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Member	Item		Review/Comment
RadoxTheGreen 6th Mar 2013		12" Single Randy Crawford - Almaz (1986)	When I first saw my finished image of this one, I thought the lettering falling off the front cover (bottom left) was a Photoshop stitching fault. It's not though, this is how the wording on the cover was actually printed.
RadoxTheGreen 5th Mar 2013		12" Single Five Star - R.S.V.P. (Remix S'il Vous Plait) (1985)	Awww, gawsh <blush>
RadoxTheGreen 2nd Mar 2013		12" Single Five Star - R.S.V.P. (Remix S'il Vous Plait) (1985)	Picture Cover (front & rear) added. I've pretty much worked out Photoshop's picture stitching now, so I'll ditch the duff camera and be using this to add the covers I wasn't previously able to upload. I've found best results come from doing 4 scans per side. Takes a while though :(
RadoxTheGreen 2nd Mar 2013		12" Single Jona Lewie - Louise (We Get It Right) (Extended Version) (1981)	Dead Wax A & B sides: BILBO TA1PE Dead Wax A Side: YOU CAN'T BOD ONE... Dead Wax B Side: WHO HAS BODDED MILLIONS...
RadoxTheGreen 26th Feb 2013		12" Single Sheila B. Devotion - Spacer (Full Length Disco Version) (1985)	B. Devotion were the group Sheila formed in the disco era. She had been releasing records for a long time in France mainly as "Sheila", but the record companies have given her various credits on her labels (SB Devotion, Sheila B Devotion). To complicate things even more, at one point she was promoted as Sheila B. Devotion in the UK, while Sheila & B. Devotion in France. I think Spacer was the last of the "& B.Devotion" records. After that she went back to just Sheila when she fell out with Carrere.
RadoxTheGreen 25th Feb 2013		12" Single Discotheque - Intro-Disco By Discotheque (1979)	Considering these songs were all cover versions, this was a surprisingly good floor filler with most of the songs being passably close in sound to the originals.
RadoxTheGreen 25th Feb 2013		12" Single Atlantic Starr - Gimme Your Luvin' (1978)	Mods need to do a correction here. The label name should be "FunkA&Merica", (it's part of A&M records) not "Funk America" as described here. There's an "&" between AM on the label.
RadoxTheGreen 25th Feb 2013		12" Single Dolby's Cube - May The Cube Be With You (3D Mix) (1985)	Can't do the sleeve yet, camera's broken. The grey paint rectangle is covering up "33 1/3 rpm". I take it they use standard labels throughout the company and delete the appropriate speed as applicable.
RadoxTheGreen 24th Feb 2013		12" Single D Train - You're The One For Me (1982)	45Cat has these as a label in their own right so I've done the same here.
RadoxTheGreen 23rd Feb 2013		12" Single Blondie - Heart Of Glass (1979)	Shouldn't those scans have their own entry? The catalogue number is written differently (ie. space instead of a dash).
RadoxTheGreen 22nd Feb 2013		12" Single Alton Edwards - I Just Wanna (Spend Some Time With You) (1981)	I can't believe how grubby the labels have got on this record. Anyone have any tips for cleaning it without damaging it?
RadoxTheGreen 22nd Feb 2013		12" Single Falco - Rock Me Amadeus (Salieri Mix) (1986)	Almost missed this one. I assumed the version already on site was the same as mine, but the other is the 2 track A side version.
RadoxTheGreen 22nd Feb 2013		12" Single Fatback - Girls On My Mind (Vocal) (1985)	I've never been sure if Atlantic Cotillion was a label in its own right or just a company politics thing, but 45Cat has it listed separately from Atlantic so I've done the same here.
RadoxTheGreen 22nd Feb 2013		12" Single Eighth Wonder - Will You Remember (Extended Mix) (1987)	Label scans done. Blimey, is that the time? Been up most of the night sorting these. Irfanview's Lanczos filter did a good job of taking out most of the foxing. Time hasn't been good to the CBS red labels :(
RadoxTheGreen 21st Feb 2013		12" Single Eighth Wonder - Will You Remember (Extended Mix) (1987)	Having some problems getting clear labels scans on this one. I'll keep trying over the weekend.
RadoxTheGreen 17th Feb 2013		12" Single Willy Finlayson - On The Air Tonight (1984)	Arrgh! Upload casualty. I use a weight on top of the label for holding the record flat to the scanner. Not heavy enough to damage the scanner, but I dropped it after scanning and it landed right on the playing track of the A side and scratched it. Amazingly, it doesn't jump. Mind you, it pops a bit.Would have been ironic if it landed on the B Side.
RadoxTheGreen 17th Feb 2013		12" Single The Brothers Johnson - STOMP! (1980)	Are you planning to upload the label scans for this? From the description in the notes mine may have a different label. I don't have an inner sleeve, and the cover has the word stomp with the "O" cut out. The "O" is formed by the label of the A side.
RadoxTheGreen 16th Feb 2013		12" Single Five Star - R.S.V.P. (Remix S'il Vous Plait) (1985)	The missing print from the "Unauthorised public performance" warning at the bottom of the A Side label isn't a Photoshop error, it's like that on the original label.
RadoxTheGreen 16th Feb 2013		12" Single Flakes - Sugar Frosted Lover (Remix) (1980)	The B Side label scan had some heavy damage to the label, mainly around the PRT logo and track 1 title but the rest wasn't good either (BPM labels and a John Hancock the man himself would have killed for). Well, I didn't know it would be uploaded to a website one day. Anyway, I had to work on it a bit more than I would have wanted to get it looking acceptable, but if anyone has this in their collection and has a better version (ie.has a 'proper' label to scan in), please do so. I thought long and hard about adding the B Side label at all, given how much it's been reconstructed, but the completeist side of me knows how frustrating it can be to see one side of a record but not the other. Feel free to replace when you can.
RadoxTheGreen 12th Feb 2013		12" Single 400 Blows [Jazz-Funk] - Movin' (1985)	This is the Jazz Funk band 400 blows, not to be confused with Four Hundred Blows, the erm, rather "louder" guitar based band.
RadoxTheGreen 12th Feb 2013		12" Single Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax (Original Mix) (1983)	Very different to the other mixes sharing this catalogue number, this version has a Holly Johnson "rap" and an absence of the famous "Relax, Don't Do It" chorus.
RadoxTheGreen 12th Feb 2013		12" Single Paul McCartney - Temporary Secretary (2003)	Paul McCartney - the godfather of Acid House!
RadoxTheGreen 2nd Feb 2013		12" Single Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Rage Hard ++ (1986)	The label on my copy has the catalogue no. written as 12 ZTAX 22 (ie. with a space). The title on the OP says "Rage Hard ++" whereas on mine it just says "Rage Hard" (without plusses). Does the ++ mean there are several different mixes of this floating around all sharing the same catalogue number? I know they did that with Relax. Shouldn't we be giving each of these 'shared cat no.' mixes their own entry rather than putting them all in the same one?

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