A second visit to the world of ‘Pigs’ to discover some more great music.
“Sic Em PIgs” is a track from ‘Hallelujah‘ the fourth album by Canned Heat, released in 1969. It was re-released on CD in 2001 by MAM productions with four bonus tracks. It was the last album to feature classic lineup mark 1, as Vestine left the band prior to Future Blues. It was written by Robert Hite Jr, and Booker T. White and usesthe word Pigs to refer to the police.
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 Roger Waters 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. The song’s three verses each present a different “pig”. According to Waters, the first verse’s “pig man” refers to businessmen in general, whereas the second verse refers to conservative politician Margaret Thatcher. The third verse clearly identifies its subject as being morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse, who is described as a “house proud town mouse” who has to “keep it all on the inside.”
“Pigs on the Wing” is a two-part song by Pink Floyd from their 1977 concept album Animals, opening and closing the album. According to various interviews, it was written by Roger Waters as a declaration of love to his new wife Carolyne Christie. The song is significantly different from the other three songs on the album, “Dogs,” “Pigs” and “Sheep,” in that the other songs are dark, whereas this one is lighter-themed, as well as also being much shorter in duration, with each part at under a minute and a half while the others are all at least 10 minutes in length. The title is a reference to the figure of speech “when pigs fly” and an image of a flying pig appears on the album cover and was subsequently used by Pink Floyd in their live concerts.
“In the Land of the Pig, the Butcher Is King” is a track from ‘Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose’ the ninth studio album by Meat Loaf, and the third and final album in the Bat Out of Hell trilogy. It was released in Ireland in October 2006, 29 years after Bat Out of Hell (1977), and 13 years after Bat Out of Hell: Back into Hell (1993). It was released in the UK and the US a fortnight later. Produced by Desmond Child, it is the only Bat album not involving Jim Steinman in its production. The album was subject to a legal dispute between Meat Loaf and Steinman, who had registered the phrase “Bat Out of Hell” as a trademark and attempted to prevent the album using the phrase. In the end, seven songs that Steinman wrote for various other projects were included.
“Squealing Pigs” is a track by Admiral Fallow who are a Scottish musical group formed in 2007 by singer-songwriter Louis Abbott and based in Glasgow. They were originally named Brother Louis Collective. The band’s first album, Boots Met Her Face, was released worldwide in 2011. Their song “Squealing Pigs” was used on NBC’s Chuck and was performed live on the BBC’s Hogmanay Live 2011. “Squealing Pigs” was first released as a single in the UK released in April 2010 by Lo-Five Records.
