PINK FLOYD "The Final Cut" 1983 UK HARVEST 1st PRESS NM

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  PINK FLOYD "The Final Cut" 1983 UK HARVEST 1st PRESS NM + A BEAUTIFUL 76 PAGE SONGBOOK w/PHOTOS,MUSIC & LYRICS
PINK FLOYD
The Final Cut
a requiem for the post war dream


ORIGINAL UK HARVEST RECORDS (SHPF 1983) FIRST PRESSING (March 1983) OF PINK FLOYD'S VASTLY UNDERRATED, "DIFFICULT" AND TOTALLY MIND BLOWING LP, "The Final Cut" - ALL IN BEAUTIFUL, LIGHTLY PLAYED CONDITION AND DELIVERING SENSATIONALLY STRONG, RICH, WARM AUDIO

***** THIS COPY ALSO INCLUDES AN ORIGINAL 76 PAGE SONGBOOK PUBLISHED BY INTERNATIONAL MUSIC PUBLICATIONS, 60-70 RODEN STREET, ILFORD, ESSEX, ENGLAND WHICH INCLUDES EXTENSIVE COLOUR PHOTOS (FROM THE 15 MINUTE FILM "THE FINAL CUT", DIRECTED BY WILLIE CHRISTIE) WHICH ACCOMPANY EACH SET OF LYRICS AND BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATE EACH OF THE SONGS
AS WELL AS ALL THE MUSIC (WITH LYRICS) FOR THE TRACKS ON LP
A SUPERB ACCOMPANIMENT TO THIS SUBLIME PIECE OF WORK
THE BOOK IS IN PRACTICALLY UNTOUCHED CONDITION - CLEAN, FRESH and MINT

THE VINYL HAS SEEN LITTLE PLAY AND IS GRADED NEAR MINT
THE STICKERED 'MILITARY STRIP' GATEFOLD SLEEVE IS CRISP AND FRESH - NEAR MINT
THE POLY-LINED BLACK INNER SLEEVE IS ALSO NEAR MINT

The Final Cut was recorded using "Holophonics" - an audio processing technique used to enhance the aural three-dimensional 'feel' of the recording. Holophonics was used to make sound effects on the album appear more three-dimensional to the listener - sound effects, particularly when heard on headphones, appear to pass not just from left to right in the stereo spectrum but also from in front to behind of the listener and around them. Perhaps the most notable use of holophonics on the album is on the song 'Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert' - during the intro, an airplane is heard to fly swiftly overhead, passing from in front of the listener to behind them, before a huge explosion from the bomb it has dropped is heard surrounding the listener both in front and behind them and to either side of the stereo picture. The use of this technique was in keeping with Pink Floyd's long standing interest in using atmospheric sound effects combined with advances and innovations in audio technology to enhance the listener's experience of their music. It was also claimed that this process could not be duplicated if one made a copy of the recording i.e., copying from the vinyl record to tape or digital transfer

THE LP IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL "MILITARY STRIP" GATEFOLD SLEEVE (with title sticker still in place)
AND COMES COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL BLACK POLY-LINED INNER AGAIN, ALL IN BEAUTIFUL CONDITION

FIRST PRESSING MATRIX NUMBERS:
SIDE ONE: SHPF 1983 A-1U -1 -1- 3 (TML-S)
SIDE TWO: SHPF 1983 B-4U -1- 2- (TML-M, TML-M)

The Final Cut extends the autobiography of The Wall, concentrating on Roger Waters' pain when his father died in World War II (the album is dedicated "for eric fletcher waters 1913-1944")
Waters spins this off into a treatise on the futility of war, concentrating on the Falkland Islands, setting his blistering condemnations and scathing anger to impossibly subdued music that demands full attention.
This is more like a novel than a record, requiring total concentration since shifts in dynamics, orchestration, and instrumentation are used as effect.
The even bent of the arrangements, where the music is used as texture, not music, means that The Final Cut purposely alienates all but the most dedicated listener. Several of those listeners (including yours truly) maintain that this is among Pink Floyd's finest efforts.
That doesn't make this easier to embrace, of course, and it's damn near impenetrable in many respects, but with its anger, emphasis on lyrics, and sonic textures, it's clear that the album is everything Waters intended it to be

Track Listing:
Side 1: The Post War Dream / Your Possible Pasts / One Of The Few / The Hero's Return / The Gunners Dream / Paranoid Eyes
Side 2: Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert / The Fletcher Memorial Home / Southampton Dock / The Final Cut / Not Now John / Two Suns In The Sunset

LABELS: The Harvest Picture labels are CLEAN and BRIGHT and have NO wear, NO writing and only a handful of very light spindle traces
VINYL Visual: Both surfaces have their original DEEP, LIKE-NEW, GLOSSY SHEEN and are CLEAN and UNMARKED
VINYL Audio: The soundscapes PINK FLOYD create on this LP are totally mind-blowing with an astonishing dynamic range and tremendous use of textural/ambient sounds - bomb explosions, fighter planes, clocks ticking, footsteps, laughing, whispers etc. The audio is absolutely STUNNING and the emotion is genuinely profound and extremely moving. The more I return to this LP the more I appreciate that this is possibly their GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT and that's really saying something when you consider the rest of the PF catalogue.
This copy not only looks practically AS-NEW but it plays ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFULLY FROM START TO FINISH. I cannot emphasise enough how hard it is to find a copy of this WONDERFUL LP which will play as well as this and believe me many, many copies have passed through my hands over the years
The *HOLOPHONIC* delivery here is absolutely SENSATIONAL – BEAUTIFULLY RICH, WARM and VIBRANT and EXTREMELY STRONG. The LP plays to a very high standard with TREMENDOUS AUDIO CLARITY, NO distortion and NO groove-wear. There are NO scratches, skips or jumps but there are a few intermittent clicks/pops (there are 2 clicks which rise above background level at the quiet beginning of the LP). These clicks are not unusual for this first pressing (there is no evidence for them on the vinyl surfaces) and I have rarely heard a copy which doesn't play without them to some extent or another but this one plays with the barest minimum and I think A FINER COPY WOULD BE PRETTY HARD TO LOCATE. Critically graded NEAR MINT for audio
SLEEVE: The original cover is in BEAUTIFUL, NEAR MINT condition. CLEAN, UNMARKED and FACTORY-FRESH with the only wear to speak of being a touch of rubbing to the edge of the spine (very minor) - all text on the spine is CLEAR and BOLD. BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, FRESH SLEEVE
The ORIGINAL poly lined BLACK INNER SLEEVE is CLEAN with NO splits and is in SHARP, FRESH, NEAR MINT condition

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