DAVID BOWIE, Lodger USA 1st pressing LP Boys Keep Swinging/DJ/Look Back in Anger

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  David Bowie ?– Lodger Label: RCA Victor ?– AQL1-3254, RCA Victor ?– RE AQL1-3254 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold  Country: US Released: 1979 Genre: Rock Style: Pop Rock, Art Rock, New Wave Tracklist Show Credits A1 Fantastic Voyage 2:55 A2 African Night Flight 2:54 A3 Move On 3:16 A4 Yassassin (Turkish For: Long Live) 4:10 A5 Red Sails 3:43 B1 D.J. 3:59 B2 Look Back In Anger 3:08 B3 Boys Keep Swinging 3:17 B4 Repetition 2:59 B5 Red Money 4:17 Companies, etc. Phonographic Copyright (p) – RCA Records Copyright (c) – RCA Records Recorded At – Mountain Studios Mixed At – Record Plant, N.Y.C. Mastered At – Sterling Sound Pressed By – RCA Records Pressing Plant, Indianapolis Credits Backing Vocals – Bowie* (tracks: A1, A3, B2, B3, B5), Tony Visconti (tracks: A1, A3, B2, B3, B5)  Bass – George Murray (tracks: A1 to B2, B4, B5)  Drums – Dennis Davis (tracks: A1, A4 to B1, B4, B5)  Guitar – Adrian Belew (tracks: A5, B1, B3 to B5), Carlos Alomar (tracks: A4 to B2, B4, B5)  Lyrics By – Bowie*  Mastered By [Engineer] – Gregg Calbi*  Mixed By [Assistant Engineer] – Gregg Caruso Mixed By [Engineer] – Rod O'Brien, Tony Visconti Music By – Eno* (tracks: A1, A2, A5 to B3), Alomar* (tracks: B1, B5), Bowie*  Percussion – Dennis Davis (tracks: A2, A3, B2)  Piano – Sean Mayes (tracks: A1 to A3, A5, B2)  Producer – David Bowie, Tony Visconti Recorded By [Engineer - Assistant] – Eugene Chaplin Recorded By [Engineer] – David Richards, Tony Visconti Violin – Simon House (tracks: A4, A5, B3, B4)  Notes Recorded at Mountain Studios, Montreux, Switzerland. Mixed at Record Plant Studios, New York City. ? & © 1979 RCA Records. Printed in U.S.A. This version pressed at RCA Records Pressing Plant, Indianapolis. Gatefold sleeve. Inner sleeve with printed lyrics. Black dog Victor labels. RE AQL1-3254; Printed on back of sleeve only.   AQL1-3254; Printed on spine, top right side of gatefold center, and labels.  

USA FIRST PRESSING VINYL ALBUM IN GATEFOLD SLEEVE WITH ORIGINAL PRINTED ] INNER SLEEVE.

MATRIX:  SIDE A: AQL1-3254-A 1 no sense is better... I A1 STERLING  gc  SIDE B:  AQL1 32548 10 I A2.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+, JUST LIGHT SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR.   INNER SLEEVE[S] VERY GOOD+ WITH NO SEAM SPLITS.

DISC[S]: VERY GOOD+. NO SCRATCHES, JUST A FEW LIGHT HAIRLINES AND FINGERPRINTS. A SIDE LABEL IS PRINTED SLIGHTLY OFF CENTER, BUT THIS HAS NO DETRIMENTAL AFFECT ON THE DISC.

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.  

     
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