(BLACK SABBATH-Master of Reality)-Rare MISPRINT LABELS-J7-LP

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	$		38

ITEM: VINYL 12” LP 33 1/3rpm
ARTIST: BLACK SABBATH
TITLE: Master of Reality
COUNTRY PRINTED: OZ
CAT No: 7 RECORDS, MLF 419 
COVER: (Grade at EXCELLENT+)
LABELS: (Grade at NEAR MINT+)
NOTE (MISPRINT LABELS): Side 1 and 2 label numbers printed in reverse, ie. Side 1 label actually has side 2 songs & Side 2 label actually has side 1 songs
VINYL: (Grade at MINT-)
TRACKS:
Side one
1. "Sweet Leaf"
2. "After Forever"  
3. "Embryo"
4. "Children of the Grave"

Side two
1. "Orchid"
2. "Lord of this World"
3. "Solitude"
4. "Into the Void"
  REVIEW: Wikipedia
The album broke the top ten in both the United Kingdom (#5) and United States (#8)[13] and achieved Gold status on advance orders alone. Eventually it sold two million copies in the US. …

… in Rolling Stone.[7] … magazine would later place the album at number 298 on their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list, compiled in 2003[14] and in describing the album referred to the band as "The greatest sludge-metal band of them all..."[15] The magazine described the album as "the definitive studio relic of Sabbath's golden-hellfire era (1970-74)..."[16] 

Thirty years after the album's release, Q magazine (7/01, p. 86) included it in their 50 Heaviest Albums of All Time and described it as "malevolent...casting Black Sabbath as a Titanic-style house band on the eve of Armageddon, cranking it as the bomb drops." Another edition of Q magazine that year (1/01, p. 122) gave it 5 out of 5 stars, describing it as "the most cohesive record of their first three albums."

  COMMENT: Biography by William Ruhlmann
Black Sabbath has been so influential in the development of heavy metal rock music as to be a defining force in the style. The group took the blues-rock sound of late '60s acts like Cream, Blue Cheer, and Vanilla Fudge to its logical conclusion, slowing the tempo, accentuating the bass, and emphasizing screaming guitar solos and howled vocals full of lyrics expressing mental anguish and macabre fantasies. If their predecessors clearly came out of an electrified blues tradition, Black Sabbath took that tradition in a new direction, and in so doing helped give birth to a musical style that continued to attract millions of fans decades later.

The group was formed by four teenage friends from Aston, near Birmingham, England: Anthony "Tony" Iommi (b. Feb 19, 1948), guitar; William "Bill" Ward (b. May 5, 1948), drums; John "Ozzy" Osbourne (b. December 3, 1948), vocals; and Terence "Geezer" Butler (b. July 17, 1949), bass. They originally called their jazz-blues band Polka Tulk, later renaming themselves Earth, and they played extensively in Europe. In early 1969, they decided to change their name again when they found that they were being mistaken for another group called Earth. Butler had written a song that took its title from a novel by occult writer Dennis Wheatley, Black Sabbath, and the group adopted it as their name as well. As they attracted attention for their live performances, record labels showed interest, and they were signed to Philips Records in 1969. In January 1970, the Philips subsidiary Fontana released their debut single, "Evil Woman (Don't Play Your Games With Me)," a cover of a song that had just become a U.S. hit for Crow; it did not chart. The following month, a different Philips subsidiary, Vertigo, released Black Sabbath's self-titled debut album, which reached the U.K. Top Ten. Though it was a less immediate success in the U.S. -- where the band's recordings were licensed to Warner Bros. Records and appeared in May 1970 -- the LP broke into the American charts in August, reaching the Top 40, remaining in the charts over a year, and selling a million copies.

  VINYL GRADING SYSTEM

MINT:
RECORD: New condition with no surface marks or loss of sound quality.
COVER: New condition with no surface marks, creases or wear.
NEAR MINT:
RECORD: Barely noticeable surface mark with no loss of sound quality.
COVER: Barely noticeable surface mark/ wear.
EXCELLENT:
RECORD: Some signs of being played with extremely little if no loss of sound quality.
COVER: Slight wear or creasing.
VERY GOOD:
RECORD: Obviously been played with noticeable surface marks & the occasional light scratches but exhibits no major loss of sound quality.
COVER: Noticeable wear on cover, seam or spine.
+(PLUS)/-(MINUS):
Slightly up or down in condition as appears in the comments above.
NOTE:
Gradings are done visually unless there appears to be a questionable surface mark on the vinyl, it is then put on the turntable to check. A comment describing the outcome will appear if this is the case.

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