ABBA Japan "Special" Series Coloured 4-LP Rare All NM Complete Set +OBI&Inner

$

180

?ABBA Special All NM 4LP complete set / Japan-onlyRED BLUE YELLOW GREEN WAX 

ABBA Disco Special, mega-rare 1982 Japanese 40-track set of all FOUR different translucent coloured vinyl limited pressed LPs with picture labels. The set includes 'Disco Special 1' in RED VINYL, 'Disco Special 2' in BLUE VINYL, 'Dancing Special' in YELLOW VINYL and 'Love Sounds Special' in GREEN VINYL, each housed in its original corresponding colour picture sleeve with lyrics to all songs printed in English on the reverse, and comes complete with Japanese text lyric insert discography obi-strip.  All vinyls and sleeves are in near mint condition! A must for all fans. Extraordinarily hard to find.
Tracklisting
Disco Special 1
1. Summer Night City
2. Voulez Vous
3. Angeleyes
4. Bang A Boomerang
5. Waterloo
6. Gimme Gimme Gimme
7. On And On And On
8. Intermezzo No 1
9. So Long
10. Money Money Money

Disco Special 2
1. Lay All your Love On Me
2. Tiger
3. Kisses Of Fire
4. Dum dum Diddle
5. Take A Chance On Me
6. As Good As New
7. Hole In your Soul
8. Lovelight
9. Super Trouper
10. My Mama Said

Dancing Special
1. Dancing Queen
2. Mamma Mia
3. What About Livingstone
4. He Is Your Brother
5. The King Has Lost His Crown
6. If It Wasn't For The Nights
7. That's Me
8. Does Your Mother Know
9. SOS
10. Dance (While The Music Still Goes On)

Love Sounds Special
1. The Winner Takes It All
2. Gonna Sing You My Lovesong
3. One Man One Woman
4. My Love My Life
5. I've Been Waiting For You
6. Move On
7. Fernando
8. I Am Just A Girl
9. Chiquitita
10. Thank You For The Music  
Condition (Sleeve / Disc) = NM(except red sleeve in VG) /NM   ( Mint > NM > EX >VG >G> Poor, with +/-, if any  )   Grading is based on visual observation only.  
Postage&Packing
Worldwide: US$ 14.99 (Registered Economy Airmail): about 10~14days. With Tracking. Buyer assume all risks of damages in transit.
???The buyes in the countries for which there's no "registered SAL (economy air mail)" service from Japan, i.e. Australia, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Hungary, Poland, Paraguai, Greenland, Serbia, Taiwan and Moldova, shall bear the extra shipping cost as it has to be shipped by registared "regular" air mail. The extra shipping cost will be US$5 to 7, depending on the actual weight including packing. Please ask before bidding if such buyers would like to know how much the extra will be.  (Regular air mail will be delivered much faster than SAL usually. ) 

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Why Japanese vinyl releases are so special?

?Premium Quality Pressings Japanese vinyl releases are premium quality pressings, much sought after by audiophiles and collectors alike. Japanese pressings are synonymous with quality - the vinyl shines like no other countrys' pressing - everything about their releases feels special. It is a famous story that when US audiophile label Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab first released their series of high quality pressings the records were manufactured in Japan. The sonic quality of Japanese pressings is considered to be among the best in the world.  
?Obi All Japanese LPs were issued originally with an obi.  This delicate paper strip, usually wrapped around the left side of the album cover, often contains marketing information and album content details, all printed in Japanese kanji and ~kana script. Obi designs can be as varied as the LPs they adorn, and some series of obi designs can be as collectable as the artists' albums they decorate. Obis make a unique, attractive addition to the overall package and are becoming increasingly rare, especially on LPs from the 1960s and 70s. Their delicate and disposable nature meant that very early obis were routinely discarded, so that now they can often be worth several times more than the record they accompany.
?Sleeve Printing and Insert Japanese releases are beautifully presented; their covers usually printed on better quality heavy stock paper and almost always including a bonus lyric insert with dual language Japanese & English text.

As you see now, Japanese records make, regardless of your musical taste, a stunning addition to any collection. Audibly and visually they present the collector with a feast of delights. Genuine mint condition records, complete with inserts and obi, are becoming rarer every day. Whatever the digital age throws at you there is still a valid opinion that says vinyl sounds best. With Japanese records, you get top quality pressings and a tactile picture sleeve that looks stunning, and you can sing along from the lyric insert. This is the real alternative to a download!

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