The Boys Next Door. Door Door. Mushroom. Black Label. Vinyl LP. VG++ Rare. 1980

	£		25
	$		33

From Punk to Indi to Industrial to Gothic to Techno to Ambient.

Welcome to a listing from my personal record collection.

A vinyl journey spanning some 18 years and over 1000 pressings from 1977 to 1995.

THIS LISTING IS FOR

Artist The Boys Next Door

Title Door Door

Format 12" vinyl album

Pressing Second Australian pressing 1980

Label Mushroom

Label Code L 36931

Barcode No barcode

Matrix A Side  3 SMX54215 2A2 (etched)

Matrix B Side  8 SMX54216 2A (etched)

TRACK LISTING

A Side 1 The Nightwatchman   2 Brave Exhibitions   3 Friends Of My World   4 The Voice

           5 Roman Roman   6 Somebody's Watching

B Side 1 After A Fashion   2 Dive Position   3 I Mistake Myself   4 Shivers

An absolutely superb copy of The Boys Next Door's debut album.

Nick Cave and the gang before becoming The Birthday Party

and then The Bad Seeds.

First pressed in 1979, this is the second pressing

in 1980 on Mushroom Records with black labels.

Aussi import with import sticker on back sleeve.

The condition of the playing surfaces is superb,

as near mint as I believe you are likely to find in a record that has been played,

with a very minor exception. There are a couple of tiny marks in Shivers,

one of which causes a pop for three rotations. The first is very faint, the second, more noticeable,

and the third is again very faint.

Apart from this, the vinyl is in as good condition as the day it was pressed

and has only been played a couple of times since I bought it in 1980.

The outer sleeve is in superb condition,

there are a couple of very fine creases and a little wear is noticeable in the black at the

bottom of the front cover. Please see listing images.

Corners are good and the spine is also in excellent condition.

Unless otherwise stated every record was purchased by myself from new and only ever played

by myself on my own deck and with as expensive a cartridge as I could afford at the time.

When it comes to attributing a grading to each of my records I will confess I am not an expert.

And while both the Goldmine standard and The Record Collectors systems give us a number of agreed fundamentals

to help determine a grading for vinyl and its associated media, attributing a true and accurate grading to something as

individual as a pre-owned piece of Vinyl is unavoidably subjective.

One person's 'slight scuff' may be another's deal breaker.

With this in mind I will endeavour to describe as accurately as possible, in the descriptions of each listing,

not only what I feel to be a fair grading, but also an overall description of the record in question, along with details

of any and all marks, defects and anomalies I can see.

I am a firm believer in the maxim of - if you can feel it you can hear it.

So if there is anything that looks or feels like it may possibly affect a record's playing quality or sound clarity,

and therefore the pleasure derived from listening to it or its true value to a collector, I will give it one final spin

and make my findings known in the product description.

Over and above this I am happy to take returns.

I personally wouldn't bid on a pre-owned record without the option to return it if I felt that the seller hadn't been

totally truthful and transparent in their description of it, or that on receipt it didn't live up to my expectations. 

And I do not expect you to do so either. 

So please, feel free to bid with confidence.

I am a professional photographer by trade, and have gone to great lengths to light and photograph covers, inner sleeves

and the vinyl themselves in such a way as to show, as accurately as possible, the actual condition of all.

Rest assured that what you see is exactly what will be despatched to you if you are the successful winner of each listing.

Before photographing each record went through a three stage cleaning process:

1 - Removal of any surface dust with a light brushing over with a carbon fibre and velvet disc cleaning pad

2 - Deep cleaning with large (Big Fudge) velvet pad and cleaning solution

3 - A final brushing with a Pro-Ject carbon fibre record brush.

And finally, because Mr or Mrs  Poasty may not handle your record with the same care and reverence that you or I would,

I will dispatch in a specialised corrugated cardboard record mailing outer, and if I feel even more protection is required

I will also include two extra sheets of 3mm corrugated cardboard for added safety and protection.

Thanks for taking the time to read this and for showing an interest

in giving a new home to one of my records.

I have other listings live right now and will be adding new ones on a regular basis,

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