1978 TRIUMVIRAT A LA CARTE TEST PRESSING LP DECISIONS PFM CAMEL ATOMIC ROOSTER

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RECORD INFORMATION SHEET HAS RELEASE DATE AS JANUARY 1979 AND THE ALBUM TITLE BEING "A LA CARTE" - HOWEVER THE TEST PRESSING LABELS HAVE DECISIONS, DECISIONS.... AND THE RELEASE DATE BEING JANUARY 1978 - THE RECORD INFORMATION SHEET SPELLS THE NAME OF THE BAND "TRIUMVIRAT", WHILE THE LABELS HAVE PRINTED "TRIMVIRAT". - ONE THING IS FOR CERTAIN THIS REALLY IS THE PROGRESSIVE ROCK BAND "TRIUMVIRAT" - AND I THINK THAT THE SONG TITLES ON THE RECORD INFORMATION SHEET SEEM TO MATCH THE SONGS ON THE LP ALTHOUGH I'VE NEVER OWNED THE STOCK COPY OF "A LA CARTE" - AND THIS IS A 12" VINYL RECORD TEST PRESSING FOR SURE WHICH INCLUDES A TYPED RECORD INFORMATION SHEET AND A GENERIC WHITE CARDBOARD JACKET - ALSO THE CATALOG NUMBERS ST-11862 MATCH UP ON BOTH THE RECORD INFORMATION SHEET AND THE TEST PRESSING LABELS - ON THE LABELS IS PRINTED DECISIONS, DECISIONS... WHICH COULD HAVE ORIGINALLY BEEN THE TITLE OF THIS LP OR JUST THE FACT THAT THEY NEEDED TO MAKE SOME DECISIONS AS TO PERHAPS THE SONGS OR SONG MIXES ON THIS TEST PRESSING WHICH IS OFTEN THE CASE - THE JANUARY 1979 AND JANUARY 1978 RELEASE DATES JUST MIGHT BE A TYPO ON ONE OR THE OTHER, OR THERE MIGHT BE SOMETHING DIFFERENT ON THE TEST PRESSING LP.

ACCORDING TO THE RECORD INFORMATION SHEET THE SONG TITLES ARE:

SIDE ONE CONTAINS: WATERFALL - LATE AGAIN - JO ANN WALKER - FOR YOU.

SIDE TWO CONTAINS: I DON'T EVEN KNOW YOUR NAME - A BAVARIAN IN NEW YORK - ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK FROM THE MOVIE O.C.S.I.D. - DARLIN' - GOODBYE.

TEST PRESSINGS ARE THE FIRST RECORDS PRESSED FROM THE PLATES TO CHECK THE QUALITY AND CONTENT OF THE ALBUM. SO TEST PRESSINGS ARE ALWAYS THE BEST SOUND QUALITY RECORDINGS THAT YOU CAN EVER FIND OF THAT ALBUM. THEY'RE MADE IN LIMITED QUANTITY, SOMETIMES NO MORE THAN 3 OR 5. IN SOME CASES THE MUSICAL CONTENT AND / OR MIXES ARE DIFFERENT ON TEST PRESSINGS THAN ON THE VERSION THAT'S FINALLY RELEASED. I DON'T OWN A REGULAR STOCK COPY OF THIS ALBUM. SO I HAVE NO IDEA IF ANYTHING ON THIS TEST PRESSING IS DIFFERENT.

BOTH SIDES OF THE RECORD PLAY GREAT. I MIGHT HAVE HEARD SEVERAL LIGHT SURFACE NOISES LIKE STATIC POPS ON ONE SONG WHEN I PLAYED BOTH SIDES RIGHT BEFORE LISTING ON MY DENON TURNTABLE WITH A DENON MOVING COIL CARTRIDGE HOOKED UP TO A HEAD AMP . BUT THAT'S ABOUT IT AND VISUALLY MOVING BOTH SIDES OF THE RECORD AROUND UNDER A PAIR OF 100 WATT LIGHT BULBS THE RECORD LOOKS BEAUTIFUL. A VERY FEW ULTRA LIGHT SCUFFS AND SOME SMUDGES WHICH I MOSTLY WIPED OFF WITH MY DISCWASHER. I THINK THOSE FEW POPS WERE STATIC AND I DON'T HAVE A STATIC WAND TO GET RID OF STATIC. THEY WEREN'T CLICKS FOR SURE. NO WRITING ON THE ORIGINAL TYPED RECORD INFORMATION SHEET, MAYBE A LITTLE YELLOWING AND A COUPLE OF VERY LIGHT CORNER CREASES. THE GENERIC WHITE CARDBOARD JACKET LOOKS ORIGINAL TOO WITH "TRIUMVIRAT TEST PRESSING" WRITTEN ON ONE OS THE SIDES AND A LITTLE BIT OF EDGE YELLOWING. THE RECORD COMES WITH A HIGH QUALITY COLLECTOR'S TYPE OF INNER SLEEVE AND A PLASTIC OUTER SLEEVE. 

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