Vinyl:
VG++ Play Graded. Sounds Great! Has some marks that don't affect the
sound quality. Backstreet Labels are Clean and Bright. This is the
audiophile acclaimed 1981 Backstreet MCA 2445 1ST PRESSING, Mastered by greg Calbi of Sterling Sound, NYC and Pressed at Europadisk, NYC!! These pressings give
fatter bottom end and silkier vocals. It makes you feel like you're in
the room with the band! Recorded at the Fabled Sound City in Van Nuys, CA, this One of Petty's Finest Hours, where we find Petty singingwith swagger and full of the confidence he got from shining so bright on Damn The Torpedoes...what he pulls off here with the Heartbreakers is nothing short of Rock 'N Roll Heaven...the jangly Rickenbacker Sound, the Megahits...the album plays like a Greatest Hits collection, not a bummer on it!
Classic Rock Defined! allmusic gives it 4 1/2 stars!! See Review Below! In
the Dead Wax: Matrices, etched, both sides. Also, both sides have the EDP Glyph ((Pressed at Europadisk, NYC)) and STERLING GC ((Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound, NYC)) Also on side 1: WE LOVE YOU J.L.--Producer Jimmy Iovine had Engineered John Lennon's mid 70s albums for Apple and they had become close. Iovine was devastated by the loss of his friend. Petty's record was his first completed project after Lennon's death... Complete Dead wax details cheerfully given upon
request. Cover: VG++ (see photos) Includes the Photo/Lyrics Poster and the pasteboard photo/credits Inner Sleeve. Front and back of cover artwork and text are
rich, clear and bright. Seams, corners and spine are
solid and clean. No splits. No writing. No stickers. Spine print is crystal clear. Goldmine Standards. I
play grade every record that I sell on eBay as I have found you can't
rate an LP accurately by just visually inspecting an album. I
wipe the dust off of every cover with clean, unscented baby wipes. I
professionally clean the vinyl. (I also operate a Vinyl Record Cleaning
business for your dusty/dirty records--if interested, send me a
message). U.S.
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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. On
first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and
vibrant. The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about
from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say
that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you
to hear when they first recorded the music.
Damn the Torpedoes wasn't simply a culmination of Tom Petty's art; it happened to be a huge success, enabling him to call the shots on its successor, Hard Promises. Infamously, he used his first album as a star to challenge the record industry's practice of charging more for A-list artists, demanding that Hard Promises should be listed for less than most records by an artist of his stature, but if that was the only thing notable about the album, it would have disappeared like Long After Dark. Instead, it offered a reaffirmation that Damn the Torpedoes wasn't a fluke. There's not much new on the surface, since it continues the sound of its predecessor, but it's filled with great songwriting, something that's as difficult to achieve as a distinctive sound. The opener, "The Waiting," became the best-known song on the record, but there's no discounting "A Woman in Love (It's Not Me)," "Nightwatchman," "Kings Road," "Insider," and "The Criminal Kind," album tracks that would become fan favorites. If Hard Promises doesn't have the sweep of Damn the Torpedoes, that's because its predecessor was blessed with good timing and an unusually strong set of songs. Hard Promises isn't quite so epochal, yet it has a tremendous set of songs and a unified sound that makes it one of Petty's finest records. |