THE ROLLING STONES Exile On Main St VG+ '72 1st Press Postcards MONARCH ARTISAN
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Vinyl: VG+ Play Graded. Sounds Great! Rolling Stones Record labels are clean. "1841 BWAY, NY, NY" on label, along with "MO", for Monarch Record Mfg. Co., Los Angeles, CA. This is the Original 1972 Rolling Stones Records 1ST Pressing! COC-2-2900. One of the finest versions of Exile, Mastered at Artisan Sound Recorders, Pasadena, CA and Pressed at Monarch Record Mfg. Co., Los Angeles, CA. Crucial Stones. Recorded mainly in the South of France during their storied "Exile" to escape the taxman in England, this is held by many to be the Stones at the height of their craft...Check out the guest stars, too: Dr. John, Billy Preston, Kathi McDonald, etc...One of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time!! allmusic gives it 5 stars!!!
See Review Below!
In the Dead Wax: Side 1: "Rolling Stones Records" ST-RS-722507-BB a "2" with a circle around it V "MR" with a circle around it, for Monarch Record Mfg. Co. "delta" 16944 PR and the glyph for Artisan Sound Recorders, Pasadena, CA.
Side 2: "Rolling Stones Records" ST-RS-722508 BB a "2" with a circle around it V "MR" with a circle around it "delta" 16944-X (1) PR and the glyph for Artisan Sound Recorders.Side 3: "Rolling Stones Records" ST-RS-722509 CC a "1" with a circle around it V "MR" with a circle around it "delta" 16945 PR and the glyph for Artisan.
Side 4: "Rolling Stones Records" ST-RS-722510 CC a "1" with a circle around it V "MR" with a circle around it "delta" 16945-X (1) PR and the glyph for Artisan.
Cover: VG+ (see photos; Initials on front and back cover; spine wear). This is the Robert Frank designed Gatefold cover. The inner spread includes a photo shoot that was filmed as well. Youtube: "Rolling Stones Rocks Off" for your entertainment...This makes this record one of the cheapest (and most famous) Robert Frank prints available!!! Also includes the photo/credits inner sleeves, also from the Robert Frank files... Also includes 6 postcards-- see photos.
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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.
AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine [-]
Greeted with decidedly mixed reviews upon its original release, Exile on Main St. has become generally regarded as the Rolling Stones' finest album. Part of the reason why the record was initially greeted with hesitant reviews is that it takes a while to assimilate. A sprawling, weary double album encompassing rock & roll, blues, soul, and country, Exile doesn't try anything new on the surface, but the substance is new. Taking the bleakness that underpinned Let It Bleed and Sticky Fingers to an extreme, Exile is a weary record, and not just lyrically. Jagger's vocals are buried in the mix, and the music is a series of dark, dense jams, with Keith Richards and Mick Taylor spinning off incredible riffs and solos. And the songs continue the breakthroughs of their three previous albums. No longer does their country sound forced or kitschy -- it's lived-in and complex, just like the group's forays into soul and gospel. While the songs, including the masterpieces "Rocks Off," "Tumbling Dice," "Torn and Frayed," "Happy," "Let It Loose," and "Shine a Light," are all terrific, they blend together, with only certain lyrics and guitar lines emerging from the murk. It's the kind of record that's gripping on the very first listen, but each subsequent listen reveals something new. Few other albums, let alone double albums, have been so rich and masterful as Exile on Main St., and it stands not only as one of the Stones' best records, but sets a remarkably high standard for all of hard rock.
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