Computer World (New Zealand, 1981) 
EMI TC-EMC 3370, OC 262-64 370


I said in my previous post that the UK cassette releases appear to have been a sort of "blueprint" for the releases in some other countries, so with that in mind, it feels logical to do a follow-up with this New Zealand release - which seems to be more or less a copy of the UK version.


This editon has the exact same catalogue numbers as the UK release, and they appear in the same place as on the UK J-card, too. The whole J-card is lifted from the UK version - the band name is repeated in the very trendy "dot matrix" typeface on the  upper right panel with the track listing, the back flap has the track list again in this typeface (and oriented the same direction as the rest of the J-card). The colour is a much darker yellow, and on the right panel, the tracklist has been moved upwards to make room for some slight NZ credits - they didn't even take out the UK's "Credits overleaf", which makes no sense here as there are no credits overleaf...White cassette shell with white labels, where the normally tilted EMI logo is aligned properly!


Oh, and I should point out that on my jpg's, the spine of the J-card appears to be in white. I'm not sure, but I think it's simply my copy that's faded, I've seen pictures of other copies that have yellow spines (again, as per the UK edition), and I doubt they made two different editions of this in New Zealand. Let this be a lesson to all of us to keep our cassettes away from direct sunlight!

 










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