PINK FLOYD ANIMALS ORIG '77 LP EARLIEST 1ST PRESS 2B/2B
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Absolute TOP COPY and RARE earliest 2B/2B True 1st pressing copy of a Pink Floyd masterpiece in beautiful condition! It truly does not get anymore 1st press than this other than a PROMOTIONAL COPY, which would also have the 2B/2B stamper!! No barcode!!
Animals occupies a landmark spot in prog-rock history, and so, inevitably it’s a concept album. Loosely based on George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’, it inverts Orwell’s anti-Stalinist vision and depicts a horrifically fragmented society under the thumb of capitalism. But this is not an Orwellian attempt along the bizarre lines of David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs (who also wanted to turn Nineteen Eighty-Four into a musical). Comprising five songs, a dense, dark internal core of three make up the real meat of the album. Each of these (‘Dogs’, ‘Pigs’, and ‘Sheep’) extends over ten minutes, and deliberates on a different social group.
The journey plotted on Animals goes something like this: The ‘dogs’ represent a ruthlessly ambitious middle-class, which are exploited by the morally bankrupt politicians (the ‘pigs’) as a weapon of control against the mass of blind, unquestioning workers (the ‘sheep’). Pink Floyd’s vision reaches a climax with the sheep’s frenzied rise to power, overcoming the pigs who ‘radiate cold shafts of broken glass’ and the dogs who ‘just keep on pretending / that everyone’s expendable’. It’s a familiar allegory, but the Floyd make it devastatingly personal. Exempting no-one on their relentlessly cynical crusade, Roger Waters, the main songwriter of the album, himself emerges as a reluctant ‘dog’: “I gotta admit that I’m a little bit confused / Sometimes it seems to me as if I’m just being used” (on ‘Dogs’).
The Animals album has the following markings on the 'dead wax', showing the pressing and special characteristics
- Matrix/Runout: AL 34474-2B
- Matrix/Runout: BL 34474-2B (This is the ABSOLUTE earliest stamper on both sides!)
A chance to own an absolutely beautiful copy of the earliest 1st press of one of the best Floyd albums of all time!
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