Sold Date: May 11, 2019
Start Date: May 4, 2019
Final Price: £65.00 (GBP)
Bid Count: 8
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>Archive Copy<

Genesis

'Selling England By The Pound'

Charisma, UK, 1973

CAS 1074

AS ENGLISH as progressive rock gets, this is an amazing album from an amazing band. The great thing about the early seventies was undoubtedly the fact that record labels and bands only cared about the music - if it sold, Great. If it stiffed, who cared! Genesis, like so many others at the time, absolved themselves of the pressures to score hit singles by engaging in what was termed album rock. They created a carefully crafted work that exhibited a beginning, a middle and, more often than not, an end to their madness. 'Selling England By The Pound' is a near perfect statement, a record so flawless that it's hard to imagine that at one time it, like Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side Of The Moon', never actually existed except inside the collective mind of its creators.

Sit and marvel at the pulsing beauty of 'Firth Of Fith', 'The Battle Of Epping Forest', 'After The Ordeal' and the 'I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)' and then replace the needle in the grooves and start all over again. Heaven can indeed wait.

This auction is part of a fantastic collection of seventies rock which I was lucky enough to acquire. Most of these records were stored with the utmost care and sparsely played. Some were possibly never played or may have been for just a handful of times.

Pressing: Charisma, UK, 1973 -  Large madhatter label 

Vinyl: Nice clean and shiny condition with no signs of use. No spindle marks on labels. Grades as top shop fresh MINT!

Cover: Again, no signs of any use. Issued in a beautifully illustrated cover - impossible to find so clean like this as the cover is very susceptible to finger prints and scuffs. Sharp corners, no dings, no bends, no ring wear, no split seams and no creases. Grades as top shop fresh MINT-!

Inserts: Original lyric insert

Matrix:

Side One: CAS 1074 A-4U

Side Two: CAS 1074 B-3 U