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Steven Severin ‘Kidnap Garden’, UK promo-only CD (Ryko, RMCD003)

‘Kidnap Garden’ is a promo-only CD featuring a variety of Steven Severin’s non-Banshees songwriting examples – not only his solo material but also examples from The Glove (his 1983 collaboration with Robert Smith of The Cure) as well as Marc and the Mambas.

'Kidnap Garden' front sleeve design

Commissioned by his publishing company of the period, Ryko, the CD is a promo-only affair released in 2004 and not commercially available. More’s the pity, as it is a nicely packaged selection, complete with sleeve notes including track by track comments courtesy of Mr Severin himself. Continue reading “Steven Severin ‘Kidnap Garden’, UK promo-only CD (Ryko, RMCD003)”

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Ultravox! – ‘Ha!-Ha!-Ha!’ Jap mini LP sleeve (Island/Universal, UICY-93074)

On the music side, this CD is as per the UK re-issue from 2006, so as well as the eight original album tracks it features six bonus tracks – ‘Young Savage’, ‘The Man Who Dies Every Day’ (Remix), Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alternative Version), Quirks, ‘The Man Who Dies Every Day’ (Live) and ‘Young Savage’ (Live). So, that is to say it is a bit of a mix up, from various different singles/EPs!

^ Front sleeve and insert designs, front cover of the booklet, label

The early copies of the original vinyl album came with a free 7″ single – it’s odd that only one side of that single is included (‘Quirks’), though the other side ‘Modern Love’ (Live) does feature as a bonus track on the ‘Ultravox!’ CD instead. Continue reading “Ultravox! – ‘Ha!-Ha!-Ha!’ Jap mini LP sleeve (Island/Universal, UICY-93074)”

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Gary Numan – ‘The Pleasure Principle’ Jap mini LP sleeve (Beggars Banquet/Imperial, TECI-24260)

This Japanese mini-LP of ‘The Pleasure Principle’ comes with 17 tracks in total – the 10 from the original album plus the same seven bonus tracks as found on the UK Beggars Banquet ’20th Anniversary Edition’ re-issue from 1999. As for packaging – it pretty faithfully recreates the UK LP sleeve design, as shown in the photos – outer and inner sleeve.

Front sleeve design, inner sleeve, additional booklet, label and obi

This edition also contains an additional black and white Japanese text-only info and lyric booklet (8 pages), plus an extra record company contact card and of course the outer ‘obi’ band. The label design is a red Beggars Banquet style as per side one of the original album release.

Back sleeve design, inner sleeve, additional booklet, label and obi

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Ultravox! – ‘Ultravox!’ Jap mini LP sleeve (Island/Universal, UICY-93073)

Musically, this CD includes the nine original album tracks plus four bonus tracks – ‘Slip Away’ (Live), ‘Modern Love (Live’), ‘The Wild, The Beautiful and The Damned’ (Live) and ‘My Sex’ (Live) so, it is as per the the UK CD re-issue from 2006. It comes in gatefold card sleeve featuring the original sleeve design.

\'Ultravox!\' Japanese mini LP sleeve edition - outer gatefold sleeve, booklet (front) and CD label design.

This edition also contains an additional black and white Japanese info and lyric booklet (8 pages, mostly text-only, but with different images on the front and back cover) plus the outer ‘obi’ band (not shown on either of the photos here, but you can see it in the post that shows all three albums together). (It’s worth noting that each of the ‘obi’ bands are different on each release.) Continue reading “Ultravox! – ‘Ultravox!’ Jap mini LP sleeve (Island/Universal, UICY-93073)”