This is one of my treasured vinyls from when I grew up in New Zealand
I LOVE music, all music but its now time to find a new home for these records.
I am hoping this vinyl will find it's way to someone who also appreciates great (or quirky) New Zealand originated music.
This vinyl was last played about 30 years ago (until today) and then put away, bought over to Australia and then put away in safe/dry storage once again (upright)
My background is technical, particularly relating to the professional music/audio industry and because of this I give a LOT of detail about what I am offering.
Prior to advertising this vinyl, it has had a standard wet wash & vacuum and dry.
The vinyl is first visually inspected and then played ENTIRELY. None of this "played the first 30 seconds" stuff, what good is that!
Visual inspections can be deceptive, the only real way to judge a record is to actually play the whole record entirely (unless still sealed of course)
Formed in late 1980 by Graeme Downes in Dunedin
The Verlaines - Some Disenchanted Evening
Flying Nun - Festival Records
Cat# FN129 L30285
Matrix: A side (etched): DMX-73483 W3
Matrix: B side (etched): DMX 73484 W4
New Zealand release
1990
Cover is in excellent condition, very light handling wear to the opening edge only. Includes the original white inner sleeve (completely without artwork) for authenticity purposes but a new inner plastic sleeve is also included. No seam damage, no tears no splits and no writing anywhere.
New plastic inner sleeve
Vinyl is in very good - excellent condition, inspected under a white halogen light source, I can see just one small "white dot" on Side A and nothing of significance on Side B.
I then played the entire album and for the most part, very clean playback. Surface noise (very low level with an occasional click/pop) heard at the end of Side A track 1 and at times in track 2, the rest of Side A is fine even where the "dots" were seen. Side B has a couple of low level clicks at the beginning of Track 1, and there continues to be the occasional low level click throughout this side (but not often) EXCEPT the last track has 4 short click/pops near the beginning.
I examined Side B in particular, very carefully with a microscope I can see a couple of strange little dimples where surface noise occurs - these could be pressing faults or someone has lightly used a punch on the vinyl! Not likely the latter me thinks!
Overall, a nice listen with just a few low level clicks to remind you that it is vinyl!
New outer protective plastic sleeve
Tracks: Jesus What A Jerk, The Funniest Thing, Whatever You Run Into, Faithfully Yours, Damn Shame, This Train, Down The Road, We're All Gonna Die, Anniversary, Come Sunday, It Was
