Pink Floyd – The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Label: | Columbia – SX 6157 |
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Format: | Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, 1st pressing |
Country: | UK |
Released: | |
Genre: | Rock |
Style: | Psychedelic Rock, Experimental |
Tracklist
A1 | Astronomy Domine | 4:11 | |
A2 | Lucifer Sam | 3:07 | |
A3 | Matilda Mother | 3:08 | |
A4 | Flaming | 2:46 | |
A5 | Pow R. Toc H | 4:26 | |
A6 | Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk | 3:06 | |
B1 | Interstellar Overdrive | 9:40 | |
B2 | The Gnome | 2:13 | |
B3 | Chapter 24 | 3:42 | |
B4 | The Scarecrow | 2:11 | |
B5 | Bike | 3:21 |
Companies, etc.
- Record Company – The Gramophone Co. Ltd.
- Record Company – E.M.I. Records
- Record Company – EMI
- Printed By – Ernest J. Day & Co. Ltd.
- Made By – Ernest J. Day & Co. Ltd.
- Published By – Magdalene Music
- Published By – Essex Music
Credits
- Bass Guitar, Vocals – Roger Waters
- Design [Rear Cover], Lead Guitar, Vocals – Syd Barrett
- Drums – Nicky Mason*
- Engineer [Recording] – Peter Bown
- Organ, Piano – Rick Wright*
- Photography By [Front Cover Photo] – Vic Singh
- Producer – Norman Smith
- Written-By – Mason* (tracks: A5, B1), Wright* (tracks: A5, B1), Waters* (tracks: A5 to B1), Barrett* (tracks: A1 to A5, B1 to B5)
Notes
Front Cover: Laminated, flip-back sleeve design.
Back Cover: The top right part of the flip-back is blank. It does NOT read "File under POPULAR : Pop Groups". A cover containing this is a repress. Back cover includes title, credits, and song listing. Catalog number in upper right corner. Un-laminated.
Labels: Black Columbia labels with silver text, and a blue "Columbia Records Magic Notes Trademark" at the top, and a blue "Columbia" in the center. A specific font is used with the first pressing. Please compare with the photos on this release to confirm the correct label. Track 1 on Side 2, (including all writing credits), should read across one line only. If the artist credits extend to a second line, it is the repress.
Underneath the blue "Columbia" it reads "Sold in U.K. subject to resale price conditions. See price lists." On most copies, the Tax Code letters "K" and "T" are stamped on the label (on either on side 1 or 2) on each side of the spindle hole.
Text around the bottom edge of the label starts at 10 o'clock and says:
Disk: plate markings are a stamped number at 9:00 and a letter at 3:00, relative to the matrix stamped at 6:00 of the dead wax.
Inner Sleeve #1: Cream colored inner sleeve. On the front is an EMI logo at the top center, with "Add these outstanding LPs to your collection" at the top, 16 LP covers pictured in the middle including Both Sides of Herman's Hermits, and "Remember-the new Emitex cleans and preserves your records," and "Patents applied for" at the bottom. On the back is an EMI logo at the top center, with " - the greatest recording organization in the world" at the top, 16 LP covers pictured in the middle including the Beatles-Revolver, and "E.M.I. Records (The Gramophone Company Ltd.) Hayes - Middlesex - England, Made and Printed in Great Britain" at the bottom.
Inner Sleeve #2: Reddish brown printing on cream colored paper. On the front side is the EMI logo at the top center, with "Add these outstanding LPs to your collection" at the top, 16 LP covers pictured in the middle including The Beatles-Sgt. Peppers, and "Remember-the new Emitex cleans and preserves your records," and "Patents applied for" at the bottom. On the back side is the EMI logo at the top center, with " - the greatest recording organization in the world" at the top, 16 LP covers pictured in the middle including Pink Floyd-Piper at the Gates of Dawn, and "E.M.I. Records (The Gramophone Company Ltd.) Hayes - Middlesex - England, Made and Printed in Great Britain" at the bottom.
Promotional copies are marked on labels with a lozenge-shaped red and white sticker, reading "FACTORY SAMPLE / NOT FOR SALE"
The Gramophone Co., Ltd. All rights of the manufacturer and of the owner of the recorded work reserved. Unauthorised public performance, broadcasting, and copying of this record prohibited.
Back Cover: The top right part of the flip-back is blank. It does NOT read "File under POPULAR : Pop Groups". A cover containing this is a repress. Back cover includes title, credits, and song listing. Catalog number in upper right corner. Un-laminated.
Labels: Black Columbia labels with silver text, and a blue "Columbia Records Magic Notes Trademark" at the top, and a blue "Columbia" in the center. A specific font is used with the first pressing. Please compare with the photos on this release to confirm the correct label. Track 1 on Side 2, (including all writing credits), should read across one line only. If the artist credits extend to a second line, it is the repress.
Underneath the blue "Columbia" it reads "Sold in U.K. subject to resale price conditions. See price lists." On most copies, the Tax Code letters "K" and "T" are stamped on the label (on either on side 1 or 2) on each side of the spindle hole.
Text around the bottom edge of the label starts at 10 o'clock and says:
Disk: plate markings are a stamped number at 9:00 and a letter at 3:00, relative to the matrix stamped at 6:00 of the dead wax.
