BIG BLACK Sound of Impact - LIVE BLAST FIRST with booklet SHELLAC steve albini
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Sound of Impact
LP released in 1986 on Blast First (NOT 2 [BUT 1])
This is an incredible live album, absolutely mandatory listening. Every song just SHREDS...each and every track is as good (or more often, better) than the studio versions. Jordan, Minnesota reaches spine-tingling heights of creepiness...the versions on Atomizer, Live, Pig Pile and Deathwish, are sunny walks in the park compared to this monster...
Compiled from four or five different soundboard recordings, this LP is a quality productTM, despite appearances to the contrary. It also comes with a nifty booklet of photos and misc, to keep you amused when you aren't listening to the record.
This was also supposedly the cause of Big Black's break with Blast First. The idea for its release was conceived during their first visit to Europe in early 1986 (when they were being wooed by Blast First), and appeared in October or November of that year. The album was supposed to be released like a scummy bootleg--no contact info, no band name on the record, a fake record label (Walls Have Ears), in a numbered edition of 1000 copies. When that 1000 copies sold out, 500 more numbered copies were pressed with the band's permission. Then in 1990 (I think) an unnumbered and unauthorized edition of 500 was pressed, and when they started turning up in US record stores Albini threw a shitfit, and even claimed he was going to burn the $5000 Paul Smith had offered him as payment for the unauthorized repress. I don't know if Steve actually did burn the money, but he sure left Blast First in a huff, taking Big Black, Rapeman and Arsenal with him, as well as scuttling the planned Last Live video and album.
Strangely enough Paul Smith is thanked in the liner notes of Pig Pile, despite all that.
- Readymen
- Big Money
- Cables
- Pigeon Kill
- Passing Complexion
- Crack Up
- RIP
- Jordan, Minnesota
- Cables
- Pigeon Kill
- Kerosene
- Bad Penny
- Deep Six
- RIP
- Rema Rema
Sleeve is in good condition, with some shelf ware, and the vinyl is in excellent condition, having only been played a couple of times. THIS IS A LEGENDARY RECORDING.
Shiping to UK: £4, Europe: £7.50, Rest of World £12.50
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