Lou Reed – Rock And Roll Heart Label:
Arista – AL 4100, Arista – 4100
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Waddell Pressing
Country:
US
Released:
1976
Genre:
Rock
Style:
Pop Rock, Hard Rock, AOR, Rock & Roll
A1 I Believe In Love 2:45
A2 Banging On My Drum 2:03
A3 Follow The Leader 2:08
A4 You Wear It So Well 4:30
A5 Ladies Pay 4:15
A6 Rock And Roll Heart 3:00
B1 Chooser And The Chosen 2:45
B2 Senselessly Cruel 2:03
B3 Claim To Fame 2:37
B4 Vicious Circle 2:47
B5 A Sheltered Life 2:15
B6 Temporary Thing 5:19
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Arista Records, Inc.
Copyright © – Arista Records, Inc.
Produced For – Sister Ray Enterprises Inc
Recorded At – Record Plant, N.Y.C.
Mixed At – Record Plant, N.Y.C.
Mastered At – Master Cutting Room
Lacquer Cut At – Master Cutting Room
Pressed By – H.V. Waddell Co.
Record Company – Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.
Published By – Amine Music
Backing Vocals – Garland Jeffreys (tracks: A4), Lou Reed (tracks: A1 to A3, A5 to B6)
Bass – Bruce Yaw
Design [Cover Design], Photography By – Mick Rock
Drums – Michael Suchorsky
Engineer – Corky "Stace" Stasiak*
Engineer [Assistant Engineer] – Jay Krugman
Lacquer Cut By – Bre*, Tone*
Mastered By – Joe Brescio, Tony Bridge
Mixed By – Corky "Stace" Stasiak*, Jay Krugman, Lou Reed
Piano, Clavinet, Organ, Synthesizer [Arp] – Michael Fonfara
Producer – Lou Reed
Saxophone – Marty Fogel
Songwriter [All Songs Written By], Arranged By – Lou Reed
Typography [Type Design], Art Direction – Julie Harris (4), Steve Ridgeway (2)
Vocals, Guitar [All Guitars], Piano – Lou Reed
H.V. Waddell Co. pressing denoted by "W" etch in runouts.
Issued with custom graphic inner sleeve.
USA PROMO FIRST PRESSING VINYL ALBUM WITH ORIGINAL PRINTED INNER SLEEVE.
SLEEVE: VERY GOOD, CORNER CUT, PROMO STICKER AND SOME SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR. STORE PRICE STICKERS TOP RIGHT. INNER SLEEVE HAS MIDDLE SEAM SPLITS.
DISC: EXCELLENT MINUS. NO SCRATCHES, JUST A FEW LIGHT HAIRLINES. CLEAN LABELS.
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, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant and you 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.
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