EL TOPO OST SEALED 1971 Apple SWAO 3388 1ST PRESS w Booklet THE BEATLES LENNON
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Vinyl: MINT! SEALED! This is the Original 1970 Apple Pressing! SWAO 3388. Rare OST Fronted by The Beatles' Apple Records! John Lennon pushed to have this one released. A psychedelic masterpiece by world renowned Alejandro Jodorowsky, this one was the darling of the art-houses of the 1970s. Relive it in it's analog sonic glory! allmusic gives it 4 stars!!!
See Review Below!
Cover: Mint! Sealed!! (see photos) Nice high gloss on cover. Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright. The shrink has torn or separated in a few places, including: the top middle of the front cover, where there's also some shelf wear; 3 of the 4 corners; places along the spine and places along the bottom edge. The nice thing about the latter separation is that I can tell that the booklet is inside the gatefold :) There are sticker remnants on the shrink. Seams, corners and spine are solid and clean, with some wear. No splits. No writing. Spine print is crystal clear. The record appears straight; when I look down with one eye down all 4 edges there's no big, ominous bow to it that would suggest that it's warped.
I will gladly accept the return of Sealed records as long as they have not been opened (i.e. as long as they are still in the condition I sent them in). Every record has a "fingerprint" of imperfections in the seal and/or the cover and I separately photograph and keep these details to prevent fraudulently returned items...yep, there are a few rotten apples out there!) I will not accept a previously sealed record that has been opened, even if the complaint is that the record is warped. This is why I look down the edge of all 4 sides of the record, to assess for potential bowing. Look for that in the description of the covers of all my Sealed items. Thanks! By the way, I've never (knock on wood!) had a buyer complain that they received a warped Sealed record. :)
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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.AllMusic Review by Mark Deming [-]
Very few motion pictures have caused more stoned individuals to murmur "Oh, wow" than Alexandro Jodorowsky's visionary metaphysical western El Topo, which became an art house sensation in 1971 after the film received the enthusiastic endorsements of John Lennon (who persuaded his then-manager Allen Klein to buy the U.S. distribution rights) and Dennis Hopper (who was said to have been powerfully influenced by El Topo as he edited his own expressive anti-Western, The Last Movie). Filled with bizarre, violent imagery, portentous philosophizing, and enough symbolism to choke the spirit animal of your choice, El Topo became the film to see in an altered state at midnight during the early '70s, though Jodorowsky himself said "When one creates a psychedelic film, he need not create a film that shows the visions of a person who has taken a pill; rather, he needs to manufacture the pill." Jodorowsky, whose vision was as singular as anyone who has ever worked in film, not only wrote, produced, directed, and starred in El Topo, but also composed the score, and while his film could fairly be called "psychedelic," the music most decidedly is not. Jodorowsky's melodic sense is mildly eccentric, but most of the score is very much in the mold of traditional film music. "Bajo Tierra (Under the Earth)" could be the theme to any number of spaghetti westerns; "Los Mendigios Sangrados (The Holy Beggars)" and "Curios Mexicano (Mexican Curios)" sound like standard-issue "comic relief" music; a pair of "dance" tunes playfully evoke vintage jazz; several pieces use wooden flutes to give the score a rustic and evocative feel, and the few moments featuring an electric guitar appear in the deliberately disquieting openings to "La Catedral de Los Puercos (The Pigs' Monastery)" and "La Primera Flor Despues del Diluvio (The First Flower After the Flood)." Very little in Jodorowsky's music is as willfully bizarre or challenging as the movie it was designed to accompany, but there are more than a few moments of genuine beauty and mystery in the El Topo soundtrack, and the main theme, "Entierro del Primer Juguete (Burial of the First Toy)" is surprisingly gentle and moving. This soundtrack album isn't going to alter anyone's consciousness the way El Topo did in its initial release, but it's a bold and effective score, and might generate some interesting flashbacks for those who saw the movie back in the day.
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