The Kinks-Sleepwalker (1977)
Artist: The Kinks
Title: Sleepwalker
Label: Arista
Format: LP
Cat #: AL 4106
Year of Release: 1977
Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1977 PRC pressing
Listed Condition: VG+/VG+
Sell Date: 2/8/21
Sell Price: $2.99
Discogs Last Sold: 1/5/21 $3.61 VG/G+
Low: $1.00 VG+/VG
Median: $5.50
High: $15.00 M/M
Current low price: $2.50 VG+/G+
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 100
Have/Want: 3599/143
Where Sold: Minneapolis, MN
Time it took to sell: 5 years
Where and When Bought: Worcester, MA Al Bums $3.99
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B
Sad To See It Go: No
I'm a bit tired of Kinks Kommentary, but they are a regular seller, and the weeks sales have been a little slower except for this 6-album buyer in Mpls, which had a nice variety for writeup. Sleepwalker ushered in the "arena" era of The Kinks. The Arista years. "Juke Box Music" I really liked and remembered being very disappointed taping the radio as a kid when this song came on and the tape ran out. Home taping was still killing music and used records were my pre-paper route bloodline. I don't think I even knew the title until I got a used copy of Sleepwalker fairly soon after that. The title track was the other radio hit, and I deemed the rest filler at the time.
About ten or maybe even fifteen years ago, I listened to Sleepwalker start to finish on an ipod on a long bus trip and hadn't really thought much different. This time around I liked the perky opener "Life On The Road" and the closer "Life Goes On" was going through my head half a day this week.
Life goes on and on and on.
Format: 8-Track
Cat #: 8301-4106 H
Year of Release: 1977
Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1977
Listed Condition: VG/VG tested start to finish
Sell Date: 11/25/24
Sell Price: $2.99
Discogs Last Sold: 1/10/20 VG/not graded $0.99
Low: $0.99
Median: $1.99
Average: $1.99
High: $2.99
Current low price: $3.00
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 3
Have/Want: 19/18
Where Sold: Danville, WV
Time it took to sell: 3 weeks
Where and When Bought: Ebay 8-track lot
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+
Sad To See It Go: No
12/2/24-I got an 8-track copy of Sleepwalker a few weeks ago. Usually, I don't post on albums I've already written up, but I've exhausted my latest sales, so this will go in my daily post Facebook feed as opposed to nothing. I listened to the 8-track once before it sold and didn't relisten again, but my feeling was B+ as opposed to the B I gave it in 2021. The resequencing on 8-track means that my recently discovered favorites ("Life On The Road" and "Life Goes On") are on Track 1 and my traditional favorites ("Sleepwalker" and "Juke Box Music") are on Track 2 making the album suddenly top loaded since "Life Goes On" closed the album and 'Juke Box Music" opened side 2. "Stormy Sky" fell victim to the 8-track fade out/fade in between Track 3 and Track 4.
Another thing I have to note is that normally the worst 8-tracks are those that are manufactured by GRT. They issued tapes on Arista, Chess, ABC and Sire in the 70's. Keep that in mind if say you want to pay big bucks for something on those labels like the Ramones or Steely Dan. This particular one sounded ok, but I've found if they don't break, they often sound like total shit. I had a GRT Chuck Berry on Chess double length that sounded like wobbly garbage, but that might be more common with double lenght 8-tracks in general. This one still didn't sound like a top 1977 8-track, so I kept the grade at VG instead of a VG+ even though it didn't sound degraded with dropouts or bad tape.
So yeah, an upgrade for Sleepwalker.
FOR FURTHER REVIEW:
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society (1968)
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