Kinks Village Green Preservation Society UK 1st MONO LP
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Description
THE KINKS are 'THE VILLAGE GREEN PRESERVATION SOCIETY'
1968 UK 1st *MONO* PRESSING LP
This hard to find 1968 1st UK MONO pressing is on the blue and black PYE label: NPL.18233
Housed in an outer laminated, inner-flipback, gatefold mono cover.
Complete with its original plain white poly-lined inner-sleeve.
Matrix numbers: NPL18233A 3W (13W is crossed out) & NPL18233B 3W
Stamper codes: 1/H & 1/IP (hand-etched)
Disc weight: 170g
CONDITION
Disc
Labels: VERY GOOD
Both labels are clean & bright with numerous spindle trails and slight wear to each centre hole.
Visual: GOOD +
Each surface is clean & glossy but bears numerous scuffs & light scratches together with one or two small ones which are just feelable beneath my fingertips. However, both sides of this quality, heavy pressing lie 100% flat on the turntable with no signs of dishing or warping.
Play: VERY GOOD
Happily, the deep grooves and quality of the pressing mean that this disc plays much better than it looks and my careful play check at volume found no groove/play wear distortion to any track. There are some moderate clicks at the end of 'Do You Remember Walter' but apart form that and some light background between tracks and on a few of the quieter passages, there is little else to fault. There are certainly no jumps, repeats or other such major faults anywhere.
Cover
VERY GOOD
A respectable example of this extremely fragile cover. The delicate front leaf is flat & clean with some light edgewear from storage & a few handling wrinkles but no major faults. The rear panel is also clean & undamaged and has no tears to either of the delicate hinged corners. The inside is clean & vibrant with just a tiny 5mm stress to the lower hinge edge. There is some rubbing to the outer seam but the upper and lower ones are smooth & undamaged. The spine is clean, fully worded & worded with no splits or tears along its length.
Inner-sleeve
EXCELLENT
Clean & white with just light storagewear wrinkling and the unavoidable light disc impression but no splits, tears or writing.
Take a listen to the track 'Picture Book', recorded directly from this copy on the player below:
- Strict & grading under strong daylight & directly beneath a halogen desk lamp to UK 'RECORD COLLECTOR' standards.
- I carefully play every record I sell on a $5,000 Rega P9 turntable at volume and list all visual and audible faults.
- All the photos in this listing have been taken by myself and are of the actual items for sale.
- All records are professionally & securely in custom-made record mailing boxes with the disc removed from the cover.
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