Zen Arcade

This pressing can best be identified by the large pressing ring on labels. Early pressings were issued in a heavy pasteboard/tip-on gatefold sleeve (inside cardboard brown, not white). May include an SST catalog insert listing releases up to SST 028. Tracks are numbered sequentially on the labels. A5 is titled "Dreams Reoccurring" on back cover and "Dreams Recurring" on label D23 is titled "Reoccurring Dreams" on back cover and "Recurring Dreams" on label ©1984 Cesstone Music (BMI) ℗1984 SST Records Recorded & mixed at Total Access, Redondo Beach, CA, October 1983 All songs ℗© Cesstone Music (BMI) Whoever wrote the songs sings it, except for track C15 Track D23 is live-to-2 track, no overdubs or funny stuff Everything on the record is first-take, except for A1 & C18, which started too fast We all throw chairs during track B9 There were only two out-takes from these sessions, "Dozen Beats Eleven" and "Some Kind Of Fun" The whole thing took about 85 hours, the last 40 hours straight for mixing Carducci wants another album already, but not another double LP Runouts are etched, except for Kdisc (which is stamped). Lacquer cutting, plating companies derived from runouts.