Pink Floyd - Animals (Black Vinyl, 50th Anniversary)

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50th anniversary edition (Animals 50); 2LP on 180 gram black vinyl; original 1977 album on LP1, five previously unreleased rarities on LP2; Animals 50 photo-montage jacket
Release Date Jan 22, 2027
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Pre-order Release Date: Jan 22, 2027
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  • Label Sony Legacy
  • Format Vinyl, 2 LP, Album
  • Format details 50th anniversary edition (Animals 50); 2LP on 180 gram black vinyl; original 1977 album on LP1, five previously unreleased rarities on LP2; Animals 50 photo-montage jacket
  • Media 2 x Vinyl
  • Album release date 1977
  • This pressing Jan 22, 2027
  • Region US
  • Genres Rock
  • UPC 199584654911
Releases Jan 22, 2027

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180 Gram Black Double LP With a Disc of Rarities

Animals 50 marks the half-century of Pink Floyd's 1977 album, and this is its two-record vinyl edition. Two 180-gram black LPs: the original album on sides A and B of the first record, five rarities on sides C and D of the second. The jacket belongs to the anniversary rather than to 1977 - twelve frames of band photographs, Battersea Power Station, a Britannia Row take sheet and an In The Flesh tour poster set around a circular image of a dog, a pig and a sheep under the Animals 50 logotype.

Side C pairs an early rough mix of "Dogs" with "Sheep (Original Radio Edit)," a four-and-a-half-minute promo edit cut for radio in 1977 that had never been commercially available; the video above is its official visualizer. Side D runs an early rough mix of "Sheep," then a studio jam, and closes on the unheard Roger Waters song "Young Nicholas Jon." The band's announcement marks all five as never before officially released.

Two of the frames on the jacket show Battersea Power Station, which Waters chose for the original sleeve. He has explained the choice plainly: "I'd driven past Battersea Power Station every day going to and from my house in Clapham. I guess I just loved the building. I liked its symbolism that it's a power station and that it belches smoke, so there's something menacing about it." The 40-foot inflatable pig flown for that photograph was named Algie; it broke its moorings, drifted toward Heathrow and came down in a field in Kent, and the inflatable pigs that followed shaped the stage production of the band's 1977 In The Flesh tour.

Pink Floyd produced the original album themselves, recording it at Britannia Row, the London building they had bought and fitted out as their own studio. Sony Music issues the anniversary program on January 22, 2027 in six physical configurations: this two-record set, a deluxe box of three LPs, five CDs and a Blu-ray, single LPs in orange and in sandstone, a 2CD, and a Blu-ray Audio disc. James Guthrie's 2018 remix sits on the box and the Blu-ray and is not on this edition, which pairs the original album with the rarities disc.

Tracklist

LP1, Side A (Original Album)

  1. Pigs on the Wing 1
  2. Dogs

LP1, Side B (Original Album)

  1. Pigs (Three Different Ones)
  2. Sheep
  3. Pigs on the Wing 2

LP2, Side C (Rarities)

  1. Dogs - Early Version, Rough Mix
  2. Sheep - Original Radio Edit

LP2, Side D (Rarities)

  1. Sheep - Early Version, Rough Mix
  2. Studio Jam
  3. Young Nicholas Jon

Complete the Collection

The Pink Floyd catalog at Evergreen Vinyl runs to fifteen titles, this anniversary double among them: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, A Saucerful Of Secrets, Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, Obscured By Clouds, The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, The Wall, A Collection Of Great Dance Songs, The Division Bell, The Best of Pink Floyd: A Foot in the Door, The Dark Side of the Moon: Live at Wembley Empire Pool, London, 1974, 8-Tracks.

UPC: 199584654911
Label: Sony Legacy
Release Date: 1.22.27
Format: Vinyl