PINK FLOYD Atom Heart Mother VG+ 1970 Harvest SKAO 382 1ST PRESS HYPE STICKER
  $   55

 


$ 55 Sold For
Jan 23, 2023 Sold Date
Dec 28, 2022 Start Date
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Vinyl:  VG+ Play Graded. Sounds Great!  Has some marks that don't affect the sound quality.  Has an imperfection in the vinyl on side 2 song 2 that causes a soft tick sound for 20 seconds.  Harvest Labels are Clean and Bright, with light writing on both sides of the labels.  All of the print on the labels can be read.  This is the 1970 Harvest SKAO-382 1ST PRESSING!  This is the audiophile acclaimed pressing, Pressed at Capitol's Winchester, VA Pressing Plant! An amazing odyssey! Beginning their exploration of the sound that would culminate in Dark Side Of The Moon, and the apotheosis of Gilmour's stratocaster sound, this is arguably Pink Floyd's most neglected album!  The sheer bravado o0f the non-lyrical side 1 is worth the price of admission alone but also check out Side 2's Fat Old Sun:  acoustic lazy sunny day music, and the peerless "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast", an ode written to one of their roadies!!!
See Review Below!
In the dead wax:  Both sides:  matrices, etched.  also, both sides have the glyph for Capitol's Winchester, VA Pressing Plant.  Complete Dead Wax details cheerfully provided upon request.
Cover: VG+ (see photos)  Gatefold.  Includes the RARE hype sticker that's been cleverly transplanted from the once-upon-a-time shrink to the inner left of the Gatefold (see Photos).  Since this is a gatefold album, this is an especially RARE hype sticker because most people would've thrown it away with the shrink as otherwise they wouldn't have been able to look at the inner gatefold.  Nice high gloss on cover. Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright, with minimal wear.  The inner gatefold has some tape residue along the sides that doesn't affect the enjoyment of the pastoral scene.  Seams and spine are solid and clean, with minimal wear.  No splits.  No writing.  Spine print is crystal clear.   

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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. 

Atom Heart Mother Review

by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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Appearing after the sprawling, unfocused double-album set Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother may boast more focus, even a concept, yet that doesn't mean it's more accessible. If anything, this is the most impenetrable album Pink Floyd released while on Harvest, which also makes it one of the most interesting of the era. Still, it may be an acquired taste even for fans, especially since it kicks off with a side-long, 23-minute extended orchestral piece that may not seem to head anywhere, but is often intriguing, more in what it suggests than what it achieves. Then, on the second side, Roger Waters, David Gilmour, and Rick Wright have a song apiece, winding up with the group composition "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" wrapping it up. Of these, Waters begins developing the voice that made him the group's lead songwriter during their classic era with "If," while Wright has an appealingly mannered, very English psychedelic fantasia on "Summer 68," and Gilmour's "Fat Old Sun" meanders quietly before ending with a guitar workout that leaves no impression. "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast," the 12-minute opus that ends the album, does the same thing, floating for several minutes before ending on a drawn-out jam that finally gets the piece moving. So, there are interesting moments scattered throughout the record, and the work that initially seems so impenetrable winds up being Atom Heart Mother's strongest moment. That it lasts an entire side illustrates that Pink Floyd was getting better with the larger picture instead of the details, since the second side just winds up falling off the tracks, no matter how many good moments there are. This lack of focus means Atom Heart Mother will largely be for cultists, but its unevenness means there's also a lot to cherish here.


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