TALKING HEADS Little Creatures VG++ 1985 Sire 1ST PRESSING MONARCH STERLING

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Vinyl:  VG++ Play Graded.  Sounds Great!  Has some marks that don't affect the sound quality.  Sire Labels are Clean and Bright.  This is the audiophile acclaimed Original 1985 Sire 1st Pressing, mastered at Sterling Sound, NYC and pressed at Monarch Records Mfg. Corp of Los Angeles, CA!  1-25305.  Talking Heads' most immediately accessible album:  a Pop album but still a trip into the world of David Byrne's sharp observations on life.      allmusic gives it 4 1/2 stars!! 

See Review Below!
In the dead wax:  On both sides:  matrices, etched.  Plus the symbol for Monarch Records ((Pressed at Monarch Records Mfg. Corp., Los Angeles, CA)) and STERLING  ((Mastered at Sterling Sound, NYC)).  Complete dead wax information cheerfully given upon request.

Cover:  VG++  (see photos)   Includes the credits/lyric/art work inner sleeve.  The sleeve has some light stains on it, but this doesn't obscure the printing on the sleeve, nor does it obscure the artwork.  The artwork is by Reverend Howard Finster of Summerville, GA.  Look him up as he's a perceptive light in the world of American folk artists!  His work is highly sought after...consider this a very inexpensive Finster print!!! :) 
Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright.  Tiny paper tear on the back cover (not on the Finster art!)   Seams, corners and spine are solid and clean, with minimal wear.  No splits.  No writing.  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).

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.   

AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann  [-]

Talking Heads' most immediately accessible album, Little Creatures eschewed the pattern of recent Heads albums, in which instrumental tracks had been worked up from riffs and grooves, after which David Byrne improvised melodies and lyrics. The songs on Little Creatures, most of which were credited to Byrne alone (with the band credited only with arrangements) sounded like they'd been written as songs. Perhaps as one result, the band had been streamlined, with extra musicians used only for specific effects rather than playing along as an ensemble. Byrne, who was singing in his natural range for once, frequently was augmented with backup singers. The overall result: ear candy. Little Creatures was a pop album, and an accomplished one, by a band that knew what it was doing. True, Byrne's lyrics were still intriguingly quirky, but even his subject matter was becoming more mature. "I've seen sex and I think it's okay," he sang on "Creatures of Love," and suddenly the geek had become a man. Where he had once pondered the hopes of boys and girls, he was now making observations about children. And even if his impulses remained strange -- "I wanna make him stay up all night," he declared about a baby (presumably not his own) in "Stay Up Late" -- he retained his charm and inventiveness. Little Creatures was, in a sense, Talking Heads lite. It was hard to think of this as the same band that produced "Psycho Killer." But for the band's expanding audience, who made this their second platinum album, that was okay. And their popularity was being accomplished with no diminution in their creativity.