Roger Waters amused to death SEALED 1992 1ST PRESS Holland VINYL 2 LP SET RARE
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Label: Columbia ?

Product Code: 468761 0

Format: Virgin Vinyl 2 LP SET - Original Factory Sealed

If shrinkwrapped will still have large black sticker with titel, barcode (5 099746 876104), track listing. Below this states "Limited Edition 2 Vinyl Set mastered direct to laquer from original analogue tapes" On Columbia label cat no 01-468761-20. Note no printing on spine! Anything with CBS rather than Columbia and/or 180g sticker is a fake. Vinyl for genuine copy is decent thickness probably around 130/140 grm

Amused to Death is a concept album, and the third studio album by former Pink Floyd bassist/vocalist Roger Waters. It was released in 1992

Roger Waters started working on Amused to Death in 1987 when he first wrote "Perfect Sense".[2] It was several years before the album was released and it is unknown how much the material was changed in the interim. The album's artwork features a monkey watching television in reference to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.[3] The image on the TV is a gigantic eyeball staring at the viewer.[3] According to Waters, the monkey was "a symbol for anyone who's been sitting with his mouth open in front of the network and cable news for the last 10 years."[2] The album's title was inspired by Neil Postman's book Amusing Ourselves to Death.[3] The album is organised loosely around the idea of a monkey randomly switching channels on a television,[4] but explores numerous political and social themes, including critiques of the First Gulf War in "The Bravery of Being Out of Range" and "Perfect Sense".

The first song, "The Ballad of Bill Hubbard", features a sample of World War I veteran Alfred "Raz" Razzell, a member of the Royal Fusiliers (much like Waters' father Eric Fletcher Waters had been in World War II) who describes his account of finding fellow soldier William "Bill" Hubbard, to whom the album is dedicated, severely wounded on the battlefield. After failed attempts to take him to safety, Razzell is forced to abandon him in no-man's land. This sample is continued at the end of the title track, at the very end of the album, providing a more upbeat coda to the tragic story. The track also features the sound of several animals.[4] The second song, "What God Wants, Part I", follows and contrasts the moving words of Razzell by opening with the TV being tuned instead into an excerpt that sounds like it's taken from a vox pop of a child who says, "I don't mind about the war. That's one of the things I like to watch – if it's a war going on. 'Cos then I know if, um, our side's winning, if our side's losing..." he is then interrupted by the channel change and a burst of ape-chatter.

The Ballad Of Bill Hubbard          4:19

What God Wants, Part I                6:00

Perfect Sense, Part I       4:16

Perfect Sense, Part II     2:50

The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range         4:43

Late Home Tonight, Part I            4:00

Late Home Tonight, Part II           2:13

Too Much Rope                5:47

What God Wants, Part II              3:41

What God Wants, Part III             4:08

Watching TV      6:07

Three Wishes    6:50

It's A Miracle     8:30

Amused To Death            9:06



RECORD CONDITION:

THE ALBUM IS STILL ORIGINAL FACTORY SEALED.

  GATEFOLD COVER IS STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP W/ CORNER WEAR AND STICKER AND CREASES

 NO OTHER IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER

     No split seams

No ring wear

No cut-out (drill) holes.

No cut-out corners

 No saw-marks or indents

No dirt/dust rubbing stains (friction marks caused by rubbing against other covers)

No yellowing from aging

No writing

No mold or mildew spots

No water damage

 

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