BLACK SABBATH Sabbath Bloody Sabbath UK 1st PRESS Nr MINT
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£ 40
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Oct 12, 2012
Sold Date
Oct 2, 2012
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£ 24
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Great Britain
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BLACK SABBATH Sabbath Bloody Sabbath UK 1st PRESS Nr MINT
UNSPLIT LYRIC INNER, NO ACB LABEL CREDIT, GREAT COPY
BLACK SABBATHSabbath Bloody Sabbath
UK WWA (SUPER DE LUXE WWA 005) FIRST PRESSING (December 1973) OF BLACK SABBATH'S "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" LP
THEIR LAST GREAT PIECE OF WORK
GREAT COPY - SEEN LITTLE PLAY - EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAN SOUND
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST WWA LABELS (no ACB credit above the spindle hole - this appears on later editions)
MATRIX: WWA 005 *1Y//2 ∇ 420 0 12 19 / WWA 005 2Y//4 ∇ 420 03 14 8
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL MATT GATEFOLD SLEEVE WITH FACTORY SEALED AND FOLDED UNDER LEFT SIDE EDGE - THERE ARE NO PRINTERS CREDITS ON THE BACK OF THE SLEEVE - IT SIMPLY STATES "MANUFACTURED AND PRINTED IN ENGLAND" (later editions have the full "Howards Bros" credit)
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL SHAPED CORNER, THIN, TEXTURED PAPER LYRIC INNER SLEEVE WITH THE OVER-STAMPED "PATENT Nos 1,125,555" AND "MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN" TEXT
With 1973's Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, heavy metal godfathers Black Sabbath made a concerted effort to prove their remaining critics wrong by raising their creative stakes and dispensing unprecedented attention to the album's production standards, arrangements, and even the cover artwork.
As a result, bold new efforts like the timeless title track, "A National Acrobat," and "Killing Yourself to Live" positively glistened with a newfound level of finesse and maturity, while remaining largely faithful, aesthetically speaking, to the band's signature compositional style.
In fact, their sheer songwriting excellence may even have helped to ease the transition for suspicious older fans left yearning for the rough-hewn, brute strength that had made recent triumphs like Master of Reality and Vol. 4 (really, all their previous albums) such undeniable forces of nature.
But thanks to Sabbath Bloody Sabbath's nearly flawless execution, even a more adventurous experiment like the string-laden "Spiral Architect," with its tasteful background orchestration, managed to sound surprisingly natural, and in the dreamy instrumental "Fluff," Tony Iommi scored his first truly memorable solo piece.
If anything, only the group's at times heavy-handed adoption of synthesisers met with inconsistent consequences, with erstwhile Yes keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman bringing only good things to the memorable "Sabbra Cadabra" (who know he was such a great boogie-woogie pianist?), while the robotically dull "Who Are You" definitely suffered from synthesizer novelty overkill.
All things considered, though, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath was arguably Black Sabbath's fifth masterpiece in four years, and remains an essential item in any heavy metal collection.
SIDE 1: SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH / A NATIONAL ACROBAT / FLUFF / SABBRA CADABRA
SIDE 2: KILLING YOURSELF TO LIVE / WHO ARE YOU / LOOKING FOR TODAY / SPIRAL ARCHITECT
LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, unmarked labels with possibly just one or two light spindle traces
VINYL Visual: EXCELLENT+
Both surfaces shine like new with just some light marks/hairlines which have no audible significance
VINYL Audio: EXCELLENT+/NEAR MINT
Superb audio reproduction with a crystal clear but very deep and very heavy sound and my play-check at loud volume detected no major audio issues of note (just a few non-continuous and non-intrusive light ticks on the quiet "Fluff") - otherwise this is a beautifully clean pressing with no other audible distractions of note - sounds amazing - very nice copy indeed, in my experience extremely hard to find playing this well
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT+
Apart from a little storage rubbing to the black top and bottom edges this is one of the finest examples I have seen in a long time. The front has very little wear to the matt black surfaces and all edges are crisp, sharp and square - all spine text is clear and bold
INNER SLEEVE: EXCELLENT+
The original thin paper lyric inner sleeve is clean and unmarked with no seam splits - just a little evidence of handling
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW INNER SLEEVE WITH ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: 1st Class: £4.50 (recorded delivery)
EUROPE: Airmail: £12.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £17.00 (International Signed For delivery)
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