{"product_id":"facesnodis_2607","title":"Faces, The - A Nod Is As Good As A Wink - White Hot Stamper (With Issues)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*NOTE:\u003c\/strong\u003e Track 3 on side 1, \"Love Lives Here,\" plays a little noisier than Mint Minus Minus. There is a mark that plays 17 times (5 moderate, 12 light) at the end of track 1 on side 2, \"Debris.\" This same mark plays 18 times at a light to moderate level at the start of track 2, \"Memphis.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you like your hard rock dirty and bluesy, you can’t do much better than this album! Most copies just don't do it justice, but this one really hits the nail on the head. For this kind of music, you just can't do much better than these guys. The Stones at their best may have had them beat, but it's a photo finish to say the least. With Glyn Johns at the console, the Faces behind the instruments, and the Better Records Hot Stamper seal of approval on this copy, you can be sure that this is one rockin' record. And make sure you \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=tag:%22turn-up-your-volume%22\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eturn it up good and loud\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e the way The Faces intended.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis vintage Green Label 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 with the band, this is the record for you. It's what vintage all analog recordings are known for -- \u003ci\u003ethis sound\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you exclusively play modern repressings of vintage recordings, I can say without fear of contradiction that you have never heard this kind of sound on vinyl. Old records have it -- not often, and certainly not always -- but maybe one out of a hundred new records do, and those are some pretty long odds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat The Best Sides Of A Nod Is As Good As A Wink Have To Offer Is Not Hard To Hear\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe biggest, most immediate staging in the largest acoustic space\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe most Tubey Magic, without which you have \u003ci\u003ealmost\u003c\/i\u003e nothing. CDs give you clean and clear. Only the best vintage vinyl pressings offer the kind of Tubey Magic that was on the tapes in \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=tag:%221971%22\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1971\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTight, note-like, rich, full-bodied bass, with the correct amount of weight down low\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNatural tonality in the midrange -- with all the instruments having the correct timbre\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTransparency and resolution, critical to hearing into the three-dimensional studio space\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo doubt there's more but we hope that should do for now. \u003ci\u003ePlaying the record is the only way to hear all of the qualities we discuss above,\u003c\/i\u003e and playing the best pressings against a pile of other copies under rigorously controlled conditions is the only way to find a pressing that sounds as good as this one does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eGlyn Johns At The Helm\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis album was produced by one of our very favorite engineers around here, Mr. \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=tag:%22glyn-johns%22\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGlyn Johns\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, the man behind tons of Better Records faves -- Sticky Fingers, The Eagles' 1st, Joan Armatrading's self-titled, Who's Next, and many, many more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut no Faces album -- Glyn Johns-produced or not -- will ever have Demo Disc sound. It's just not what the band was going for. The proper sound for a band like this is \u003ci\u003eraw and rockin'\u003c\/i\u003e. Any phony EQ or overproduction would really make a mess of what the band does here, which put simply is kickin' out the jams. It would be fair to call these guys a bar band, but they're the best darn bar band I've ever heard!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe better Faces pressings have amazing live-in-the-studio sound that completely conveys the power of one of the hardest rockin' bands of all time. What more can you ask for?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat We're Listening For On A Nod Is As Good As A Wink\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEnergy\u003c\/strong\u003e for starters. What could be more important than the life of the music?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThen: \u003cstrong\u003epresence and immediacy\u003c\/strong\u003e. The vocals aren't \"back there\" somewhere, lost in the mix. They're front and center where any recording engineer worth his salt would put them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Big Sound\u003c\/strong\u003e comes next -- wall to wall, lots of depth, huge space, three-dimensionality, all that sort of thing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThen \u003cstrong\u003etransient information\u003c\/strong\u003e -- fast, clear, sharp attacks, not the smear and thickness so common to these LPs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTight punchy bass\u003c\/strong\u003e -- which ties in with good transient information, also the issue of frequency extension further down.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNext: \u003cstrong\u003etransparency\u003c\/strong\u003e -- the quality that allows you to hear deep into the soundfield, showing you the space and air around all the instruments.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eExtend the top and bottom\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003ci\u003evoila\u003c\/i\u003e, you have The Real Thing -- an honest to goodness Hot Stamper.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eVinyl Condition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMint Minus Minus is about as quiet as any vintage pressing will play, and since only the right vintage pressings have any hope of sounding good on this album, that will most often be the playing condition of the copies we sell. (The copies that are even a bit noisier get listed on the site are seriously reduced prices or traded back in to the local record stores we shop at.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThose of you looking for quiet vinyl will have to settle for the sound of later pressings and Heavy Vinyl reissues, purchased elsewhere of course as we have no interest in selling records that don't have the vintage analog magic of these wonderful originals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you want to make the trade-off between bad sound and quiet surfaces with whatever Heavy Vinyl pressing might be available, well, that's certainly your prerogative, but we can't imagine losing what's good about this music -- the size, the energy, the presence, the clarity, the weight -- just to hear it with less background noise.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faces, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52056339743016,"sku":"facesnodis","price":499.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0257\/3415\/2295\/files\/facesnodis.jpg?v=1783443923","url":"https:\/\/better-records.com\/products\/facesnodis_2607","provider":"Better Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}