RADIO-ACTIVITY (USA, 1993)
Capitol 4N-16380

I recently posted the US re-issue of Trans-Europe Express, here's a kind of counterpart for the preceding album. Although they look very similar, apparently they are years apart...


Like that TEE one, this comes in a simple 1-panel J-card, printed on one side only. The legend "A Capitol Re-Issue" is printed on the front, not on the spine, but otherwise the layout is quite similar. The backflap has copyright info, barcode and "printed in USA", and the track list is only to be found on the front panel and on the labels themselves. For whatever reason, they have printed the spine in bright yellow, which is lightly faded on my copy, and some details on front and spine in red - possibly they felt the black LP cover needed some livening up.

 
The cassette also shares a few details of note with a Canadian reissue, which I also have posted here before: The cat.no is the same - it's not uncommon for US and Canadian cassettes to share cat.no's, per se, but the Canadian came in 1986, while this was not out until 1993...? Furthermore, both of these cassettes omit "Intermission" and "Transistor" from the tracklist! The similarities stop there though, the Canadian edition has different design. It's possible that there was a US 1986 edition, but I can't find any data to support the theory.


The cassette itself is so light grey as to be nearly white (whiter than the 4N-16301 reissue of TEE), with dark grey print. I wanted to mention the 1992 US reissue of the same album, but perhaps I've complicated matters enough as it is!





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