Joan Armatrading – Secret Secrets Label: A&M Records – SP 5040, A&M Records – SP-5040
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Electrosound Pressing
Country: US
Released: Feb 1985
Genre: Rock
Style: Pop Rock
A1 Persona Grata
Soloist, Saxophone – Wesley Magoogan
Timpani – Mel Gaynor
4:44
A2 Temptation
Saxophone – Dave Bitelli
4:03
A3 Moves
Electric Guitar – David Rhodes
Harmonica – Joan Armatrading
4:12
A4 Talking To The Wall
Congas – Mel Gaynor
Flugelhorn – Paul Spong, Steve Sidwell
Flugelhorn [Flugelhorn Lead] – Raul D'Oliveira
Keyboards – Joe Jackson
Saxophone [Sax] – Dave Bitelli
4:31
A5 Love By You
Piano – Joe Jackson
3:13
B1 Thinking Man
Saxophone – Dave Bitelli
4:05
B2 Friends Not Lovers
Rhythm Guitar – Alan Murphy
Soloist, Saxophone – Dave Bitelli
Synthesizer – Nick Plytas
4:00
B3 One Night
Synthesizer – Nick Plytas
Synthesizer [Additional Synthesizers] – Adrian Lee
4:59
B4 Secret Secrets 3:28
B5 Strange 4:07
Record Company – A&M Records, Inc.
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – A&M Records, Inc.
Copyright © – A&M Records, Inc.
Recorded At – Battery Studios, London
Lacquer Cut At – A&M Mastering Studios
Pressed By – Electrosound Group Midwest, Inc.
Copyright © – Giftwend Limited
Published By – Rondor Music (London) Ltd.
Published By – Irving Music, Inc.
Acoustic Guitar – Joan* (tracks: A1, A2, B1)
Arranged By [Strings, Horns] – Joan*
Art Direction – Michael Ross (3)
Bass – Pino Paladino* (tracks: A1 to A4, B1 to B5)
Coordinator – Tessa Pacey
Design – Moira Bogue
Drums – Mel Gaynor (tracks: A1 to A4, B1 to B5)
Engineer – Bryan (Chuck) New*
Engineer [Assistant] – Jon Hallett, Steve McLaughlin*
Guitar – David Rhodes (tracks: A1, A2, A4, B1 to B5)
Keyboards – Nick Plytas (tracks: A1 to A3, B1 to B5)
Management – Mike Noble (2), Running Dog Management Ltd*
Orchestrated By [Horns Scored By] – Dave Bitelli
Orchestrated By [Strings] – Fiachra Trench
Photography By – Robert Mapplethorpe
Producer – Mike Howlett
Synthesizer – Adrian Lee (tracks: A1 to A3, B1, B2, B4)
Trombone – Rick Taylor (5) (tracks: A2, A4, B1)
Trumpet – Paul Spong (tracks: A2, A4, B1), Steve Sidwell (tracks: A2, A4, B1)
Written-By, Arranged By – Joan Armatrading
USA FIRST PRESSING VINYL ALBUM WITH ORIGINAL PRINTED INNER SLEEVE.
SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+, JUST LIGHT SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR. INNER SLEEVE HAS MIDDLE SEAM SPLITS.
DISC: VERY GOOD+. NO SCRATCHES, JUST A FEW LIGHT HAIRLINES AND FINGERPRINTS. CLEAN LABELS.
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, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant and you 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.
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