Pink Floyd – 1965 (Their First Recordings)

Rear cover says 45RPM. Albums are printed as 33 1/3 RPM and play at that speed. Great collection either way.

Interesting to listen to these recordings - the musical style on these recordings is traditional blues rock and sounds more like The Rolling Stones than it sounds like the psychedelic Pink Floyd on The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Quite different from what you would expect a Pink Floyd record to sound like, but this is where it all started. And despite the demo-like nature of these recordings, sound quality is actually reasonably good.
This record is getting very expensive as times go by, and unfortunately there are lots of counterfeits being sold. But if you are paying attention and have some luck, it should still be possible to get the real thing for well under €100, at least if you're content with a VG+ copy.

If someone sell this one, please me.
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Be aware there are counterfeit copies sold as originals here. The fakes are sold under the median price and have matrix numbers of 0825646018611 A/B/C/D on the deadwax runout, same as on the label. The records are scuffed and the cover is poorly printed. Don't be fooled.

That version sounds not that bad if you are not willing to pay more than EUR 200 for the RSD release. However, My copy came without inner sleeve but with my own inner sleeve it does not fit in the cover. That is strange. However, nice colour of the vinyl.

it is good to here these recordings, although the sounds were heavily influenced by the music of the day, you can see they were trying to break from the recorded norm. Almost pre Mothers with an easier approach maybe, meningitis must have been an issue back then :) The warmth of the vinyl suits the sound better, as mono as you can get. Now there are only 100 of the 2 bootleg versions each, over the 5000 official presses......

The reason that these recordings came to light was for copyright purposes. They were put together for RSD 2015, if PF saved them, then this is not official, if they didn't then yes it can be considered official. But as with all early Floyd it is steeped in some mystery. However as promised by Nick Mason, "watch this space they may appear" during an interview, well they did on the early years output CD1box. There you go you have your CD......

I guess no-one is bothered about the CD format anymore, it is literally mp3 vs vinyl these days and i just don't understand why it's got this way.
wherever it is a brand new artist making songs or someone issuing songs recorded over half a century ago.
this needs a proper CD release, or even a lovely paper labelled cassette would do quite nicely.

Why make an unofficial pressing of something so rare and then press only 100 copies?

or hey, pink floyd, it'd be even better if you did it!