Original UK cover has the title in black letters and the Pye catalogue number drawn in the upper left corner. First pressing with blue labels marked STEREO.
I've got a copy of this with the fucking up line, does anyone else think the vocals are almost inaudible at points throughout the album?
Makes me wonder if they would have tweaked a couple of the other mixes too. It's okay if you crank it up and pay attention, but for casual listening there are loads of points where it's a bit disappointing...strangers, start of apeman particularly noticeable
Ref. Apeman, it is printed out as "fogging up my eyes", but he might be singing anything from "ogging" via "uggi" to "ucking", can't tell, and probably that's what he wanted to achieve.
air, & very disappointedly, the version of "lola" on the lp sounds very different from - and is much poorer than - the classic, bravura hit (but should've been much, much bigger!) single version.
- fwiw the originally-released version of the single, that ray davies had to fly back to london to record a one-word "cocacorrection" of, to make it acceptable to the beeb & totp, turned up on a very cheap, italian-produced cassette on-sale in the bargains section of the virgin-ames or our price (i disremember which it was at the time) in the first modern-times unnecessary slump created by the tories to hammer all us ordinary, record-buying music fans, with no suggestion those as'd put the tape together had any idea it was the "uncensored" version of the hit single.
- has any45catter/anyone checked through to find out which versions were released by whom, in which markets, and perhaps whether the reissue lps, tapes & cd transfers/remasters follow the one, t'other - or t'other t'other?