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rockfenris2005 04:16 pm UTC 05/15/11 |
| In reply to: | re: PS. - Wilbury 04:09 pm UTC 05/15/11 |
> Yeah I think I agree. > > When I moved house years ago and no longer owned a copy of > Neighbourhood (because in fact it was never MINE…) I > ordered the US copy from Amazon, because I preferred the > US front cover. Notice how the brit version has WELCOME > written the same way as I'D LIE FOR YOU in the booklet? > Always annoyed me. I needed another copy. And when I actually found the album, there were two copies in the store (This was before eBay...) And I had to choose between the UK release and the US release. For sentimental reasons, I chose the UK release. Maybe that's why I prefer it?? No. It was better. For one, it has cover art on the back and the US release is just green, from memory. > > Anyway, when it arrived I noticed the front cover has fake > creases etc like that of a cheap paperback novel (the UK > version doesn't have that, right?), Yeah, the UK version doesn't have the creases. The US version tries to make it look like a paperback. and that every image > in the booklet is laid out in the same way. And in the US version, they're more like posters than book covers. It was a > little disapopinting compared to my memories of the UK > version. > > Different photo of meat used inside, too, I think. I seem to remember that, yes. I got the vinyl about two years ago now (I think I won it the same day that Michael Jackson died... Crazy morning.) And the vinyl reflects the UK release. WHO knows if there's a US vinyl... > > > > > > > > Yeah, and VISUALLY, they are very clearly movie posters. > > > In the UK version of the album I think they are MEANT to > > > still be movie posters, it wasn't until I got the US > > > version that they were laid out on the front of books that > > > I got the whole pulp art thing. > > > > > > > Which leads to another topic, the difference between the > > US and UK releases. Again, same friend of mine had the US > > release of "Welcome to the Neighbourhood" and I had the > > other one, the one that was released over here. I'd never > > seen it before. I wasn't aware there was any difference, > > besides the spelling. > > > | |
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