RARE TALKING HEADS SPEAKING IN TONGUES RAUSCHENBERG ART LP VG+

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TALKING HEADS SPEAKING IN TONGUES?ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG ART

Condition: VG+

This item still has the Ultra Rare cover sticker still attached, which adds greatly to the collector value.  Another highly valued quality is the fact that Mr. Rauschenberg, one of Americas most famous Pop Artists, died in May of 2008.

David Byrne describes commissioning Robert Rauschenberg to do the cover: "It was not unusual for a pop musician to approach a fine artist in those days; other contemporary artists had collaborated with pop bands in the late ’60s and early ’70s. I was pleasantly surprised, though, when Bob, who died this week, eschewed simply reproducing a work on the album jacket in favor of re-envisioning what the whole LP package could be. His package consisted of a conceptual collage piece in which the color separation layers — the cyan, magenta and yellow images that combined to make one full-color image — were, well, deconstructed. Only by rotating the LP and the separate plastic disc could one see — and then only intermittently — the three-color images included in the collage. It was a transparent explication of how the three-color process works, yet in this case, one could never see all the full-color images at the same time, as Bob had perversely scrambled the separations." (The New York Times, May 16, 2008)

Tracks :
    •    Burning Down The House
    •    Making Flippy-Floppy
    •    Girlfriend Is Better
    •    Slippery People
    •    I Get Wild/Wild Gravity
    •    Swamp, Moon Rocks
    •    Pull Up The Roots
    •    This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody).
    •   
This record package consists of a yellowish plastic/vinyl cover.  Inside are three record-size plastic disks with art by Rauschenberg.  The art is on all three of the disks, so the perspective and the way the disks interact change as each disks is turned in relation to the others. 
Please contact me for additional information/photos if you have questions about the condition, as there is no return for this item.

This is fragile, and will be packed carefully.  Insurance will be available at high bidder's request.
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* Mint (M)   Absolutely perfect in every way. Certainly never been played, possibly even still sealed.

* Near Mint (NM or M-)   A nearly perfect record. Basically, an LP in near mint condition looks as if you just got it home from a new record store and removed the shrink wrap.

* Very Good Plus (VG+)  A Very Good Plus record will show some signs that it was played and otherwise handled by a previous owner who took good care of it. Record surfaces may show some signs of wear and may have slight scuffs or very light scratches that don't affect one's listening experiences. Picture sleeves and LP inner sleeves will have some slight wear, lightly turned up corners, or a slight seam split. An LP cover may have slight signs of wear also and may be marred by a cut-out hole, indentation or corner indicating it was taken out of print and sold at a discount. In general, if not for a couple things wrong with it, this would be Near Mint. All but the most mint-crazy collectors will find a Very Good Plus record highly acceptable.

* Very Good (VG)   Generally worth 25 percent of Near Mint value. Many of the defects found in a VG+ record will be more pronounced in a VG disc. Surface noise will be evident upon playing, especially in soft passages and during a song's intro and fade, but will not overpower the music otherwise. Groove wear will start to be noticeable, as with light scratches (deep enough to feel with a fingernail) that will affect the sound. Labels may be marred by writing, or have tape or stickers (or their residue) attached. The same will be true of picture sleeves or LP covers. However, it will not have all of these problems at the same time, only two or three of them.   

* Good (G), Good Plus (G+)  Good does not mean Bad! A record in Good or Good Plus condition can be put onto a turntable and will play through without skipping. But it will have significant surface noise and scratches and visible groove wear (on a styrene record, the groove will be starting to turn white). A cover or sleeve will have seam splits, especially at the bottom or on the spine. Tape, writing, ring wear or other defects will start to overwhelm the object.

* Poor (P), Fair (F)   Generally worth 0-5 percent of the Near Mint price. The record is cracked, badly warped, and won't play through without skipping or repeating. The picture sleeve is water damaged, split on all three seams and heavily marred by wear and writing. The LP cover barely keeps the LP inside it. Inner sleeves are fully seam split, crinkled, and written upon.