AUTOBAHN (1985, Canada)
Warner Bros. 92 53264

Taking us back to the Canadian "Super Cassettes", today I present another 1985 variant of Autobahn. The Elektra edition was posted here two years ago, so this post brings us up as far as I've come on the subject!

As I said before, the "Super Cassette" or ("Super C Cassette"?) isn't really all that super, they had a plan to make cassettes sound better, but it wasn't really radical. Personally, I think the changes around 1990 were more important, but CDs had largely taken over by then anyway. So for me, it's simply a fun logo to make my cassettes look different. Like the previous one, this too came in a 1-panel J-card with print on both sides, and a full-panel backflap. In fact, the whole cassette looks very similar to the Elektra edition, even down to he cassette being black with silver on-body print. The only significant difference is the Elektra logo on that other one and the Warner logo here, and the copyright info in accordance.


Of course, the whole point of collecting cassettes - if there is one at all - is these small variations, and two similar cassettes is better than two identical ones.

 





   




 

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