Lee Fields lets talk it over LP

[binsy]

Apologies if this has been done before but i am really confused as to if i have a re-issue or original. What i have read is very sketchy regarding original versus re-issue.

Anyone with a definitive answer?

Thanks a lot

Mark

[Guest trickbag]

Lee Fields "Let's Talk It Over" LP



Truth & Soul records 2013, new sealed reissue of his classic first solo LP, plus bonus tracks.

the side 2 tracklisting on the re goes 1,2,3,3. if yours has 1,2,3,4 then it's an og.

the text stayed within the circular groove
in the label but on the reissue it is wider and spreads
over the groove, if that makes any sense...
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ricky.

 

 

 

 

[binsy]

Thanks a lot Ricky,it is a re-issue which i thought but its bloody close,people could get caught out with this one.

[Guest trickbag]

Yes its very easy to get caught out with so many look a like  reissues.

so check check and check again,its what the internets for.

atb

ricky.

[Cover-up]

Well, it's not quite so simple. It got re-issued (booted) in the late 80s too, very authentic looking with thick card cover, paste-on back etc. Must dig it out, the only reason I know mine is a boot is that I bought it on the understanding that it was a boot...

 

EDIT: sorry, I see Ricky is describing the record I have. The new Truth and Soul re-issue is a double vinyl in a completely different sleeve. The lookalike re-issues have been around for years (so, in theory, you might find one beat up, with ringwear etc. making it even more confusing...)

Edited January 9, 2016 by cover-up

[Cover-up]

EDIT PART TWO: if you check Discogs, I'm pretty sure the listing for the original is showing the re-issue label - and if you check the re-issue listing: https://www.discogs.com/Lee-Fields-Lets-Talk-It-Over/release/3459097 there's two sets of labels pictured. The first pair are the same as my re-issue, but the second pair the labels don't have that groove, it's more of a "dip" with another "dip" nearer the centre. And the typeface for "Side 1" and "Side 2" are VERY slightly different. Side two STILL has the tracks listed as 1, 2, 3 & 3 though (would surely have been too obvious a mistake for a very diligent bootlegger?)

[Chris O]

these where reissued by the label owner no booty check the pressing sounds perfect as is the artwork. If I remember right the reiss artwork if you look carefully is pixelated.

[Cover-up]

On 9 January 2016 at 01:14, chris o said:

these where reissued by the label owner no booty check the pressing sounds perfect as is the artwork. If I remember right the reiss artwork if you look carefully is pixelated.

Can't really see any pixellation, looks pretty much bang on to me (without having an OG to compare it to). If it was pressed by the label owner, it explains the high quality... 

[Sjclement]

Perhaps the most simple reason for the two different pressings is that the original mistake 1,2,3,3, was corrected on the 2nd issue.

[Guest SB68]

I have a copy, which I suspect is a re-issue,  track listing goes 1233 on side two. On mine  the inner groove has a squiggle of someones name, that reads DCHARLES.   On  the sleeve, the bottom left flower seems to be partly obscured. On Discogs and deemed the  original  it is not, however on the top left flower bud, less is showing compared to same flower bud, what is supposedly the reissue seems strange that they have more of the image on that one.  On the cd it looks like they drew part of that top flower bud in. So... and if you are not more than confused then ever before. 1st, 2nd issue or boot?

Edited August 27, 2016 by SB68
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