Pink Floyd is a band that started in the late ’60s and is famous for their incredible artsy and renowned album “The Dark Side Of The Moon” and chanty mantra tracks like “Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2.” However, outside of bandmate drama and who’s a better musician, the band’s early work is a real display of music as an art, not just another thing to consume. Dissecting their work album by album, song by song, you’ll find that most of their songs are more like masterpieces carefully constructed to resemble something meaningful, artistic, and passionate through a sort of arbitrary, story-telling lens. Whether it be more literal, like “Money,” or metaphorical connections like in “Sheep,” Floyd always seems to have a concept behind their work. It deepens the connection to the music, rather than just being minutes of instrumental to seemingly show off, it holds meaning.

Hearing a track like “Dogs” for the first time might make you rethink the sort of music you listen to and question the methods of artists nowadays. Not everyone was meant to make a tour de force, 17-minute rock ballad, but that’s why Pink Floyd is one of the greatest progressive-rock bands of all time—it seems to come easy to them. The song follows a sort of jam sesh, circular motion with minutes worth of instrumental before returning to the lyrical message of sadness or brutality in a dull life under capitalism (a reoccurring theme on the “Animals” album).