DEPECHE MODE Everything Counts 1983 Sire 0-20165 1ST PRESS MONARCH
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Vinyl: MINTY! TOP COPY! Appears to have never been played! Super High Gloss! Sire Labels are Clean and Bright. This is the 1983 Sire 0-20165 Maxi-Single 1ST PRESSING! This is the audiophile acclaimed pressing, Pressed at Monarch Records Mfg. Corp., Los Angeles, CA!! These pressings bring fatter bottom end and silkier voices and makes you feel like you're in the room! Innovators of Electronica and Industrial Breakbeat, hear DM invent the Sound! allmusic gives it 5 stars!!
In the Dead Wax: On both sides: matrices, etched. Also on both sides: the glyph for Monarch ((Monarch Records, Mfg. Corp., Los Angeles, CA)) Complete dead wax information cheerfully given upon request.
Cover: MINTY! TOP COPY! (see photos) Nice high gloss on cover. Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright, essentially flawless. Seams, corners and spine are solid and clean, essentially flawless. No splits. No writing. Spine print is crystal clear.
Goldmine Standards.
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All records are packaged securely with the vinyl outside the jacket (to avoid seam split in transit). The vinyl and jacket are sandwiched between two cardboard stiffeners and shipped in a custom cardboard record mailer box.
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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.
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.
Everything Counts Review
by Ned Raggett
Depeche's proto-industrial/dance/breakbeat anthem still cuts right to the quick, a note-perfect combination of electronic innovation; big, punchy production; a perversely catchy, nursery-rhyme chorus; and Gahan's increasing abilities with a fuller singing voice. As the initial fruit of the band's first recording labors in Berlin, it's perfect, retaining its appeal to the present. The "In Larger Amounts" mix, which also appeared on the American CD version of the Construction Time Again album, extends but otherwise doesn't mess much with the original song -- if anything, its main value is being able to hear such a fine song for a longer period of time. Its flip side, "Work Hard," is even more of an upfront mechanical body slammer, clattered metal, and sometimes hollow production as much the key refinement of Einstürzende Neubauten-styled noise into dancefloor terms as anything. That not a little is owed to DAF's own earlier fusion of electricity and volume is clear enough as well, especially with the chanted chorus and low bass pulse. Similar to the A-side, the "East End" remix extends and plays around with but otherwise doesn't radically reinvent the song, though the collage of clattering and rhythmic machine noise does make for good dance atmosphere.
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