Vinyl:  EX+ Play Graded. Sounds Excellent!   Has some marks that don't affect play.  Super high gloss Vinyl.  Superb Fidelity!  Sire Labels are Clean.  This is the Original 1985 Sire 1st Pressing! 1-25305.  This is the definitive, audiophile acclaimed pressing, Mastered by Jack Skinner at Sterling Sound, NYC and Pressed at Monarch Records Mfg. Corp, Los Angeles, CA!  Listen for the subtle sounds of excellence from Monarch, silkier vocals, warmer, deeper bass and drums.   The Heads at the Top of the Pop game!  With hits and cool, deep tracks, this is their most accessible album.    '80s Cool that you can dance to!   allmusic gives it 4 1/2 stars!  See Review Below!
In the Dead Wax:  Side 1:  1-25305-A  SH3 STERLING  (stampers)  SLM  "delta" 9715  1-2   the glyph for Monarch Records Mfg. Corp, Los Angeles, CA  B-21284  -  SH3 Side 2:  1-25305-B  SH1 STERLING  (stampers)  SLM  "delta" 9715-X  1-4   the glyph for Monarch Records Mfg. Corp, Los Angeles, CA  B-21285  -  SH1  
Cover:  EX+  (see photos) Includes the photo/lyric/art inner sleeve.  The cover art is by Outsider artist Howard Finster and was awarded cover of the year by Rolling Stone!!!  Have hours of fun poring all of his eccentric observations!  Nice high gloss on cover. Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright. Seams and spine are solid and clean, essentially flawless.  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 

' most immediately accessible album,  eschewed the pattern of recent  albums, in which instrumental tracks had been worked up from riffs and grooves, after which  improvised melodies and lyrics. The songs on , most of which were credited to  alone (with the band credited only with arrangements) sounded like they'd been written as songs. Perhaps as one result, the band had been streamlined, with extra musicians used only for specific effects rather than playing along as an ensemble. , who was singing in his natural range for once, frequently was augmented with backup singers. The overall result: ear candy.  was a pop album, and an accomplished one, by a band that knew what it was doing. True, 's lyrics were still intriguingly quirky, but even his subject matter was becoming more mature. "I've seen sex and I think it's okay," he sang on "Creatures of Love," and suddenly the geek had become a man. Where he had once pondered the hopes of boys and girls, he was now making observations about children. And even if his impulses remained strange -- "I wanna make him stay up all night," he declared about a baby (presumably not his own) in "Stay Up Late" -- he retained his charm and inventiveness.  was, in a sense,  lite. It was hard to think of this as the same band that produced "Psycho Killer." But for the band's expanding audience, who made this their second platinum album, that was okay. And their popularity was being accomplished with no diminution in their creativity.