A long ago puzzle for me is the change in cover art between this and the original issue. When I got this in 1986 I noticed the difference to the the illustration on the back of the Best of EP which I'd bought three years earlier.
The difference in alignment of titles with Trampoline stuck out at the end just looked weird.
What seems to have occurred is the original cover title Please Do Something has been removed and a re-jig taken place. Together Till The End Of Time meanwhile, doesn't appear on either cover.
I wondered if I'd missed a comment somewhere on the site and even second guessed myself in case I'd left one already.
Last minute track change in '67, covers already printed? Perhaps the artwork change happened before '86. Just wondered.
Yes, the ILPM designation was applied to classic LPs that were issued as part of the Island Life celebrations in the late 80s. I had the good sense to buy many of them at the time and they uniformly sound wonderful.
A great deal of them were simply ILPS original stampers, stamped through and then overprinted with ILPM.
As I own this one among them (and it is one of those with the 's' scored out with a capital M replacing it), I can tell you that this release is most definitely not mono, if not exactly the widest stereo ever heard. It closely resembles the 1U Pink Rim pressing of the early 70s.
As most of these cost 2.99IEP in the late 80s, I kick myself on a daily basis for not having bought every single one of them.
unless this is stated to be mono on cover or record labels, it should not be presumed to be so from the "ILPM" cat# prefix; island's pink/pop label initially indicated stereo/mono distinction by inserting a "0" after the initial "9" of the three-digit mono number and adding an "S" to the "ILP" alpha prefix of the mono cat#. this system would have broken down after ILP 999/ILPS 9099, but before that, island had ceased issuing mono versions of albums they were releasing in stereo.
the M suffix was, so far as yr hmbl srppnt.'s aware, used to indicate a later mid-price reissue of a previously full-price original album, and perhaps for original releases at the mid-price mark.
.