Vinyl:  VG++  Play Graded.  Sounds Great!  Has some marks that don't affect the sound quality.  Reprise Labels are Clean and Bright.  This is the audiophile acclaimed 1975 Reprise MS 2225 1ST PRESSING, pressed at Monarch Records Mfg. Corp., of Los Angeles, CA!!  These pressings give fatter bottom end and silkier vocals.  It makes you feel like you're in the room with the band!  The beginning of the Mac's New Sound, with sweethearts Lindsey Buckingham and  Stevie Nicks joining the band and commencing Fleetwood Mac 2.0, essentially creating the West Coast California Pop genre... The album is the first of 2 albums that essentially play like a Greatest Hits collection, not a bummer on it!  (I also have the Rumours LP from 1977 currently among my listings) Classic Rock Defined and enormously successful.   One of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time!!  allmusic gives it 5 stars!!
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In the Dead Wax:  Side 1:  MS-1-2225  31892  MR  ((Pressed at the Monarch Records Mfg. Corp., Los Angeles, CA Pressing Plant))   "delta" 20748(1)  
Side 2:  MS-2-2225  31893  MR ((Pressed at the Monarch Records Mfg. Corp., Los Angeles, CA Pressing Plant))    "delta" 20748-X(3) 

Cover:  VG++  (see photos)  Textured Cover.  Includes the lyric sheet insert.  Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright, with minimal shelf wear.  Seams 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.   
Fleetwood Mac Review

by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

It's unfair to say that had no pop pretensions prior to the addition of and to the lineup in 1975. When they were led by they often flirted with pop, even recording the first version of the unabashedly smooth and sappy "Sentimental Lady," which would later be one of the defining soft rock hits of the late '70s. Still, there's no denying that 1975's represents not just the rebirth of the band, but in effect a second debut for the group -- the introduction of a band that would dominate the sound of American and British mainstream pop for the next seven years. In fact, in retrospect, it's rather stunning how thoroughly and , who had previously recorded as a duo and were romantically entangled in the past, overtook the British blues band. As soon as the Californian duo came onboard, turned into a West Coast pop/rock band, transforming the very identity of the band and pushing the band's other songwriter, keyboardist , to a kindred soft rock sound. It could have all been too mellow if it weren't for the nervy, restless spirit of , whose insistent opener, "Monday Morning," sets the tone for the rest of the album, as well the next few years of the group's career. Surging with a pushily melodic chorus and a breezy Californian feel, the song has little to do with anything had done before this, and it is a positively brilliant slice of pop songwriting, simultaneously urgent and timeless. After that barnstorming opener, lies back a bit, contributing only two other songs -- a cover of ' "Blue Letter," the second best up-tempo song here, and the closer, "I'm So Afraid" -- while the rest of the album is given over to the wily spirits of and , whose singles "Rhiannon," "Say You Love Me," and "Over My Head" deservedly made this into a blockbuster. But a bandmember's contribution can never be reduced to his own tracks, and not only gives the production depth, he motivates the rest of the band, particularly and , to do great work, not just on the hit singles but the album tracks that give this record depth. It was diverse without being forced, percolating with innovative ideas, all filtered through an accessible yet sophisticated sensibility. While had more hits and was an inspired work of mad genius, wrote the blueprint for Californian soft rock of the late '70s and was the standard the rest were judged by.