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Member	Item		Review/Comment
PhilMH 4 hours ago		CD Album James Brown - Hot Pants	US release of this was on 23rd March 1993, so Europe were unlikely to have got it in 1992 (this, and the reissues of SEX MACHINE, REVOLUTION OF THE MIND, THERE IT IS and the instrumentals double SOUL PRIDE were all released on the same day). [Mod: changed to 93]
PhilMH 4 hours ago		CD Album James Brown - Sex Machine	US release of this was on 23rd March 1993, so Europe were unlikely to have got it in 1992 (this, and the reissues of HOT PANTS, REVOLUTION OF THE MIND, THERE IT IS and the instrumentals double SOUL PRIDE were all released on the same day). [Mod: changed to 93]
PhilMH 4 hours ago		CD Album James Brown - Hot Pants	Added release date 23rd March 1993, obtained from Fall 1993 Schwann Spectrum catalogue, March and April 1993 issues of ICE CD Newsletter, plus (via newspapers.com) listings in the Chicago Tribune and Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
PhilMH 1st Oct 2024		Vinyl Album Simon And Garfunkel - The Graduate (Original Soundtrack)	I think the confusion over the title came about because the original album issued after the hit was titled "Sounds Of Silence" - the plural used because it was a collection of songs, or sounds. Ever since then, people have assumed that album title to be the song's title as well.
PhilMH 25th Sep 2024		Vinyl Album Mantovani And His Orchestra - The World Of Mantovani	Release month September from Decca catalogues.
PhilMH 25th Sep 2024		Vinyl Album Mantovani And His Orchestra - The World Of Mantovani	Hi Hawkmarty, I think your version is the first issue; this was reviewed in GRAMOPHONE's December 1968 issue, and the review includes the statement "the sleeve contains hinged details of Mantovani's repertoire and an article about his music". Release month was September, according to Decca's catalogues.
PhilMH 24th Sep 2024		CD Album Various Artists - The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968	Rhino is releasing this collection on vinyl, split up into a number of 3-LP sets, available exclusively through rhino.com; I hope by now they have corrected the error with this original release, in that 3-03, "Mo' Onions", actually plays that single's B-side, "Tic-Tac-Toe". I don't know how that mistake came about - the two tracks didn't have consecutive matrix numbers on the original single, so I wonder if someone might have been working from a mislabelled 45, but then how could they have missed the obvious fact that "Mo' Onions" is the track that's similar to the band's first hit, "Green Onions" (duh)?
PhilMH 23rd Sep 2024		Vinyl Album Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die	P.S. the Australian and US (United Artists) editions linked below also have the colour gatefold.
PhilMH 23rd Sep 2024		Vinyl Album Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die	See Discogs for the original 1970 gatefold edition with a colour photo of the band; this sleeve showing Manufactured & Distributed by EMI Records Limited on the back would be from 1973 or so.
PhilMH 23rd Sep 2024		Vinyl Album Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die	The primary catalogue number for this Island label edition should be SIL-933909; SFL-933909 was the number for the previous Festival label edition. I wonder if the images here are a mismatch of cover and record?
PhilMH 18th Sep 2024		CD Album Diana Ross - I Love You	It looks like you're right, Helen - this was reviewed in Billboard's 20 January 2007 issue, and the review gave the release date as 16 January.
PhilMH 18th Sep 2024		Vinyl Album Michael Jackson - Forever, Michael	The images come from the 1984 European reissue distributed by RCA, cat. no. WL 72121 and show a barcode; this entry is for the 1975 German issue distributed by EMI, and has no barcode, because there were no barcodes on records or tapes in 1975, so these 1984 images should be removed. mod edit: hidden
PhilMH 15th Sep 2024		CD Album Michael Jackson - Bad	The Japan variant was also distributed by CBS Records Australia Limited, but the odd thing about it is that it shows Epic's Los Angeles address on the back insert, though the catalogue number and barcode are the same as shown here.
PhilMH 14th Sep 2024		Vinyl Album Neil Young - After The Gold Rush	I just thought I'd check the matrix numbers on the Aussie Reprise and Warner Bros. singles, and wouldn't you know it, but James Taylor's "Fire And Rain" single from October 1970 has the two matrices immediately before this record, so it looks like both records were mastered at the same time, and very probably released around the same time too, though looking in newspapers.com just now (which I didn't know about in 2016), the earliest review on offer is in The Sydney Morning Herald on 29th November; my past experience of the Herald is that some of their reviews were a few weeks after release. Anyway, at least we know it's definitely late 1970.
PhilMH 14th Sep 2024		CD Album J.A.T.P. - The Exciting Battle J.A.T.P. Stockholm '55	Another Festival "local import" in Australia; last image of the catalogue number and price stickers was photographed after I had already taken this disc and several others of my father's out of their jewel cases for mailing back to Australia from Ireland last year.
PhilMH 14th Sep 2024		CD Album J.A.T.P. - The Exciting Battle J.A.T.P. Stockholm '55	One from my late father's collection. Release date found by searching on the barcode at the ISRC website, which doesn't always have dates, but this one is supported by this disc's appearance in Schwann's Winter 1990 issue in late 1989. I'll add images later, but right now I'm going to sit outside in the sunshine!
PhilMH 3rd Sep 2024		Vinyl Album Webb Pierce - In The Jailhouse Now	Correct catalogue number is MUPS 364. Correction request has been submitted. (394 is Erma Franklin's SOUL SISTER). mod edit: corrected with thanks. Shame the composers weren't added.
