DESCRIPTION ITEM: 12" VINYL 2xLP  33 1/3RPM
ARTIST: PINK FLOYD
TITLE: The Wall
COUNTRY PRINTED: OZ
CAT No: See scan
COVER: Gatefold (Grade at EXCELLENT+ to NEAR MINT-)
INNER COVERS: On avg (Grade at EXCELLENT+) some small opening tears on one inner
LABELS: (Grade at NEAR MINT+)
VINYL:
Record #1:(Grade at EXCELLENT+ to NEAR MINT-)
Record #2:(Grade at EXCELLENT+)
TRACKS:
1 -In the Flesh? -Waters 3:19
2 -The Thin Ice -Waters 2:29
3 -Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1 -Waters 3:09
4 -The Happiest Days of Our Lives -Waters 1:51
5 -Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 -Waters 3:59
6 -Mother -Waters 5:36
7 -Goodbye Blue Sky -Waters 2:48
8 -Empty Spaces -Waters 2:08
9 -Young Lust -Gilmour, Waters 3:30
10 -One of My Turns -Waters 3:37
11 -Don't Leave Me Now -Waters 4:17
12 -Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 3 -Ezrin, Waters 1:14
13 -Goodbye Cruel World -Waters 1:17
14 -Hey You -Waters 4:42
15 -Is There Anybody Out There? -Waters 2:40
16 -Nobody Home -Waters 3:24
17 -Vera -Waters 1:33
18 -Bring the Boys Back Home -Waters 1:27
19 -Comfortably Numb -Gilmour, Waters 6:24
20 -The Show Must Go On -Waters 1:35
21 -In the Flesh -Waters 4:17
22 -Run Like Hell -Gilmour, Waters 4:24
23 -Waiting for the Worms -Waters 3:58
24 -Stop -Waters :30
25 -The Trial -Ezrin, Waters 5:20
26 -Outside the Wall -Waters 1:44
COMMENT: 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.

…. By this time Waters was taking a firm hand over Pink Floyd's lyrical and musical vision, which was consolidated by The Wall (1979).

The bleak, overambitious double concept album concerned itself with the material and emotional walls modern humans build around themselves for survival. The Wall was a huge success (even by Pink Floyd's standards), in part because the music was losing some of its heavy-duty electronic textures in favor of more approachable pop elements. Although Pink Floyd had rarely even released singles since the late '60s, one of the tracks, "Another Brick in the Wall," became a transatlantic number one. The band had been launching increasingly elaborate stage shows throughout the '70s, but the touring production of The Wall, featuring a construction of an actual wall during the band's performance, was the most excessive yet.

VINYL GRADING SYSTEM

MINT:
RECORD: New condition with no surface marks or loss of sound quality.
COVER: New condition with no surface marks, creases or wear.
NEAR MINT:
RECORD: Barely noticeable surface mark with no loss of sound quality.
COVER: Barely noticeable surface mark/ wear.
EXCELLENT:
RECORD: Some signs of being played with extremely little if no loss of sound quality.
COVER: Slight wear or creasing.
VERY GOOD:
RECORD: Obviously been played with noticeable surface marks & the occasional light scratches but exhibits no major loss of sound quality.
COVER: Noticeable wear on cover, seam or spine.
GOOD:
RECORD: Very obviously been played with very noticeable surface marks & exhibits major loss of sound quality.
COVER: Noticeable folding, scuffing of spine or edges, splits in seams or spine or fading of colour.
FAIR:
RECORD: Still just playable & exhibits considerable surface noise.
COVER: Major tears, wearing, splits & stains.
POOR:
RECORD: Will not play properly due to scratches etc.
COVER: Very badly damaged.
+(PLUS)/-(MINUS):
Slightly up or down in condition as appears in the comments above.
NOTE:
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