SADE, Promise USA 1st pressing LP Sweetest Taboo/Never as Good as the First Time

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  Sade ?– Promise Label: Portrait ?– FR 40263 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold  Country: US Released: 1985 Genre: Jazz, Funk / Soul Style: Jazz-Funk, Soul Tracklist Hide Credits A1 Is It A Crime 6:18 A2 The Sweetest Taboo 4:31 A3 War Of The Hearts 6:46 A4 Jezebel 5:27 B1 Mr. Wrong 2:46 B2 Never As Good As The First Time 4:57 B3 Fear Guitar – Carlos Bonnell* 4:06 B4 Tar Baby 3:55 B5 Maureen 4:18 Companies, etc. Manufactured By – Portrait Records (4) Manufactured By – CBS Inc. Produced For – Modern Media Ltd. Mastered At – Frankford/Wayne Mastering Labs Recorded At – Power Plant Studios Recorded At – Studio Miraval Phonographic Copyright (p) – CBS Records Copyright (c) – CBS Records Published By – Silver Angel Music, Inc. Credits Arranged By – Sade Arranged By [Strings] – Nick Ingham* (tracks: B3, B4)  Backing Vocals – Jake Jacas Bass Guitar – Paul S Denman*  Design [Sleeve] – Graham Smith (5) Drums, Percussion – Dave Early Engineer – Mike Pela Keyboards – Andrew Hale Management – Lee Barrett (2) Mastered By – Herb Powers Jr. Mixed By – Mike Pela (tracks: B2)  Percussion – Martin Ditcham Photography By – Toshi Yajima Producer – Ben Rogan (tracks: B2, B5), Mike Pela (tracks: B2), Robin Millar (tracks: A1 to B4), Sade(tracks: B2, B5)  Saxophone, Guitar – Stuart Matthewman Trombone – Pete Beachill Trumpet – Terry Bailey Vocals – Sade Adu Written-By – Hale* (tracks: A1, B1, B5), Ditcham* (tracks: A2), Denman* (tracks: B1, B5), Adu*, Matthewman* (tracks: A1, A3 to B4)  

USA FIRST PRESSING VINYL ALBUM IN GATEFOLD SLEEVE WITH ORIGINAL PRINTED INNER SLEEVE.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+, JUST LIGHT SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR.   INNER SLEEVE HAS MIDDLE SEAM SPLITS.

DISC[S]: VERY GOOD+. NO SCRATCHES, BUT THERE ARE SOME PLAY SCUFFS AND HAIRLINES. CLEAN LABELS.

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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