Vinyl:  VG++  Play Graded.  Sounds Great!  Has some marks that don't affect the sound quality.  High Gloss Vinyl!  Melodiya Labels are Clean and Bright.  This is the audiophile acclaimed Russian Melodiya 5289-80 1ST PRESSING!
A surprisingly impressive display of no-holds barred Rock 'N Roll fever from Paul, here.  This is NOT a nostalgic retrospective...Paul's playing here like he needs the money.  He sounds HUNGRY on this record.  Whether that had to do with recording in Russia where he obviously had something to prove, or perhaps his backing band was pushing him, but whatever the motivation, one can easily assume that he hasn't sounded this authentic since before The Beatles caught fire in England in 1963...  

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In The Dead Wax:  Matrices, stamped.  Complete Dead Wax information cheerfully provided upon request.

Cover: VG+  (see photos)  Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright, with some  wear, some sticker residue on the top right corner of the front cover and a tiny amount of color staining at the opening edge of the sleeve.   Seams, corners and spine are solid and clean, with minor wear.  No writing.  No seam splits.  Spine print is crystal clear. 

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Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album? 

First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm. 

First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are  clearer.  

Choba B CCCP Review by William Ruhlmann

This album of rock & roll oldies -- "Lucille," "Twenty Flight Rock," and others -- was recorded in two days in July, 1987, and released exclusively in the Soviet Union in 1988.  McCartney gives a spirited reading to the songs, which, it may be noted, are in some cases ("Ain't That a Shame," "Just Because") the same ones chosen by John Lennon for his similar Rock 'N' Roll album. But McCartney is characteristically more eclectic, including such ringers as "Summertime" and "Don't Get Around Much Anymore."