The Saints -- “I’m Stranded”
Almost 10 years ago I discovered the Saints from the original owner of Smash Records. Bobby introduced me to the Saints and told me to pick up their LP. I have a few of their other LPs but not their first. This band is from Australia and one of the best punk bands to have come from the down under. The record I’m stranded has been reissued and repressed a few years back. I found this repress or boot at my local record store Freak Beats. I was doing some hunting during the aftermath of record store day. It was 24 dollars but I was pretty happy to add this piece of vinyl to my shrinking collection.
The 1st pressing of this LP came on HARVEST/EMI in Australia and on HARVEST in the UK in 1977. I have two different labels for the 1977 Oz pressing, not sure which one was 1st which one was 2nd. Also, all the records (like all the other records that came out in 1977) have no barcode on the back. The og 1977 US pressing was on SIRE records. The one I have has the same pink PROMO / NOT FOR SALE sticker that the US Pistols promo LPs have.
ReplyDeleteWhat you bought is the 90s or 00s repress or boot. That record was repressed/booted thousand times over :)
1977 Harvest labels:
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1977 EMI labels:
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1977 Sire labels:
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and the Sire promo stickered cover:
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oh damn oh wells
ReplyDeleteone day i own it, thank you ill revise it
I'm gonna be putting the 77 US promo on ebay tomorrow. If you want it drop me an email: xohashix gmail com
ReplyDeleteI can sell it to you for a reasonable price.
The record in the pictures is the 1987 EMI Australia repress. I have one myself. It's the next best thing to the original 1977 EMI Australia pressing, which is pretty expensive these days.
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