Vinyl Album - Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon - Harvest

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Pink Floyd
Title:	The Dark Side Of The Moon
Label:	Harvest
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	SHVL 804
Barcode:	5099910524916
Date:	16 Mar 1973
Format:	LP
Genre:	Rock
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	125 Own, 3 Want
Price Guide:	$59 - $1243
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PRICE GUIDE

$59 - $1243

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Pink Floyd	Speak To Me	Mason	8.8 Rate
A2	Pink Floyd	Breathe	Waters, Gilmour, Wright	8.5 Rate
A3	Pink Floyd	On The Run	Waters, Gilmour	8.8 Rate
A4	Pink Floyd	Time	Waters, Mason, Gilmour, Wright	8.5 Rate
A5	Pink Floyd	The Great Gig In The Sky	Wright	8.8 Rate
B1	Pink Floyd	Money	Waters	9.3 Rate
B2	Pink Floyd	Us And Them	Waters, Wright	8.8 Rate
B3	Pink Floyd	Any Colour You Like	Gilmour, Mason, Wright	8.8 Rate
B4	Pink Floyd	Brain Damage	Waters	8.2 Rate
B5	Pink Floyd	Eclipse	Waters	8.5 Rate

Notes

Produced by Pink Floyd.

Gatefold sleeve, with two stickers and two posters.
Very first pressings had a "solid" blue prism label design, which soon became "hollow" prism labels.
The sleeve was also a very dark midnight blue colour, rather than black.

Images

Number: 455649 THUMBNAIL Uploaded By: mlgh224 SUBS Description: Sleeve Front	Number: 455651 Uploaded By: mlgh224 SUBS Description: Gatefold Inside Left	Number: 455652 Uploaded By: mlgh224 SUBS Description: Gatefold Inside Right	Number: 455650 Uploaded By: mlgh224 SUBS Description: Sleeve Back
Number: 455708 Uploaded By: Billy Two Description: Pink Floyd - "The Dark Side Of The Moon" (solid prism label 1)	Number: 455701 Uploaded By: Billy Two Description: Pink Floyd - "The Dark Side Of The Moon" (solid prism label 2)	Number: 455653 Uploaded By: mlgh224 SUBS Description: Side 1 Label (open prism)	Number: 455654 Uploaded By: mlgh224 SUBS Description: Side 2 Label (open prism)
Number: 455655 Uploaded By: mlgh224 SUBS Description: Poster 1 (band)	Number: 455656 Uploaded By: mlgh224 SUBS Description: Poster 2 (pyramid)	Number: 455657 Uploaded By: mlgh224 SUBS Description: 2 Stickers	Number: 489336 Uploaded By: An6y66 Description: side 2 open prism variant
Number: 502083 Uploaded By: Quad5point1 SUBS Description: Inner Sleeve Dated 11/80	Number: 548979 Uploaded By: Magic Marmalade Description: Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon - 1973-1983 - Catalogue Number	Number: 548980 Uploaded By: Magic Marmalade Description: Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon - 1983- Barcode and Catalogue Number	Number: 548981 Uploaded By: Magic Marmalade Description: Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon - Inside Gatefold, Bottom Left EMI and Harvest Logo - Blue - 1973-1983
Number: 548982 Uploaded By: Magic Marmalade Description: Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon - Gatefold Inside, Bottom Left EMI and Harvest Logo - White - 1983	Number: 788680 Uploaded By: An6y66 Description: side 1 white outline prism	Number: 788682 Uploaded By: An6y66 Description: side 1 white outline upside down prism	Number: 788683 Uploaded By: An6y66 Description: side 2 white outline prism upside down
Number: 1038196 Uploaded By: gregs45s SUBS ● Description: White inner gatefold variation "Printed And Made By Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd"	Number: 1333765 Uploaded By: kab2112 SUBS ● Description: Back Cover with Barcode	Number: 1333766 Uploaded By: kab2112 SUBS ● Description: inner sleeve	Number: 1333767 Uploaded By: kab2112 SUBS ● Description: inner sleeve
Number: 1623389 Uploaded By: deepinder cheema Description: Test Pressing discs x 2. dates	Number: 1623391 Uploaded By: deepinder cheema Description: 2 x One sided discs EMI Hayes Test	Number: 1623397 Uploaded By: deepinder cheema Description: from EMI Hayes to (the then) Ex Harvest manager.	Number: 2433487 Uploaded By: wordnwot Description: Sticker TDSOTM
Number: 3030156 Uploaded By: Quad5point1 SUBS Description: Side 1 Label UK / French Export	Number: 3030158 Uploaded By: Quad5point1 SUBS Description: Side 2 Label UK / French Export	Number: 2799958 Uploaded By: Paul Vinyl Description: Ad From ZigZag Magazine July 1973 (Ft Pink Floyd and Other Harvest Acts)

