SEALED rock LP TRAFFIC “Last Exit” on UNITED ARTISTS U. S. orig WOW

$

40

Title:   TRAFFIC “Last Exit”

Label:   UNITED ARTISTS ~ UAS 6702.  Stereo pressing.  Album is still sealed in original shrink wrap.    

Year:  1969

Review: 

“Since Traffic originally planned its self-titled second album as a double LP, the group had extra material left over, some of which saw release before the end of 1968 (there was a new, one-off single released in December, "Medicated Goo"/"Shanghai Noodle Factory").  In January 1969, Steve Winwood announced the group's breakup. That left Island Records, the band's label, in the lurch, since Traffic had built up a considerable following. As far as Island was concerned, it was no time to stop, and the label quickly set about assembling a new album.  The non-LP B-side "Withering Tree," "Medicated Goo," and "Shanghai Noodle Factory" were pressed into service, along with "Just for You," the B-side of a solo single by on-again, off-again member Dave Mason that had been released originally in February 1968 and happened to feature the rest of the members of Traffic as sidemen; a short, previously unreleased instrumental; and two extended jams on cover songs from a 1968 live appearance at the Fillmore West.  It all added up to more than half an hour of music, and that was enough to package it as the posthumous Traffic album “Last Exit.”  Actually, “Last Exit” isn't bad as profit-taking products go.  "Just for You" is one of Mason's elegant folk-pop songs, including attractive Indian percussion.  "Medicated Goo" has proven to be one of Traffic's more memorable jam tunes, despite its nonsense lyrics, and the equally appealing "Shanghai Noodle Factory" is hard not to interpret as Winwood's explanation of the band's split.  And while the cover material seems unlikely, the songs are used as platforms for the band to jam cohesively.  So, Traffic's third album, thought at the time of its release to be the final one, has its isolated pleasures, even if it doesn't measure up to its two predecessors.”

(courtesy William Ruhlmann, allmusic.com.) 

Track Listing:

• Just For You
• Shanghai Noodle Factory
• Something’s Got a Hold of My Toe
• Withering Tree
• Medicated Goo
• Feelin’ Good
• Blind Man

Condition: 

NOTE:  This album came to us STILL SEALED, as part of the estate of a shop owner who maintained a personal collection of fine vintage LPs, many of them sealed. 

Album is STILL SEALED in original shrink wrap.  Shrink is clean and tight.  Original retail price sticker is affixed to the shrink wrap on the front upper right.  Upper right corner has been clipped to indicate this was a deletion/cut-out.

Amazing to find this one after all these years that has never been on a turntable.  For the true mint fanatic!    

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