TALKING HEADS More Songs About Buildings And Food NM 1978 Sire 1ST PRESSING
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Vinyl: NM Play Graded. Plays Like New! Nice high gloss Vinyl. Superb Fidelity. Sire Labels are Clean and Bright. This is the audiophile acclaimed Original 1978 Sire SRK 6058 1st Pressing, Mastered by Joe Gastwirt at Masterdisk, NYC!! Talking Heads' 1st foray with Brian Eno as Producer subtly changed their sound for the better, making it more of a thinking man's dance party --which set the tone for the rest of their career. This is the Heads' first Great Moment! With their Monster hit "Take Me To The River". 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: SRK-1-6058-LW2 1 J.G. MASTERDISK ((Mastered by Joe Gastwirt of Masterdisk, NYC)) * ((Pressed at Capitol's Los Angeles, CA Pressing Plant))
Side 2: SRK-2-6058 LW3 1 * ((Pressed at Capitol's Los Angeles, CA Pressing Plant))
Cover: VG++ (see photos) Includes the credits/lyric inner sleeve. Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright, with minor ring wear. Seams, corners and spine are solid and clean, with minimal wear. No splits. No writing. Spine print is crystal clear.
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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 William Ruhlmann [-]
The title of Talking Heads' second album, More Songs About Buildings and Food, slyly addressed the sophomore record syndrome, in which songs not used on a first LP are mixed with hastily written new material. If the band's sound seems more conventional, the reason simply may be that one had encountered the odd song structures, staccato rhythms, strained vocals, and impressionistic lyrics once before. Another was that new co-producer Brian Eno brought a musical unity that tied the album together, especially in terms of the rhythm section, the sequencing, the pacing, and the mixing. Where Talking Heads had largely been about David Byrne's voice and words, Eno moved the emphasis to the bass-and-drums team of Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz; all the songs were danceable, and there were only short breaks between them. Byrne held his own, however, and he continued to explore the eccentric, if not demented persona first heard on 77, whether he was adding to his observations on boys and girls or turning his "Psycho Killer" into an artist in "Artists Only." Through the first nine tracks, More Songs was the successor to 77, which would not have earned it landmark status or made it the commercial breakthrough it became. It was the last two songs that pushed the album over those hurdles. First there was an inspired cover of Al Green's "Take Me to the River"; released as a single, it made the Top 40 and pushed the album to gold-record status. Second was the album closer, "The Big Country," Byrne's country-tinged reflection on flying over middle America; it crystallized his artist-vs.-ordinary people perspective in unusually direct and dismissive terms, turning the old Chuck Berrypatriotic travelogue theme of rock & roll on its head and employing a great hook in the process.
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