Erotica - Original 1992 German pressed Maverick label 14-track 2LP set

Scarce original 1992 German pressed Maverick label 14-track 2LP set - Madonnas superb techno and house influenced dance-pop-club scene 5th album - co produced by Shep Pettibone and Andre Betts and featuring the singles "Erotica", "Deeper and Deeper", "Bad Girl", "Fever", "Rain" and "Bye Bye Baby".

This is the explicit version with including the track "Did You Do It?".

Vinyl has the generic white and black printed company labels - top large Maverick logo - side WB and Sire logos.

Vinyls are accompanied by illustrated lyric inners printed in gold and silver printing respectively - ultimately housed in a gatefold picture cover.

The German Issue was used for a broader European distribution incl. the UK.

Condtion: 2x VG+(+)/VG+(+) (Vinyl and Labels/Inner Sleeves)/VG+(+) (Cover):

Side 1 has a single inaudible surface mark - Side 1 and 4 has otherwise only a lighter degree of sleeve wear and are graded close to near perfect/excellent. Side 2 & 3 has just a touch of sleeve wear only - graded near mint.

Side 1 and 2 labels has a single and a couple of very minor, simply and short spindletraces respectively. Side 2 label is a bit off center. Side 3 & 4 labels are mint.

Vinyls are overall graded close to near perfet/xcellent.

Inner sleeves are nice with only a touch of inevitable vinyl outline - Record 2 inner sleeve has a barcode sticker - which lower the overall inner sleeve grading to close to near perfect/excellent.

Cover is beautiful - has a touch of extremely faint wear along vinyl outline and edges - a series of superficial pressure marks in the front 'upper lib' region, a straight light pressure mark along top front right seam & spine - almost no edge wrinkling from edges, almost no dents or pressure to edges either - straight intact seams, clean and easily readable spine - no rubbing to opening and only extremely light rubbing to corners... all in all a series of marginal inperfections resulting in a closer to near perfect/excellent cover grading - a very decent copy.

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1 Erotica 5:18
2 Fever (John Davenport, Eddie Cooley) 5:00
3 Bye Bye Baby 3:56
4 Deeper And Deeper 5:33

Side 2:
1 Where Life Begins (Ciccone, Andre Betts) 5:58
2 Bad Girl 5:23
3 Waiting (Ciccone, Betts) 5:47
4 Thief Of Hearts 4:51

Side 3:
1 Words 5:55
2 Rain (Ciccone, Pettibone) 5:25
3 Why's It So Hard 5:23

Side 4:
1 In This Life (Ciccone, Pettibone) 6:23
2 Did You Do It? (Ciccone, Betts) 4:54
3 Secret Garden (Ciccone, Betts) 5:22

All tracxs by Madonna Ciccone, Shep Pettibone, Anthony Shimkin unless noted

Recorded November 1991 - August 1992

Credits:
Madonna - vocals
Shep Pettibone - keyboard, sequencing
André Betts - synthesizer, bass, piano, strings,drums, keyboard, synthesizer strings
Jerome Dickens, Paul Pesco - guitar
Doug Wimbish - bass
Anton Fig - drums
Joe Moskowitz - drums, keyboard, programming
James Preston - piano, keyboard, synthesizer strings
Sander Selover - programming
Tony Shimkin - keyboard, background vocals, sequencing, drum programming, programming
Danny Wilensky - saxophone
Donna De Lory and Niki Haris - background vocals
Mark Goodman - vocals
Dave Murphy - voices

Technical Credits:
Madonna, André Betts - production
Shep Pettibone - production, engineer
Tony Shimkin, Mike Farrell, George Karras, P. Dennis Mitchell - engineer
Robin Hancock - engineer, mix
Mark Goodman - assistant engineer
Ted Jensen - mastering
Glen Dicterow - conductor, concert master
Jeremy Lublock - string arrangements

Artwork:
Siung Fat Tjia - art direction, design
Steven Meisel - photography

Various Credits:
Emile Charlap - contractor