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A Nice Addition

C. Lafond | Ontario, Canada | 10/24/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

""A Nice Pair" is a collection of the first two Pink Floyd albums: "Piper at the Gates of Dawn", and "Saucerful of Secrets". For a long time it was only available on LP and on audiotape. Here it is given new life on cd. The sound is pretty much identical to the two cds out there that you can find in any record store. It copies the two cd releases exactly as far as I can tell (it has the 4 minute version of Astronomy Domine - for those people who might wonder.) Thus, it is different than the American issue of the original LP in America.



There might be some who doubt the quality, because I am still unsure if this cd-reissue is actually a legitimate release or was put together by a third party. However, the quality here is definitely up to par with just about anything released under the Pink Floyd name. It has an outer, cardboard gatefold sleeve broken up into nine small pictures (as the main image shows,) with similar, but different, pictures on the back side.



Inside are early pictures of the band (many of which I had never seen before,) divided up into the same nine square pattern. The two cds sit in their own sleeves and you can sit them loosely inside, or you can even put them (they do fit nicely) inside the open end of the case. The design on the cds themselves is of course psychedelic and all the writing is clear and (almost) mistake free. I see a single typo, it lists the time of the song "Bike" as 3-23 instead of 3:23. However, this is a very minor error, and (to me at least) means nothing. There is also a sleeve that comes with the set that copies the pictures of the main cover and it also fits inside the case with the cds. These all fit relatively nicely so that they aren't sticking out at all.



This set would appeal mostly to collectors obviously, for the casual fan would probably not even know this thing exists. In fact, if I was a casual fan I would go for the regular cds because this set contains no lyrics or any booklet of information. The price of buying the two individual cds would probably work out to about the same. For me (a non-hardcore collector,) this is an awesome addition, for I have known about the set for a long time but before now I have never been able to get it on cd."