BIG STAR/ALEX CHILTON RADIO CITY INSANELY RARE SEALED UNRELEASED TEST PRESSING

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·      BIG STAR featuring ALEX CHILTON - RADIO CITY (THE GROUP’S SECOND ALBUM, AND THE LAST ALBUM TO BE RELEASED IN THE GROUP’S (INITIAL) LIFETIME) - ULTRA-RARE UNUSED, STILL FACTORY SEALED  TEST PRESSING BY CLASSIC RECORDS USED FOR THE PLANNED (BUT APPARENTLY UNRELEASED) 2009 AUDIOPHILE RELEASE OF THE 1974 ARDENT RECORDS STEREO LP ADS-1501 ON AUDIOPHILE 150-GRAM VIRGIN VINYL

·      GENUINE U.S. PRESSING

*** STILL SEALED GUARANTEED ORIGINAL CLASSIC RECORDS UNRELEASED 150-GRAM TEST PRESSING; BELIEVED MASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL, FIRST GENERATION ARDENT MASTER TAPES ***

·      PLAIN, GENERIC WHITE TEST PRESSING LABEL

·      THIS IS NOT AN IMPORT, RECORD CLUB RELEASE OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·      PLAIN, GENERIC, WHITE TEST PRESSING COVER,  STAMPED WITH ORIGINAL ARDENT CATALOG NUMBER (ADS-1501) AND SCHEDULED DATE OF RELEASE (JANUARY 29, 2009) AND NOTHING ELSE

·      THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

 (►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you'll get.  GUARANTEED!)

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Likely the most influential album of my life. I first heard immediately after meeting my wife, which cemented in my mind. Especially the first side has a series of five songs which have all served as "my favorite song ever" at one time or another during my life. The first song, "O My Soul" is a rollicking potential train wreck that seems just barely able to hold together until the end, it is such a force barely contained. The last, "You Get What You Deserve", is a perfectly constructed angry pop son filled with venom but still gives me chills 30 years after I first heard it. And finally, "September Gurls" has influenced bands from REM to The Replacements to Cheap Trick. Lastly, "Daisy Glaze"'s admonition of "You're gonna die!" speaks to Alex and Chris and the fate we all face. Yeah. It means something to me. Not much doubt.

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY BRIAN WOOTON, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

This is easily everybody's most praised popular and critical cult favorite of the '70s: the much-sought Big Star's second - and according to Alex Chilton  - the last real album released by the Big Star. Big Star, who were neighbors, contemporaries and label-mates (Ardent was a Stax subsidiary) of such Stax/Volt legends as Booker T. and the MG's, Carla and Rufus Thomas, or Albert King, created a lasting masterpiece of rocking urgency, bold harmonies, twanging guitars, intricate chord changes and some real loud, intense R&R. A masterpiece of 70s power-pop, and a great album, if ever we’d met one. The album was pressed as the band was disintegrating, to minimal promotion and advertising, and nice copies are brutally hard to come by.

Track listing:O my soul - Life is white - Way out west - What's going ahn - You get what you deserve - Mod lang - Back of a car - Daisy Glaze - She's a mover - September Gurls (later covered by Beach Boys) - Morpha too - I'm in love with a girl.

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For its extraordinary contribution to the modern music, superb production, craftsmanship, fine musicianship, revolutionary significance and influence it exerted on numerous generations of musicians, writers and general public, this album was voted one of top-100 albums of all time in one of the largest poll of critics, music reviewers, professionals and producers ever organized: the poll, which was conducted in 1987 by Paul Gambaccini, legendary BBC Radio A&R man, surveyed more than 50 top music professionals.

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·      CONDITION:

·      RECORD

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)         THE ALBUM IS STILL FACTORY SEALED AND IS BELIEVED TO BE PERFECTLY MINT. Please note: sealed items are assumed to be mint and are sold as-is, as we have no way of inspecting them.

(b)          The record is  apparently pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

·      COVER: This reference pressing comes without any custom jacket, and will be shipped in a plain, generic, white cardboard cover.

COVER IS STRONG NEAR MINT, STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL ►SHRINK WRAP

NO SIGNIFICANT FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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POSTAGE & SHIPPING:

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(A) All orders valued at $50.00 or more will be shipped fully insured against loss, damage or theft by ShipCover, eBay's contracted insurer, at our expense (B) Yes, we do combine items into a single shipment; in order to enable this feature, the winning bidders should WAIT until their last item of interest ends and ONLY THEN make a payment. Doing otherwise will result in multiple shipments to the same customer and forfeiture of multiple shipping charges already paid. (C) Because we do not play-grade our items, we do not know how the purchased item will play on the buyer's equipment. We can only make reasonable inference on the record's playing condition based on its visual appearance. (D) This seller will NOT cancel erroneous, frivolous and prank bids. The bidders can do so on their own, by visiting eBay's Site Map, then clicking on Bid Retractions link. (E) This seller does not specifically grade or describe certain items, such as: shrink (cellophane) wrap and accompanying extras (inserts, booklets, etc.); however, the presence of these items WILL be noted and accompanied by the gallery photo(s). (F) Please do not submit any bids on our items if you have insufficient user history. (G) Other than in very rare justified cases, failure to pay for the item you won amounts to a fraud and will result in a permanent ban on bidding on our future listings. (H) We will NEVER deliberately, knowingly or willingly provide a false, deceitful or misleading information.

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OUR REFUND POLICY :

WE OFFER UNCONDITIONAL MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE (POSTAGE INCLUDED) WITHIN 30 DAYS FROM THE RECEIPT OF THE MERCHANDISE, NO QUESTIONS ASKED; STILL SEALED ITEMS MUST BE RETURNED SEALED IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR A REFUND.   NO EXCEPTIONS!

FINE (BUT IMPORTANT!) PRINT

 (1) The year indicated in the title bar is the year of the original release,  NOT necessarily the year of the actual pressing; for the actual generation of the pressing, please see our item description (top section, the text in red letters). (2) Please do NOT bid based on the title bar, subtitle bar or item specifics box alone; instead, please read the entire description before bidding; (3) Absolutely NO order cancellations after the auction closes. ever, under any circumstances. We can ONLY cancel bids before the item closes. (4) We are unable to provide matrix-, stamper- or other pressing  information in the final 24 hours of the auction. (5) All disagreements and miscommunications can be - and will only be - solved in a civil and mutually respectful manner; please avoid puerile, offensive, abrasive or menacing language (6) This seller will accommodate all reasonable requests and - unless seriously molested - is generally a flexible, pragmatic and agreeable person.

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