Sold Date: May 7, 2020
Start Date: December 29, 2019
Final Price: $15.99 (USD)
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Vinyl:  VG+ Play Tested. Sounds Great!   Mercury Picture Labels are Clean.  This is the 1975 Mercury 1st Pressing!!  This is the hot mix version, Mastered at Sterling Sound!  Instant Dance Party!  Love Rollercoaster!  This is no one hit wonder!  This is a Severe Funk and Soul Record!  allmusic gives it 4 1/2 stars!!! See Review Below!
In the Dead Wax:  "Sterling" stampers.
Cover: VG+ (see photos; some ring wear) Original Gatefold Cheesecake Cover !
Goldmine Standards.   I play test every album that I sell on eBay as I have found you can't rate an LP accurately by just visually inspecting an album.  I wipe the dust off of every cover with clean, unscented baby wipes.  I professionally clean the vinyl.

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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 Alex Henderson 

 may have had the most controversial LP cover of 1975. Its erotic cover, which depicted a nude model covered in honey, was protested by feminists when it was alleged that the model had become stuck to the floor during the photo shoot. Some retailers, in fact, refused to carry it. All the controversy certainly didn't hurt the album commercially. In 1975,  were one of R&B's most successful acts, and were inescapable for anyone who listened to R&B/Soul radio at the time. The album kept the band's commercial momentum going thanks to such hard-driving funk as "Love Rollercoaster" (a song that was sampled to death by rappers in the '80s and '90s and covered by  in 1996), "Fopp," and the playfully jazz-influenced hit "Sweet Sticky Thing." While ' outstanding contributions to funk would continue to have an enormous impact long after the band's popularity faded, it's important to stress that only about half of  falls into the funk category. In fact, lead singer 's moving performance on the remorseful "Alone" makes one wish that ' ballads were discussed more often.