PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE OST EX 1974 A&M SP-3653 1ST PRESS w RARE HYPE STICKER
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Vinyl: EX Play Graded. Sounds Excellent! High gloss vinyl. Superb Fidelity! A&M Labels are Clean and Bright. This is the 1974 A&M SP-3653 1ST PRESSING! Continuing the Golden Era of The Rock Opera here we have one of the RAREST of OSTs of this Overlooked Glam Daft Punk Opus! Paul Williams and Jessica Harper weighed in on Brian De Palma's (Carrie, Scarface, Snake Eyes, Black Dahlia) Quirky reinvention of The Phantom Of The Opera. Fans of Rocky Horror Picture Show will love the campy innuendos, double entendres and fun. Perhaps it's begging to be reworked a la Rocky horror style (a theater filled with Paul Williams look-alikes?!?!?). In the Band are Jackson Browne alumni Craig Doerge and Leland Sklar (also members of the session band known as "The Section".)
In the Dead Wax: Matrices, etched, on both sides. Complete Dead Wax information cheerfully provided upon request.
Cover: VG++ (see photos) Includes the SUPER RARE Hype Sticker (only one on Ebay) that was originally on the shrinkwrap. This sticker is on a remnant of the original shrinkwrap. It's in beautiful condition. Includes the Original company inner sleeve. Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright. The seams, corners and spine are solid and clean, with some wear. No writing. No splits. Spine print is crystal clear.
Goldmine Standards. I play grade every record that I sell on eBay as I have found you can't rate a record accurately by just visually inspecting it. I wipe the dust off of every cover with clean, unscented baby wipes. I professionally clean the vinyl. (I also operate a Vinyl Record Cleaning business for your dusty/dirty records--if interested, send me a message).
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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.
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