Vinyl:  NM- Play Graded!  Plays Like New!  Super High Gloss!  Sire Labels are Clean and Bright.   This is the 1983 Sire 0-29704 Maxi-Single 1ST PRESSING!   This is the audiophile acclaimed pressing, Pressed at Monarch Records Mfg. Corp., Los Angeles, CA!!  These pressings bring fatter bottom end and silkier voices and makes you feel like you're in the room!  Innovators of Electronica and Industrial Breakbeat, hear DM invent the Sound that would echo through 1000's of darkened dance clubs!!  Includes a RARE LIVE recording of Tora! Tora! Tora! from the Hammersmith Odeon!  allmusic gives it 5 stars!!

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In the Dead Wax:  On both sides:  matrices, etched.  Also on both sides:  the glyph for Monarch  ((Monarch Records, Mfg. Corp., Los Angeles, CA)) 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.

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.    

Get the Balance Right Review

by Ned Raggett

Starting to show the blend of lyrical cynicism and harder music that would characterize mid-'80s , "Get the Balance Right!" itself is one of the band's best efforts, and arguably 's best single to this point as well. The detailing of conflicting emotional motives and plans is delivered by with elegant restraint and not a little bite, while the combination of upfront beats and quick, nervous melodies is at once danceable and just poppy enough. Add in such nice touches as the backing harmonies on the mid-song break and it's a treasure full stop. The "Combination" mix of the song, which also appears, pumps up the bass and drums along with introducing a bit more variety there, making it an excellent example of early-'80s beat through and through. One of only two songs and ever co-wrote appears on the flip -- "The Great Outdoors!," a slightly fragile, pretty instrumental with odd sonic touches buried here and there, including a guitar riff or two, behind a winsome lead keyboard melody. The release is topped off with a live take of a track from a 1982 date -- "Tora! Tora! Tora!," here given a good run-through with a slightly more audible vocal from , especially on the chorus.