Specials* – Specials

This sounds pretty good, I grabbed a copy of this because my original US pressing is beat to hell... hard to tell if there's any actual difference between the stampers because of the wear to my old copy. However, you can't go wrong with one of these.

Can anyone comment on the quality of this pressing please?

Good lord - this is stupidly good. I mean - there’s nothing but glowing recommendations from others here, and yet I am still blown away. If someone told me that this had been given the UHQR treatment, I would completely believe it. So much clarity but umph; this both fills the room and has crystal clear sound staging. If you see it, snap it. You can’t get better records than this, at almost any price.

My copy states 1F07, not 1F04. It is otherwise identical

I have the first pressing signed by the whole band in Audiosonic, a record shop in Shrewsbury, before they played there on the two tone tour...

I have a mint copy that has no etchings on either side of the vinyl. It is 2 Tone and says "CDL TT5001." Can anyone help me identify it? Thanks!

Really nice pressing. High but not overpowering bass presence, and good instrument/vocal separation. Wish most reissues were this solid

So is this a 1980 pressing? What do we think

Definitely a big difference between this and my Canadian pressing. That ones sounds muffled now compared to this one.

Attention - GZ represses have the stamped 254982M1 1444136 etc. in the run out in addition to the etched Optimal Media Code. The guy who added the stamped matrix 8 months ago has been asked to correct this and to make a new relese, but didn´t react.