Laurie Anderson BIG SCIENCE, Vinyl, Warner Bros. TEST PRESSING (1982)

Sold Date: November 24, 2020
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Selected titles from the private collection of a music business veteran are now being made available for the first time. Titles offered by this Seller are one-owner and came directly from the pressing plant, record company warehouse, other label reps or record store unless otherwise noted. 

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Album ships in a 2 MIL poly cover sleeve and a soft poly inner sleeve.

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New and vintage vinyl is hard to grade strictly using eBay’s system because the record and the cover are two different components. Therefore, I call a record new and mint if it is opened but has never been played.  I use the grading category to describe the cover condition.

This is the Test Pressing for Laurie Anderson's 1982 debut Warner Bros. album "Big Science". Has a spindle mark on one side. The playing surfaces are clean. Is in the original inner sleeve. I have added a soft poly inner sleeve. Ships in a white, generic, die-cut cover. This is a one-owner that the Seller got new from Warner Bros. Records in 1982. It has been in storage for 38 years. Tracklist A1From The Air Alto Saxophone – Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone – Drums – Pedalboard [Farfisa Bass] – Vocals, Vocoder, Organ [Farfisa] –  4:29A2Big Science Glass Harmonica – Percussion [Bottles] – Percussion [Sticks] – *, *, *Rototoms, Timpani [Tympani] – Vocals, Synthesizer [Obxa], Percussion, Electronics –  6:14A3Sweaters Bagpipes – Drums – Vocals, Violin [Violins] –  2:18A4Walking & Falling Vocals, Electronics –  2:10A5Born, Never Asked Handclaps – *, *, *Marimba – Vocals, Violin [Violins], Keyboards –  4:56B1O Superman (For Massenet) Flute, Saxophone – Mastered By – Organ [Farfisa], Keyboards [Casio], Engineer – Vocals, Vocoder, Electronics –  8:21B2Example #22 Accordion – Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Clarinet [B & E], Bass Clarinet, Bassoon, Baritone Saxophone – Flute, Piccolo Flute – Percussion, Drums – Vocals, Violin, Organ [Farfisa] – Whistling – *, * 2:59B3Let X=X Handclaps – *, *, *Rototoms – Trombone – Vocals, Vocoder, Organ [Farfisa], Synthesizer [Obxa], Marimba –  3:51B4It Tango Handclaps – *, *, *Rototoms – Vocals, Synthesizer [Obxa], Organ [Farfisa], Marimba –  3:01 Companies, etc. Mastered At –  Pressed By –  Credits Art Direction –  Artwork [Cover] –  Design –  Engineer –  Engineer [Assistant, Skyline Studios] –  Engineer [Assistant, Sorcerer Sound] – * Engineer [Assistant, The Hit Factory] – * Mastered By –  Mixed By [Assistant, The Hit Factory] –  Photography By [Back Cover] –  Photography By [Inner Sleeve] –  Producer – ,  Producer [Assistant] –  Technician [Technical Consultant & Systems Design] –  Words By, Music By –  Notes Songs from "United States I-IV"

Recorded at The Lobby, New York City.
Mixed at The Hit Factory, New York City.
Additional tracks recorded at The Hit Factory, Skyline Studios and Sorcerer Sound.
Mastered at Masterdisk.
Plated at Europadisk.

Special thanks to Patty Anderson, Lester Bangs, Robert Coe, Anton Fier, Charles Holland, Geraldine Pontius, Greg Shifrin and Gail Turner.

B1 mixed at The Lobby; for Massenet; originally released on One Ten Records.
B2 special thanks to Paranormals Medeline Vester, Gerhard Rozhek, Coretta Atteroc, Shelley Karson.
B3 original version appeared in ArtForum February 1982.

Includes printed inner sleeve with credits and lyrics.

This pressing has a Warner Bros. "W" logo on the bottom of the label. on both sides, (as pictured) The other US pressing of this album does not have the "W" on the label. Barcode and Other Identifiers Matrix / Runout (Side A, etched): BSK-1-3674-E2 RL Matrix / Runout (Side B, etched): BSK-2-3674-E3 RL MISF'SMI Matrix / Runout (Side B, stamped): EDP [logo] Matrix / Runout (Both sides, stamped): MASTERDISK