{"product_id":"geneslambl_2610","title":"Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - White Hot Stamper (With Issues)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*NOTE:\u003c\/strong\u003e On side 1, there is a mark that plays 20 times at a moderate to loud level at the end of track 4, \"Cuckoo Cocoon.\" This same mark plays 10 times lightly at the start of track 5, \"In the Cage.\" On side 2, there is another mark that plays 5 times lightly at the end of track 2, \"Hairless Heart.\" On side 3, there is a mark that plays 6 times at a light to moderate level at the start of track 3, \"Anyway.\" There is also a mark that plays 15 times at a moderate level at the end of track 4, \"The Supernatural Anaesthetist.\" This same mark plays 8 times at a moderate to loud level at the start of track 5, \"The Lamia.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*NOTE:\u003c\/strong\u003e Side 2 of these records was not noisy enough to rate our M-- to EX++ grade, but it's not quite up to our standards for Mint Minus Minus either. If you're looking for quiet vinyl, this is probably not the best copy for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmazing sound on all four sides! This album -- and Genesis in general -- can be difficult to find good sound for. Most copies struggle -- or make you struggle -- to get the sense of the material and what the band is trying to accomplish, but when you find killer pressings such as these two, the complexity and theatricality of the music really \u003ci\u003eworks\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBigger and more present, richer and fuller, with more space and transparency, this copy is doing everything we want the album to do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCertain tracks -- particular the more rocking, guitar-heavy material -- are often going to get a little hard in the midrange, but on a good copy the issue is much less apparent and doesn't get in the way of the music. And the more open, spacious keyboard-based and acoustically driven songs which comprise the bulk of the album can sound really wonderful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eLatest Finding\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe came across an original British pressing, Porky\/Pecko and everything, that was a major letdown sonically. Yes, folks, some pressing that are supposed to be good just aren't. You got to play them to know which is which, and that's where we come in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe never assume anything about a record. We play it and find out for a fact how good it sounds. Any other approach will be too error prone to be of any real use, assuming you set high standards for the sound of your records.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat The Best Sides Of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 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:%221974%22\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1974\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 these records 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 pressings that sound as good as these two do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat We're Listening For On The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway\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 other 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 recordings.\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":"Genesis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67814554796328,"sku":"geneslambl","price":999.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0257\/3415\/2295\/products\/lamb_461d2c44-2591-4725-943d-e68c3f81eb01.jpg?v=1605983942","url":"https:\/\/better-records.com\/products\/geneslambl_2610","provider":"Better Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}