BLACK SABBATH Sabbath Bloody Sabbath UK 1st PRESS w/UNSPLIT INNER
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32
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£ 32
Sold For
Dec 8, 2014
Sold Date
Nov 28, 2014
Start Date
£ 20
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5
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Great Britain
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BLACK SABBATH Sabbath Bloody Sabbath UK 1st PRESS w/UNSPLIT INNER
BLACK SABBATHSabbath Bloody Sabbath
UK WWA (SUPER DE LUXE WWA 005) FIRST PRESSING (December 1973)
THEIR LAST GREAT PIECE OF WORK
ONCE/TWICE PLAYED
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST WWA BLACK/SILVER LABELS
MATRIX: WWA 005 1Y//2 ∇ 420 03 11 13 / WWA 005 2Y//4 ∇ 420 03 14 19
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL MATT GATEFOLD SLEEVE WITH FACTORY SEALED AND FOLDED UNDER LEFT SIDE EDGE “Printed and made by Howards Printers (Slough) Ltd. England”
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL SHAPED CORNER, TEXTURED PAPER LYRIC INNER SLEEVE WITH THE OVER-STAMPED "PATENT Nos 1,125,555" AND "MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN" TEXT
With 1973's Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, heavy metal godfathers Black Sabbath made a concerted effort to prove their remaining critics wrong by raising their creative stakes and dispensing unprecedented attention to the album's production standards, arrangements, and even the cover artwork.
As a result, bold new efforts like the timeless title track, "A National Acrobat," and "Killing Yourself to Live" positively glistened with a newfound level of finesse and maturity, while remaining largely faithful, aesthetically speaking, to the band's signature compositional style.
In fact, their sheer songwriting excellence may even have helped to ease the transition for suspicious older fans left yearning for the rough-hewn, brute strength that had made recent triumphs like Master of Reality and Vol. 4 (really, all their previous albums) such undeniable forces of nature.
But thanks to Sabbath Bloody Sabbath's nearly flawless execution, even a more adventurous experiment like the string-laden "Spiral Architect," with its tasteful background orchestration, managed to sound surprisingly natural, and in the dreamy instrumental "Fluff," Tony Iommi scored his first truly memorable solo piece.
If anything, only the group's at times heavy-handed adoption of synthesisers met with inconsistent consequences, but erstwhile Yes keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman piano brings only good things to the memorable "Sabbra Cadabra".
All things considered, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath was arguably Black Sabbath's fifth masterpiece in four years, and remains an essential item in any heavy metal collection.
Side 1:
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (5:43)
A National Acrobat (6:12)
Fluff (4:05)
Sabbra Cadabra (5:53)
Side 2:
Killing Yourself To Live (5:39)
Who Are You? (4:10)
Looking For Today (4:58)
Spiral Architect (5:29)
LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, unmarked labels - just one or two light spindle traces
VINYL Visual: EXCELLENT/EXCELLENT+
Both surfaces retain their original deep glossy sheen with nothing but harmless hairlines visible under bright light
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT ("Fluff" EX)
Very deep and very heavy sound to this press and my play-check at loud volume found little to fault - just two clicks which rise above background level on the quiet "Fluff" - otherwise, beautifully clean (Side Two is flawless) - very nice copy indeed, and in my experience extremely hard to find playing this well
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT
Crisp and sharp with little edge or spine wear to speak of - just some light marking to the white portions of the back - nothing really
INNER SLEEVE: EXCELLENT
Again, crisp and sharp - no seam splits - just a few marks and a corner crease
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW INNER SLEEVE WITH ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: FREE (2nd Class Recorded Delivery)
UK: £9.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £14.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £17.00 (International Signed For delivery)
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