Comments and Reviews


Break-In Master 7th Jan 2025



esfera04 24th Nov 2023		Since Roger Waters turned out to be an obnoxious Israel-hater, I don't put the record on anymore. I don't even listen to the new version "Redux".



esfera04 24th Jul 2022		Bar code, 1973?



Quad5point1 SUBS 14th Jul 2022		Added UK / French Export



wordnwot 4th Oct 2020		Added Front Sticker. My vinyl is A2 / B2 with GDA and GGG stampers. My 'solid blue' labels at (3pm) GDA and GGG stamper code matrices suggest solid blue labels were used in great numbers. Assuming approximately 300 pressings per stamper letter. GDA = stamper 103 and GGG = 111, with each stamper used successfully pressing 300 sides, (my Side A) GDA stamper code = 103 x 300 = 30,750 of (+or-) 150 & (my Side B) GGG stamper code = GGG = 111 x 300 = 33,150 of (+or-) 150. So counting upto my pressing, can assume 30,900 + 33,300 64,200 solid blue labels were used (at least) however who is to say how many more were pressed beyond mine?? So tell us your Solid Blue stamper codes folks so we can get an idea.



deepinder cheema 5th Apr 2018		Agreed. It should be moved.



Lee Wrecker 4th Apr 2018		Is there any reason pics of the "US Sound Lab issue" are on this page at all? The pic is of a 1979 USA release that is already listed on the site here and has a different cat# MFSL 1-017 and is on the Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab label.



deepinder cheema 4th Apr 2018		EMI Hayes test pressing 2 x one sided discs Matrix info and dates images uploaded



wordnwot 19th Feb 2018		Note!, Ist presses came with black record inner sleeve same delicate black type as Beatles Abbey Road inner sleeves. Its Sleeve is quite Blue by comparison to those shown and with Blue EMI text, etc. as in Magic Marmalade's image Number: 548981 Example: Similar...



kab2112 SUBS ● 8th May 2017		Back Cover with Barcode, Inner Sleeve from a different release added. Both from later re-issues.



mygeneration 25th Dec 2016		I've got a solid blue copy in EX. Bunked off school to buy it the day it was released. Brilliant sound quality



deepinder cheema 12th Dec 2016		I have an EMI Hayes test pressing of this LP 2 x One sided discs. The white inner sleeve is stamped up 14th Feb 1973. The matrix marks is A2 B2. I would welcome a discussion of the reasons why and how these discs were used. The previous lacquer used to make the A1 B1 stamper it is said was defective so that was destroyed. Whether any test pressings were created and also destroyed .. I just don't know. I also have Animals test pressing 2 x One sided which has an earlier 1976 date to its release ( I think the same difference)



