Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay
Stax
£3
Filed between Redd Kross 'Teen Babes From Monsanto' and the Rolling Stones 'These Satanic Majesties Request'.
Damn you Otis for forcing me to use a cliché, but here goes ... you wait for one Otis Redding LP to come along and two arrive at once. Right, that’s that out of the way ... and indeed, no sooner have I secured a copy of ‘Otis Blue’ (which I haven’t owned for approximately 25 years) do I then stumble across a copy of this 1968 post-death cash-in collection on the mighty Stax label. One of several 60s vinyls I’ve bought recently where a visual inspection suggested I should leave well alone – plenty of surface marks, some that look like they could be genuine scratches but which when played, bar some background clicks, are absolutely fine.
An 80s or 90s pressing in similar condition would be one to avoid. The last ‘new’ release I previously bought on vinyl was ‘The Second Coming’, the no-longer-hotly-anticipated second album from the Stone Roses. Despite being issued across two discs (both rather flimsy) the sound quality was appalling - feel free to make your own joke there - and it was clear that the industry had stopped trying to produce decent vinyl pressings. A decision now seemingly reversed with the rise of 180 gsm pressings as standard, one wonders when the humble cassette tape will re-capture people’s imagination ....
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