Gillan – Future Shock

Decent NWOBHM Ian Gillan. His voice is incredible, and the music is good. So if you can get past the absurd cover art it's a pretty good spin.

The packaging is superb, but the actual music is very lacking compared with the 1981 original pressing. The treatment of the guitars in particular somewhat weak and lacking power, which for a hard rock LP is a problem. You can, at the time of writing, pick up the excellent original pressing in NM disc condition for half the price of this pressing, so I'd recommend you do that rather than buy this pressing.

metaljim - I have same copy. Does your include printed inner sleeve?

My copy of this Canadian version has a different tracklist. They removed Sacre Bleu and Lucitania Express, and replaced them with Mutually Assured Destruction, One for the Road and Trouble. Same catalog number VL 2215.

I have a south African pressing of this VIR(L)3031 not listed here.

It also has 21 tracks printed on the CD face and back insert. Track 18 is listed as Sleeping On The Job. This track isn't on the CD and there are only 20 tracks.