ROLLING STONES Tattoo You EX+ 1981 1ST PRESS BOB LUDWIG MONARCH MASTERDISK
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Vinyl: EX+ Play Graded. Sounds Excellent! Rolling Stones Labels are Clean and Bright. This is the Original 1981 Rolling Stones Records 1st Pressing! COC 16052. The definitive version, Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Masterdisk, NYC, and Pressed at Monarch Records Mfg. Corp., Los Angeles, CA!! This magic combo makes it sound like you're in the room. Hot Stones licks from near the end of their unparalleled run of Classic Rock Albums...this is their one and only album where they separated the straight ahead rockers on one side and the ballads and bedroom rockers on the other side... Crucial. Guest stars include Pete Townshend, Mick Taylor and the amazing Sonny Rollins (on three tracks!!!--Charlie Watts told Mick he'd never get Rollins to appear on a Stones album and Mick met the challenge) Of course: Instant Party! One of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time!! all music gives it 4 1/2 stars!!!
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In the dead wax: Side 1: STRS-814751-C MASTERDISK RL ((Mastered by BOB LUDWIG at Masterdisk, NYC)) EDP M1 16052 MR ((Monarch Records Mfg. Corp., Los Angeles, CA)) "delta" 25242 (3) Side 2: STRS-814752-A MASTERDISK RL ((Mastered by BOB LUDWIG at Masterdisk, NYC)) EDP M1 SF1 SM3 16052 MR ((Monarch Records Mfg. Corp., Los Angeles, CA)) "delta" 25242X (1)
Cover: VG++ (see photos) Includes the trippy heavy cardstock inner sleeve. High gloss on cover. Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright, with minimal shelf wear. Seams, corners and spine are solid and clean, with some wear. No splits. No writing. Spine print is 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.
AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine [-]
Like Emotional Rescue before it, Tattoo You was comprised primarily of leftovers, but unlike its predecessor, it never sounds that way. Instead, Tattoo You captures the Stones at their best as a professional stadium-rock band. Divided into a rock & roll side and a ballad side, the album delivers its share of thrills on the tight, dynamic first side. "Start Me Up" became the record's definitive Stonesyrocker, but the frenzied doo wop of "Hang Fire," the reggae jam of "Slave," the sleazy Chuck Berryrockers "Little T&A" and "Neighbours," and the hard blues of "Black Limousine" are all terrific. The ballad side suffers in comparison, especially since "Heaven" and "No Use in Crying" are faceless. But "Worried About You" and "Tops" are effortless, excellent ballads, and "Waiting on a Friend," with its Sonny Rollins sax solo, is an absolute masterpiece, with a moving lyric that captures Jagger in a shockingly reflective and affecting state of mind. "Waiting on a Friend" and the vigorous rock & roll of the first side make Tattoo You an essential latter-day Stones album, ranking just a few notches below Some Girls.
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