Just found (and bought) The Soft Parade with obi, and Waiting For The Sun no obi.
They’ll join the others (Absolutely Live, Morrison Hotel, LA Woman ).
I may have a Japanese American Prayer somewhere…
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Pink Floyd 13/15. This CBS/Sony Mastersound version of the 1981 compilation A Collection Of Great Dance Songs has more inserts, I think than any other Japanese LP I possess, although most of them are technical, rather than musical:
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I completely forgot I had this pressing. I must compare this to the Half speed pressing I also have.
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Pink Floyd 15/15. The bizarre Works compilation from 1983, on Toshiba-Aurex/EMI. If featues some crossfades and slightly different mixes of “OOTD”, “BD” and “Eclipse”.
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Two of the five Durutti Column Japanese LPs I own: The Return of The Durutti Column and LC. Both were manufactured by Japan Record on licence from Factory:
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Kev, does this one use TML metalwork?
I believe it does Richard, but I can’t be 100% certain. It definitely sounds good though, combining punch, refinement and a super-silent pressing. One of the very best-sounding Japanese pressings I own.
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but UK original pressings were crap- i know because i had 8 copies that had faults, even returning direct to EMI and getting faulty copy on return , they delayed replacing for some time whilst repressing !!! my record shop at the time- Andy’s, Cambridge stopped stocking The wall until could source good pressings, from Canada and Japan if i remember correctly
Stephen
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Durutti Column 3/5. This is Another Setting, on Japan Record/Factory Benelux. As well as the die-cut stencil insert, it also has this super-cool fold-out corner obi:
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Durutti Column 4 and 5/5. The Say What You Mean maxi-single/EP and Domo Arigato, both on Factory/Nippon Columbia and manufactured by Denon. Domo Arigato was recorded live (not very well, it’s an early digital recording and it’s very toppy and sterile) in Japan in 1985 and released that year by Factory on CD. It was the first non-classical album to be released only in that format, and not on vinyl or cassette. But it was released on vinyl in Japan, and this is it!
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