Return of the Durutti Column Rare Sandpaper LP + Flexi
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Description
The record is in very good condion with light scratches, the sleeve is nr mint as it has been stored in a protective sleeve, there is no wear to the sandpaper at all.
The flexidisc is in very good condition and plays very well.
Completely original and extremely sought after.
Only 2000 were produced, so who knows how many still survive!
The Return Of The Durutti Column (FACT 14) was issued in 1979 by Factory Records, formerly of Manchester, and is an iconic album, not least because of its physical presentation - it comes packaged in a sandpaper sleeve!
The idea behind this was a strange take on a Situationist joke - a book, Guy Debord's Mémoires, which had a sandpaper cover to destroy other books placed next to it on the shelf. Likewise, the Durutti Column album would ruin the cover of any album placed next to it in one's collection.
A further twist to this fact, is that the now-dead boss of Factory, Anthony Wilson, assigned the job of assembling the record sleeves to the members of then-fledgling Manchester band, Joy Division, featuring the also-now-dead singer Ian Curtis, as well as the future members of New Order, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris.
Whilst Curtis used spittle and glue to stick the sandpaper covers together, the rest of the band watched porn films, meaning that it is more than likely that anyone who has a copy of the 'sandpaper' album, would have a sample of Curtis' DNA in their collection.
Recorded at Cargo, Rochdale.
Mixed at Strawberry, Stockport.
Published by Movement of 24th. January Music.
A Factory Records Product
?© 1979
Run-off groove notations:
First sandpaper edition:
Side A: FACT 14 4 PBG AI FACT 14 A1 Sound Clinic, EG, S-4
Side B: FACT 14 B1 14 PBG BI, EG, S-2
Tracklist
A1 Durutti Column, The - Sketch For Summer 3:01 A2 Durutti Column, The - Requiem For A Father 5:08 A3 Durutti Column, The - Katherine 5:30 A4 Durutti Column, The - Conduct 5:02 B1 Durutti Column, The - Beginning 2:28 B2 Durutti Column, The - Jazz 1:35 B3 Durutti Column, The - Sketch For Winter 2:24 B4 Durutti Column, The - Collette 2:23 B5 Durutti Column, The - In 'D' 2:25A
Martin Hannett - First Aspect Of The Same Thing 3:42 B Martin Hannett - Second Aspect Of The Same Thing 2:59
