RADIO-ACTIVITY (1976, France) 

Capitol/ EMI/ Pathe Marconi 2 C 242-82087


Having posted the second edition recently, I thought it fitting to follow up with this, a first edition. As said in that other post, there are only minor differences to the two, including the catalog number - this edition has the 2 C prefix followed by 242-82087, the other edition has number 2 C 244-82087. Both cassettes have simple 1-panel J-cards, and on-body print instead of paper labels (in some countries, I've seen that paper labels seem to be the norm for first editions, being replaced with on-body print after that first run, but I have no info to suggest there ever was a French edition of this with paper labels). Grey cassettes on both accounts, but black print on this which is substituted for blue on the second edition, and the Pathe Marconi logo on that does not include EMI. Hm, doesn't this indicate that the "2 C 244-82087" edition is actually earlier than the 242 one? Both have the standard "Pathe Marconi/EMI" logo on the J-card, though. Mysterious.

Apart from the cat.no and Pathe logo on the cassette, there's only a couple of minor differences to this release. The J-cards have different price cathegories; this edition has a small circle with the letter "A", while the 244 version has a circled "Y" in its place. Also, strangely, the 244 edition has crossed out the "Dolby system" logo on the front of the card. It's still on the labels though!

Perhaps these minor details mean nothing. Maybe someone can shed more light on these details. At present though, I just enjoy collecting different editions, so I'm thankful for these listed!










Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Image
RADIO-ACTIVITY (Portugal, 1976) Capitol 11C274 82 087 Every blog should have a certain amount of posts starting with "I haven't been posting in a while", for the benefit I suppose for readers who do not posess a calendar. It's summer, I was busy and I haven't received a lot of items recently to fascinate me. But sure, here's an item, a nice return to Portugal and to Radio-Activity!   I love these Portuguese items , they have their own style! At least during the "Capitol years", ie the albums Radio-Activity, Trans-Europe Express and The Man-Machine, each cassette came out in several slightly different editions. Each one presents the LP cover quite simply, except where Portugal gives us a coloured stripe across the upper front of the J-card. Bright, clear colours, and whenever one edition sold out, they changed the stripe. Hence I've seen red, yellow and blue editions of The Man-Machine, and at least a red and this blue one of Radio-Activity (if y...
Read more
Image
AUTOBAHN (Poland, 1996?) Unofficial Reggae, 90208 Although there has been a lot of Polish releases on this blog before, I can't remember even one Autobahn? Well, here's the first, then, and it's on the surprisingly titled "Reggae" label. Apparently based on the German 1985 edition , same front illustration at least. The cassette is clear, without any info, not even which side you're looking at. The cover is a simple 1-panel J-card, on fairly cheap-looking thin paper, and printed on one side only. In fact, the only actual connection to the official item is the "motorway sign" design on the front; they haven't even bothered to put the track list on the cover! It just says "Autobahn I-V", which surprises me, as if they had access to the illustration on the front, surely they had the tracklist too? Maybe they were sent a postcard of it. I stated above that this came out in 1996, I base this on a stamp inside the cover. However it's bar...
Read more
Image
The Model (Poland, 199?) Unofficial Euro Star ES 2213 Time for another Polish pirate cassette! This time, though, a compilation, one of the few that weren't "curated", so to speak, in Poland...  "The Model 1975-1978" was a compilation on the US Cleopatra label, released in 1992. It features tracks from Radio-Activity, Trans-Europe Express and The Man Machine, some of them in their original single edits, and Les Mannequins which had been issued as the b-side to its English-language counterpart Showroom Dummies on a promotional "disco" 12" single. There are several Polish editions of this, this one has all the tracks from the compilation - not in the same order, though, they have been jumbled around, I suppose it was an effort to make two programmes of equal lenght. Apart from starting the cassette with the title track, which is not unjustified for a best-of compilation with a title track, they somewhat surprisingly placed Trans-Europe Express on Si...
Read more