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Peter Gabriel – Self-Titled 2 (Scratch)

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  • An original UK Charisma pressing with INCREDIBLE Shootout Winning Triple Plus (A+++) sound or close to it from start to finish
  • This has long been a favorite album of mine, a desert island disc if you will, with some of the most powerfully produced, intelligently written and passionately performed songs in the entire PG canon
  • We shot out a number of other imports, but this early Mad Hatter label pressing had better midrange presence, bass, and dynamics than practically any other copy we played
  • 4 stars: “‘On the Air’ and ‘D.I.Y.’ are stunning slices of modern rock circa 1978, bubbling with synths, insistent rhythms, and polished processed guitars, all enclosed in a streamlined production that nevertheless sounds as large as a stadium.”
  • If I were to compile a list of my top twenty rock and pop albums of 1978, this album would most likely be one of the most played titles on that list, one that I still listen to regularly to this day

Peter Gabriel’s self-titled second album checks off a number of important boxes for us here at Better Records:

Looking to do a shootout to find your own Hot Stamper?

  • Stick exclusively with the early British pressings. Nothing can touch them for sound quality.

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