}</ref> In June 2021, Waters released a statement announcing a new release with stereo and 5.1 surround mixes. Waters cited a dispute with Gilmour over a set of liner notes written by [[Mark Blake (writer)|Mark Blake]] as the reason for the delay, and posted the rejected liner notes on his website.<ref name="RSAnimals">{{cite magazine |last1=Greene |first1=Andy |title=Roger Waters Announces 'Animals' Deluxe Edition, Plans for a Memoir |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/roger-waters-announces-animals-deluxe-edition-plans-memoir-1176303/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=2 June 2021 |date=1 June 2021 |archive-date=13 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013222550/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/roger-waters-announces-animals-deluxe-edition-plans-memoir-1176303/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="wliner">{{cite web |last1=Waters |first1=Roger |title=Animals - New mix update - Roger Waters |url=https://rogerwaters.com/animals-new-mix-update/ |date=3 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210603031849/https://rogerwaters.com/animals-new-mix-update/ |archive-date=3 June 2021 |access-date=2 October 2024 |url-status=live }}</ref> The remix was released on 16 September 2022, on vinyl, CD, & Blu-ray; a limited edition deluxe gatefold package containing the vinyl, CD, Blu-ray, and DVD copies of the remix and a 32-page book was released on 7 October 2022.<ref name="NeptunePinkFloyd021021">{{cite web |last=Kreps |first=Daniel |date=30 June 2022 |title=Pink Floyd Put Bickering Aside to Finally Announce 'Animals' Reissue |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pink-floyd-animals-reissue-1376578/ |publisher=Rolling Stone |access-date=30 June 2022 |archive-date=24 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024051720/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pink-floyd-animals-reissue-1376578/ |url-status=live }}</ref> A hybrid multichannel SACD of the stereo and surround remixes was released exclusively through Acoustic Sounds on 16 September 2022. The band released the 2018 remix of "Dogs" as a digital single on 22 July 2022. The reissue reached number 21 on the ''Billboard'' 200 (its highest position since March 1977).{{Cn|date=July 2024}}