PETER GABRIEL (Melt) 1980 UK CHARISMA UNPLAYED/MINT
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£ 36
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Aug 27, 2011
Sold Date
Aug 17, 2011
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£ 14
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PETER GABRIEL (Melt) 1980 UK CHARISMA UNPLAYED/MINT
MINT SLEEVE & LYRIC INNER - FLAWLESS - BEAUTIFUL COPY
PETER GABRIELPeter Gabriel
UK CHARISMA (CDS 4019) ORIGINAL PRESSING (May 1980) OF PETER GABRIEL'S THIRD SOLO LP
IN UNPLAYED/MINT CONDITION
HOUSED IN THE FIRST ISSUE LIGHTLY GLOSSY SINGLE SLEEVE
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL LYRIC INNER
MARTIX: CDS 4019 A//6 ? ESC 11 21 / CDS 4019 B//7 ? ESC 1 13 8
NOT A RARE LP BY ANY MEANS BUT TO FIND A COPY IN SUCH PRISTINE CONDITION IS EXCEPTIONAL
Peter Gabriel's third solo album and the third of four with the same eponymous title.
The album contains two of Gabriel's most famous songs, the U.K. Top 10 hit "Games Without Frontiers" and "Biko", about the late anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko.
This album is often referred to as Melt due to its cover photograph by Hipgnosis (taken with a Polaroid SX-70 instant camera, and subsequently modified by Storm Thorgerson or Gabriel - Thorgerson does not recall whether he or Gabriel manipulated the image)
Generally regarded as Peter Gabriel's finest record - an album that's artier, stronger and more song-oriented than before.
Consider its ominous opener, the controlled menace of "Intruder." He's never found such a scary sound but one that is undeniably alluring, and he keeps this going throughout the record.
For an album so popular, it's remarkably bleak, chilly, and dark -- even radio favourites like "I Don't Remember" and "Games Without Frontiers" are hardly cheerful, spiked with paranoia and suspicion, insulated in introspection.
For the first time Gabriel found the sound to match his themes, plus the songs to articulate them and this remains his masterpiece.
Side 1:
"Intruder" – 4:54
"No Self Control" – 3:55
"Start" – 1:21
"I Don't Remember" – 4:41
"Family Snapshot" – 4:28
"And Through the Wire" – 5:00
Side 2:
"Games Without Frontiers" – 4:06
"Not One of Us" – 5:22
"Lead a Normal Life" – 4:14
"Biko" – 7:32
LABELS: MINT
No spindle traces or signs of play
VINYL Visual: MINT
Pristine factory-fresh playing surfaces which are unmarked and shine like-new
VINYL Audio: MINT
Unplayed (before my one careful play-check at loud volume), the audio is flawless throughout
SLEEVE: MINT
Clean, unmarked and unworn
INNER SLEEVE: MINT
Pristine and factory-fresh with no seam splits
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A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW INNER SLEEVE WITH NEW ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
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