EAGLES Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 NM 1976 Asylum 6E-105 DIE-CUT RICK GRIFFIN

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Vinyl:  NM Play Graded. Plays Like New!   Super High Gloss Vinyl.  Superb Fidelity!  Asylum Art Labels are Clean.   This is the 1976 Asylum Release.  6E-105.   This is the best introduction to The Eagles signature sound!  Their Definitive version of their Greatest Hits!  all music gives it 5 stars!!! See Review Below!
In the dead wax:   Side 1:  6E-105-A 03-SH-AR  B-14485 - AO3    +   SLM  ((Sheffield Lab Matrix))  "delta" 1445
Side 2: 6E-105-B 03-SH-AR  MR ((Monarch Records Corp., Los Angeles, CA))  B-14486 - BO3    +   SLM  ((Sheffield Lab Matrix))  "delta" 1445-X
Cover: NM (see photos)  Original Die-Cut Cover! Artwork on the cover by Rick Griffin, well known for his psychedelic art posters of the '60s.  Nice high gloss on cover. Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright.  Seams, corners and spine are solid and clean, with minimal wear.  No splits.  No writing.  Spine print is crystal clear.

Goldmine Standards.   I play grade every record that I sell on eBay as I have found you can't rate a record accurately by just visually inspecting it.  I wipe the dust off of every cover with clean, unscented baby wipes.  I professionally clean the vinyl.  (I also operate a Vinyl Record Cleaning business for your dusty/dirty records--if interested, send me a message).

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.

AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann  [-]

On their first four albums, the Eagles were at pains to demonstrate that they were a group of at least near-equals, each getting a share of the songwriting credits and lead vocals. But this compilation drawn from those albums, comprising the group's nine Top 40 hits plus "Desperado," demonstrates that this evenhandedness did not extend to singles -- as far as those go, the Eagles belong to Glenn Frey and Don Henley. The tunes are melodic, and the arrangements -- full of strummed acoustic guitars over a rock rhythm section often playing a shuffle beat, topped by tenor-dominated harmonies -- are immediately engaging. There is also a lyrical consistency to the songs, which often concern romantic uncertainties in an atmosphere soaked in intoxicants. The narrators of the songs usually seem exhausted, if not satiated, and the loping rhythms are appropriate to these impressions. All of which means that, unlike the albums from which they come, these songs make up a collection consistent in mood and identity, which may help explain why Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) works so much better than the band's previous discs and practically makes them redundant. No wonder it was such a big hit out of the box, topping the charts and becoming the first album ever certified platinum. Still, there must be more to it, since the album wasn't just a big hit, but one of the biggest ever, becoming one of the very few discs to cross the threshold of 20 million copies and competing for the title of best-selling album of all time. There may be no explaining that, really, except to note that this was the pervasive music of the first half of the 1970s, and somehow it never went away.