Vinyl:  MINTY!  TOP COPY!   Appears to have Never Been Played!  Super High Gloss!  Sire Labels are Clean and Bright.   This is the 1990 Sire 0-21490 Maxi-Single 1ST PRESSING!   This is the audiophile acclaimed pressing, Pressed at Specialty Records Corp., Olyphant, PA!!  These pressings bring fatter bottom end and silkier voices and makes you feel like you're in the room!   On the heels of "Personal Jesus", Depeche Mode took the momentum and pushed it further with this one.  Four different mixes, to fit many moods, play them all!!!  allmusic gives it 4 1/2 stars!!

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In the Dead Wax:  On both sides:  matrices, etched.  Also on both sides:  the glyph for Specialty  ((Specialty Records Corp., Olyphant, PA)) Complete dead wax information cheerfully given upon request.

Cover:  NM-  (see photos)   Nice high gloss on cover.  Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright.  Seams, corners and spine are solid and clean.  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.    

Enjoy the Silence Review

by Ned Raggett

"Personal Jesus" primed the pump, but "Enjoy the Silence" completely kicked down the door worldwide. Arguably the group's most well-known song, it's an astonishing number that captures not merely 's ear for a melody and lyric and 's ability to sing, but and 's success as an arranging team. The "harmonium" mix that appears at the end of this release is the original demo, sung and played by as a minimal, mysterious ballad. In and 's hands, the final single and album version became a massive epic, with synth orchestrations, backing vocals, horns, and more on top of a near-perfect beat and 's majestic performance. Besides those two versions, four others appear on this disc, each of which is as strong as the original, but in different ways. once again helps with some of the mixes, starting with the fantastic 'hands and feet' mix. Arguably even more epic than the single mix, it starts with a mysterious, soaring opening before moving into a big, brute beat behind a loop of 's singing. When everything culminates in a mini-climax toward the end, the effect is jaw-dropping. His other two efforts are the "bassline" mix, which strips things down to a straightforward beat collage and some trippy vocal treatments for , and the "ecstatic dub," which isn't like dub per se but pulses along with a good groove. Mute boss contributes a fine mix of his own, the "ricki tik tik" mix, which has a constant build and flow thanks to his abbreviated samples of the main guitar line and extra synth backing. Two instrumentals fill out the release, both of which are mood pieces in the vein of earlier tracks like "St. Jarna" and "Agent Orange," though neither quite have the impact of those songs. "Sibeling" has piano as lead, while guitar feedback and other noises echo from elsewhere deep in the mix, while "Memphisto" similarly has piano for the main melody, but is just incredibly portentous all around, a bit like with no restraint.