PINK FLOYD ANIMALS UK PRS UNPLAYED PRISTINE ARCIVE COPY
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PINK FLOYD ''ANIMALS'' ORIGINAL 1977 UK PRESSING!!!! CAT NO . ABSOLUTELY AWESOME CONDITION (NEAR MINT) THROUGH OUT!!! GARROD & LOFTHOUSE GATEFOLD COVER IN NEAR PRISTINE CONDITION!!!! THE VINYL ONLY EVER PLAYED ONE TIMES!!! EVER!!LOOKS TOTALLY UNPLAYED!!! NEVER NEED TO UPGRADE FROM THIS AWESOME ALBUM!! THE AUDIO AS GOOD AS IT GETS!!!!!
I am going to just give a breif description of this awesome album which is virtually as new (yes as new) 30 years old!!!!!Another from my personal collection!!! Purchased from new 1n 1977 !!!! This is as near to new as it gets!!! Only ever played ONE time ever!!! the vinyl looks unplayed!!! As new condition!!!! (no) marks or audio sounding marks at all!!!!!! Try to find another like this after 30 years!!! Incredibly rare to find like this! With the original G& L gatefold cover!!! ,,,, in as new condition through out!!!!!!These are the rarest and most sought after to find!!! Incredibly collectable like this!!!!! This is complete with the original lyric thick card record sleeve in superbe condition!!! Please note! This vinyl is now stored seperately from the cover and sleeve!!!!! The vinyl being the original thicker type! Near pristine!!! the labels look like new!! incredibly rare!! 30 years old!!!!!!
NO VISABLE SIGNS OF BEING PLAYED AT ALL! NO MARKS NO CREASES!! ALMOST AS NEW!
There is not much more to say about this album! , So rare in this condition!!! THE AUDIO IS AS GOOD AS IT GETS!!! THIS PLAYS LIKE NEW!!!!!
NEVER NEED TO UPGRADE!!!!
TOP AUDIO TOP CONDITION THE BEST THAT YOU WILL FIND!!!!
my photos bellow should speak for them selves!!!!!!!
Animals is a concept album by English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released on 23 January 1977 in the UK and on 2 February 1977 in the U.S. The album proved a success in America, reaching #3 on the Billboard album charts. However, it was on the American charts for only six months even though it has continued to sell solidly, to the extent of its having gone quadruple platinum!!!!!!!!! The album appears to be heavily inspired by George Orwell's Animal Farm as, through the central three songs, Roger Waters uses three animals as anthropomorphic metaphors for human behavior: dogs, pigs, or sheep. Dogs are used to represent the megalomaniac businessmen who think they are in control but are finished by being dragged down by "the weight [they] used to need to throw around". Pigs refers to and is an attack upon those who are really/would be in control, politicians and opinion leaders, with direct references to Mary Whitehouse, who at the time was leading a campaign to "clean up TV". Those who do not fall into either of these two categories are sheep, who follow blindly, without any self-thought.
While singer and guitarist David Gilmour is only credited for the music of one track, the epic "Dogs", which was previously known as "You Gotta Be Crazy", was actually a band composition with Waters writing the lyrics. This song and "Raving and Drooling" which would later become "Sheep" was also a band composition from around 1974, originally destined for the Wish You Were Here album. The discrepancies with the credits and actual writing is directly related to the increasing tensions in the band
Each song on the album reflects Waters' socialist beliefs about the class system found in capitalistic societies. The anthropomorphic symbols of the 'dog', the 'pig', and the 'sheep' are elaborated throughout the album, which often leads to some confusion as to Waters' intended meaning in the lyrics. The 'dog', for instance, changes from a symbol for the heartless businessman in "Dogs" to the object of an irrational fear put forward by the pigs (politicians) in the song "Sheep" to scare the sheep (common people). The meaning of the three symbols does not change from song to song. Roger Waters elaborates specific behavioral traits of each animal at different times throughout the album, depending on the content and theme of the song. Nevertheless, the lyrics of each song should be interpreted independently.
The three core songs are bookended by a pair of love songs written by Waters for his then-wife Caroline: "Pigs on the Wing, Part 1" and "Pigs on the Wing, Part 2". Both are in stark contrast to the misanthropic middle three songs, and suggest that companionship can help us overcome our flaws – though the final line suggests the singer admits he is/was once one of the dogs. For the 8-track cartridge release, which looped, Parts 1 and 2 were linked by a guitar bridge performed by Snowy White (subsequently available on White's 1996 album "Goldtop: Groups & Sessions"), and the 17:08 song "Dogs" was cut into two tracks.
The giant, helium-filled pig seen on the cover was actually flown over Battersea Power Station for the photo shoot (under the direction of Storm Thorgerson). On the first day of shooting, a marksman was on hand in case the pig broke free. However, according to Thorgerson, this was considered an "insurance problem", and he was not hired for the second day of shooting. Ironically, on December 3, 1976, during the second day, a gust of wind broke the pig free of its moorings. Because there was no one to shoot the pig down, it sailed away into the morning sky. A passenger plane reported seeing the pig, causing all the flights at London Heathrow Airport to be delayed. A police helicopter was sent up to track the pig, but was forced to return after following the pig to an altitude of 5,000 feet. A warning was sent out to pilots that a giant, flying pink pig was loose in the area. The CAA lost radar contact on the pig near Chatham in Kent, at a height of 18,000 feet and flying East. It finally landed in a farmer's field (without much damage). They then repaired the pig, and flew it up for a third time. The resulting pictures were not deemed suitable on their own (as the clear, blue sky from day three was thought to be much less evocative), and the final image was made as a composite of the power station picture from day one and the pig from day three.
The album had custom picture labels, using drummer Nick Mason's handwriting as a typeface, as did the lyrics on the liner sleeve. Side one's label depicted a fish-eye lens view of a dog and the English countryside. Side two's was similar, but featured a pig and sheep instead of the dog.
Originally released on Columbia Records in the U.S. and Harvest Records in the UK, Animals was then remastered in 1992 for its inclusion on the Shine On box set. The remaster was subsequently released on its own by EMI in 1994. In 1997, Columbia Records issued an updated remaster in the United States, Canada, Australia, South America and Japan. Animals was again re-released in April 2000 by Capitol Records in the U.S. and EMI in Canada, Australia, South America and Japan, using the 1992 Shine On remaster along with the artwork from the 1994 EMI reissue!!!!!!.
Side one- "Pigs on the Wing 1" (Waters) – 1:24
- "Dogs" (Gilmour, Waters) – 17:06
- "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" (Waters) – 11:28
- "Sheep" (Waters) – 10:21
- "Pigs on the Wing 2" (Waters) – 1:27
NEVER NEED TO UPGRADE!!!
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