STRANGLERS, No More Heroes WHITE LABEL PROMO Monarch USA EXCELLENT- LP

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  The Stranglers IV* ?– No More Heroes Label: A&M Records ?– SP-4659 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo  Country: US Released: 1977 Genre: Rock Style: New Wave, Punk Tracklist A1 I Feel Like A Wog 3:16 A2 Bitching 4:23 A3 Dead Ringer 2:46 A4 Dagenham Dave 3:18 A5 Bring On The Nubiles 2:16 A6 Something Better Change 3:35 B1 No More Heroes 3:27 B2 Peasant In The Big Shitty 3:25 B3 Burning Up Time 2:25 B4 English Towns 2:13 B5 School Mam 6:52 Companies, etc. Mixed At – Olympic Studios Copyright (c) – A&M Records, Inc. Phonographic Copyright (p) – A&M Records, Inc. Licensed Through – United Artists Records Ltd. Published By – April Music Ltd. Published By – Albion Music Produced At – T.W. Studios Pressed By – Monarch Record Mfg. Co. – ?22697 Credits Bass, Vocals – Jean Jaques Burnel* Composed By – The Stranglers Drums, Percussion – Jet Black Engineer – Alan Winstanley Engineer [Mix, Assistant] – Nigel Brooke-Harte Engineer [Mix] – Doug Bennett Guitar, Vocals – Hugh Cornwell Keyboards, Vocals – Dave Greenfield Photography By – Trevor Rogers (2) Photography By [Solarisation] – Eamonn O'Keefe Producer – Martin Rushent Sleeve, Art Direction – Paul Henry (6) Notes Produced at T.W. Studios, Fulham.  Mixed at Olympic Studios, Barnes.  The Stranglers are Albion Artistes:  Stranglers Information Service:  Tony Moon, Strangled Magazine, 40 Wood Yates Road, London SE12.  Printed picture inner sleeve.  White Label printed "Promotion Copy - Not For Sale"  Some copies have small white-on-gray sticker on back cover "Promotional Record For Broadcast & Review NOT FOR SALE" Barcode and Other Identifiers Matrix / Runout (Side A Etched): AM SP 5055 P1 Matrix / Runout (Side B Etched): AM SP 5056 P1 Matrix / Runout (Runout Side A [Variant, Etched w/ Monarch Stamp]): AM SP 5055 M1 MR ?22697 (3) Matrix / Runout (Runout Side B [Variant, Etched w/ Monarch Stamp]): AM SP 5056 M3 MR ?22697-X   

USA WHITE LABEL PROMO VINYL ALBUM WITH ORIGINAL PRINTED INNER SLEEVE.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+, JUST LIGHT SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR. CORNER DRILL HOLE.   INNER SLEEVE[S] VERY GOOD+ WITH NO SEAM SPLITS.

DISC[S]: EXCELLENT MINUS. NO SCRATCHES, JUST A FEW VERY LIGHT HAIRLINES. CLEAN LABELS.

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.  

     
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