JOY DIVISION "STILL" rare first italian mispress

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Oct 22, 2004 Sold Date

Oct 15, 2004 Start Date

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JOY DIVISION "STILL" (2 LPs) first italian mis-pressing
FACT 40 - 1/8/81 - Prodotto da Base Record, Italy

This is the rare first italian pressing, featuring wrong master of record 1.
The differences between this version and the right one are:

SIDE A
- After track 1 "Excercise One", Ian can be heard saying: "I still can't hear meself"
- Before track 2 "Ice Age" there's some 'instrumental tuning'
- Track 3 "The Sound Of Music" starts with some (very silent) talking
- Track 4 is "Digital" instead of "Glass"
- Track 5 "The Only Mistake" has the same intro and outro, although according to some this song has a little bit of extra 'noise'/'sound' at the start.
SIDE B
- "Dead Souls" replaces "Walked In Line" as track 6
- Although track 7, "The Kill", is supposed to have extra 'noise'/'sound' at the start, actually the very short note at the start is missing (the rather faint note, sounding like Peter Hook is moving his finger lightly across one of the strings on his bass guitar, like at the start of "Walked In Line")
- The intro of track 8 "Something Must Break" is slightly longer, with some additional (synth/keyboards?) 'noises'
- "Walked In Line" replaces "Dead Souls" as track 9
- "Sister Ray" has no differences
SIDE C - no differences
SIDE D - no differences

The labels list the correct songs/running order though (it's got black labels with white writing, and the song titles are listed too unlike on the UK version).

A way to identify this "mis-pressing" from the later Italian pressings with the approved mix (all are on the Base Record label) is that this one has "Via Castiglione 109 Bologna" address on the back cover. All the later pressings with the regular mix/master (same as the UK pressing etc.) have another address on the back cover, i.e.: "Via Collamarini". It's not sure how many copies were made, but it's a bit hard to find.

Cover is in "very good" conditions, with some creases at the edges. The records look "excellent" apart a scratch at the beginning of side B that affect the listening with a "click" for the first half of first track. For this reason I grade also the vinyl as "very good". This is the first edition I bought in 1981. I immediately noticed the mistakes in the tracklist and I wrote to Base Records. They sent me an answer saying that the mispressed edition was immediately deleted and a new one was on the way to the shops. But after a month I found the original UK hessian sleeve edition and I put this one in the shelf.

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