PRINCE 1999 EX+ IN SHRINK 1982 2LP Warners 1-23720 1ST PRESS MONARCH
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Vinyl: EX+ Play Graded. Sounds Excellent! Has some marks that don't affect the sound quality. Warner Brothers Picture Labels are Clean. This is the 1982 Warner Brothers Double LP 1st Pressing!! 23720-1. The Definitive Analog variant, the audiophile acclaimed pressing, Mastered by Bernie Grundman at A&M Records and Pressed at Monarch Records Mfg. Corp., Los Angeles, CA!! Instant Dance Party! Prince's Breakthrough album! Brimming with signature Prince Funk, salacious Pop at its Best! One of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time!!! allmusic gives it 5 stars!!! See Review Below!
In the Dead Wax: Side 1: 1-23720-A-SHI + SLM ((Sheffield Lab Matrix)) "delta" 2518 MR ((Monarch Records Mfg. Corp., Los Angeles, CA)) B-17164-SHI
Side 2: 1-23720-B-SHI + SLM ((Sheffield Lab Matrix)) "delta" 2518-X MR ((Monarch Records Mfg. Corp., Los Angeles, CA)) B-17165-SHI
Side 3: 1-23720-C-SHI + SLM ((Sheffield Lab Matrix)) "delta" 2519 MR ((Monarch Records Mfg. Corp., Los Angeles, CA)) B-17166-SHI
Side 4: 1-23720-D-SHI SIDE 4 + SLM ((Sheffield Lab Matrix)) "delta" 2519-X MR ((Monarch Records Mfg. Corp., Los Angeles, CA)) B-17167-SHI
Cover: NM- IN SHRINK! (see photos) Includes the custom photo/lyrics inner sleeve inserts. Super high gloss on cover. Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright, essentially flawless. Has a small amount of price sticker residue on the shrink. Seams, corners and spine are solid and clean, essentially flawless. No splits. No writing. Spine print is crystal clear.
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All records are packaged securely with the vinyl outside the jacket (to avoid seam split in transit). The vinyl and jacket are sandwiched between two cardboard stiffeners and shipped in a custom cardboard record mailer box.
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Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?
First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl. Why experience the worse elements of both formats? These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared. They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound. There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm. 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 Stephen Thomas Erlewine [-]
With Dirty Mind, Prince had established a wild fusion of funk, rock, new wave, and soul that signaled he was an original, maverick talent, but it failed to win him a large audience. After delivering the sound-alike album, Controversy, Prince revamped his sound and delivered the double album 1999. Where his earlier albums had been a fusion of organic and electronic sounds, 1999 was constructed almost entirely on synthesizers by Prince himself. Naturally, the effect was slightly more mechanical and robotic than his previous work and strongly recalled the electro-funk experiments of several underground funk and hip-hop artists at the time. Prince had also constructed an album dominated by computer funk, but he didn't simply rely on the extended instrumental grooves to carry the album -- he didn't have to when his songwriting was improving by leaps and bounds. The first side of the record contained all of the hit singles, and, unsurprisingly, they were the ones that contained the least amount of electronics. "1999" parties to the apocalypse with a P-Funk groove much tighter than anything George Clinton ever did, "Little Red Corvette" is pure pop, and "Delirious" takes rockabilly riffs into the computer age. After that opening salvo, all the rules go out the window -- "Let's Pretend We're Married" is a salacious extended lust letter, "Free" is an elegiac anthem, "All the Critics Love U in New York" is a vicious attack at hipsters, and "Lady Cab Driver," with its notorious bridge, is the culmination of all of his sexual fantasies. Sure, Prince stretches out a bit too much over the course of 1999, but the result is a stunning display of raw talent, not wallowing indulgence.
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