Apologies all. I refer you to my lately entered DJMCD issues which I dated Feb 1986 for convenience and to keep them together.
See comment to DJMCD1.
As far as I can tell none of these have barcodes so actually could come from anytime in the three years before. The 2 I have are silver with black rim text.
My 3rd is DJMCD 2 'Goodbye Yellow ......' (fat box) with silver discs, yellow 'Made in West Germany by Polygram' rim text and 7 digit cat no. in brackets under DJM CD2. And white spine to left, yellow spine to right. Perhaps that was expected to sell most and got the 7 digit number sooner, but still no barcode.
I include some items to show a fuller story and hope scans, quickly, and exact dates, one day, will follow. May be I am wrong to add the DJM no. here (but it can be removed or all variations of these early discs can be in one place each).
May be the date of this barcode copy should be a little later too. Who knows?
As I said Discogs gives me headaches, and few proper answers. You could spend a year there one weekend and still find nothing clear. Particularly no monthly info.
Thanks for you interest, and help.
As my first two are 'Nimbus' I think UK is right. All others, to hand, Europe then.
I think this yellow and black disc (and package) may actually be a different item.
Possibly this one, being silk screen printed, is earlier than mine, so I will dig around and find mine next week hopefully, and compare. (Mine might well be the DJMCD 4 you speak of, and may warrant separate entry.
Why do you add the DJMCD 4 cat# when it's not anywhere on this release?
I'd guess this is maybe the version used for USA, with the PolyGram logo on back.
A quick dizzying look at Discogs shows this is the missing DJMCD 4. They have it pictured with and without that number. I didn't check if the earlier one had a barcode on box - headache growing by the second!!