tracks 1-3, 6-9 from the madcap laughs, 5, 11-13, 15-19 from barrett, 4, 10, 14 & 22 from the rarities album, opel. all tracks recorded at abbey road studios except track 20, recorded at maida vale studios.
ppint, you are right of course this CD's packaging is "without any indication it was intended to be distributed in merkia, let alone down under in xxxxia" and yet my copy is indeed identical (made in EU etc.) to this copy and bought in Australia. There is also an Australian made version that also carries the same details, the US version is made in the US but carries the same details. The rights issue doesn't come into play as per our (45Worlds) because our guidelines or protocols don't go to that depth. These problems arise because the current system we use requires people to know information that is not on the CD at all such as other CDs with matching details from anywhere in the world.
The EU status is something I also cannot know as I don't have any catalogues at all let alone a variety of European issues from different countries to check through. So that is is for you in the North (hemisphere) to sort out. On this site Australian CDs are routinely changed to international on the strength of a matching CD existing (not on 45Worlds I might add) in another country such as Chile or Mexico. This can be very frustrating as the poster cannot know this information and as you point here it's actual relevance may be debatable.
Once again though the international classification of CDs proves to be a debacle as usual. So at least we're consistent. Oh, by the way I agree with your suggestion in reference to the title.
as to the title, there is no colon, semicolon nor comma in the title - see the scans of the disc and the front of the insert booklet, and the spines and the face of the rear insert/inlay.
- 45cat/worlds seems to be edging towards using a splodge - "•" - in such circumstances, but oft times now, and in the past, has employed the hyphen: yr hmbl srppnt.'s agnostic to which of the twain is to be preferred.
- arguably, the title ought by rights to proceed to a third, splodge- or hyphen-delineated line: "includes 'bob dylan blues'": but i thought that would constitute over-egging the pudding.
"made in $foo" & "printed in $foo" do not define where a release is flagged, on 45cat/worlds: it's the intended market/territories that do that. a good indicator is the rights collection agency or agencies printed - normally - on the rear insert/inlay or rear of digipak, etc, and usually on the obverse of the disc. there is a guide to these available "on another website".
there is a french indication near the barcode on the rear inlay, but no suggestion that i saw on my copy that this release was intended for distribution throughout the eu - let alone, beyond it - and without any indication it was intended to be distributed in merkia, let alone down under in xxxxia, the godzone, or in kiwiiiia, there was no good reason to flag it eu, nor international.
Is the title not "Best of Syd Barrett: Wouldn't You Miss Me?" rather than what is here? Most places on the net and the CD itself list it as "Best of Syd Barrett: Wouldn't You Miss Me?" so why not here? Again, on the spine and disc itself the cat# is listed as 7243 5 32320 2 3 and this also seems to be convention on the net.
Next UK release? Hardly, made in EU printed in EU and same cat#, label and barcode issued in Australia, USA and Canada. I actually bought this EU edition in Australia so go figure on that score. International as Esperanto by the site guidelines but still I would prefer all of them listed separately Europe, Australia, USA and Canada but that's just the way I think in terms of data entry. I don't like the idea of having something with data on it in my hand and being expected to enter different abstract data according to some nebulous set of rules. That's just the way I am I suppose.
Hi Lee, releases on the EMI group labels (Columbia, Parlophone, HMV, Harvest, etc) have long borne an EMI logo as well, to indicate that those labels are part of that company, and the copyright always indicates that the recordings are owned by EMI Records Ltd (or Capitol Records Inc./LLC for records from that company, or The Gramophone Company Limited, Columbia Graphophone Company Limited, or The Parlophone Company Limited for the English labels in earlier decades). A good rule of thumb is to only use EMI as the label if there is no other label logo present (a rule which applies to the other majors as well, as Sony and Universal like to put their company logos on everything that moves now, whilst Warner Music seems to have moved away from the tiny W-in-a-squashed-circle that used to appear on all their releases from 1975 onwards).
Hello Bodston, I know the Harvest logo is plastered all over this one but the label states that this is an EMI release. The info is the same on the tray ironically next to the Harvest logo nowhere on the CD does it mention that Harvest is the label. You could put both though as the logo is plastered all over it. A great compilation though.