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Subject: Same Album & Title, Different Cover
Written By: whistledog on 06/16/22 at 6:33 pm
In 1983, Tears For Fears released their debut album The Hurting. The cover on the right was used for some early international pressings, but I still get confused which countries got which one because I have both versions on cassette and vinyl and both are Canadian pressings. The one on the left is the one most seen, but I kind of prefer the one on the right
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/The_Hurting_orig.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7c/The_hurting.jpg
Subject: Re: Same Album & Title, Different Cover
Written By: whistledog on 06/16/22 at 6:40 pm
Another debut album, this one from 1982: The Party's Over by Talk Talk. I own both of these on cassette, so again, I am confused which countries got which one. The one on the left is the standard one most seen...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e9/Talktalkalbumcover.jpg https://e.snmc.io/i/600/w/03637104dc57ee7390db0bd212179e4d/1553013/talk-talk-the-partys-over-Cover-Art.jpg
Subject: Re: Same Album & Title, Different Cover
Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 06/16/22 at 7:08 pm
In 1977 Crosby, Stills & Nash released their big selling "CSN" album, which spawned the hits "Just A Song Before I Go" and "Dark Star". The cover featured a photo of the three on a boat looking appropriately serious, taken by their good friend and photographer Joel Bernstein. When the first pressing sold out, the second run of albums featured the next shot Bernstein took a few seconds after the first. This time the three were cracking up laughing. It took ages before anybody noticed there were two different covers floating around.
NOTE: The "laughing" picture is the more common of the two. After that first run of the "serious" picture, it was never used again. And the CD only ever used the "laughing" picture.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fa/Crosby%2C_Stills_%26_Nash_-_CSN.jpg
https://aentcdn.azureedge.net/graphics/items/sdimages/c/500/8/4/0/5/155048.jpg?ae=2332091151
Subject: Re: Same Album & Title, Different Cover
Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 06/16/22 at 7:15 pm
When supergroup Blind Faith released it's one and only album in 1969 (Steve Winwood's "Can't Find My Way Home" remains a radio standard) the cover of a topless young girl holding an airplane caused a bit of controversy. In America the album was issued with a sepia toned photo of the band on the cover. In later years, it reverted to the original cover.
https://timscoverstory.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/blind-faith-banned-album-cover.jpg
Subject: Re: Same Album & Title, Different Cover
Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 06/17/22 at 11:17 pm
Of course, we ALL know about this one...
https://dyn1.heritagestatic.com/lf?set=path%5B1%2F2%2F9%2F2%2F6%2F12926531%5D%2Csizedata%5B850x600%5D&call=url%5Bfile%3Aproduct.chain%5D
Subject: Re: Same Album & Title, Different Cover
Written By: whistledog on 06/18/22 at 4:20 pm
Here is the 1978 self-titled debut album by the Australian group Flash and the Pan.
Left to right: Australian release, European release, North American release
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/FlashandthePanAusNZCover.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7a/Flash_And_The_Pan_-_Flash_And_The_Pan_album_cover.jpg https://i.discogs.com/qUEDueh-jLS-ghAFD_ECFeBdE4JqPOqE9AnOo9Atnlw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTcyODUx/NC0xMjk5Mjc3MTU2/LmpwZWc.jpeg
Subject: Re: Same Album & Title, Different Cover
Written By: Mitch Kramer on 06/21/22 at 4:28 pm
Sometimes versions of albums released in different countries will have different covers because of different cultural sensibilities, mores or taboos.
Flogging A Dead Horse by The Sex Pistols. Middle Eastern version on the right.
https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/saudi-arabia-middle-east-censorship-27-593e4b110b5fa__605.jpg
Chic's 1978 album. I'm not sure if this counts.
Strictly speaking, these might not even be considered the "same" album. The tracks are slightly different and even the title is different:
C'est Chic (American version) and Très Chic (European version)
https://i.discogs.com/0P9PPY_DGhHFlUFWPwdUV73glBHezI8w-VMRb96NBv4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:595/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTk1MjAw/OS0xNTk4ODYxNzg4/LTY1OTAuanBlZw.jpeg
https://i.discogs.com/RVFsnNQ9kKBg1WaE4RgJUfhaMRSsGVn5WS2CJBnzeR0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:382/w:383/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIxNzQ4/MjctMTI5NTEwNTI5/NS5qcGVn.jpeg
Apparently, the picture of a pole dancer was considered to be too Risqué risqué.
Subject: Re: Same Album & Title, Different Cover
Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 06/22/22 at 9:33 am
Do back covers count? The original pressing of Bob Dylan's classic "Blood On The Tracks" album from 1975 come with liner notes by famed journalist Pete Hamill that take up most of the back cover, save for a square lithograph illustration by David Oppenheim in the center. Later 1975 pressings remove the notes and lithograph and replace them with a much larger painting, also by Oppenheim.
An interesting postscript to this is that in 1976 Pete Hamill's liner notes won a Grammy for best liner notes. This posed a problem as the album was no longer available with the now-Grammy winning notes. It forced the record company (Columbia) to reissue the album yet again with the liner notes restored. So, from 1976 on the original back cover design is restored, but now with white text (the original black letters were difficult to read against the plum background). This remained the standard vinyl version.
Back Cover #1:
https://bob-dylan.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Back-Version-1.jpg
Back Cover #2:
http://www.searchingforagem.com/1970s/1970s_Pictures/BOTTUSBack2.jpg
Back Cover #3:
https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/7xrrmVhyCwgP4g6nxfXVag--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MDtoPTY0MQ--/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/g27iLFhbpCns9yD9NXxjXQ--~B/aD03MDE7dz03MDA7YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b24-/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/homerun/consequence_of_sound_458/8b4fe6f495ac67daf2dad5821d17ad10
Subject: Re: Same Album & Title, Different Cover
Written By: karen on 06/25/22 at 11:34 am
I don’t know if this was just in the U.K. or not. The website I found isn’t clear
The Crossing by Big Country was released with three different coloured sleeves. I remember a couple of friends who bought all three!
The USA also had a different track listing.
https://bigcountryinfo.com/variations/crossing.htm
Subject: Re: Same Album & Title, Different Cover
Written By: whistledog on 06/25/22 at 8:14 pm
I don’t know if this was just in the U.K. or not. The website I found isn’t clear
The Crossing by Big Country was released with three different coloured sleeves. I remember a couple of friends who bought all three!
The USA also had a different track listing.
https://bigcountryinfo.com/variations/crossing.htm
I have the blue version, one with a shine to the logo and stuff, and one that's just plain white