Dead Can Dance. Spleen And Ideal. First UK PRESSING. 4AD CAD 512 VG+

	£		22
	$		29

From Punk to Indi to Industrial to Gothic to Techno to Ambient.

Welcome to a listing from my personal record collection.

A vinyl journey spanning some 18 years and over 1000 pressings from 1977 to 1995.

THIS LISTING IS FOR

Artist Dead Can Dance

Title Spleen And Ideal

Format 12" Vinyl album

Pressing First UK pressing 1985

Lable 4AD

Label Code CAD 512

Barcode No Barcode

Matrix A Side  MPO CAD 512 A² (etched)

Matrix B Side  CAD 512 B² (etched)

TRACK LISTING

A Side 

1 DE PROFUNDIS ( OUT OF THE DEPTHS OF SORROW)

2 ASCENSION

3 CIRCUM RADIANT DAWN

4 THE CARDINAL SIN

5 MESMERISM

B Side 

1 ENIGMA OF THE ABSOLUTE

2 ADVENT

3 AVATAR

4 INDOCTRINATION (A DESIGN FOR LIVING)

A truly excellent copy of Dead Can Dance second Album,

And the one that got me hooked.

'Spleen and Ideal' and 'Within the realm of a dying sun', are towering musical

fortresses hewn from the dark and the forbidding bedrock of Perry's music and

haunted by the plaintive, sorrowful cries and the crackling raw energy 

of Gerrard's truly amazing vocal range...

...Ok enough of the flowery stuff.  

if you haven't got this album, get it. It's truly awesome.

The condition of the playing surfaces of my copy are exceptional. 

Both sides are beautifully glossy, dust and fingerprint free.

A Side  Just about perfect. There are three very small very superficial scuffs at the beginning of 'De Profundis'. That's all.

B Side  Again, just about perfect. One small superficial scuff at the end of 'Advent' and the beginning of 'Avatar'

and three super fine hairlines on 'Indoctrination'

I am being very picky here and have mentioned everything I can see in hard critical daylight. You will have to look

very closely and at specific angles to see the marks and scuffs mentioned above.

Nothing mentioned has the slightest affect on the sound quality or the playing of either side. 

Outer sleeve is in very good condition. The top left corner shows some wear and there is a slight loss of print under

the title where the edge of the disc has caused rubbing with the record next to it on the shelf.

The inner sleeve has a nibble at the top left corner, and the bottom edge has a small split in the middle.

All of this can be seen in the listing images.

Unless otherwise stated every record was purchased by myself from new and only ever played

by myself on my own deck and with as expensive a cartridge as I could afford at the time.

When it comes to attributing a grading to each of my records I will confess I am not an expert.

And while both the Goldmine standard and The Record Collectors systems give us a number of agreed fundamentals

to help determine a grading for vinyl and its associated media, attributing a true and accurate grading to something as

individual as a pre-owned piece of Vinyl is unavoidably subjective.

One person's 'slight scuff' may be another's deal breaker.

With this in mind I will endeavour to describe as accurately as possible, in the descriptions of each listing,

not only what I feel to be a fair grading, but also an overall description of the record in question, along with details

of any and all marks, defects and anomalies I can see.

I am a firm believer in the maxim of - if you can feel it you can hear it.

So if there is anything that looks or feels like it may possibly affect a record's playing quality or sound clarity,

and therefore the pleasure derived from listening to it or its true value to an collector, I will give it one final spin

and make my findings known in the product description.

Over and above this I am happy to take returns.

I personally wouldn't bid on a pre-owned record without the option to return it if I felt that the seller hadn't been

totally truthful and transparent in their description of it, or that on receipt it didn't live up to my expectations. 

And I do not expect you to do so either. 

So please, feel free to bid with confidence.

I am a professional photographer by trade, and have gone to great lengths to light and photograph covers, inner sleeves

and the vinyl's themselves in such a way as to show, as accurately as possible, the actual condition of all.

Rest assured that what you see is exactly what will be despatched to you if you are the successful winner of each listing.

Before photographing each record went through a three stage cleaning process:

1 - Removal of any surface dust with a light brushing over with a carbon fibre and velvet disc cleaning pad

2 - Deep cleaning with large (Big Fudge) velvet pad and cleaning solution

3 - A final brushing with a Pro-Ject carbon fibre record brush.

And finally, because Mr or Mrs  Poasty may not handle your record with the same care and reverence that you or I would,

I will dispatch in a specialised corrugated cardboard record mailing outer, and if I feel even more protection is required

I will also include two extra sheets of 3mm corrugated cardboard for added safety and protection.

Thanks for taking the time to read this and for showing an interest

in giving a new home to one of my records.

I have other listings live right now and will be adding new ones on a regular basis,

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