Product Description
Very Rare Actual 1977 Japanese First Pressing ~ Vinyl Still In Top Condition! Heavy Grade Gatefold Cover, No Barcode! Includes 4-Page Insert & Inner Sleeve With Lyrics. Record Has Picture Labels, All Clean.
Ancient Pink Floyd Record Cut From Original Master At Superior Pressing Plant In Japan!
Condition – Vinyl: NEAR MINT! Sound quality is fantastic!
Condition – Cover: VERY GOOD PLUS! Shelf wear, edge wear. Not bad for over 47 years old! No writing, no foxing, no stickers, no tears.
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Near Mint condition original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
Pigs On The Wing (Part 1)
Dogs
Side 2:
Pigs (Three Different Ones)
Sheep
Pigs On The Wing (Part 2)
Geoff –
My dog and I must have listened to this album hundreds (thousands?) of times... he loves the barking and I can never tire of hearing it! Amazing! Dig the flying pig! I absolutely love 'Wish You Were Here', 'The Dark Side of the Moon', 'The Piper at the Gates of Dawn', 'Meddle', 'Obscured by Clouds', 'The Wall', and all -- but 'Animals' is my favourite Floyd LP!!! Genius songwriter, Roger Waters is so uncompromising here, and in in such menacing mood, while David Gilmour delivers some of his most impressive guitar work (especially on "Dogs", which he mainly wrote). Two of the songs on the album ("Sheep" and "Dogs") had been rattling around since 1974, as the band had performed them live that year, tentatively titled "Raving and Drooling" and "You've Got to Be Crazy". They didn't fit the theme and sound of ''Wish You Were Here', so became the basis of 'Animals'. Issued in 1977, it was certainly Pink Floyd's darkest release up to that point, evoking creepy visions of George Orwell's 'Animal Farm'. My dog and I must have listened to this album hundreds (thousands?) of times... he loves the barking and I can never tire of hearing it! Amazing!