Product Description
High Quality & Scarce Actual 1971 Japanese First Pressing Still In Nice Condition! Includes Pig Postcard, Die-Cut Inner Sleeve With Lyrics In English & Insert With Lyrics In Japanese. John Lennon’s Face Features On Picture Label. A Timeless Certified Classic Album From A Totally Legendary Artist!
Price On Back Cover Indicates First Pressing: ¥ 2,000.
Condition – Vinyl: EXCELLENT! Some light surface marks, which do not affect play. Sounds amazing!
Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT! Hard to believe this record is over 53 years old!
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Top condition Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
Imagine
Crippled Inside
Jealous Guy
It’s So Hard
I Don’t Wanna Be A Soldier Mama I Don’t Wanna Die
Side 2:
Gimme Some Truth
Oh My Love
How Do You Sleep?
How?
Oh Yoko!
AMG –
After the harrowing Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon returned to calmer, more conventional territory with Imagine. While the album had a softer surface, it was only marginally less confessional than its predecessor. Underneath the sweet strings of "Jealous Guy" lies a broken and scared man, the jaunty "Crippled Inside" is a mocking assault at an acquaintance, and "Imagine" is a paean for peace in a world with no gods, possessions, or classes, where everyone is equal. And Lennon doesn't shy away from the hard rockers -- "How Do You Sleep" is a scathing attack on Paul McCartney, "I Don't Want to Be a Soldier" is a hypnotic antiwar song, and "Give Me Some Truth" is bitter hard rock. If Imagine doesn't have the thematic sweep of Plastic Ono Band, it is nevertheless a remarkable collection of songs that Lennon would never be able to better again.