PINK FLOYD, DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, SOLID BLUE TRIANGLE

	£		124
	$		164

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PINK FLOYD.

DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.

First press A2 B2 matrix.

excellent, dark blue outer sleeve with very little, signs of ware,

Inner sleeve:

Original black inner sleeve with patent pending stamp, very very good condition (see pictures)

All posters and stickers intact, crispy clean and original.never been used, stored in the sleeve.

Band Name:

PINK FLOYD.

Album:

DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.

Date of release:

17th MARCH 1973

Date of recording:

June 1972 to January 1973 at Abbey Road Studios London, England

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Label: Solid Blue Triangle 1st U.K press.

Catalogue No: SHVL 804

Matrix Numbers:

Side one: SHVL - 804 - A 2

Side two: SGVL - 804 - B 2

TRACKS:

Side one:

BREATH IN THEAIR.

TIME

BREATH REPRISE

Side two:

MONEY

US AND THEM

BRAIN DAMAGE

ECLIPS

Album Playing time: 42.59 min

Vinyl Condition:

Both sides of the vinyl are visually very good Plus and would have bee graded higher only for the below mentioned,

It is here that I must tell prospective buyers that on the track, Money there is a very slight skip near the beginning, I have tried to view the cause of this skip but without success, but if I set the stylus very light this skip is no longer evident and the entire album plays .

I have had many people also claiming this slight skip at this part of the recording on there copy, and have put it down to a faulty pressing.

From past experiance this seem to be the case.

This slight skip dose not spoil the listening pleasure of this now sought after pressing of this album.

The solid blue triangle labels are pristine and free from unwanted writing and only a small amount of spindle ware that is hardly visible

THE PLAYING SURFACES.

This album was play graded using a Technics SL2000 deck with a Stanton 500 cartridge,

The actual black vinyl playing surfaces visually appear very good plus, and shiny, with nothing more than slight inner sleeve removal marks.

On play grading this album I noted that reproduction perfect, free from any kind of clicks/pops apart from the one mentioned above.

songs like Any Colour you Like, Breath and Us And Them sound superb.

THE Inserts

All inserts are original and in excellent condition.

I grade this complete package as a definite very

good plus.

Naturally this album comes complete with the original two posters and the two postcard size stickers, that everyone would expect.

together with the dark blue outer sleeve.

The poster showing the Pyramids is in a tinted blue colour as is right with this collection.

The Dark Side Moon is a concept album by progressive rock Musical band Pink Floyd.

It was released on 24 March 1973 in the United Kingdom.

The Dark Side of the Moon builds upon previous experimentation that Pink Floyd had explored in their live shows and recordings, but without the extended instrumental excursions that, according to critic David Fricke, had become characteristic of the band after founding member Syd Barrett left in 1968. Guitarist David Gilmour, Barrett's replacement, would later refer to these instrumentals as "that psychedelic noodling stuff. Gilmour and Roger Waters, the band's bassist (and principal lyricist on Dark Side), cite 1971's Meddle as a turning point toward what would be realized on The Dark Side of the Moon. The album's themes include conflict, greed, aging and Mental disorder (or "insanity"); the latter inspired in part by the deteriorating mental state of Barrett, who had been the band's principal composer and lyricist. The album is notable for its use of Musique and conceptual, philosophical lyrics, as found in much of Pink Floyd's other work.

The band's most successful release, The Dark Side of the Moon is often considered to be the group's defining work, and is still frequently ranked by music critics as one of the greatest and most influential albums of all time.

The Dark Side of the Moon explores the nature of the human experience and according to Waters, "empathy". For example: "Speak to Me" Breathe" is about birth and being a child with new earthly experiences; Time deals with growing older and the overwhelmingly fast approach of death - youth being gone before one even realizes it; The Great Gig in the Sky explores thoughts of religion and death; Money mocks greed and Consumerism, with tongue-in-cheek lyrics and wealth-related Sound effect Us and Them addresses Ethnocentrism, Conflict and the belief that a person's self is "always in the right"; Brain Damage looks at Mental illness and whether "insanity" is only relative, and growing too old to be who one once was; and Eclipse_ ends the album with a grand statement about Free will and Causality.

Waters is credited as author of all the lyrics on the album, and he created the early demo tracks in a small garden shed-turned-recording studio at his home. It was also there that he recorded the Sound effect Tape loop for "Money", by recording the sounds of various money-related objects, including coins tossed into a mixing bowl from his wife's pottery studio. All four members of Pink Floyd - bassist and principal lyricist Roger Waters, guitarist David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason and keyboardist Richard Wright - participated in the writing and Record producer of the album, which is a rarity among later Pink Floyd albums. However, it is the first of five consecutive Pink Floyd albums with lyrics credited only to Waters.

Although The Dark Side of the Moon was the planned title of the album, upon the discovery that the band Medicine Head was to release an album of the same name in 1972, the year prior to The Dark Side of the Moon's release, the band changed the album's title to Eclipse: A Piece for Assorted Lunatics. However, the Medicine Head album flopped, so Pink Floyd reverted to the original title.

I have quite a few of the later pressing of this album and I will be incorporating one of these so the buyer will have a copy to play after the sale.

this copy will be a free one and as such will be missing the refinements of the one for sale, but will be of good quality but also it will be supplied with it’s own outer sleeve even though it will be a black one.

postage costs will not alter for this extra album.

If you require any other part of the album photographed please get in touch and I will do my best,

Postage information as follows.

Standard post and packing in the UK, £3.00.

Signed for delivery is offered at buyer’s discretion.

Bidders outside the UK please contact me for postage costs before the end of sale.

I ship world wide.

I think this is everything.

Please contact me if you require more information.

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postal signed for only, or insurance is available at winning buyers request.