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4th Jul 2015, 8:44 PM
	Magic Marmalade If you're not lost... It's not an adventure! Member since Jun 2014 3747 Points Moderator	I'm not sure about the tripinthelightfantatstic-er- um- phobia, uh, tricksy-decca... tipsy-deck, er... (that word). ...but I sure feel like I've bitten off more than I can chew here! At first, I thought it would be a simple thing to pin dates on just 250 or so discs, but once you find it's cat number tentacles extend into MFP and Capitol, the CDs, represses, re-issues of re-issues, missing titles and who knows what else, you don't know which way is up after a while! I did wonder if they might have left 3013 out for someting like that, and 3113 too... but I found that (Rafferty -Sleepwalking) in a record bin, so wouldn't rule it out yet... did occur that omissions could be in the sequence as marking some siginificant dates, like a new year, or to demarcate groups of releases, but there's no discernable pattern there to suggest this. One other thing I was thinking was that maybe, with the availability of other formats like cassettes and then CDs, some artists may sell better on them due to the taste of a typical fan of that artist: Hot chocolate may appeal to their typical fan in the most convenient format of tape, say, whereas a prog title may do better on vinyl due to the more "serious" fan.... so maybe one or two may only exist on another format (EMI was a business after all), leaving gaps in the sequence for a given format when this occurs. We've yet to see if the CD release dates exactly match the vinyl, even with the same cats, as this would be 83-84, so who had a CD player then? Maybe they issued the sequence on CD begining on a later year. I am wondering though if those earlier 20 or so may have the subtlest of label vairations occuring here, where the initial logo bearing labels were quickly exchanged for log-less ones, and nobody would be the wiser! ... but that said... look at the Dr.Hook label in that horrible yellow I posted... That label variation occurs about 85 or later, and yet still bears the Capitol logo... so this makes me think that once the design for text etc. is established, it's used all through the label changes regardless of the design of the label it's printed on. (there was an album I came across earlier (think it was earliest Whitesnake) which has the odd black splat of a logo near the top of the label... is it Sunburst label???)