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Women and Children First - Black LPx2
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11/01/2024
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UltraDisc One Step SuperVinyl 2 x 180g LP 45rpm. Catalog Number: LMFUD1S034 Color: Black Format: LP Van Halen vocalist David Lee Roth says it all on the second song of the band's third album -- and third consecutive smash in less than three years time. "Everybody wants some!," he declares before immediately querying, "Baby, how 'bout, you?" Roth and the rest of Van Halen already knew the answer. The quartet further confirmed its status as America's leading rock band and principal party starters on Women and Children First while heading in harder, heavier directions with thrilling songs that Rolling Stone scribe David Fricke rightly deemed "works of high-volume art." Sourced from the original analogue tapes, pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl at Fidelity Record Pressing, and limited to 7,500 copies, Mobile Fidelity's UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP box set of Women and Children First explodes with dynamic energy, saturated colours, multi-dimensional textures, and vivid detail. This 2LP edition practically whisks you to Sunset Sound Recorders and lets you sit in with Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, Michael Anthony, and David Lee Roth as they complete the record in just eight days time. Made with few overdubs and featuring a live-on-the-floor feel, Women and Children First can now be experienced with unparalleled transparency, clarity, balance, and, if you so choose with your volume settings, concert-like solidity, scope, and decibel levels. Credit MoFi's unique SuperVinyl compound, which allows you to crank this set as high as you want without risking noise-floor interference. The premium packaging and gorgeous presentation of the UD1S Women and Children First pressing befit its select status. Housed in a deluxe box, it features special foil-stamped jackets and faithful-to-the-original graphics that illuminate the splendour of the recording. Aurally and visually, this UD1S reissue is made for discerning listeners who prize sound quality and production, and who desire to fully immerse themselves in everything involved with the album, from the cover art -- and really, is there a better shot of Van Halen than the cover image? -- to the interior photos.