Big Black - Sound of Impact Vinyl LP Ltd Ed. Mint cond.
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Description
Original pressing of the Numbered Limited Edition (No. 1467). In pristine condition with original booklet intact. Extremely rare and hard to find. Very collectable.
Description from dementlieu.com :-
This is an incredible live album, absolutely mandatory listening, even (especially) if you're one of the fools who claims not to like live albums (what next, you don't like sex, either?). Every song just SHREDS...each and every track is as good (or more often, better) than the studio versions. Jordan, Minnesota reaches spine-tingling heights of creepiness...the versions on Atomizer, Live, Pig Pile and Deathwish, are sunny walks in the park compared to this monster...
Compiled from four or five different soundboard recordings, this LP is a quality productTM, despite appearances to the contrary. It also comes with a nifty booklet of photos and misc. crap to keep you amused when you aren't listening to the record.
This was also supposedly the cause of Big Black's break with Blast First. The idea for its release was conceived during their first visit to Europe in early 1986 (when they were being wooed by Blast First), and appeared in October or November of that year. The album was supposed to be released like a scummy bootleg--no contact info, no band name on the record, a fake record label (Walls Have Ears), in a numbered edition of 1000 copies. When that 1000 copies sold out, 500 more numbered copies were pressed with the band's permission. Then in 1990 (I think) an unnumbered and unauthorized edition of 500 was pressed, and when they started turning up in US record stores Albini threw a fit, and even claimed he was going to burn the $5000 Paul Smith had offered him as payment for the unauthorized repress. I don't know if Steve actually did burn the money, but he sure left Blast First in a huff, taking Big Black, Rapeman and Arsenal with him, as well as scuttling the planned Last Live video and album.
This is one of the more in-demand Big Black items (harder to come by than the Headache/Heartbeat pack and Big Money 12", but not as rare as the Rema Rema 7"), despite the fact that it was in the UK indie charts for FIVE WEEKS, peaking at #7. Just TRY to find a copy if you don't believe me...
The numbered pressing of the record had a rough cardstock sleeve and the booklet was pressed on slick (but thin) paper. The repress had a glossy cardstock sleeve and the booklet was on heavier paper. Otherwise the two releases are identical.
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