Magic Marmalade 14th Jul 2016		An interesting phenomenon regarding the value of this that I've noticed: Even just a year or so back, the solid blue label press would set you back around £800+ (depending on condition of course), while the more usual blue outline label press could be had cheap as proverbial chips (£5 - £10 in most cases), the rarity of the solids proportional to the outliners being apparent on eBay's listings... ... but as the months have gone by, people have been buying the outliners en masse (obviously, because they are cheaper), with each listing attracting healthy numbers of bidders, while the solid blues have been left virtually untouched. The result of this is that looking now, the solid blue value has plummeted to around £250 - £400 (still not apparently shifting even at that price), and the outliners can now sell for £30 - £40 quid (condition / posters / stickers etc.)... ...And now there seem to be almost as many solid blues listed as outliners (UK standard press), with the later listings drying up quick. As you can imagine, there are plenty of Dark Sides about, but it would seem that with all the frenzied buying, even this may very well be in short supply. And this phenomena is not only confined to this title... Piper, and Saucerful are also seeing elevated second press values (while first presses of those seem to be largely unaffected, which I think may just be down to the fact that they simply flat out rare). Meanwhile.... Pink Floyd values continue to soar, probably faster than any other artist.



gregs45s SUBS ● 23rd Apr 2016		Minor inner gatefold (detail) variation added.



Magic Marmalade 17th May 2015		Something I've been wanting to know about this, having never been fortunate enough to even see an original solid blue triangle label copy... is if the quality of the vinyl (And sound) differs greatly from the first outline triangle label copies. And it would be nice to see a scan of the blue-ish cover, as I've not been able to see any photos that adequately represent the difference between these and the true black covers. If anyone has both kinds, and can upload a scan that illustrates the difference (Comparison Photo maybe), and can tell about the audio difference, it would be greatly appreciated.



ppint. ● 3rd Mar 2015		another class cover design from hipgnosis. . .



Magic Marmalade 4th Dec 2014		Got another copy of this in the summer... better condition than my other two as well as being earlier. But my 1979 copy is still the daddy... marginally thicker vinyl than even the earlier copy, and feels more weighty... really does sound better too!



Magic Marmalade 26th Sep 2014		Also... The Pink Band poster on the 1983editionhas no catalogue number on the bottom right (under the Rick Wright Image).



Magic Marmalade 26th Sep 2014		An odd tip regarding identifying the age of a copy of this: Smell it! I have had five copies over the years (currently two in my possession... sadly not the solid blue prism first press!), and while the basic plan for all pressings since 1973 release has been the same, with each new Pink Floyd album being released subsequently, fresh runs of each preceding album accompanied them. the earliest I currently have was from 15.12.1979. ... I can tell this because it has a cardboard stiffener in the record side of the gatefold with a Woolworths sticker in it giving this date and the store number it was to be sold in! but also, I have noticed that whatever chemical was used in the treatment of the cardboard of the gatefold degrades over time, releasing a progressively sweeter smell... getting both deeper (in terms of the mustiness of ageing), but with a richer sweetness too... so get your nose in there! Other things too... the vinyl on the 1983 barcoded edition has white Harvest logo inside bottom left of gatefold (not Blue), and the vinyl is thinner, and the label, ostensibly the same has a kind of "dot matrix" pattern impressed in it. Will upload scans.



Quad5point1 SUBS 21st Feb 2014		Added scan of Inner Sleeve. This is from my A-10 / B-9 pressing. I think for accuracy sake it's worth people knowing that what they are buying is totally original. Collectors will probably look at this site for tips and pointers and the more reliable the info is the better. For me Inner Sleeves are just as important as the rest of the ephemera that comes with an album



An6y66 15th Jan 2014		added variant images where track B5 is overlapped by the line of the prism



revivalvinyl1961 8th Jan 2014		i have the mfsl edition in mint



Billy Two 14th Sep 2013		Nice work, mlgh224 ! For the cause I've dug out and added my solid prism copy, which has been boxed up for six weeks awaiting an endlessly postponed house move. Don't get me started.



mlgh224 SUBS 14th Sep 2013		Added full set of images (think I need to get out more). I don't think these posters have been out since I took them off the walls of my room at university in 1976. It would be nice to see the solid prism labels if anybody's got them.