Paul Simon/Still Crazy After All These Years, 180G Mofi One Step 2LP (sealed)

$

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Limited to Just 8,000 Numbered Copies!
MoFi SuperVinyl Pressed At RTI!

Mastered from the Original Master Tapes with Mobile Fidelity's One-Step Process: Paul Simon Still Crazy After All These Years UD1S 180g 45RPM 2LP Box Set Sounds Sensational

Grammy-Winning 1975 Album Reflects on Midlife Circumstance, Relationships, Transitions, and Disillusionment: Features Crafty Jazz-Pop Arrangements and Four Top 40 Hits

Premium Packaging Includes Opulent Box, Foil-Stamped Jackets, MoFi SuperVinyl LPs Pressed at RTI: Keepsake Strictly Limited to 8,000 Numbered Copies

Exorcising personal demons and reflecting on midlife circumstance, Paul Simon frames Still Crazy After All These Years as a post-divorce statement yet retains cutting humor and lighthearted cynicism that make every song universally appealing. A succession of brooding vocals, jazz-laden arrangements, contagious hooks, and an appearance by the famed Muscle Shoals rhythm section further conspire to make the record a lasting template for mature pop music that offers meaningful contemplation of relationships, transitions, disillusionment, and responsibility. A chart-topping statement that coincided with Simon's ascent as a superstar solo artist, it now sounds more immediate, cunning, and refined than ever courtesy of painstaking restoration.

Strictly limited to 8,000 numbered copies, pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl at RTI, and mastered from the original master tapes, Mobile Fidelity's ultra-hi-fi UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP collector's edition enhances the music for generations to come. Surpassing the sonics of any prior version, it provides a clear, transparent, ultra-dynamic view of a record that won Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. The expanse and depth of the soundstage, fullness of detail, reach of the omnipresent electric piano, and natural bloom and decay of individual notes all reach demonstration-grade levels.

The other charting numbers - the loose-limbed title track (complete with a Michael Brecker saxophone solo), "Gone at Last" (a duet with Phoebe Snow), and "My Little Town" (which reunited Simon with his former partner Art Garfunkel for the first time in nearly five years) - prove equally sharp. In certain ways, Still Crazy After All These Years plays as the musical complement to Woody Allen's signature film Annie Hall, which, coincidentally, Simon would appear as a sleazy record producer. Relatedly, "Have a Good Time" witnesses Simon laughing his way through thinly disguised depression while the kiss-off "You're Kind" distills a splintered romance down to the preference of keeping a window open or closed.

"And you're good, you're so good/You introduced me to your neighborhood" Simon sings, slicing through pain with stinging zingers and a coy grin that announce the turning over of a new leaf, which culminated with his performing on "Saturday Night Live" in a turkey costume. But that's a story for another day.

Developed by NEOTECH and RTI, MoFi SuperVinyl is the most exacting-to-specification vinyl compound ever created. Analog lovers have never seen (or heard) anything like it. Extraordinarily expensive and extremely painstaking to produce, the special proprietary   compound addresses two specific areas of improvement: noise floor reduction and enhanced groove definition. The vinyl composition features a new carbonless dye (hold the disc up to the light and see) and produces the world's quietest surfaces. This   high-definition formula also allows for the creation of cleaner grooves that are indistinguishable from the original lacquer. MoFi SuperVinyl provides the closest approximation of what the label's engineers hear in the mastering lab.

Features

   
• Limited to Two Copies Per Customer
   
• Numbered, Limited Edition - Only 8,000 Copies
   
• MoFi SuperVinyl Pressing
   
• UltraDisc One-Step
• 180g Vinyl
   
• 45rpm Speed Edition
   
• 2LP Box Set
   
• Mastered from the Original Master Tapes
• Opulent box
   
• Special foil-stamped jackets
   
• Production and Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
   
• Pressed at RTI
 

Selections

   
1. Still Crazy After All These Years   
2. My Little Town   
3. I Do It For Your Love   
4. 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover   
5. Night Game   
6. Gone At Last   
7. Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy   
8. Have A Good Time   
9. You're Kind   
10. Silent Eyes