PhilMH 3rd Sep 2024		Vinyl Album Lenny Dee - Remember When	1972 Decca main catalogue gives release date as January 1970. Correction request has been submitted.
PhilMH 3rd Sep 2024		Vinyl Album Bill Anderson - Happy State Of Mind	Added release month November 1969, from 1972 Decca main catalogue now in my possession.
PhilMH 2nd Sep 2024		Vinyl Album Blondie - Parallel Lines	Yeah, bootleg doesn't sit comfortably with me either, as they were pressed on the official licensee's premises (and I suspect that a bit of a** covering was going on - how did the employee(s) manage to press several copies on two different colours if Festival didn't already have stocks of coloured vinyl pellets? I can't think of any other coloured vinyl releases from Festival in this period, but please educate me if necessary). Rather than deleting the images, or moving them to another entry, just hide them.
PhilMH 2nd Sep 2024		CD Album Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Kicking Against The Pricks	The easiest bit first: consulting my Platterlogs gives me 10 September 1990 for L/C/D 30443 (there were in fact six Cave releases via Festival between August and early October), and 3 August 1992 for L/C/D 19633, so the date on this one needs to be corrected. As for the labels, I would think Mute as the primary label, as that was the originating label in the UK, and Liberation as secondary - it would have helped if Festival had specified the label(s) on the spine, as most companies do!
PhilMH 30th Aug 2024		Vinyl Album Deep Purple - Arde	(P) 1974 on labels, but (P) 1975 on back cover. [mod: now corrected]
PhilMH 30th Aug 2024		Vinyl Album Blondie - Parallel Lines	L36694 is the catalogue number for the official black vinyl version, so we can keep this entry current without the bootleg designation for anyone who does have the official release.
PhilMH 28th Aug 2024		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Prime Cuts	The 1980 Music Master catalogue gives the release date as June 1975; that is likely correct, as apparently the German issue listed at Discogs has that same date, apparently sourced from "Polydor News".
PhilMH 27th Aug 2024		Vinyl Album Joe Walsh - You Can't Argue With A Sick Mind	1979 release, not 1976, because 1976 releases were on ABC Records, which MCA purchased in early 1979, and as German distribution of MCA moved to Ariola as of 1 January 1980, 1979 is the only year that this Metronome-distributed MCA version could have been issued. Plus, it looks like the original German release on ABC (distributed by Ariola, as it happens) was in 1977 anyway, and it is linked below. Mod Edit: Date fixed.
PhilMH 26th Aug 2024		CD Album Cyndi Lauper - Original Album Classics	Hi Lee, I've just looked at the Amazon listing and it says "shipped from Amazon UK", so I think it is actually in stock there rather than on these shores. Somehow you have doubled up on your text, but let's see if I can make the URL work here: EDIT: no, it ain't working for me, neither! And no, I don't need any copies of this thanks, Lee! I did buy the "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" 45 back in the day, but it's now in my "what was I thinking?" pile!
PhilMH 25th Aug 2024		CD Album Cyndi Lauper - Original Album Classics	Lee said: This was released and is still available in Australia Wellll....Sanity's website lists it as "Backorder", and JB Hi Fi doesn't list it at all, so I doubt very much that it is still available, but I agree that it most likely was locally released in 2008. Sanity gives the release date as 26 July 2008, which was a Saturday; more likely it was released on Friday 25th, and so would have appeared in the Platterlog new release sheet on Monday 28th, but my copy of that is missing from the folder it should be in! (I probably do have it somewhere, but it make take a bit of digging to find it, and that week would have been the last issue that I got, I didn't renew my subscription due to a combination of Platterlog going online and my finances being tight at the time due to my mortgage). You could try the Internet Archive Wayback Machine to see if it was listed on Sony's Australian website then, but in my experience usually only the front page of any website has been saved there, and pages underneath are found comparatively rarely. But the last part of your post, Lee - yeah, I share your ongoing frustration that people on this site and others still don't get that "Made In EU" does not necessarily equate to "released only in the EU", and sometimes, like many releases from Ace in England, not released in Continental Europe at all, due to differing license agreements (Fantasy, Stax, etc. being a notable example); the "Made in EU" notation is only there because of an EU directive that any commodity made in the EU has to bear that text, regardless of the actual market, and Ace's latest releases still bear that notation even though the UK is no longer a member state. Also, in recent years, many Sony and Universal releases bear the names "Sony Music International GmbH" or "Universal International Music B.V.", those company divisions co-ordinate the international domestic releases of those products, which are pretty much worldwide except for North America and Japan (but sometimes including those two markets).
PhilMH 25th Aug 2024		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Memphis Gold Vol. 2	This seems to have been distributed by Polydor UK as an import - Norman Joplin mentions it in Record Mirror, 9th March 1968, page 9.
PhilMH 24th Aug 2024		Vinyl Album Johnny Winter - Guitar Slinger	Same stuff, different day.
PhilMH 23rd Aug 2024		CD Album Various Artists - The Sound Stage 7 Story	One could easily get the impression that none of the issues of any recording of any of Al Reed's songs by any record company in the world were properly authorized; pray tell, Mr./Mrs./Ms./Whatever Grufft, which releases were authorized, because I'm struggling to find anything listed either here or at Discogs that doesn't have a copyright dispute against it, and I refuse to believe that they were all unauthorized, because that is just not credible. Though to be fair, I am automatically suspicious of any releases via Charly, because of their past misuse of the Chess catalogue, involving the late Marshall Sehorn of New Orleans, who seems to have been involved in the Sound Stage 7 catalogue too.

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