BLONDIE Best Of SUPERB UK 1981 EX++ LP, COVER & RARE 'ANDY WARHOL'S BAD' POSTER.

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Artist or Band: BLONDIE

Album Title: The Best of Blondie

Producer(s): Mike Chapman, Richard Gottehrer & Giorgio Moroder

TRACK LIST:

Side 1: Heart of Glass; Denis; The Tide is High; In the Flesh; Sunday Girl; Dreaming; Hanging on the Telephone.

Side 2: Rapture; Picture This; Union City Blue; (I’m Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear; Call Me; Atomic; Rip Her to Shreds.

Label/Format: Chrysalis with matt quite smooth surfaces.

Label Conditions: Both very clean, fresh and attractive with only quite light, fine and faint spindle marks and no wear around the hole area. This record plays beautifully.

Catalogue Number: CDL TV1

Mode / Speed: Stereo / 33.3 rpm.

Warps: Assume all records I offer have no warping of any significance and all tracking is easy and effortless and should play on all turntables and even ‘budget’ decks.

Lateral Movement (Side-to-Side): Barely a trace.

Weight of Record: 113 grams.

Country of Manufacture: England

Rarity: Moderate, but less easily found with the large ‘Warhol’ poster fully intact.

Original Year of Release: 1981

Matrix Nos: CDL TV1 A//5 E420 1 1 1 1 & CDL TV1 B//2 E420 1 2 8

Run-Out Groove Etchings: ‘RC’

Musicians: Debbie Harry – vocals; Chris Stein – guitar; Gary Valentine – bass guitar; Jimmy Destri – Farfisa organ, grand piano, RMI piano, Roland synthesiser; Frank Infante – bass guitar, guitar; Nigel Harrison – bass guitar; Clem Burke – drums.

Brief Info: A superb compilation that includes ‘Call Me’ (not on a Blondie album), and some songs are a ‘special mix’ for this set. All the early hits from the early band at the peak of its power and popularity. This UK (European) version includes 14 songs and different to the American version. Also some early copies included a large and fantastic poster of Debbie Harry, known as the ‘Warhol’ poster, here included in impressive, fully intact condition as-seen. A high percentage of these would have been wall-mounted, torn and discarded, so never easy to find like this. The entire set in superb condition, the record hardly played with fantastic sound. An essential set for Blondie fans and collectors.

Cover Grade and Format: EXCELLENT(++): a shiny coated single format cover Printed and made in England, includes the white inner sleeve and scarce large ‘Warhol’ Debbie Harry poster.

Cover Front: Clean, fresh and attractive with minimal creasing or marks, also no sticker issues to the coated surface.

Cover Back: Very similar, better if anything.

Top Edge: Straight with just a couple of minor rub traces.

Bottom Edge: Again similar, any rubbing very fine, light and faint.

Right Edge(s), and Type: Clean, mostly sharp with any thickening tiny and light. Record enters on this edge.

Spine and Text: Solid, straight with minimal compression. The text pretty much all present with no rubbing, the ‘K’ in ‘UK’ on the very end of the corner, so perfection here is near impossible. Any text fading neglible.

Corners: Any tip rubs tiny and light, better than excellent shape mostly retained with no knocks.

Cover Summary: A very strong all-round example of this early 1980’s cover, one that will prove difficult to find much better. This attractive item should please many collectors.

The Inner Sleeve: EXCELLENT(++): a plain solid white unlined inner with the PATENT Nos. 1 125,555. Aged little, hardly creased with all edges naturally intact.

The Poster: EXCELLENT(+): and arguably better. Who could have resisted wall-mounting this superb poster back in the day? Well the one-owner of this one did that, but the great news is, it was not with pins, so no holes or damage. Only gentle traces on the white back of ‘tack’ near the corners that have caused no damage or tears – in fact, the whole poster is solidly intact with no splits. The marks only gentle and light, the front still looks fantastic as seen with hardly any creasing or marks, clearly this was taken down with due care and stored back in the main cover. Any blemishes few and light, all folds still neatly intact and Debbie has not faded, all colour is strong and still fresh. A quite famous poster of her wearing the ‘Andy Warhol’s BAD’ shirt and collectable in its own right. Majority of copies of this set have it missing or trashed, this a very fine example.

Vinyl Condition/Visual Grading: EXCELLENT(++): arguably better. A very fine visual copy that is very clean with equally fine shine and quite solidly pressed. A copy with only few careful plays on all the evidence with any surface marks minuscule and faint as seen critically under bright light. No penetrating stylus scratches, viewed in average room light, barely anything even registers. Visually a super record that should please many, if not most collectors.

Album Played For Grading: Yes. [I play ALL records I offer before submitting to Ebay, also the record is played in its entirety unless clearly stated otherwise. I do NOT play snippets or joining grooves to check for sound quality and quietness – I play from the beginning to end via clinically revealing equipment, all listed further down.]

Sound Quality and Audio Grading: This brilliant compilation album plays even above it’s high visual grading with hardly anything to fault. Offering strong, distortion-free sound, all frequencies are sharp and clear – sound quality is very high with a wide dynamic range and very detailed sound. Any surface sounds are minimal indeed and this is a very clean pressing with no tracking issues* or inherent pressing noises. Few available copies will outperform this early first pressing I feel sure. Both channels are clean and sharp, I am certain this record has been played very lightly and has been very well stored and carefully handled, almost certainly in a non-smoking environment. Nothing spoilt my pleasure when play-grading this lovely record. It will prove very difficult to find significantly better and can be strongly recommended.

* As played-graded on a high-end Linn LP12 Sondek turntable with Ittok Mk II arm and Ortofon Quintet Black moving coil cartridge tracking at 2 grams. Records are a ‘contact’ format, and few will avoid the odd minor sound blemish.

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