Inner Sleeve #1: Cream colored inner sleeve. On the front is an EMI logo at the top center, with "Add these outstanding LPs to your collection" at the top, 16 LP covers pictured in the middle including Both Sides of Herman's Hermits, and "Remember-the new Emitex cleans and preserves your records," and "Patents applied for" at the bottom. On the back is an EMI logo at the top center, with " - the greatest recording organization in the world" at the top, 16 LP covers pictured in the middle including the Beatles-Revolver, and "E.M.I. Records (The Gramophone Company Ltd.) Hayes - Middlesex - England, Made and Printed in Great Britain" at the bottom.
Inner Sleeve #2: Reddish brown printing on cream colored paper. On the front side is the EMI logo at the top center, with "Add these outstanding LPs to your collection" at the top, 16 LP covers pictured in the middle including The Beatles-Sgt. Peppers, and "Remember-the new Emitex cleans and preserves your records," and "Patents applied for" at the bottom. On the back side is the EMI logo at the top center, with " - the greatest recording organization in the world" at the top, 16 LP covers pictured in the middle including Pink Floyd-Piper at the Gates of Dawn, and "E.M.I. Records (The Gramophone Company Ltd.) Hayes - Middlesex - England, Made and Printed in Great Britain" at the bottom.
Promotional copies are marked on labels with a lozenge-shaped red and white sticker, reading "FACTORY SAMPLE / NOT FOR SALE"
The Gramophone Co., Ltd. All rights of the manufacturer and of the owner of the recorded work reserved. Unauthorised public performance, broadcasting, and copying of this record prohibited.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout (Label side A): XAX.3419
- Matrix / Runout (Label side B): XAX.3420
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, Variant 1): XAX 3419-2
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, Variant 1): XAX 3420-1
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, Variant 2, stamped): XAX 3419-2 R 1
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, Variant 2, stamped): XAX 3420-1 M 1
- Matrix / Runout (Runout Side A, Variant 3, Stamped): XAX 3419-2 P 1
- Matrix / Runout (Runout Side B, Variant 3, Stamped): XAX 3420-1 G 1
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, Variant 4, stamped): XAX 3419-2 G 1
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, Variant 4, stamped): XAX 3420-1 G 1
- Rights Society: BIEM. NCB
Other Versions (5 of 412)
View AllTitle (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (LP, Album, Stereo, 1st Issue) | Capitol Records | ST-6242 | Canada | 1967 | |||
Recently Edited | The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (LP, Album, Stereo) | Columbia, Columbia, Columbia | SCTX 340.568, SCTX 340.568 T, SCTX 340568 | France | 1967 | ||
Recently Edited | The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (LP, Album, Mono) | Columbia | SX 6157 | UK | 1967 | ||
Recently Edited | The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (LP, Album, Stereo, Scranton Pressing) | Tower, Tower | ST 5093, ST-5093 | US | 1967 | ||
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (LP, Album, Stereo) | Columbia | SMC 74 321 | Germany | 1967 |
Recommendations
Reviews
Show All 24 Reviews- If you think this masterpiece is anything less than 5 stars then you need to get your brain scanned!!!!!!!!
- Like many people have said, you pay for the condition over any other aspect of this release. The 1st mono versions absolutely trump any other stereo mixes, but requires somewhat quiet + clean audio to feel the full effect. Completely fills the room, a classic piece of musical history.
- what a heck of a nightmare to add a Pink Floyd to you collection everytime, so many repress and no one has a clue the year it was released lol long live PF tho
- I'm not old enough to remember mono and this is the only album I have really listened to in mono but I have to say that in stereo I thought it was just another silly novelty album but hearing it in mono really hits home. It's absolutely fantastic and fills the room. I'm listening to the 1997 CD not the new vinyl edition but still, I'm now absolutely sure that this album is a classic and not just a collection of daft noises. I'm wondering now what Dark Side would sound like in mono. I could get a quad copy and put all the speakers in one corner! hahaha.
- Edited one year agoSpot on! The "File under" to the flip back does not make this a 2nd pressing. Anyone would think E.J Day only had one printing press running for the multitude of sleeves that were being printed each week! Much more likely that one press was set up omitting the "File under" script and ran for a short period before being corrected as the vinyl itself is identical across the "variations"!
- Who would have thought a simple “file under popular” would be the devalue version. I wish I wasn’t so obsessed with collecting these tiny pressings because it doesn’t change the music whatsoever. I wish I could find the blame on why I’m so picky about getting valuable pressings with dumb differences. I’m a monster!!! ):
- Edited 2 years agoThis information is wrong.
The sleeve does not determine the issue.
There are 2 variations of sleeve, inner sleeve, and labels for the first issue.
The no "file under popular" variation is just the earliest sleeve.
All Blue and Black Columbia issues are considered first issues
The second issue is the One EMI Box Silver and Black - But audio wise, they are the same masters, and you can still find really early mother and stamper codes on the second issue, so you are often paying for the earliest variations of the original label and sleeve with the Blue and Black issues.
Condition is everything... the decline in condition and price is rapid. - I have a very first press of this one
matrix is 1G, 1G (both sides)
nm or at least a very strong VG+++
what would be a fair price ?
thanks - Further to my comment, my original blue Columbia label first press has the Ernest J Day flip back sleeve. The top right on the reverse of the cover states “SCX 6157 stereo” but at the bottom next to the Columbia EMI labels it states “This mono record has been produced....” etc. The very bottom of the reverse side of the cover (on the flip back) states “6709 TPS Printed and made by Ernest J Day & Co. Ltd., London SX 6157/SCX 6157”. The label on the record states a cat. no. of SX 6157, and the matrix no’s are XAX 3419-2, 3420-1, which is obviously a mono pressing. Is this a hybrid pressing due to a dual format cover but a mono lp?
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