Costello, Elvis - Spike - White Hot Stamper (With Issues)

Costello, Elvis - Spike - White Hot Stamper (With Issues)*NOTE: There is a mark that plays 14 times at a light to moderate level about 1 4" into track 6 on side 2, "Any King's Shilling." This vintage import pressing has the kind of Tubey Magical Midrange that modern records can barely BEGIN to reproduce. Folks, that sound is gone and it sure isn't showing signs of coming back. If you love hearing INTO a recording, actually being able to "see" the performers, and feeling as if you are sitting in the studio

The Sheffield is even more dryly recorded than their other albums

What The Best Sides Of Some Nice Things I've Missed Have To Offer Is Not Hard To Hear

and that means their seven original albums and nothing that came after

" also play Mint Minus Minus to EX++

Argybargy (1980)

Audiophiles are supposed to be the ones who can appreciate the wide range of colors Herrmann created

For our part

The soft cardboard covers for these German pressings almost always show some seam wear

which is surely one of the reasons it sold seven million copies in the states alone

Not too many copies will do that

shoulder to shoulder

rich sound of the recording was still on the tape decades later