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Post by Rabbit Dog on Jan 2, 2020 14:57:30 GMT -5
The thread about the Planet Earth 7" misspressed B-side reminded me about the fact that my Burning The Ground 12", which was shop-bought in the UK the week of release is a misspress on the B-side, with the Decadance (Extended Mix) replaced by the shorter edit of the same track.
I took it back to the shop to show them but elected to keep the record anyway (can't recall why - probably because they didn't have any other copies).
Anyone else have this misspress?
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Post by durandurannorway on Jan 2, 2020 16:41:55 GMT -5
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Post by Rabbit Dog on Jan 2, 2020 17:06:24 GMT -5
Cheers, thought that would probably be the case. In fact, thinking about it, I think I just kept the copy as the others in store were just the same, which would make sense if the misspress is actually more common than the correct pressing.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2020 17:19:41 GMT -5
Ttbomk, the significant majority of the copies available were mis-pressed - & it took me several years of going round 2nd hand vinyl shops in different parts of the country to find a proper version... Obviously pre-eBay.
(my recollection is that i didn't realise initially, as the CDS had the same mixes on)
There's also one of the two ASWi 12"s that has the other version on as a pretty common UK mispress...
...though money being very limited & not having the collector's knowledge, i took the thing back & had it swapped... …& then had the opposite hassle of finding the mispress again later.
Yeah, i'd assume that the difference between the two was that ASWi was successful - & so whilst there were a good number of early mispresses, they were then outnumbered by later pressings of proper version... ...whereas BTG really wasn't.
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Post by Rabbit Dog on Jan 2, 2020 17:44:11 GMT -5
Didn't know about the ASWi misspresses. I bought both 12"s that were readily available in the UK, and thankfully they have the correct mixes on. Really loved the Euro mix and it got heavy rotation on the record player.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2020 18:19:47 GMT -5
Didn't know about the ASWi misspresses. I bought both 12"s that were readily available in the UK, and thankfully they have the correct mixes on. Really loved the Euro mix and it got heavy rotation on the record player. it's one of those things where unless someone bought both at the right/wrong time (depending on perspective) or carried on being a fan into the internet age then there'd be little chance of ever finding out. Yeah, it's like the mispress for the itsisk? 7" - where the best info from back in the day is that the first 30,000 copies had the alt version… ...but given that it sold so many copies & i don't imagine it would have been the track that anyone would have played when they had their friends round, most people simply would never have known that their copy was special at the time.
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Post by redmumba on Jan 2, 2020 21:16:39 GMT -5
I think I only have one mispress Duran item and that's the UK CD single for Serious. I was quite annoyed to find out that my version had the album version of All Along the Water and not Water Babies. Eventually I did find the correct pressing, but still.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2020 1:21:09 GMT -5
I think I only have one mispress Duran item and that's the UK CD single for Serious. I was quite annoyed to find out that my version had the album version of All Along the Water and not Water Babies. Eventually I did find the correct pressing, but still. Yeah, there certainly are at least a few more mis-presses - & depending on how we're defining them then loads more.
Well, off the top of my head as pure mis-presses, the other commonly known about ones are 1 or 2 of the UK GOF 12" (standard & possibly black label) that only have FTL on the B-side / there's the US promo of PE without the Radio version on both sides / & whatever that Cliff Richard LP with Duran on one side is.
& likewise there's the odd sleeve printing error mis-press - which appears to be where all the money is in terms of Duranies collecting mis-presses. You then have the Greek 12" for SAP where every copy has the wrong record in - but i would assume this wasn't intentional.
There's then a host of random records with missing or incorrect labels - though these almost never seem to appear in more than 1 or 2 copies of the same thing for some unknown reason.
(i wouldn't say that the Notorious 7" i got years ago with 2 faun labels on one side was a mis-press, as the 2nd one was barely attached & just came off - so effectively it was just the standard 7" plus a loose label)
& there's then very occasional records where the label is completely mis-placed - going onto the tracks.
Naturally it's choice as to what, if anything, anyone collects - & i'd personally ignore the last of these...
(& also have none of the sleeve printing error ones)
...but it does seem as though very few of the collectors go in for anything other than the first 3 as, whilst i almost don't buy legacy vinyl anymore, i've never seemed to have any real competition for ones with missing/incorrect labels - if any at all.
Not that i'm complaining of course, as it keeps them cheap for me, but it's something that appears to be unusual to Duranies - as for other artists there can be some real money in them.
Oh, & there's also the issue with the Smash Hits interview flexi, where a minority of copies (no idea of numbers) have the grooves on the reverse side - &, likewise, could reasonably be seen as a mis-press, since it's not the way that they were supposed to be pressed.
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Post by dafunk on Jan 3, 2020 4:41:24 GMT -5
Maybe not mispress, but more intentionally is the UK 7" with Big Thing (Album Version) on A side and Idwyl on B side with cat# "YOUR-1". In the runouts it has stamped "YOUR 1 A-1-1-1 BIG THING", so there must have been some purpose to release it as a promo at least...
The other real mispress I remember is the Canadian 7" of Arcadia's Say The Word, with som unknown Artist on B side instead of the Instrumental Version of Say The Word.
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Post by redmumba on Jan 3, 2020 8:04:50 GMT -5
The other real mispress I remember is the Canadian 7" of Arcadia's Say The Word, with some unknown Artist on B side instead of the Instrumental Version of Say The Word. You know, a few weeks ago I was listening to this DJ mix album by Kid Koala called Scratchcratchratchatch (I highly recommend this album). Now, most of it was utilized for this BBC Breezeblock program back in the '90s and some of it wasn't. There's this one track called Made From Bjork. Obviously he'd sampled a fair amount of a Bjork track for this particular track, but I didn't know what song it was. It wasn't until I realized that I could probably use the Shazam app on my phone to figure out what track it was (it was Isobel with a small bit of It's So Quiet tacked on to the end). Long story to get to my point, but with this Shazam app, can't someone figure out who the unknown artist is on the B-side? Or at least look at the matrix on side B and play detective?
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