THE BEATLES-BEATLES FOR SALE-PARLOPHONE 1ST PRESS PMC.1240 1964 NICE EX+ COPY
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THE BEATLES-BEATLES FOR SALE TYPE SINGLE LP-MONO LABEL/PRESSING INFO
PARLOPHONE 1ST PRESS YELLOW & BLACK WITH MATRIX NUMBERS - XEX 503-3N & XEX 504-4N
CATALOGUE NUMBER PMC 1240 YEAR OF RELEASE 1964 COUNTRY OF RELEASE U.K. SLEEVE TYPE GATEFOLD - GARROD & LOFTHOUSE LAMINATED OUTERS INTERNAL FLIPBACKS AND OPENING AND OUTLINE mono ON FRONT COVER INSERTS/EXTRAS EMITEX INNER GRADING/CONDITION DISC(s) NICE EXCELLENT+ ( NICE CLEAN record pressed on mid 60's heavyweight vinyl and which hasn't been played VERY MUCH at all and is nice shiny and black with VERY LIGHT playwear and just a handful of VERY LIGHT handling marks , the whole album plays GREAT with a great MONO reproduction) LABELSEXCELLENT+ ( NICE CLEAN LABELS with NO writing rips tears stickers or removal marks VERY LIGHT spindleusage and VERY LIGHT storage and handling wear)
SLEEVEFront board.Inner gatefold EX+ CLEAN and unmarked with NO writing rips tears writing stickers or removal marks.The front laminate is very bright and shiny with MINIMAL rubbing wearand VERY LIGHT handling wear, and a small crease bottom righthand corner.INNER GATEFOLD is clean and unmarked with VERY LIGHT ageing and handling wear. Rear board EX+ REAR laminate is clean with a little light rubbing wear and a bit of a small pressure mark at the bottom Flipbacks EX+ Internal flipbacks are complete and clean stuck fast with minimal wear. Spine EX+ Has been stored well and so the spine hasnt crushed or flattened with nice clear lettering and very light wear with NO laminate loss or cracking (see corners for the ends) Top & bottom edge EX+ Both top and bottom edges have VERY LIGHT wear only Opening EX+ Internal opening has MINIMAL wear and MINIMAL usage Corners EX Well there had been gatefold sleeves before this and there were plenty of them produced later, but there are few that have managed to fare so badly than the spine ends on this album, the general concesus is that it was the "sniped" ends that weakened the board and they deteriorated at an alarming rate, and you can see some horror shows these days where the whole corners have been destroyed through what isnt much more than normal wear and storage. This one has fared quite well and much better than some I have had the pleasure to own, There is a little wear right at the ends but the laminate is nearly all there and it hasnt really worked its way onto the inside of the gatefold and you can still see the flattened ends,photos at the bottom on the listing . Right side corners have very light wear only INNER /EXTRAS
EMITEX INNER: EXCELLENT (Clean and unmarked with some ageing and wear)
DETAILSIt was inevitable that the constant grind of touring, writing, promoting, and recording would grate on the Beatles, but the weariness of Beatles for Sale comes as something of a shock. Only five months before, the group released the joyous A Hard Day's Night. Now, they sound beaten, worn, and, in Lennon's case, bitter and self-loathing. His opening trilogy ("No Reply," "I'm a Loser," "Baby's in Black") is the darkest sequence on any Beatles record, setting the tone for the album.
Moments of joy pop up now and again, mainly in the forms of covers and the dynamic "Eight Days a Week," but the very presence of six covers after the triumphant all-original A Hard Day's Night feels like an admission of defeat or at least a regression. (It doesn't help that Lennon's cover of his beloved obscurity "Mr. Moonlight" winds up as arguably the worst thing the group ever recorded.)
Beneath those surface suspicions, however, there are some important changes on Beatles for Sale, most notably Lennon's discovery of Bob Dylan and folk-rock. The opening three songs, along with "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party," are implicitly confessional and all quite bleak, which is a new development. This spirit winds up overshadowing McCartney's cheery "I'll Follow the Sun" or the thundering covers of "Rock & Roll Music," "Honey Don't," and "Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!," and the weariness creeps up in unexpected places -- "Every Little Thing," "What You're Doing," even George's cover of Carl Perkins' "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby" -- leaving the impression that Beatlemania may have been fun but now the group is exhausted.
That exhaustion results in the group's most uneven album, but its best moments find them moving from Merseybeat to the sophisticated pop/rock they developed in mid-career.
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