Back To Black Series.
Remastered 180g Vinyl.
Reproduction of original textured sleeve, with a glossy inner sleeve with an image of an original blue island inner on both sides.
Back To Black voucher included for a choice of downloads, including High Definition 24 Bit version, and "dubbed from disc".
(Back to Black website no longer functions - redirected to urlocker site).
Nick Drake - Dave Pegg - Dave Mattacks - Richard Thompson - Ray Warleigh - Mike Kowalski - Lyn Dobson - John Cale - Chris McGregor - Pat Arnold - Doris Troy
All Bass and String arrangements by Robert Kirby.
Produced by Joe Boyd.
Engineered by John Wood.
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Gian_paolo 14th Sep 2024
| | I own the boxset version, which has the sama catalogue number but labels have a bit different layout, without the external writings, so I eventually add them here if nothing in contrary.
Release dates for boxset and this same version looks diferent on Discogs, though |
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Quad5point1 SUBS ● 7th Jan 2020
| | On sale at the moment from The Sound Of Vinyl for £9.99. The listing also gives the release date as 10th June 2013 (as can be seen on the labels) and not 2014. Also says on their website "remastered at Abbey Road". Correction submitted |
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Lee Wrecker 18th Jun 2017
| | Hey, Magic scans added for shuffling about and putting everything in some sort of order. It's winter here in the deep south so I kept me clobber on during the scanning which was a huge relief to the family and some visitors that were here at the time. I've got plenty of homeless poly sleeves lying about so I'm just going to bung one in the glossy static making inner sleeve of this to stop the problem.
I just picked this one up today so I haven't bothered with trying to get the download but Back To Black are notoriously tricky when it comes to these things and as this album is four years old so I don't think I'll even bother. The last time I tried to get a download from this mob resulted in a lot of correspondence over a two month period and no digital copy at the end of it - they're very much like a telco when it comes to customer service. I'll send a correction. |
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Lee Wrecker 18th Jun 2017
| | I'll add nude scans (well, without the shrinkwrap, might do them them in skylab though) could have a crack at the labels mine look a bit different (orange and red can be difficult though) and inside sleeves. The inside sleeve is a photo of the original Island die-cut sleeve. How meta is that? You're right though Magic, this edition does sound superb even though, as ppint points out, it has probably not been remastered. Everything else on the Island label that is remastered has it written all over it. |
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ppint. 22nd Jan 2016
| | the authenticity claimed is for being that of the first pressing - i.e. of the impressions made in the two grooves in the vinyl - not of the first printing of the card sleeve:
- but maybe the added static obscures things in an appropriately "back to vinyl" way. or maybe not. |
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Magic Marmalade 22nd Jan 2016
| | Sounds great though!
As far as the authenticity of the reproduction is concerned though, the sleeve's nice, but I was a little disappointed with the inner sleeve - lazy buggers just scanned the original blue inner and printed it on a glossy card inner (Picks up static and transfers it to the vinyl like crazy!). |
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ppint. 22nd Jan 2016
| | "an authentic reproduction of the 1970 first pressing" suggests that this album has not been remastered - the weight (mass) & density of the plastic pressed to provide copies of the album being irrelevant to the mastering process.
- unless it is stated definitively upon the printed record labels and/or sleeve that the album has been remastered for this pressing, the quoted declaration should presumably be relied upon. . . |
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