(PINK FLOYD-The Dark Side of the Moon)-180 gram heavyweight vinyl-E8-LP

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ITEM: VINYL 12” 2xLP 33 1/3rpm
ARTIST: PINK FLOYD
TITLE: The Dark Side of the Moon
COUNTRY: UK/ EUROPE ?
CAT No: SHVL 804 (IE 064 05249)
COVER: Gatefold (NEW/ SEALED- Grade at MINT-)
LABELS: (NEW/ SEALED-Grade at MINT)
VINYL: (NEW/ SEALED-Grade at MINT)
NOTE: 180 gram heavyweight vinyl. With original packaging including 3 stickers and 3 posters (one of which is exclusive to this release) plus an insert with unique code allowing a 320kbps mp3 album download.
TRACKS:
1 -Speak to Me - Mason 2 -Breathe -Gilmour, Waters, Wright   
3 -On the Run -Gilmour, Waters,
4 -Time -Gilmour, Mason, Waters, Wright
5 -The Great Gig in the Sky -Wright
6 -Money -Waters
7 -Us and Them -Waters, Wright
8 -Any Colour You Like -Gilmour, Mason, Wright
9 -Brain Damage -Waters
10 -Eclipse -Waters
COMMENT:
 Review: by Stephen Thomas Erlewine 
  By condensing the sonic explorations of Meddle to actual songs and adding a lush, immaculate production to their trippiest instrumental sections, Pink Floyd inadvertently designed their commercial breakthrough with Dark Side of the Moon. The primary revelation of Dark Side of the Moon is what a little focus does for the band. Roger Waters wrote a series of songs about mundane, everyday details which aren't that impressive by themselves, but when given the sonic backdrop of Floyd's slow, atmospheric soundscapes and carefully placed sound effects, they achieve an emotional resonance. But what gives the album true power is the subtly textured music, which evolves from ponderous, neo-psychedelic art rock to jazz fusion and blues-rock before turning back to psychedelia. It's dense with detail, but leisurely paced, creating its own dark, haunting world. Pink Floyd may have better albums than Dark Side of the Moon, but no other record defines them quite as well as this one.
   Biography:  by Richie Unterberger
  Pink Floyd is the premier space rock band. Since the mid-'60s, their music relentlessly tinkered with electronics and all manner of special effects to push pop formats to their outer limits. At the same time they wrestled with lyrical themes and concepts of such massive scale that their music has taken on almost classical, operatic quality, in both sound and words. Despite their astral image, the group was brought down to earth in the 1980s by decidedly mundane power struggles over leadership and, ultimately, ownership of the band's very name. After that time, they were little more than a dinosaur act, capable of filling stadiums and topping the charts, but offering little more than a spectacular recreation of their most successful formulas. Their latter-day staleness cannot disguise the fact that, for the first decade or so of their existence, they were one of the most innovative groups around, in concert and (especially) in the studio.

While Pink Floyd are mostly known for their grandiose concept albums of the 1970s, they started as a very different sort of psychedelic band. Soon after they first began playing together in the mid-'60s, they fell firmly under the leadership of lead guitarist Syd Barrett, the gifted genius who would write and sing most of their early material. The Cambridge native shared the stage with Roger Waters (bass), Rick Wright (keyboards), and Nick Mason (drums). The name Pink Floyd, seemingly so far-out, was actually derived from the first names of two ancient bluesmen (Pink Anderson and Floyd Council). And at first, Pink Floyd were much more conventional than the act into which they would evolve, concentrating on the rock and R&B material that were so common to the repertoires of mid-'60s British bands. 

Pink Floyd quickly began to experiment, however, stretching out songs with wild instrumental freak-out passages incorporating feedback; electronic screeches; and unusual, eerie sounds created by loud amplification, reverb, and such tricks as sliding ball bearings up and down guitar strings. In 1966, they began to pick up a following in the London underground; on-stage, they began to incorporate light shows to add to the psychedelic effect. Most importantly, Syd Barrett began to compose pop-psychedelic gems that combined unusual psychedelic arrangements (particularly in the haunting guitar and celestial organ licks) with catchy melodies and incisive lyrics that viewed the world with a sense of poetic, childlike wonder. 

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COVER: Noticeable wear on cover, seam or spine.
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