MOVE featuring ROY WOOD SHAZAM RARE SEALED ORIG '70 A&M LP UK PSYCH MILESTONE

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·       THE MOVE featuring ROY WOOD – SHAZAM -  ORIGINAL 1970 A&M RECORDS STEREO LP SP-4259

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

*** STILL SEALED A&M LP BELIEVED TO BE THE ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING ***

·       BELIEVED TO BE PRESSED ON THE ORIGINAL BROWN (TAN) A&M LABEL (60’s and early 70’s style)

·       THE THICKNESS OF THE VINYL, THE APPEARANCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COVER, LABEL’S LOGO AND OTHER PERIPHERAL ELEMENTS OF THE COVER, ARE ALL PERFECTLY CONSISTENT WITH THE ORIGINAL, FIRST PRESSING OF THIS TITLE.

·       TWO “BREATHE” (AIR) HOLES NOTED ON THE SHRINK WRAP

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

·       FAIRLY THICK VINYL PRESSING On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least thick, and  10 being the thickest), we assess the thickness of the vinyl as 7.

(►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

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Today you can find anything in mere seconds on the internet, but there was a time when the only people—in America, at least—who had any clue about the psychedelic pop greatness of The Move were either in their 40s or spent a lot of time in used record bins. The band wasn't written about much in The States and the few CDs available were imports. The Move were a secret of the used vinyl cult. A treasure of the musty bins. They made that gross film—decades of microbes—that you can feel on your hands when you've been flipping through old LPs for an hour worth it.

Some pretty cool people like The Move. Rick Nielsen likes The Move (you know him from Cheap Trick). Ron Mael likes The Move (you know him from Sparks). And I like The Move (you know me from The Guinness Book of World Records where I'm listed for most time spent trying unsuccessfully to open up one of those little plastic bags in the supermarket produce section).

This album is bloated almost beyond belief, but, if you ask me, it works. It's one of the things that makes this a cult classic. Me, I'm about as big a simpleton as you can find when it comes to music—I'm practically an un-evolved caveman, give me a pop hook and I'm happy—and even I enjoy the ten-minute swirl of "Fields of People". That's because, to me, The Move's epics don't sound like epics. The band still sound like clowns. They take what art-rockers such as The Nice were doing at the time and twist it into something frothy and melodic. I lose myself in this album. I get drunk on this album. I don't even notice that half the songs—there are six tracks total here—are over seven minutes long. They're throwing out pretty colors and I'm just watching them sparkle against the sky.

This is a sentimental favorite. It's one of the earliest records that I plucked from the used vinyl bins in my 1990s youth and I got hooked on it. Put it on now and I get hooked again. Five stars, nerds.

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ANONYMOUS ONLINE REVIEW)

The single most accomplished album to be recorded by any of the Birmingham rock bands (which include the Moody Blues), Shazam is sort of Sgt. Pepper with an attitude, a mixture of expansive progressive rock worthy of the Beatles and high-energy music honed by years of playing loud on-stage. The rendition of Tom Paxton's "The Last Thing on My Mind" pushes these guys simultaneously into Byrds and Jimi Hendrix territory, while "Beautiful Daughter" is one of the most unabashedly pretty records of this era, and "Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited" is defiantly strange.

For additional historical information on this album, including track listing ►CLICK HERE

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·       CONDITION:

·       THE RECORD

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)          THE ALBUM IS STILL FACTORY SEALED AND IS BELIEVED TO BE PERFECTLY MINT. Please note: sealed items are assumed to be mint and are sold as-is, as we have no way of inspecting them. For our policy on still sealed records ►click here (PLEASE READ BEFORE PLACING A BID).

(b)          The record is believed to come in its original stock inner sleeve.

(c)             The record is pressed on a RELATIVELY  thick, inflexible vinyl. This is NOT a thin, flimsy ('dynaflex' type),  vinyl, but not the thickest, most rigid vinyl, either.

(d)          Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·                               THE COVER

COVER IS NEAR MINT, STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL ►SHRINK WRAP

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-         The cover has a few yellowish dust speckles scattered here and there (these tiny spots are not overly obtrusive or distracting and can probably be cleaned up with a minor effort after the shrink wrap has been removed)

-        Cover has a small cutout saw-mark (an indent about 2-3 mm long ) on one of its seams.

-         Cover shows JUST A HINT of yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging.

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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