ROXY MUSIC For Your Pleasure 1973 UK ISLAND 1st PRESS w/BLUE INNER MINT
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ROXY MUSIC For Your Pleasure 1973 UK ISLAND 1st PRESS w/BLUE INNER MINT
ROXY MUSICFor Your Pleasure...The second Roxy Music Album
UK ISLAND (ILPS 9232) FIRST PRESSING (April 1973)
SUPERB ORIGINAL COPY WHICH PLAYS LIKE NEW
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISLAND PINK RIM LABELS
MATRIX: ILPS 9232 A-1 / ILPS 9232 B-1
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL DEEPLY GLOSSY FULLY LAMINATED GATEFOLD COVER
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED PALE BLUE ISLAND COMPANY INNER SLEEVE
On Roxy Music's debut, the tensions between Brian Eno and Bryan Ferry propelled their music to great, unexpected heights, and for most of the group's second album, For Your Pleasure, the band equals, if not surpasses, those expectations.
However, there are a handful of moments where those tensions become unbearable, as when Eno wants to move toward texture and Ferry wants to stay in more conventional rock territory; the nine-minute "The Bogus Man" captures such creative tensions perfectly, and it's easy to see why Eno left the group after the album was completed.
But differences result in yet another extraordinary record from Roxy Music, one that demonstrates even more clearly than the debut how avant-garde ideas can flourish in a pop setting.
This is especially evident in the driving singles "Do the Strand" and "Editions of You," which pulsate with raw energy and jarring melodic structures. Roxy also illuminate the slower numbers, such as the eerie "In Every Dream Home a Heartache," with atonal, shimmering synthesisers, textures that were unexpected and innovative at the time of its release. Similarly, all of For Your Pleasure walks the tightrope between the experimental and the accessible, creating a new vocabulary for rock bands, and one that was exploited heavily in the ensuing decade
Side A:
Do The Strand (4:00)
Beauty Queen (4:35)
Strictly Confidential (3:42)
Editions Of You (3:40)
In Every Dream Home A Heartache (4:25)
Side B:
The Bogus Man (9:22)
Grey Lagoons (4:11)
For Your Pleasure (6:58)
LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, bright, fresh labels with barely a spindle trace to be seen
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Both surfaces shine like new with nothing but one tiny harmless mark
VINYL Audio: MINT / NEAR MINT
Plays as-new throughout with nothing to fault bar one or two tiny static ticks on Side Two but absolutely nothing really.
By far the cleanest copy of this first pressing I have heard and a timeless classic very highly recommended indeed
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
As crisp, clean, sharp and fresh as the day it was made with nothing but a little record impression front and back
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)
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)
Guarantee: All records are unconditionally guaranteed (including sealed and/or unplayed) and I will offer a complete, no quibble refund upon return of the item should you not be pleased with it in any way 1228 (GS 8.1 (1228))
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