PINK FLOYD Animals V Rare Orig UK LP on Harvest 1st press with insert A2 B2
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Pink Floyd

Animals

Very Rare original UK LP released on Harvest Records in 1977. 1st UK pressing with picture labels and a gatefold sleeve complete with the printed inner sleeve (which is in Excellent condition but with a small split on the bottom edge).

Matrix No's

Side One - SHVL 815 A-2U

Side Two - SHVL 815 B-2U

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. These are the kinds of things that satisfy cultists, and it will reward their attention -- there's just no way in for casual listeners.

 

 

TRACKS ARE :-

Side One

1. Pigs On The Wing (1)
2. Dogs

Side Two

1. Pigs (three different ones)
2. Sheep
3. Pigs On The Wing (2)

 

  • Released on Harvest Records in 1977

  • Catalogue Number SHVL 815

  • Record is in Ex + condition (couple of fine hairlines from the card sleeve)

  • Sleeve is in Ex + condition (some light rubbing)

 

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