Pink Floyd A Nice Pair 1st Press RARE
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Pink Floyd A Nice Pair Early Press

DOUBLE LP SET. ULTRA RARE December 1973  ISSUE Harvest Records SHSP 4031.

Matrix refs: Side one: YAX 3119-5-1-1  Side two YAX 3420-5-1-2  Side three: YAX 3633-3  Side four YAX 3634 6-1-1-7.

A Nice Pair is a compilation album by Pink Floyd, re-issuing their first two albums—The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and A Saucerful of Secrets—in a new gatefold sleeve. The album was released in December 1973 by Harvest and Capitol in the United States and the following month in the United Kingdom by Harvest and EMI. It reached #36 in the U.S. Billboard album charts, and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in March 1994.

 

Cover Art

The cover is by the Hipgnosis group, who did many other Pink Floyd covers, and consists of 2 grids of 18 small pictures of proposed but previously unused album cover designs. Several images depict a well-known phrase or saying in the form of a visual pun; for instance, the centre right-hand panel on the front depicts "a fork in the road", while the bottom right represents "a fine kettle of fish". Another picture presents two puns on the album title: a nice pear, and an image of a woman's breasts; the latter is censored with a black bar on some copies, while other U.S. copies opted to cover it with a purple and white sticker over the shrink wrap. Initial copies had a picture of a Mr. W. R. Phang's dental surgery on the cover (a genuine business), but Dr. Phang objected because dentists were not allowed to advertise, and the picture was replaced with one of a gargling monk. U.S. editions from the 1980s restored both the nudity and the W. R. Phang photo.

The album was the band's next U.S. release after The Dark Side of the Moon, and introduced new fans to the earlier psychedelic sound of the Syd Barrett period of Pink Floyd, which contrasted greatly to the style of their more recent work.

Following the worldwide re-issue of the original two albums on CD, including the original UK version of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, A Nice Pair is out of print.

 Track listing

All songs by Syd Barrett, except where noted.

 The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Side one

  1. "Astronomy Domine" – 4:14 (UK - 1967 studio version) / 8:25 (USA - 1969 live version)
  2. "Lucifer Sam" – 3:07
  3. "Matilda Mother" – 3:08
  4. "Flaming" – 2:46
  5. "Pow R. Toc H." (Barrett / Roger Waters / Richard Wright / Nick Mason) – 4:26
  6. "Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk" (Waters) – 3:05

Side two

  1. "Interstellar Overdrive" (Barrett / Waters / Wright / Mason) – 9:41
  2. "The Gnome" – 2:13
  3. "Chapter 24" – 3:42
  4. "The Scarecrow" – 2:11
  5. "Bike" – 3:21

 A Saucerful of Secrets

Side three

  1. "Let There Be More Light" (Waters) – 5:38
  2. "Remember a Day" (Wright) – 4:33
  3. "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" (Waters) – 5:28
  4. "Corporal Clegg" (Waters) – 4:13

Side four

  1. "A Saucerful of Secrets" (David Gilmour / Waters / Wright / Mason) – 11:57
  2. "See-Saw" (Wright) – 4:36
  3. "Jugband Blues" – 3:00

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