RANDY HOLDEN / POPULATION II HOBBIT PRESS HEAVIEST OF HEAVIES NOT REISSUE

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RANDY HOLDEN / POPULATION II HOBBIT PRESS HEAVIEST OF HEAVIES NOT REISSUE

....WHERE DO YOU BEGIN WITH THIS ONE...IT IS THE MONSTER OF MONSTERS...THIS IS HOBBIT HB 5002 SLEEVE IS LIGHTLY WORN...DISC IS BETTER THAN EX..  MATRIX NUMBERS  SCRATCHED VERY FAINTLY 6-137-1-D Stereo
and B-side 6-138-1-D Stereo  NO BB HOLE...THIS IS NOT THE RECENT RE ISSUE

1. Guitar Song

2. Fruit & Iceburgs

3. Between Time

4. Fruit & Iceburgs (Conclusion)

5. Blue My Mind

6. Keeper of My Flame
 

JULIAN COPE WILL SPEAK FOR ME ON THIS ONE

‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy

  POPULATION 2 is a legendary album for several reasons, but none more so than because it’s the most strung out, wrung out ambient hulk of metalwork to rise from the mystic portals that crossed the 1960s over into 1970. When Andrew Marvell wrote about ‘desarts of vast eternitie’ in the 17th century, he was for sure anticipating Randy Holden’s POPULATION 2, deffo the most aptly-titled record ever. For it sounds like the musical equivalent of two loners in the Belfast shipyard, working heads down and wall-eyed during afterhours to create a solo aircraft carrier of Howard Hughes-ian proportions. That big, that lonely, that singular – a friendless featureless musicscape that rivals Skip Spence’s OAR and Klaus Schultze’s CYBORG for sheer doing-my-thing-till-I’m-damned proportions. Maybe that’s why so few have even heard this sucker. Like punks who name-dropped the Stooges during ‘77 when they’d only ever heard LUST FOR LIFE, even metallers and guitar freaks who’ve never heard POPULATION 2 allude to it in conversations. For it so irrigates the souls of those in the know that their descriptions waft into the collective consciousness of outsiders, who quickly beg, steal or borrow a burn from any friend of a friend of a friend of a friend… However, unlike most of the supposed lost gems that fetch big money in collectors’ circles, POPULATION 2 is a genuinely life changing experience.
Recorded in an opera house on 20 Sunn amps wired in parallel (‘It was the only place we could rehearse that would carry all the amplification’) by this ex-member of instrumental surf loons Fender VI; this Sons of Adam lead guitarist (whose cover of Arthur Lee’s ‘Feathered Fish’ is a lost classic), this co-writer of the slow slow semi-achieving The Other Half (whose LP Randy rightly dismisses despite their wunnerfuel 45 ‘Mr Pharmacist’), POPULATION 2 sounds absolutely unlike any other LP (even the similarly epic-styled side 2 of NEW! IMPROVED! BLUE CHEER which Randy wrote on his own before disappearing).
When this surf punk’s career began in 1964, instrumental music was at its height and he always maintained that he ‘wanted to do nothing but the instrumental thing …

Lps sent First Class International ( was reliable Small letter packet Airmail) now almost bulk airmail with no time estimated.."Varies in Transit by the USPS"..this is the most affordable airmail but may take as much  as 12 days to a month !!  this is the one where my rates are based on and is the only affordable option... PARCELS TO ITALY SEEM TO TAKE 10 DAYS TO 2 MONTHS WITH THIS RATE

• 2. priority airmail international...this is the next category for small parcels ranging from $19 to $26 for 1 lp (used to be Small letter packet Airmail) "2 to 10 Days guaranteed by the USPS"

  3. Express International...2-3 days says USPS..generally 1 lp will cost $30 and higher

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  NEAR MINT-  (NM-): A nearly perfect record. No obvious sign of wear. Looks as if you just got it home from a new record store and removed the shrink wrap. Faintest, tiniest wisp of a hint of a suggestion of whiff of a sleeve mark allowable.

  EXCELLENT: (EX): A superior  record with no more than a wisp of a hairline, faint shadowing, or a superficial needle drag. None of these defects are glaring, and certainly do not affect play. 

• VERY GOOD PLUS (VG+): Played and otherwise handled by a previous owner who took good care of it. Record surfaces may show some slight signs of wear and may have light scuffs or very light scratches that might slightly affect, but do not overpower, one’s listening experience. Very slight warps that do not affect play are OK.
  

• VERY GOOD (VG): Many of the defects found in a VG+ record are more pronounced in a VG disc. Surface noise is evident upon playing, especially in soft passages and during the song's intro and fade, but will not overpower the music otherwise. Groove wear will start to be noticeable, as will light scratches (deep enough to feel with a fingernail) that will affect the sound.
  

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LPS PACKED SECURELY WITH LPS OUTSIDE OF JACKET IN STURDY MAILERS. COMBINED SHIPPING FOR MORE THAN ONE LP..

PLEASE NOTE THAT I CANNOT VERIFY WHEN THIS WAS PRESSED...IT APPEARS TO HAVE AGE TO IT BUT PLEASE SEE THE MESSAGE BELOW AND I STATED THAT IT IS NOT THE RECENT RE ISSUE.....EVEN IF THIS IS THE REPRESS FROM MANY YEARS AGO IT IS VERY RARE IN ITSELF AND IS PRICED AROUND  WHAT I PAID FOR IT AND I HAVE NO PROBLEMS LETTING ANYONE OUT IF THEY WANT TO WITHDRAW OR NOT BID