BUTTHOLE SURFERS Piouhgd VG++ 1991 Rough Trade R260-1 1ST PRESS Hurdy Gurdy Man
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Vinyl: VG++ Play Graded. Sounds Great! Custom Rough Trade Labels are Clean and Bright. This is the Original 1991 Rough Trade R260-1 1ST PRESSING! This is The Surfers at their Peak! Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones produced the legendary cover of Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man" (and Jones was on the original, too, by the way...) Ya gotta love these rascals...
See Review Below!
In the Dead Wax: matrices, etched on both sides. Complete dead wax information cheerfully provided upon request.
Cover: VG++ (see pictures) Nice high gloss on cover. Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright, with minimal shelf wear. Seams and spine are solid and clean. No splits. No writing. Spine print is crystal clear.
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All records are packaged securely with the vinyl outside the jacket (to avoid seam split in transit). The vinyl and jacket are sandwiched between two cardboard stiffeners and shipped in a custom cardboard record mailer box.
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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.
Pioughd Review
by Ned Raggett
Shifting to Rough Trade shortly before that troubled label ceased American operations, the Surfers found themselves at something of a crossroads with Pioughd. By this time the 'legend' of the Surfers was taking more precedence than the music itself, resulting in a slightly half-hearted. However, Pioughd included, following its appearance on a single, of their cover of Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man." Played live for a number of years beforehand, it's a great take, Haynes' appropriately trippy vocals floating across a fairly straightforward but still powerful run-through of the music. The group's semi-Black Sabbath obsession reappears with a brief squaller called "No, I'm Iron Man," while "Something" is performed as a hilarious Jesus and Mary Chain parody (bizarrely enough a version of that song was first recorded as a demo in 1983). But aside from the lengthy "P.S.Y.," and the CD-only noise collage "Barking Dogs," Pioughd approaches Surfers-by-numbers -- loopy Haynes vocals and squawks, heavy-duty crunt and guitar grunge from Leary and steady rhythm'n'beats from Pinkus and Coffey. It's fun, but not as engaging as their earlier releases. Rembrandt Pussyhorse and Hairway to Steven's variety isn't apparent, unless you count the country pisstake "Lonesome Bulldog," though it's redone four different times throughout the album -- a sign the band was stretching to fill up the album. As a result, Pioughd's best memories come not from songs but moments in them, as when halfway through "Revolution Part 2" the whole band starts chanting "Garry Shandling" for no particular reason and keeps it up for the remainder of the song's length.
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