TALKING HEADS 77 FIRST ALBUM VERY RARE TEST PRESSING NEAR MINT PUNK/NEW WAVE
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TALKING HEADS~77~FIRST ALBUM~VERY RARE TEST PRESSING~NEAR MINT~PUNK/NEW WAVE
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TALKING HEADS " '77" EXTREMELY RARE TEST PRESSING FROM 1977 - 37 YEARS AGO!! THIS IS WHERE IT ALL BEGAN! COVER IS EXCELLENT EXCEPT FOR A SPLIT ALONG THE TOP WHICH HAS BEEN CAREFULLY TAPED. VINYL IS NEAR MINT AND DOES NOT APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN PLAYED!! BY DEFINITION, TEST PRESSINGS ARE VERY HARD TO ACQUIRE SINCE THEY ARE ONLY CREATED FOR THE USE OF INDUSTRY INSIDERS, MUSIC CRITICS, AND ARTISTS FOR REVIEW BEFORE THE ACTUAL RELEASE OF AN ALBUM. IN SOME CASES, A TEST PRESSING MAY VARY FROM THE FINAL COMMERCIAL RELEASE IN SOME MANNER. IT IS ALSO COMMON THAT THERE ARE FEWER THAN 100 COPIES OF A TEST PRESSING IN EXISTENCE!! Though they were the most highly touted new wave band to emerge from the CBGB's scene in New York, it was not clear at first whether Talking Heads' Lower East Side art rock approach could make the subway ride to the midtown pop mainstream successfully. The leadoff track of the debut album, Talking Heads: 77, "Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town," was a pop song that emphasized the group's unlikely roots in late-'60s bubblegum, Motown, and Caribbean music. But the "Uh-Oh" gave away the group's game early, with its nervous, disconnected lyrics and David Byrne's strained voice. All pretenses of normality were abandoned by the second track, as Talking Heads finally started to sound on record the way they did downtown: the staggered rhythms and sudden tempo changes, the odd guitar tunings and rhythmic, single-note patterns, the non-rhyming, non-linear lyrics that came across like odd remarks overheard from a psychiatrist's couch, and that voice, singing above its normal range, its falsetto leaps and strangled cries resembling a madman trying desperately to sound normal. Talking Heads threw you off balance, but grabbed your attention with a sound that seemed alternately threatening and goofy. The music was undeniably catchy, even at its most ominous, especially on "Psycho Killer," Byrne's supreme statement of demented purpose. Amazingly, that song made the singles chart for a few weeks, evidence of the group's quirky appeal, but the album was not a big hit, and it remained unclear whether Talking Heads spoke only the secret language of the urban arts types or whether that could be translated into the more common tongue of hip pop culture. In any case, they had succeeded as artists, using existing elements in an unusual combination to create something new that still managed to be oddly familiar. And that made Talking Heads: 77 a landmark album.The image included with the auction is a scan of the actual item but, due to size limitations of the scanner, the edges of the item may have been cropped.
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MINT = like new or near new with only one or two small insignificant defects, a 9 or better on a 1-10 scale
EXCELLENT = Would be Near Mint, except for a couple of light hairlines or scuffs, which do not affect play
VG++ = still a very nice record with all or nearly all of its original gloss but may have a few more light, surface marks, hairlines, needle tracks or the like which should not materially affect play
VG+ = a nice, but used record that may have a series of light scuffs or scratches. It probably plays with a few pops, but has no serious problems.
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Good = not actually good at all but probably will play through but with much in the way of surface noise, pops, crackles, etc. Still, will have no cracks, chips or the like
Fair = you are getting this record just to own but not to play
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