PINK FLOYD Animals 1977 UK HARVEST 1st PRESS A-2U/B-2U SUPERB COPY NEAR MINT
  £   180
  $   239

 


£ 180 Sold For
Sep 8, 2019 Sold Date
Aug 23, 2019 Start Date
1 Number Of Bids
  Great Britain Country Of Seller
eBay Sold at
 
save auction  

Description


PINK FLOYD Animals 1977 UK HARVEST 1st PRESS A-2U/B-2U SUPERB COPY NEAR MINT

PINK FLOYD
Animals

UK HARVEST (SHVL 815) FIRST PRESS (February 1977)
FANTASTIC COPY WHICH LOOKS ONCE PLAYED AND DELIVERS PERFECT SOUND

MATRIX: SHVL 815 A-2U / SHVL 815 B-2U
MOTHERS/STAMPERS: 2/T and 3/M
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL GARROD & LOFTHOUSE PRINTED, WIDE SPINE GATEFOLD SLEEVE WITH FACTORY SEALED AND FOLDED UNDER LEFT SIDE EDGE
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL LYRIC INNER SLEEVE WITH ROUNDED CORNERS

Of all of the classic-era Pink Floyd albums, Animals is the strangest and darkest, a record that's hard to initially embrace yet winds up yielding as many rewards as its equally nihilistic successor, The Wall.
It isn't that Roger Waters dismisses the human race as either pigs, dogs, or sheep, it's that he's constructed an album whose music is as bleak and bitter as that world view.
Arriving after the warm-spirited (albeit melancholy) Wish You Were Here, the shift in tone comes as a bit of a surprise, and there are even less proper songs here than on either Wish or Dark Side.
Animals is all extended pieces, yet it never drifts -- it slowly, ominously works its way toward its destination.
For an album that so clearly is Waters', David Gilmour's guitar dominates thoroughly, with Richard Wright's keyboards rarely rising above a mood-setting background (such as on the intro to "Sheep"). This gives the music, on occasion, immediacy and actually heightens the dark mood by giving it muscle. It also makes Animals as accessible as it possibly could be, since it surges with bold blues-rock guitar lines and hypnotic space rock textures. Through it all, though, the utter blackness of Waters' spirit holds true, and since there are no vocal hooks or melodies, everything rests on the mood, the near-nihilistic lyrics, and Gilmour's guitar

Side 1:
Pigs On The Wing (Part One) (1.24)
Dogs (17.06)
Side 2:
Pigs (Three Different Ones) (11.26)
Sheep (10.19)
Pigs On The Wing (Part Two) (1.27)

LABELS: NEAR MINT
Both labels are clean and unmarked with just one spindle trace on each side
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Both surfaces shine like new and even under bright light there is barely a wispy hairline to be seen
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Outstanding sound quality to this first press with crystal clear, clean, deep, rich sound.
And my play-check at volume found practically nothing to fault.
No clicks, ticks or pops and generally exceptionally clean on the quietest sections especially Pigs On The Wing Parts 1 and 2.
Just a touch of low-level static noted on occasion (but nothing really) and I did not clean this copy as it looks so immaculate so this will no doubt disappear after a clean/few spins.
Superb example and they really do not come sounding any better than this
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT
Some general rub to the surfaces/edges/spine but nothing major and the whole gatefold is good and solid
INNER SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
No seam splits and clean and unmarked

POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC LINERS, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: £5.00 (Recorded Delivery)
UK: £11.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £15.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £18.00 (International Signed For delivery)

Combined Post: Additional records £1 (UK) £2 (Europe including Russia) £3 (International)
Guarantee: All records are unconditionally guaranteed (including sealed and/or unplayed) and I will offer a complete, no quibble refund upon return of the item should you not be pleased with it in any way
I will email you when payment has been received to let you know when the item will be posted. Please leave feedback upon receipt of the item so that I know you have received it safely. Thanks
 854 (GS 7.0.18 (854))


price rating