Vinyl:  MINTY!  TOP COPY!  Appears to have never been played!  Super High Gloss!  Qwest Labels are Clean and Bright.   This is the audiophile acclaimed 1987 Qwest 1-25621 2LP 1ST PRESSING, mastered with Direct Metal Mastering at Precision Lacquer of Hollywood, CA!   A crucial collection of hard to find 12" single mixes designed for Danceclub play and  combines these with some of their most renowned tracks.  An indispensable set for the new or old fan.  allmusic gives it 5 stars!!

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In the Dead Wax:  Matrices, etched, on all 4 sides.  Plus, on all 4 sides:  DMM ((Direct Metal Mastering)) and PRECISION  ((Mastered at Precision Lacquer, Hollywood, CA))  Complete Dead Wax information cheerfully provided upon request.

Cover:  NM- (see photos)   Original Die-Cut cover.  Includes the custom inner sleeves.  Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright.  Seams, corners and spine are solid and clean, with a minor bump on one corner.  No splits. No writing.  Spine print is Crystal Clear.

Goldmine Standards.   I play grade every record 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.  (I also operate a Vinyl Record Cleaning business for your dusty/dirty records--if interested, send me a message).

 

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All records are packaged securely with the vinyl outside the jacket (to avoid seam split in transit). The vinyl and jacket are sandwiched between two cardboard stiffeners and shipped in a custom cardboard record mailer box. 
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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.    

Substance Review

by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

is a double-disc set collecting 's singles, including several songs that were never available on the group's albums, at least in these versions. While there are a couple of re-recordings of earlier singles, most of consists of 12" single mixes designed for danceclub play. Arguably, these 12" mixes represent 's most groundbreaking and successful work, since they expanded the notion of what a rock & roll band, particularly an indie rock band, could do. collects the best of their remixes, and in the process it showcases not only the group's musical innovations, but also their songwriting prowess -- "Temptation," "Blue Monday," "Bizarre Love Triangle," and "True Faith" are some of the finest pop songs of the '80s. Although it is a double-disc set, isn't overly long. Instead it offers a perfect introduction to , while providing collectors with an invaluable collection of singles.