ROLLING STONES Made In The Shade EX 1975 COC 39107 1ST PRESSING PIROS MONARCH

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Vinyl:  EX Play Graded. Sounds Excellent!  Has some marks that don't affect the sound quality.  Rolling Stones Records Custom Labels are Clean and Bright.  This is the Original 1975 Rolling Stones Records COC 39107 1ST PRESSING!   This is the audiophile acclaimed pressing, Mastered by George Piros and Pressed at Monarch Records Mfg. Corp., Los Angeles, CA!  An interesting compilation, with some monster hits and some Deep Cuts like Rip This Joint, Bitch and Dance Little Sister.  This record has been Party-Tested, and friends, it works!  70s Dance Party! 

See Review Below!
In The Dead Wax:  Matrices, etched.  Also, both sides have AT/GP and the Monarch MR glyph  ((Mastered by George Piros at Atlantic Records and Pressed at Monarch Records Mfg. Corp., Los Angeles, CA))  Complete Dead Wax information cheerfully given upon request.

Cover: VG+ (see photos)  Includes the Original Pasteboard Inner Sleeve.  Artwork by Christian Piper.  Is that Angie Bowie on the cover??  Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright, with some wear.    Seams, corners and spine are solid and clean, with some wear.  No splits.  No writing.  Spine print is crystal clear.

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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.  

Made in the Shade Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Released in the summer of 1975, in the down period between Mick Taylor's departure and as the Stones were auditioning guitarists during the recording of 1976's Black and Blue (coincidentally, the '60s rarities comp Metamorphosis also came out in the summer of 1975), Made in the Shade offers a perfunctory summary of the Stones' records from the first half of the '70s. With the exception of their 1974 cover of the Temptations' "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" (presumably left off the LP so Mick and Keith would have all the publishing here), all the U.S. hits from 1971 through 1974 are here -- "Brown Sugar," "Wild Horses," "Happy," "Tumbling Dice," "Angie," "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)," "It's Only Rock 'n Roll" -- and they're balanced out with some sharp, hard-driving album tracks like "Dance Little Sister," "Rip This Joint," and "Bitch," the latter of which was played enough on the radio and in concerts to seem like one of their genuine hits. So, it's not a bad collection, since the albums it anthologizes are pretty great on their own terms -- 1971's Sticky Fingers and 1972's Exile on Main St. are two of the greatest albums of the 20th century. If you happen to have it lying around your house, Made in the Shade is pretty much guaranteed to give you a good time and are a great way to hear this terrific music in a different running order than each song was when they were originally released.