QUEEN white label promo LP “Hot Space” ELEKTRA orig USA no bar code NM WOW

$

35

Artist:  QUEEN

Title:   “Hot Space”

Label:   ELEKTRA.  Original stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Labels are white with black text, labeled promotional.  Catalog number is E1-60128. 

Year:  1981

Condition: 

DISC:  Vinyl is NEAR MINT with 100% of original gloss, as clean as can be found.  Appears to have been played one or two times at most, and handled with care.  Labels are clean.  Fidelity is superb.  A gorgeous disc you will never need to upgrade.        

JACKET:  Jacket is gorgeous NEAR MINT with flawless front and back panels.  Nice seams and corners; just a few very light small scuffs on seams.  Reverse has gold promotional embossing at the top center, and factory sticker at the upper right.  No writing, stickers, or other problems.  A beautiful jacket worthy of display.

Includes the original printed factory inner sleeve with lyrics in EXCELLENT condition (has minor splits at bottom center and on one side).

Track Listing: 

Side One:

• Staying Power
• Dancer
• Back Chat
• Body Language
• Action This Day

Side Two:

• Put Out the Fire
• Life is Real
• Calling All Girls
• Las Palabras de Amor
• Cool Cat
• Under Pressure

Review:

“Anybody who was a little dismayed by the pop inclinations of The Game would have been totally distressed by Queen's 1982 follow-up, Hot Space, an unabashed pop and dance album. The band that once proudly proclaimed not to use synthesizers on their albums has suddenly, dramatically reversed course, devoting the entire first side of the album to robotic, new wave dance-pop, all driven by drum machines and colored by keyboards, with Brian May's guitar coming in as flavor only on occasion. The second side is better, as it finds the group rocking, but there are still electronic drums. But the Beatlesque "Life Is Real (Song for Lennon)" is a sweet, if a bit too literal, tribute and with "Calling All Girls" Queen finally gets synth-driven new wave rock right, resulting in a sharp piece of pop. But the album's undeniable saving grace is the concluding "Under Pressure," an utterly majestic, otherworldly duet with David Bowie that recaptures the effortless grace of Queen's mid-'70s peak, but is underscored with a truly affecting melancholy heart that gives it a genuine human warmth unheard in much of their music. Frankly, "Under Pressure" is the only reason most listeners remember this album, which is as much a testament to the song's strength as it is to the rather desultory nature of the rest of Hot Space.”

(courtesy Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com).

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