XTC - BLACK SEA - 1980 UK IMPORT - GREEN OUTER BAG - VIRGIN V 2173 - 1ST EDITION
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Purchased new, this ia a JEM 1980 Import from the UK on Virgin Records V 2173. It came in the Green Paper Outer Bag. Plain white paper inner sleeve with 2 sided lyrics sheet with credits. Has been stored in the plastic bag it's entire life. The outer green bag has some edge creasing, and a small black dirt mark about 2 inches below the right side of the "A" on Black. No rips, splits or tears (see pictures). The album cover itself has a "pinch crease" (hard to see) (see pictures) on bottom front right area and the top front left by spine. There is on the front, parallel to the top, a slight "scratchy" line going across the front in three segments (see pictures). Spine is nice with lettering close to center. Bottom right front and top front left corners have a small "crush" on the corners (see pictures). All other corners and edges are nice along with the album access edge.
Original Inner paper sleeve is in excellent shape with very minor wrinkling showing. One side has on the left "PATENT Nos. 1,125,555" and on the right "MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN".(see pictures)
Has the original two-sided lyric sheet (see pictures) and it is in Like New condition.
Vinyl is PRISTEEN. MAY OF BEEN PLAYED ONCE TO RECORD ONTO TAPE IF AT ALL. I always used a Shure M91ED cartridge and stylus tracking at 1 gram. Labels are the Virgin white with black plain print, like new condition.
℗ 1980 Virgin Records Limited
Initial copies came in green paper bag with title printed on it in black. There was no title on the front cover of this version.
Lyrics/credit insert also included.
Made in England
Runouts are mostly etched, some characters stamped.
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 5): V2173 A3 1 1 TOWNHOUSE A
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 5): V2173 B2 1 1 B TOWNHOUSE
The album's title was chosen in reference to the board game Go in order to continue the black-and-white colour scheme from White Music. The "2" was added by Andrews. Its cover was designed and executed byHipgnosis. It consists of an essay about how album covers are used to attract buyers of the album. On the first British pressings of the LP version of the Go 2 album the track listing on the vinyl disc label mimicked the type style of the cover art. The label is crammed full of text. In some non-English speaking countries, the group shot that was featured on the album's inner sleeve in the UK was used instead as the album cover. The French 13-track album, including the bonus track "Are You Receiving Me?", was one of the releases that featured this sleeve. Yugoslavia was another country that issued this version of the sleeve.
The essay would change depending on the medium (vinyl or CD) and label (Virgin, Epic or Geffen) the album was released on. A separate essay was prepared for cassette editions in the UK.
Go 2 was released in October 1978 to positive reviews and a number 21 chart peak. The initial 15,000 pressings of the album came with a bonus disc of five dub remixes entitled Go+. In 1990, these tracks were included on the compilation Explode Together: The Dub Experiments 78-80. Like White Music, Go 2 was given praise in Sounds, Melody Maker, and theNME. The Nottingham Evening Post wrote that "there's a wider range of experimentation, less instrumental clutter and a hatful of unpredictable twists," and noted that the hooklines are "just as tricksily devastating." Drums and Wires is the third studio album by the English rock band XTC, released 17 August 1979 on Virgin Records. It is a more pop-orientated affair than the band's previous, Go 2 (1978), and was named for its emphasis on guitars ("wires") and expansive-sounding drums. The album was their first issued in the United States and their first recorded with guitarist Dave Gregory, who had replaced keyboardist Barry Andrews earlier in 1979. It features a mix of pop, art rock, new wave and punk styles with much rhythmic interplay between XTC's two guitarists. Black Sea, released in September 1980, reunited the group with Steve Lillywhite and Padgham and was well-received critically. Singles "Generals and Majors", "Towers of London" and "Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me)" returned them to the charts at numbers 32, 31 and 16, respectively. "Sgt. Rock" provoked feminist hate-mail for the lyric "keep her stood in line". Partridge regretted the song, calling it "crass but not enjoyably crass". "Respectable Street" was banned from BBC radio due to its references to abortion and a "Sony Entertainment Centre". Partridge believed Black Sea was the closest the group had come to representing their live sound in the studio. It remains XTC's second-highest charting British album, placing at number 16, and the most successful album in the U.S. of their career, peaking at number 41 on the Billboard 200.That October, the documentary XTC at the Manor, which featured the band faking a studio session for "Towers of London", was broadcast on BBC2.. Part of my personal collection.price rating
