U-ROY Dread In A Babylon VG++ 1975 Virgin PZ 34234 PROMO 1ST PRESS SANTA MARIA
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Vinyl: VG++ Play Graded. Sounds Great! Has some marks that don't affect sound quality. High gloss vinyl. Superb Fidelity! Virgin Picture Labels are Clean and Bright. On the labels are printed: "DEMONSTRATION NOT FOR SALE". This is the audiophile acclaimed Original 1975 Virgin PROMO 1ST Pressing, pressed at Columbia's Santa Maria, CA Pressing Plant! PZ 34234. U-Roy's finest hour! U-Roy is credited as one of the progenitors of Hip-Hop and the seeds of Toasting, Dancehall and Rap can be heard in these grooves...Roots, Rock, Reggae! Jah! Rastafari! Allmusic gives it 4 1/2 stars!!
See Review Below!
In the Dead Wax: Side 1: 1 S ((Pressed at Columbia's Santa Maria, CA Pressing Plant)) AL-34234-1F A3
Side 2: 1 S ((Pressed at Columbia's Santa Maria, CA Pressing Plant)) BL-34234-1E A3
Cover: VG+ (see photos) Has Virgin's Promo Song Tracking Info Sticker on front cover and Promo Stamp on the back cover. Super high gloss on cover. Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright, with some shelf wear and a few creases. Seams, corners and spine are solid and clean, with some wear. No splits. No writing. Spine print is crystal clear.
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All records are packaged securely with the vinyl outside the jacket (to avoid seam split in transit). The vinyl and jacket are sandwiched between two cardboard stiffeners and shipped in a custom cardboard record mailer box.
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Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album? First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl. Why experience the worse elements of both formats? These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared. They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound. There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm. First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider. Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive. Inner details are clearer. On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant. The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.
AllMusic Review by Ralph Heibutzki [-]
Even without the music, this album would still leap off the racks; its photo of U Roy exhaling a mushroom cloud of marijuana smoke from his ever-available pipe ranks among the all-time greatest covers, regardless of genre. However, U Roy doesn't have any trouble coming across as a distinctive presence; his scattershot repertoire of barks, chants, and screams is as critical or more important as the deft, unobtrusive backing woven behind him. U Roy imposes his own willful style, regardless of setting. Sometimes he pulls off a positively poppy veneer on tracks like "Runaway Girl" or "Silver Bird"; other times, he extemporizes slightly ahead of the beat on "Natty Don't Fear" or "The Great Psalms." His lyrics run the gamut of Rastafarian concerns, from facing adversity ("Dreadlocks Dread") to female troubles ("I Can't Love Another") and royalist run-ins ("Chalice in the Palace"). The uncredited musicians stay out of the way (although they get their own album-closing instrumental, "Trench Town Rock"). This album ranks among the '70s dub masterpieces, even if the odd lyrical clinker keeps it from perfection; "Runaway Girl"'s glistening skank can't paper over its sexism (which suggests the girl in question "may be nice/but you're not that smart"). Even so, sometimes an artist only needs charisma to get across, and U Roy handily wins on that score.
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