TOM VERLAINE Dreamtime SEALED Orig.1981 Warner Bros BSK3539 LP +Inner TELEVISION
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TOM VERLAINE
DREAMTIME
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WARNER BROS. Records BSK 3539
Original 1981 issue • Stereo LP
Includes original LYRICS / INFO Inner Sleeve
*confirmed as present at small slit in shrink at opening
VINYL is MINT
Never Opened, Never Played. Thickness and weight of LP suggests heavy-weight vinyl.
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COVER is NEAR MINT
Still SEALED in the original Factory Shrink Wrap; NO cut-out, notch, drill-hole or saw-cut. Crisp and tight, perfectly flat with no creases, bends, dings or other marks. One lightly bumped corner-tip; others sharp. No splits.
STRICT CONSERVATIVE GOLDMINE GRADING
MINT(SEALED) / NM / EX(VG++) / VG+ / VG
MASTERED at STERLING SOUNDS by George Marino.?
Famed for his trailblazing work as the singer and guitarist for the seminal New York punk band Television, Tom Verlaine also carved out an acclaimed and eclectic solo career. His spare, haunting solo albums pick up where his former band Television left off.
1981's dense Dreamtime earned significant acclaim, and even hit the U.S. album charts.
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What is distinctive about Dreamtime, aside from its thick guitar fortifications, firm stance, and unwillingness to modify a sound Tom Verlaine unflinchingly believed in, is the complex songcraft -- powered by Verlaine's distinctive vocals, oblique lyrics, and finely honed guitar work. There's also a strong connection with Patti Smith, who Verlaine toured with when leading Television. Bassist Fred Smith, also from the original Television group, keyboardist Bruce Brody, and Jay Dee Daugherty, drummer throughout, are major contributors to the uniform texture of the tunes.
Highlights include "Without a Word", molded in the classic Television style, with repeat guitar lines from Verlaine and Ritchie Fliegler; "There's a Reason" is self-explanatory and prototypical, while "Fragile" evokes and revises David Byrne's distant vocal foresight, with Verlaine claiming someone "stole my secret," and further adds the repeat guitar hooks. "Penetration" is likely the rave fave, at once propelled, strutting, and dark, with the sparest of diffuse guitar, and inferences -- sexual or otherwise -- galore. "Always" sports a kind of cooled, ambiguous message under no frills rock & roll, with Verlaine exclaiming he has a clue on "the best kept secret in town".
Perhaps the most advanced track, "A Future in Noise", epitomizes the disarmed CBGB's vibe with slightly built intensity, resolutely controlled. Not so much a set of tidy, trimmed concepts, rather a visceral vision of an artist laying it all out from the bottom of his heart.
Many would easily admit DREAMTIME is Tom Verlaine's shining hour?.?
DISCOGS DATA on This 1st Press issue:
Track ListingHide Credits
A1 There's A Reason 3:38 A2 Penetration 4:00 A3 Always 3:57 A4 The Blue Robe 3:53 A5 Without A Word 3:16 B1 Mr Blur 3:23 B2 Fragile 3:26 B3 A Future In Noise 4:13 B4 Down On The Farm 4:48 B5 Mary Marie 3:23Includes inner sleeve with lyrics and album notes.
Recorded at A&R, RPM and Penny Lane Studios, N.Y.
Mixed at Penny Lane Studios, N.Y.
Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound
- Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): BSK-1-3539-WW1 #2 (stamped): STERLING
- Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): BSK-2-3539-WW1 (stamped): STERLING
An essential piece of original vintage vinyl punk for your collection!
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Even though still SEALED in the original shrink-wrap
Album kept in a protective, poly outer-sleeve
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