“Pigs (Three Different Ones)” by Pink Floyd

Nobody on Pink Floyd's 1977 album Animals gets it worse than the swine, and "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" is where Roger Waters lets them have it. In his barnyard picture of society the pigs sit on top: the rich and the powerful, who keep everyone below at each other's throats so they never lose their perch.

Waters wrote it alone and sings it with a sneer, handing each verse to a different hog: businessmen in general, then Margaret Thatcher, then the moral crusader Mary Whitehouse. The band produced it themselves at Britannia Row Studios with Brian Humphries recording and mixing, and the sound is all grunt and menace. Nick Mason's cowbell clanks like a feed bucket, Richard Wright stacks Hammond organ and clavinet, and David Gilmour, doubling on fretless bass, makes his guitar oink and squeal through a talkbox.

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