RADIO-ACTIVITY (1975, UK)
Capitol, TC-E-ST 11457 0C 244 o 82087


Lovely. Q: What could be more typically '70s than adding a large ochre-y brown stripe across a cassette cover that does not need any brown colour at all? A: Leaving it in the sun and having it fade out completely on the spine. This is the UK first edition of Radio-Activity, presented in a colour that would go with the buyer's shoes, clothes, sofa, wallpaper, car and I suppose, the view from his living room window. It feels like a missed opportunity that the cassette didn't have complimentarly orange labels... Gosh, the mid-70's were garish, weren't they? Where was I... 

The cassette comes in a two-panel J-card on good sturdy card stock, with colour print on the front or outside. Under the brown stripe is a facsimile of the LP design, track info and some credits. The J-card's inside has some legal information, and surprisingly mentions twice that this stereo cassette will play in mono on mono cassette players. 

On the backflap, they advertise the 8-track cartridge version, without mentioning the LP. It wouldn't take up much space to add "LP &" in the middle, I wonder why they didn't bother with it. It could be because the cassette and 8-track came later than the LP; in the lower right corner of the J-card, it says "7601 DP", which could be short for January 1976 Date of Production?

My cassette is black with white paper labels. I think this is the most common version, there is also a grey cassette, with the same labels. 








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