Serge Gainsbourg - Melody Nelson side A (vinyl rip)

Vinyl rip of my original 1971 vinyl copy of this classic album. It has the paper-style (B.I.E.M.) label and the matrix numbers are 6397020 1+380 A10 and 6397020 2+380 A13, which are the earliest I have ever seen. Although not worn, it has not always been treated very well during its forty-one years of existence. I have removed as many pops and clicks as I could without audibly degrading the sound quality and destroying the vinyl sound. To my ears, the final result is pretty close to what a near-mint vinyl copy would sound like. Without the noise reduction and compression (applied to all CD and recent vinyl issues of this album), the album sounds more spacious and livelier.