Added Inlay shot and now find that this cat# was used in the EU too! I'll have something to say about these international Rhino/Atlantic releases by WEA international inc. later today. They are are a bit of a conundrum with simultaneous global and local releases apparently existing at the same time. Seems WEA produced local copies in Australia and perhaps used EU stock distributed from the parent EU warehouses when they sold out or even prior to deciding to release them as a market tester. Whatever the case is in Australia we have had nearly all of the EU made Rhino/Atlantic catalogue released here as local stock.
@Lee Wrecker.Ah,understood Lee,i've put in a correction request to amend the Cat.No. here to read 2-41118-2,as i think that's correct for the Australian release (going by the one on Discogs anyhow).I see what you're on about with the European release,the "International" thing raises it's ugly head again;).As you know,i've always been in favour of trying to identify the original country of release and leave it at that,giving each CD entry an identity if you like,bunging everything together is surely not the best way forward,but i digress,as the Mods are working on something i think that might change how CD's are entered,so i'll leave it until then,as hopefully,it may improve.
As for the magazine question,i think that if they (the Australian copies) have a different barcode to the UK release,then i would personally enter them as a separate Australian entry,even though they may have been printed in the UK,they have been allocated a barcode unique to Australia?,presumably as that barcode would not have probably been on sale in the UK also?
gregs78s, this is not my copy. My copy is the Australian, EU or international release linked below as the Europe edition which was bought in Australia through regular channels. See my comments on that copy and the the scans on that edition are all contributed by me.
It was common practice for Warners to put swags of stuff out on the Australian market, see what sold well then cherry pick from those what to produce locally. The Sam and Dave CD from the same series went the same way and so did nearly everything on the Warner Archives imprint.
There are gazillions of other examples and they will all shoot gaping holes in the way we go about things here on 45Worlds. When this kind of evidence is ignored because EU and USA based MODS just plainly refuse to accept it as a valid reason to change the country classification in favour of their belief that it is in fact a release from a particular region. Conversely, if it was a release from somewhere else in the world MODS are very quick to internationalise that release based on no evidence apparent on this site. Their may well be evidence on another site but that's not the point. Seems an EU or USA (shall we talk about the Canada problem or do that later) stays that way until evidence appears to the contrary on this site. EU or USA CDs being marketed and distributed in Australia for some reason is not good enough evidence as per my linked release below.
Hmm... I might just track down the catalogues and start working through the tens of thousands of releases that fall in to this category. That will make nearly everything international and almost impossible to find on the database. That is my key concern really that the current system we use has the propensity to turn the database into a pile of unintelligible junk that is near impossible to use. This is why we see some MODS protecting the original market as the country of release regardless of information that indicates they are in fact international.
By the way both Mojo and Uncut magazines are also international and both have a various times used the same barcode internationally or different barcodes. Convenient that there's no barcodes on the issues on our site (or very few) otherwise we'd have to reconfigure the whole lot. Check this one out.
@Lee Wrecker.Hi Lee,is your copy/this copy the same as this one on Discogs?,only,if it is,i would say to keep the releases separate,as this Australian copy Has the Cat.No 2-41118-2 (to be amended if correct),and the European release 2292-41118-2.so two separate entries in my book.
The cat# on this is unique but it belongs only to the Australian edition of this release. So this entry should be changed to Australia as country and not Europe as listed. All the other details match perfectly so it just needs a tweak.