Why 'Raving and Drooling' Never Made It to Animals as a 20-Minute Epic

Before Animals was a cynical, Orwellian concept album, Pink Floyd was sitting on two long, live-tested pieces from 1974: “Raving and Drooling” and “You’ve Got to Be Crazy.” The first one was a sprawling, 20‑minute jam built around a hypnotic bass line and David Gilmour’s lap steel — a noisy, almost unhinged instrumental that had already become a fan favorite at shows. By the time the band entered the studio in 1976, they had whittled it down into “Sheep,” a tight, seven‑minute track with a sardonic spoken‑word