THIS MORTAL COIL "IT'LL END IN TEARS" & "BLOOD" ORG TEST PRESSINGS RARE SEALED
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THIS AUCTION IS FOR TWO RARE AND STILL SEALED TEST PRESSINGS FOR THE ARTIST THIS MORTAL COIL, FOR THE TITLES "BLOOD" AND "IT'LL END IN TEARS". THESE TITLES WERE REMASTERED FOR THIS VINYL RELEASE AT BERNIE GRUNDMAN MASTERING AND PRESSED AT RTI. THERE ARE LESS THAN TEN OF EACH OF THESE TEST PRESSINGS MADE. "IT'LL END IN TEARS" WAS RELEASED BY ORGMUSIC AND "BLOOD" WAS NOT RELEASED- WHICH MAKES THIS AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE OFFERING.
It'll End in Tears was an album released in 1984 by 4AD using the name This Mortal Coil as an umbrella title for a loose grouping of guest musicians and vocalists brought together by label boss Ivo Watts-Russell. When released in late 1984, the album reached #38 on the UK Albums Chart. It features many of the artists on the 4AD roster at the time, including Dead Can Dance, and key post-punk figure Howard Devoto, who sang "Holocaust", one of two covers of songs from the Third/Sister Lovers album by Big Star. The other Alex Chilton-penned track, album opener "Kangaroo", was released as a single to promote the album. Two key songs were performed by Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins, including Tim Buckley's haunting "Song to the Siren", which reached #66 on the UK Charts when released as This Mortal Coil's debut single a year before the album. The song remained on the UK Indie Chart for almost two years. Fraser also performed on "Another Day" by Roy Harper, a track that had previously been covered as a duet by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush for the latter's TV special. 4AD would go on to release two further albums under the name of This Mortal Coil: Filigree & Shadow (1986) and Blood (1991).
Valentino Records, a sublabel of Atco Records, released the album in the United States in late 1984, the only time a This Mortal Coil album was released simultaneously in the UK and the US. All three This Mortal Coil albums were later re-released in the US in 1993 on 4AD/Warner Brothers, and in 1998 solely on 4AD.
Blood is an album released in 1991 by Ivo Watts-Russell's supergroup, This Mortal Coil. The double album was the final LP in the project's history, although Ivo used two TMC performers on his next project, The Hope Blister, in 1998. "You and Your Sister" was a #13 hit in The Netherlands and spent seven weeks in the Dutch Top 40.
In 2013, NME ranked it at number 492 in its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[1]
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