PINK FLOYD Animals 1977 UK 1st PRESS - A-2U/B-2U - - NEAR MINT
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Sep 28, 2015
Sold Date
Sep 18, 2015
Start Date
£ 48
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Great Britain
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PINK FLOYD Animals 1977 UK 1st PRESS - A-2U/B-2U - BEAUTIFUL COPY - NEAR MINT
PINK FLOYDAnimals
UK HARVEST (SHVL 815) FIRST PRESSING (January 1977)
AN OUTSTANDING *NEAR MINT* ORIGINAL COPY
PRESSED WITH THE HARVEST CUSTOM PICTURE LABELS
MATRIX: SHVL 815 A-2U / SHVL 815 B-2U
MOTHERS/STAMPERS: 1/AA and 1/OR
HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL GARROD & LOFTHOUSE PRINTED, WIDE SPINE GATEFOLD SLEEVE WITH FACTORY SEALED AND FOLDED UNDER LEFT SIDE EDGE
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL THICK CARD LYRIC INNER SLEEVE WITH ROUNDED CORNERS
Of all of the classic-era Pink Floyd albums, Animals is the strangest and darkest, a record that's hard to initially embrace yet winds up yielding as many rewards as its equally nihilistic successor, The Wall.
It isn't that Roger Waters dismisses the human race as either pigs, dogs, or sheep, it's that he's constructed an album whose music is as bleak and bitter as that world view.
Arriving after the warm-spirited (albeit melancholy) Wish You Were Here, the shift in tone comes as a bit of a surprise, and there are even less proper songs here than on either Wish or Dark Side.
Animals is all extended pieces, yet it never drifts -- it slowly, ominously works its way toward its destination.
For an album that so clearly is Waters', David Gilmour's guitar dominates thoroughly, with Richard Wright's keyboards rarely rising above a mood-setting background (such as on the intro to "Sheep"). This gives the music, on occasion, immediacy and actually heightens the dark mood by giving it muscle. It also makes Animals as accessible as it possibly could be, since it surges with bold blues-rock guitar lines and hypnotic space rock textures. Through it all, though, the utter blackness of Waters' spirit holds true, and since there are no vocal hooks or melodies, everything rests on the mood, the near-nihilistic lyrics, and Gilmour's guitar
Side 1:
Pigs On The Wing (Part One) (1.24)
Dogs (17.06)
Side 2:
Pigs (Three Different Ones) (11.26)
Sheep (10.19)
Pigs On The Wing (Part Two) (1.27)
LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, unmarked labels - less than a handful of light spindle trace
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Both surfaces shine like-new - unmarked in normal light with nothing but harmless wispy hairlines from the inner visible under bright light
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Outstanding audio quality - crystal clear, rich, warm and strong and my play-check at volume found practically nothing to fault - just the (very) occasional tiny low-level tick - nothing really. The framing intro and outro acoustic tracks 'Pigs On The Wing (Part One)' and 'Pigs On The Wing (Part Two)' both play as quietly as you could wish for
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
But practically MINT apart from a tiny nick to the spine and some residue from a small round label on the back but again, nothing really (please see close-up photo)
INNER SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
Clean and unmarked - no edge/seam splits
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: FREE (2nd class standard)
UK: £9.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £14.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £17.00 (International Signed For delivery)
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