Computer World (France, 1988)
EMI/ Fame 1643704


Well, what do you know: As I prepare a new post, again it turns out there are multiple variants I don't know about. In this case, the French reissue of Computer World.


The French reissues are easy to spot, as they are marked with "reedition" and the year of manufacture. In this case, on both sides of the J-card it says "reedition the 1988", so France decided on a reissue the year before Italy. How come? I expect I shall never know.


I have a few reissues on the Fame label, and where the LPs would substitute the designed labels and inner sleeves with adverts for more reissues, the cassettes don't really have neither designed labels or inners, and so the difference will sometimes be a moot point... Sometimes, the Fame cassettes will reproduce the Fame LP cover (ie with the Fame logo on the facsimile), but on this, we get the original LP cover against a white background, and the Fame logo is in the top left corner. A couple of EMI logos here, but - same as for the Italian reissue, no mention of Capitol Records anywhere. Some Dolby logos are scattered about, and turning the J-card, inside we find some technical info on the backflap, including information on the Dolby B system (also, how to cope with cassette programmes of un-equal length; you wind the tape where there's no music!).


I mentioned this reissue being available in multiple variants - there are two on Discogs, both showing lists of other albums available in the Fame series. One has a 2-panel J-card, the other has the other albums listed instead of the track list inside the 1-panel J-card. Mine looks like the 2-panel card, minus the fold-out second panel; no "other albums" here. Well, it doesn't look like it was cut off by a previous user, so for now, I'll assume I have a third variant... The cassette has white on-body print on a clear shell.








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