NEIL YOUNG Self-Titled Debut 'NO NAME' Orig.1968 1st Press 1B/1D Reprise 6317 LP

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NEIL YOUNG
Self-Titled Debut LP
"NO NAME" Original withdrawn Cover Art

REPRISE Records RS 6317
Original 1968 issue • Stereo LP
Original 2-Tone, W7 'Steamboat'  logo labels
1B / 1D Matrix • Original CSG Stereo Mix


VINYL is VG+ (STRONG)
Exceptionally clean, gleaming gloss vinyl has a few non-feelable surface scratches, viewed under hard bright light that are 100% inaudible. LP plays a truly superb EX+ to NM throughout with utterly silent grooves and super clean, distortion-free sound throughout. Labels are pristine both sides.
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COVER is EX
Snapping bright and spanking clean gatefold is crisp and vibrant with a mere touch of faint shelf wear. No creases, writing or soil. lightly bumped (still sharp) u.l, l.l. corners. All corners sharp, all edges straight. Inside gatefold is spotlessly clean. Seams and smooth spine are completely intact with no splits.

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NM / EX(VG++) / VG+ / VG

Highly sought, very collectible rare 1st Press with full cover portrait and no "NEIL YOUNG" text on front cover.

ORIGINAL MIX: Tracks A3, A4, B2, and B3 were significantly re-mixed on the more common reissue of the RS 6317 LP,
which has an added "RE" etched in the trail-off after matrix & record number.

This issue has no "RE" etched in the trail-off after matrix & record number.

FIRST PRESSING
MATRIX NUMBERS:
Side One: 30817 RS 6317A - 1B 
Side Two: 30818 RS 6317 B -1D
NO "RE" anywhere in trail-off wax.

Neil's groundbreaking debut solo venture after leaving the Buffalo Springfield

This First Press release used the Haeco-CSG encoding system. This technology was intended to make stereo records that would "fold-down" properly on mono record players . This version was withdrawn 9 months after its initial release and contains four tracks in a different mix and the whole album in an entirely different mastering. The later pressings (with "RE" in matrix numbers) were re-released without Haeco-CSG processing. The words "Neil Young" were added to the album cover after what was left of the original stock had been used up, so copies of both mixes exist in the original sleeve. Copies of the original mix are now rare and sought-after, because many Neil Young fans believe that the remix diminished the songs, especially "Here We Are in the Years".

Initial sales of the album were dismal; it's estimated that less than 10,000 Reprise Warner 7-Arts label copies sold through 1969 (including initial sales of the revised version). Neil also started to have second thoughts about the mixes of "Here We Are In The Years", "What Did You Do To My Life" & "If I Could Have Her Tonight" and decided to re-do them. None of these remixes are an improvement over the originals, especially the "HWAITY" remix suffers from its botched-up and shortened ending.

The sonic differences between US versions of the original and RE-1 are quite huge. The revised version has since become the standard version used on vinyl and the original and the remastered CDs, making these original mixes quite rare and highly prized, even as they are inherently low-level mixes that may require a louder volume setting to appreciate their full sonic qualities.

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