A Nice Pair

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Template:Album infobox A Nice Pair is a compilation album by Pink Floyd. The album is basically The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and A Saucerful of Secrets sold in a new gatefold sleeve. On the American issue, the Ummagumma recording of "Astronomy Domine" replaces the original recording on the UK edition. The album reached #36 in the US and was certified Gold by the R.I.A.A. in March of 1994.

Of note is that the album's cover depicts an uncensored (in many territories) picture of a woman's breasts, while The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking had another woman's buttocks censored, in the United States, after a large amount of controversy.

The cover is by the Hipgnosis group, who did many other Pink Floyd covers, including Dark Side of the Moon. It was actually a series of covers that were not strong enough on their own, so they were put together. Each of the images depicts a well-known phrase or saying in the form of a visual pun; for instance, the centre right-hand panel on the front depicts "a fork in the road", while the bottom right represents "a pretty kettle of fish", and so on.

The album was the next U.S. release for the band after Dark Side of The Moon, which confused many young fans, as it covers the early, primitive, psychedelic sound of the Syd Barrett period of Pink Floyd, rather than the Alan Parsons-engineered production of "Dark Side."

Due to its superfluous nature, seeing as The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and A Saucerful of Secrets are sold separately on CD, A Nice Pair has long since been deleted.

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