NEW ORDER - Blue Monday 1983 UK 1ST PRESS 12” Silver Inner Sleeve Strawberry
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FAC-73-A-1 MT. STRAWBERRY OUT VOTED! // FAC-73-B-1 MT. HO.EL+TEL! STRAWBERRY
From a smoke and pet free homeAny questions please askRecord has been gently cleaned with Vinyl Buddy Vinyl cleaning kit
Not
play tested (hence low starting price)Item will be sent bubble wrapped inside stiff card LP mailer via royal mail or other carrier
If
more than one of my Vinyl record listings are purchased I will combine
cost of postage, up to 2 records in one boxInternational Buyers- I will only send via EBAY international postLP has been in record storage box and unplayed since the 80's, 90's
New Order's fifth single. A milestone, both by musical standards and by design standards.
Still considered to be the best-selling 12" of all time, selling over 1 million copies globally. However, since Factory
wasn't part of the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) at the time of
release, there are no reliable figures nor certifications or awards.
Altogether, the 1983, 1988 and 1995 releases have been sold over 10
million times.
Initial UK editions were released on 07 March 1983 in a die-cut
cover with cut-outs and a silver cardboard inner sleeve, designed by
Peter Saville.
Outer sleeve variations:
1. Original: die-cut with cut-outs.
2. Initial adaptation: Plain printed thus without cut-outs with the cut-outs left black.
3. Final adaptation: Plain printed thus without cut-outs, also missing the grey block prints.
Inner sleeve variations:
1. Silver cardboard
2. Black cardboard of different stock, weighing between 38 and 41
grammes. They might be glossy or matte and hazy black in combination
with top openings ranging from 3 to 10 cm.
3. White paper inner sleeves were used to cut costs.
All outer sleeves bear the colour code, spelling "FAC 73 Blue Monday And The Beach New Order".
There is a common misconception that Factory lost money on the
release due to the elaborate sleeve design. The original sleeve did in
fact cost so much that Factory's profit lay under 1 UK Penny for each
copy sold. But demand, production costs and timings meant that the
sleeve became progressively simpler with each repressing, as explained
above.
Different combinations of outer and inner sleeves were matched with
the different pressing runs, so the 2nd outer sleeve adaptation as well
as the white paper inner sleeves can be found with initial pressings of
the record (A1/B1 runout matrices).
Vinyl : The original UK version was mastered and cut on 5 occasions:
- FAC-73-A-1 MT. STRAWBERRY OUT VOTED! // FAC-73-B-1 MT. HO.EL+TEL! STRAWBERRY
(runoff space 0,8 cm // 1,6 cm)
This original edition misses the first 2 beats of the 16-bar intro
are cut off due to a mastering error by the Strawberry engineer, who
brought up the fader too late and missed the first drumbeats.
"Out Voted!" refers to New Order taking a vote as to whether the mistake should stay, and the yes vote prevailed.
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