The Style Council – Café Bleu

Finally got my hands on this after all this time. after reading the review from jwrider98 I was wondering if I should even still look for it. I did find a new copy, couldn't resist buying it, but exactly as he said, too much hiss. So disappointing. Compared it to my UK and US originals. Have to say my US original is the one to have.
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Still, looks great but sounds crap.

The Cappuchino Kid had the forsight to include on the jacket's rear a warning written over 230 years ago but relevant more than ever:

"Don’t be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there’s no poverty to be seen because the poverty’s been hidden. Even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that that you never had so much, that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you.

Don’t be taken in when they pat you paternally on the shoulder and say that there’s no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they’ll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces."
Jean-Paul Marat

jwrider98: "Possibly the worst pressing in my collection. Extreme sibilance on multiple tracks, particularly Paris Match. Bass is nonexistent, even with the EQ cranked right up. It's as if no one ever tested it before sending it out. The other TSC coloured reissues sound far better. Avoid this entirely, unless you are desperate to complete the set of reissues."

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Just seek an original pressing. Used copies are still abundant and affordable forty years on.

Possibly the worst pressing in my collection. Extreme sibilance on multiple tracks, particularly Paris Match. Bass is nonexistent, even with the EQ cranked right up. It's as if no one ever tested it before sending it out. The other TSC coloured reissues sound far better. Avoid this entirely, unless you are desperate to complete the set of reissues.

A fail. I've tried three copies-- all suffered from sibilance, visible vinyl damage on side one track two, and surface noise that would not clean up. Such a great album. It sure deserved better.

Very disappointed in this pressing. No way the original tapes were used and you can hear, very clearly, distortion whenever words with the letter "s" are sung or spoken. Definitely going to be sending mine back.

Seems pretty sibilant to me, especially on 'The Paris Match'