Vinyl:  NM-  Play Graded.  Plays Like New!  Super High Gloss Vinyl!  Super High Fidelity!  Sire Labels are Clean and Bright.  This is the Original 1970 Recording Released in 1976 by Sire Records!   SASD-7522.  This is the audiophile acclaimed variant, Mastered at Sterling Sound, NYC and Pressed at Columbia's Terre Haute, IN Pressing Plant!  Here's Christine a few years before her date with destiny in husband John Mc Vie's Fleetwood Mac!!  A fabulous album on its own with a diversity of styles including an awesome take on Etta James, a couple songs that include her future bandmates and mate mates, John McVie and Danny Kirwan.  Essential for the full picture of Fleetwood Mac's Evolution and a Thrill on it's own!

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In the Dead Wax:  Side 1:  XT  SASD 7522 A RE1-1F  STERLING ((Sterling Sound, NYC))

Side 2:  T1 ((Terre Haute, IN))  SASD 7522 B RE1-1D  STERLING  ((Sterling Sound, NYC))

Cover: EX+ (see photos; notch cut)  Nice high gloss on cover. Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright, except for minimal ring wear on bottom of front cover. Seams, corners and spine are solid and clean, with minimal wear.  No writing.  No splits.  Spine print is clear.  No bumps nor creases.  

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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.  

REVIEW

Christine Perfect is a British born singer who worked with Spencer Davis in the early ‘60s and later fronted Chicken Shack before going off on her own with this solo album in 1970. By then she had also contributed to recordings by Fleetwood Mac and become romantically involved with the groups’s bassist, John McVie. She then married McVie and officially joined the group, for which she served as a vocalist/keyboardist/songwriter, contributing some of Fleetwood Mac’s biggest hits.

In 1976, Sire Records issued the first U.S. release of what had been a mega-import of the Blue Horizon 1970 UK release, an album called simply Christine Perfect, the maiden name of Christine McVie. You don’t need a crystal ball to tell you the album is classic and tremendous ,the big surprise is that it didn’t go multi-platinum in the States.

There are 12 tracks, and ’I’d Rather Go Blind’ went Top Ten in the U.K. It deserved to. but there’s more here than the very good reading of the Etta James hit that ’I’d Rather go Blind’ was ‘When you Say’ has strings and production that sound hauntingly like a Marianne Faithful track on London or Nico’s work on Immediate. The big difference is that, by the time this album was released in America, Christine McVie was pretty much a household name. It doesn’t sound like Fleetwood Mac but surprise of surprises, John McVie and Danny Kirwan of The Mac are performing on that tune. ‘Wait and See’ is a real treasure,while ‘And That’s Saying a Lot’ is such a shift in mood that it starts to sink in what a complex and complete recording this is.

The listener really has to stand back from McVie’s fame and just hear the music for what it is, a superb presentation by a commercial voice with solid backup.‘No Road Is The Right Road’ changes the vibe again, and maybe that’s a result of the array of talent, from Chicken Shack (her original band), to Yardbirds guitarist Top Topham to Rick Heywood (later of Savoy Brown), ‘For You’ is neo-rockabilly with that Dave Edmunds sound from ‘I Hear You Knocking’. but try on ’I’m Too Far Gone (To Turn Around’),what a stunner – Fleetwood Mac performing a ’50’s style ballad.This could have been such a huge hit when Fleetwood Mac started to flounder a bit after all the dysfunction dipping into the bag of old trticks would have been a neat ploy for radio play. There is much more to the Legendry Christine Perfect Album than just hype. With the Cover photos, and the phenomenal sounds within, when fans of Fleetwood Mac need a fix for their obession, this is the one to pull out and play. By Joe Viglione.