PINK FLOYD The Final Cut 1983 UK HARVEST 1st PRESS A1/B2 UNPLAYED/MINT
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53
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70
£ 53
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Apr 17, 2014
Sold Date
Apr 7, 2014
Start Date
£ 20
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Great Britain
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PINK FLOYD The Final Cut 1983 UK HARVEST 1st PRESS A1/B2 UNPLAYED/MINT
BEAUTIFUL 'AS-NEW' COPY - NM STICKERED G&L GATEFOLD
PINK FLOYDThe Final Cut
a requiem for the post war dream
UK HARVEST (SHPF 1983) FIRST PRESSING (March 1983) OF PINK FLOYD'S "The Final Cut"
IN STUNNING UNPLAYED/MINT CONDITION
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
PRESSED WITH CUSTOM EMI PICTURE LABELS
MATRIX NUMBERS: SHPF 1983 A-1U - 1 - 1 - (TML-S) / SHPF 1983 B-2U -1- 2 - (TML-M, TML-M)
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL GARROD & LOFTHOUSE PRINTED "MILITARY STRIP" GATEFOLD SLEEVE (with title sticker) DATE CODED '8303' (1983, March)
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL BLACK POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE
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 atmosphere and texture, means that The Final Cut purposely alienates all but the most dedicated listener but dedicated fans 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
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: MINT
An immaculate pair of labels - no spindle traces or any signs the record has ever been played
VINYL Visual: MINT
Both surfaces are unmarked shine as-new
VINYL Audio: MINT
As this copy has never been played I will leave this pleasure to the winning bidder
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
Apart from some light shop creases to the spine (nothing really) the Garrod & Lofthouse gatefold cover is again, as-new
BLACK INNER SLEEVE: MINT
Clean and unmarked - no seam splits
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW INNER SLEEVE WITH ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: FREE (2nd Class Recorded Delivery)
UK: £9.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
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INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £17.00 (International Signed For delivery)
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