PINK FLOYD Dark Side Of The Moon VG/VG+ 1973 Harvest ORIGINAL MASTER RECORDING
  $   100

 


$ 100   (best offer accepted)   Sold For
Aug 26, 2023 Sold Date
Jul 28, 2023 Start Date
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Vinyl:  VG/VG+ Play Graded. Sounds Very Good!  Custom Harvest Labels are Clean and Bright.  This is the 1973 Harvest MFSL 1-017 Release!  This is the audiophile acclaimed Original Master Recording!  Original Mastering brings high definition to the soundscapes that blow the other versions of DSOTM away!  Ever heard heartbeats just before the beginning of Brain Damage?  On The Run is truly frightening in its sonic menace on this Version.  Gilmour's peak solos on Time and Clare Torry's career defining vocals on Great Gig In The Sky are truly revelatory...I hear Torry say something under her breath that I've never heard before...This is THE version to have!
Pink Floyd's Highest Achievement!  One of the Top 5 Rock N Roll Albums of All Time!  Perhaps the Greatest Rock 'N Roll Concept Album of All Time!  The accolades go on and on but perhaps this single fact puts into perspective Pink Floyd's Opus:  it spent a Colossal 741 weeks on the Billboard charts!  That's 15 years, friends... An amazing odyssey!  The culmination of over a year's work, Dark Side Of The Moon achieves Roger Waters' examination of the psyche of Founding member, Syd Barrett in a way that speaks truth with compassion and insight and leaves just enough mystery to have us coming back again and again...The apotheosis of Gilmour's stratocaster sound, this is Pink Floyd's Finest album!  One of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time!!!  allmusic gives it 5 stars!!!

See Review Below!
In the dead wax:  Matrices etched on both sides, also has some stamped matrices.  Complete dead wax information cheerfully provided upon request.

Cover: VG/VG+ (see photos)  Gatefold.  Hype Sticker!  Includes custom company inner sleeve.  Nice high gloss on cover.  Front, gatefold and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright, with some wear.  Seams, corners and spine are solid and clean, with some wear.  No splits.  No writing.  Spine print is clear.   

Goldmine Standards.   I play grade every record that I sell on eBay as I have found you can't rate an LP accurately by just visually inspecting an album.  I wipe the dust off of every cover with clean, unscented baby wipes.  I professionally clean the vinyl.  (I also operate a Vinyl Record Cleaning business for your dusty/dirty records--if interested, send me a message).


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All records are packaged securely with the vinyl outside the jacket (to avoid seam split in transit). The vinyl and jacket are sandwiched between two cardboard stiffeners and shipped in a custom cardboard record mailer box. 
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Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?  First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.  First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are  clearer.   On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant.  The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.

The Dark Side of the Moon Review

by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

By condensing the sonic explorations of Meddle to actual songs and adding a lush, immaculate production to their trippiest instrumental sections, Pink Floyd inadvertently designed their commercial breakthrough with Dark Side of the Moon. The primary revelation of Dark Side of the Moon is what a little focus does for the band. Roger Waters wrote a series of songs about mundane, everyday details which aren't that impressive by themselves, but when given the sonic backdrop of Floyd's slow, atmospheric soundscapes and carefully placed sound effects, they achieve an emotional resonance. But what gives the album true power is the subtly textured music, which evolves from ponderous, neo-psychedelic art rock to jazz fusion and blues-rock before turning back to psychedelia. It's dense with detail, but leisurely paced, creating its own dark, haunting world. Pink Floyd may have better albums than Dark Side of the Moon, but no other record defines them quite as well as this one.


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