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2nd Jul 2015, 6:10 PM
	Magic Marmalade If you're not lost... It's not an adventure! Member since Jun 2014 3747 Points Moderator	Difficult to say, as the bag advertises selective releases from the Fame sequence (although themed). I'd say if, with a high degree of certainty, the albums that appear on the inner sleeve fall within "striking distance" of one another, and are within the date range the bag itself, then it's likely the bag is accurate as far as year of initial release is concerned for each one... But of course, the only labels loaded for the Floyd one are my yellow labels (so far), and if all on the bag are from that date, then there ought to be other copies of these titles with the yellow labels.... or, A Collection Of Great Dance Songs exists with cream (shall we refer to the light brown ones as Vanilla from now on?) and red grid labels at least. I'm just beginning to draw up a check box chart for label variants for each title now, and I'm going fishing both on the net, and in record store bins soon for Fame labels. What I have done already today is take the highlighter to my list on the compilation releases, as opposed to straight re-issues of complete studio albums... not many compilations actually! ..only 32 of the 258 on the list. And the pattern is... 17 of those are in the first fifty on the list (big cluster in the first thirty two, then a couple of groups of two here and there, spaced 10, then five apart, then a huge gap till Beatles oldies at 081, then agap of 29, a cluster of 3, jump of one, then the odd one after big gaps for the rest of the sequence. What I hope this will prove is that when measured against the label variants, these compilations did not last long, being quickly replaced by other compilations, and if the change in label designs occurs during one of these clusters it narrows the date of that label's introduction, as opposed to a straight re-iisue, which may have remained in press throughout all the changes, and is hard to give a date to that finely. (it all makes sense in my head! ... but, if you forgive the "nerdism" (new word! - my Word! - Let the record show that I own that word!!!), there are so many variables at work here, you have to work one set of facts at a time in order to unlock the next set.)