LED ZEPPELIN Physical Graffiti 1975 UK ORIGINAL *COMPLETE* SUPERB CLEAN SOUND
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LED ZEPPELIN Physical Graffiti 1975 UK ORIGINAL *COMPLETE* SUPERB CLEAN SOUND
LED ZEPPELINPhysical Graffiti
UK SWAN SONG (SSK 89400) ORIGINAL PRESSING (March 1975)
LOVEL CLEAN COPY WHICH SOUNDS GREAT
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE SWAN SONG LABELS
MATRIX: SSK 89400 A1 / SSK 89400 B5 / SSK 89400 C1 / SSK 89400 D1
THE TWO RECORDS ARE HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL BOX SLEEVE
COMPLETE WITH THE TWO PICTURE INNER SLEEVES AND GATEFOLD ‘SLIP’ INSERT
WHETHER THE B4 OR B5 IS THE FIRST PRESSING IS A BIT OF A MOOT POINT AS CHRONOLOGICALLY THEY WERE ALL PRESSED AROUND THE SAME TIME - MY OWN COPY, BOUGHT IN THE FIRST WEEK OF RELEASE HAS THE B5 MATRIX, AND JUST A COUPLE OF MONTHS LATER THE SMALL WB LOGO WAS INTRODUCED TO THE LABEL MAKING THESE LATER PRESSINGS EASILY IDENTIFIABLE
Led Zeppelin returned from a nearly two-year hiatus in 1975 with Physical Graffiti, a sprawling, ambitious double album.
Zeppelin treat many of the songs on Physical Graffiti as forays into individual styles, only occasionally synthesising sounds, notably on the tense, Eastern-influenced "Kashmir."
With John Paul Jones' galloping keyboard, "Trampled Underfoot" ranks as their funkiest metallic grind, while "Houses of the Holy" is as effervescent as pre-Beatles pop and "Down by the Seaside" is the closest they've come to country. Even the heavier blues -- the 11-minute "In My Time of Dying," the tightly wound "Custard Pie," and the monstrous epic "The Rover" -- are subtly shaded, even if they're thunderously loud.
Most of these heavy rockers are isolated on the first album, with the second half of Physical Graffiti sounding a little like a scrap heap of experiments, jams, acoustic workouts, and neo-covers.
This may not be as consistent as the first platter, but its quirks are entirely welcome, not just because they encompass the mean, decadent "Sick Again," but the heartbreaking "Ten Years Gone" and the utterly charming acoustic rock & roll of "Boogie With Stu" and "Black Country Woman."
Yes, some of this could be labeled as filler, but like any great double album, its appeal lies in its great sprawl, since it captures elements of the band's personality rarely showcased elsewhere -- and even at its worst, Physical Graffiti towers above its hard rock peers of the mid-'70s.
Side One: Custard Pie / Rover / In My Time Of Dying
Side Two: Houses Of The Holy / Trampled Underfoot / Kashmir
Side Three: In The Light / Bron-y-Aur Stomp / Down By The Seaside / Ten Years Gone
Side Four: Night Flight / Wanton Song / Boogie With Stu / Black Country Woman / Sick Again
LABELS: NEAR MINT
All four labels are clean and unmarked with barely a spindle trace to be seen
VINYLS Visual: NEAR MINT
All four surfaces shine like-new with just a tiny scratch on Side four (see below).
Record One has a slight warp but this has no effect on the sound reproduction at all
VINYLS Audio: NEAR MINT/EXCELLENT
The audio on this sprawling masterpiece is strong and dense and my play-check at volume found little to fault.
A split second of hiss on the Side One and Side Two run-ins and some brief ticks on "Wanton Song" (caused by the tiny scratch mentioned above but soon passed over).
Otherwise exceptionally clean and one of the finest sounding copies I have heard in a long while
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT
Apart from one of the die-cut windows having a snag (please see close-up photographs) and some storage wear to the bottom edge and bottom corners the cover is in fine shape
INNER SLEEVES: NEAR MINT
Both inners are clean and unmarked - no seam splits
INNER SLIP: EXCELLENT
The gatefold inner slip has some light staining in one corner but nothing else of note to fault
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC LINERS, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: £5.00 (Recorded Delivery)
UK: £11.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £15.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £20.00 (International Signed For delivery)
Combined Post: Additional records £1 (UK) £2 (Europe including Russia) £3 (International)
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856 (GS 7.0.20 (856))
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