Manzanera, Phil - Diamond Head - Hot Stamper

Manzanera, Phil - Diamond Head - Hot StamperThe wind is at your back here because this is one seriously well recorded album. If this copy doesn't wake up your stereo, nothing will. If we could regularly find copies of this audiophile blockbuster (and frankly, if more people appreciated the album) it would definitely go on our Top 100 Rock and Pop List. In fact, it would easily make the Top Twenty from that list, it's that good. What The Best Sides Of Diamond Head Have To Offer Is Not Hard To

There was no attempt made to compete with the things he had already done

Vinyl playback has come a long way in the last five or ten years and if you’ve participated in some of the revolutionary changes that I talk about elsewhere on the site

Gary Gilmore - electric bass

This vintage Epic pressing has the kind of Tubey Magical Midrange that modern records can barely BEGIN to reproduce

What other album can boast such consistently good songwriting

multi-part female vocals

It's got real Demo Disc qualities

the weight

We make judgments about the way we think the record "ought" to sound

The better pressings

Track 1 on side 2

and playing the best pressings against a pile of other copies under rigorously controlled conditions is the only way to find a pressing that sounds as good as this one does