Description
Offered for sale is a copy of the limited edition U.S. half speed mastered pressing of Still Crazy After All These Years by Paul Simon, issued as part of Columbia’s Mastersound series.
About this copy: This copy of Still Crazy After All These Years is a 1981 U.S. pressing on the Columbia label of an album that was originally released in 1975.
The cover is M-. The generic Mastersound insert is M-.
The disc is M- and shows no signs of play. There is a stain on the side two label where a price sticker was removed. Clean disc!
A nice copy of a scarce Paul Simon LP.
Background: Released in 1975, Still Crazy After All These Years was the fourth solo album by Paul Simon.
The album reached #1 on the U.S. album chart and #6 on the UK chart.
Allmusic.com gave Still Crazy After All These Years a 4 1/2 star review:
The third new studio album of Paul Simon’s post-Simon & Garfunkel career was a musical and lyrical change of pace from his first two, Paul Simon and There Goes Rhymin’ Simon. Where Simon had taken an eclectic approach before, delving into a variety of musical styles and recording all over the world, Still Crazy found him working for the most part with a group of jazz-pop New York session players, though he did do a couple of tracks (“My Little Town” and “Still Crazy After All These Years”) with the Muscle Shoals rhythm section that had appeared on Rhymin’ Simon and another (“Gone at Last”) returned to the gospel style of earlier songs like “Loves Me Like a Rock.” Of course, “My Little Town” also marked a return to working with Art Garfunkel, and another Top Ten entry for S&G. …Still, as out of sorts as Simon may have been, he was never more in tune with his audience: Still Crazy topped the charts, spawned four Top 40 hits, and won Grammys for Song of the Year and Best Vocal Performance.
Most of these records were mastered with both the tape deck and the cutting lathe running at half speed, which produces deeper bass and better imaging than standard pressings. In addition, these records, which sold for a substantial premium over the regular pressings of the album, were pressed on high quality virgin vinyl. Mobile Fidelity’s audiophile pressings are better known than those from Columbia, but Columbia’s half speed mastered pressings are, for the most part, exceptionally good ones, and this album is no exception.
| Country of origin: | U.S. |
| Size: | 12″ |
| Record Label: | Columbia |
| Catalog Number: |
HC 43540 |
| Year of Release: | 1981 |
| Format: | Stereo |
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