GENESIS Abacab 1981 UK CHARISMA 1st PRESSING MINT
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Dec 14, 2012
Sold Date
Dec 4, 2012
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GENESIS Abacab 1981 UK CHARISMA 1st PRESSING MINT
EMBOSSED SLEEVE w/INNER - STUNNING UNPLAYED COPY
GENESISAbacab
UK CHARISMA (CBR 102) FIRST PRESSING (September 1981) OF GENESIS' "Abacab"
NOT AN UNCOMMON RECORD BY ANY MEANS BUT TO FIND A *COMPLETE* UNPLAYED FIRST PRESS COPY IS PRETTY EXCEPTIONAL AND THE ORIGINAL EMBOSSED SLEEVE IS AS BEAUTIFULLY CLEAN, CRISP AND FRESH AS THE DAY IT WAS MADE
VINYL: MINT
SLEEVE: MINT
INNER SLEEVE: MINT-
MATRIX NUMBERS: CBR 102 A//2 ▽ E TH (stamped 'TOWNHOUSE') / CBR 102 B//3 ▽ E TH (stamped 'TOWNHOUSE')
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL EMBOSSED SLEEVE
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL PHOTO/INFO INNER SLEEVE
The group initially wrote an album's worth of material which they subsequently discarded because they saw themselves as becoming, in Mike Rutherford's words, "a caricature of ourselves."
In what he saw as a major turning point for the group, they made a decision to throw out any songs which sounded like anything they had done before.
The album continues the band's sharp stylistic shift, begun on the preceding album Duke, toward a radio-friendly pop music sound. "No Reply At All" features the Earth, Wind & Fire horn section (as did Collins' solo album Face Value earlier in 1981).
Genesis produced Abacab solely by themselves. Engineer Hugh Padgham, who assisted Collins on Face Value, would continue to work on Genesis and Collins recordings through the end of the decade.
The album takes its name from an early arrangement of the title track. Rutherford said on the US radio show In the Studio with Redbeard (which spotlighted Duke and Abacab in one episode): "There were three bits of music in 'Abacab', and we referred to them as 'section a', 'section b', and 'section c'... and at different times, they were in different order. We'd start with 'section a' and then have 'section c'... and at one point in time, it spelled Abacab. On the final version, it's not that at all, it's like 'Accaabbaac'."
Three songs from the Abacab sessions—"Paperlate," "You Might Recall," and "Me & Virgil"—were issued on the 3 X 3 EP. They were also issued on the non-UK releases of 1982's Three Sides Live. Two other songs from the sessions, "Naminanu" and "Submarine", appeared as B-sides on the "Abacab" singles, but were originally intended to be part of "Dodo/Lurker", where the order would have been "Naminanu/Dodo/Lurker/Submarine".
The album was released with four different embossed covers simultaneously across the country, all depicting the same collage but with the paper shapes in different colours. The four different cover variants are usually identified by the colour of the largest upper shape adjacent to the title lettering; this shape being coloured navy blue, red, peach, and yellow.
Side 1:
Abacab
No Reply At All
Me And Sarah Jane
Keep It Dark
Side 2:
Dodo / Lurker
Who Dunnit?
Man On The Corner
Like It Or Not
Another Record
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW INNER SLEEVES WITH ANTI-STATIC LINERS, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: 1st Class: £4.50 (recorded delivery)
EUROPE: Airmail: £12.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £17.00 (International Signed For delivery)
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