RUTS DC - ANIMAL NOW - 1981 GREECE - VIRGIN RECORDS V2193 - DRILL HOLE
$
52
Favourite Auctions
To save auctions to your favourites, please login
If you don't have an account, please register
Description
Purchased Brand New in a record store and still in Original Shrink Wrap with one end opened to access album. This vinyl is UNPLAYED. There is a DIE-CUT DRILL HOLE on the front left top area. All four corners show some wear, front bottom right and back top and bottom left corners are "rumpled" (see pictures). There are a few "rougher spots" along the album access edge on front side and back side (see pictures). Spine looks good with lettering close to centered.
Plain paper inner sleeve has some very slight "creasing" and there is a "partial hole" knick on one edge from the Die-Cut (see pictures). There is a tiny tear on the access opening and one side has a split (see pictures).
Album vinyl is unplayed. There are no defects visible in critical sunlight with labels being unmarked and like new.
Side One: Mirror Smashed - Dangerous Minds - Slow Down - Despondency - Different View Side Two: No Time to Kill - Fools - Walk or Run - Parasites
Below in Bold holds true for this edition:
UK import sleeve.
Vinyl made in Greece.
First cat# on labels, 2nd on cover.
- Virgin – 2473 760, Virgin – V2193
- Rights Society: BIEM
Matrix Runout Side B: V 2193 B 2 [(Stamped) TOWNHOUSE] 30 & 31 2473 760 B ...THE CURSE OF ODIN
The Ruts (later known as The Ruts D.C.) are an English reggae-influenced punk rock band, notable for the 1979 UK top 10 hit single "Babylon's Burning", and an earlier single "In a Rut", which was not a hit but was highly regarded and regularly played by BBC Radio 1 disc jockey John Peel. The band's newfound success was cut short by the death of lead singer Malcolm Owen from a heroin overdose in 1980. Despite this, the band continued under a different musical style as Ruts D.C. until 1983, when they disbanded.
The Ruts, at the time consisting of Ruffy, Fox, and Jennings, renamed themselves The Ruts D.C. with "D.C." standing for the Italian phrase da capo, meaning "from the beginning," to signify a restart in the aftermath of Owen's death. Part of the band's restart involved shifting their musical style, performing more in line with dub music and a more dedicated fusion of reggae and punk rock. The band's restart led to the release of Animal Now, their first album since their renaming, in May 1981 on Virgin Records. Animal Now featured several songs that had been written and even recorded prior to Owen's death; some were written afterwards. All the band members sang lead vocals at various points during the recording of Animal Now, although Jennings considered himself the band's lead vocalist at that time and served as the band's frontman during live performances, a task he found "difficult and sometimes depressing[,] basically," partially because he felt as if he was "walking in Malcolm's shoes on the old songs and as a frontman."
The band reformed in 2007, shortly before their original guitarist Paul Fox died of cancer the same year. The Ruts D.C. currently consists of the band's original bassist and drummer, John "Segs" Jennings and David Ruffy, with a new guitarist, Leigh Heggarty.
price rating
