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TOP COPY!                                      

 1968 Grand Heavy Fuzz Psychedelics 2XLP Collectible gem!

                                                                 

                          

                               The ANIMALS

               LOVE IS   

                        

 

                                              

                          USA - MGM RECORDS - SE 4591

 

TOP COPY! SO HARD TO FIND THIS CLEAN!!!

FINAL COLLECTION COPY!

... MINTY CLEAN DOUBLE VINYL PLATTERS .... includes BOTH MGM printed inner sleeves

1968 first pressing...2xLP set in thick gatefold cover...the psychedelic Animals turn it on

...from 44 years back....

LOVE IS stands as the absolute best of Eric Burdon as a vocalist and the music is so creative that it just bursts from your speakers as if alive, the band is very tight and very loose at the same time and the overall effect is totally mesmerizing. Just think about the phenomenal acid laced stretched out tunes, especially "River deep-Mountain high", or maybe you like experiments a lot and then you have "The Madman" and "Gemini", but the track that will really blow your mind is the blues "As The Years Go Passing By" with its moody beginning as an almost "normal blues" close to the version by Albert King, then Eric launches an incredible battle between a bluesy guitar and a very distorted guitar (one of the two is future Police Andy Summers!) that reaches an impressive climax only to be replaced by the out-of-this-world vocal return by Eric, who delivers one the most powerful blues vocal ever by a white man and then slowly fades away intoning "till the day I die" until it becomes inaudible and you feel like he's really dying. Listen to this record without preconceptions and you'll surely find many delights within (the trippy Coloured Rain, fuzzed-up I'm An Animal, lysergic visions Am I Dying (Or Am I), etc. etc... one of the best Animals albums with psychedelic laced trips imbedded all over the place...

SIDE ONE
RIVER DEEP MOUNTAIN HIGH
I'M AN ANIMAL
I'M DYING (OR AM I)

SIDE TWO
RING OF FIRE
COLORED RAIN

SIDE THREE
TO LOVE SOMEBODY
AS THE YEARS GO PASSING BY

SIDE FOUR
MADMAN
GEMINI

 

CONDITION: The cover: The thick gatefold cover is solid all over, M-TOP COPY...a near impossible cover to find clean, known as extremely wear prone almost all surviving copies show much ear, here a TOP COPY  = very solid all over with strong seams, a tight collectible thick gatefold from 45 years back. Here is a FINAL collection copy.... no split seams, no bends, no writing, no delete marks... 

The vinyl: both vinyl records, all 4 sides are all glossy  M- CLEAN = playback audio is nicely clean with no surface noise...all 4 labels are clean .... collection ready !

 

keeper!

A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTION !

SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...

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