Same LP, different cover
holmes
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My sister is doing a Media Studies assignment & wants to know of some examples of albums released in different territories with different covers, not reissues.I already mentioned Electric Ladyland to her, but it's late here & I want sleep, so if someone can come up with some more examples while I rest 
it would be real appreciated, please not too obscure, along with some pics of the variations if possible. I already have some others in mind but I want to email her an awesome list & some images tomorrow. 
Thanx.
it would be real appreciated, please not too obscure, along with some pics of the variations if possible. I already have some others in mind but I want to email her an awesome list & some images tomorrow. Thanx.
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Giorgio - Son of my father: US and Australian copies
CCS - The best band in the land: US and Australian copies (exactly the same LP, but diff. title)
JBs - Food for thought: US and UK copies (again, diff. title, but the same LP)
Oh, and I also pictured a US and Australian copy of the Meters - Hey last minute/Chicken strut 7" for good measure.
Hope that helps.
I could only think of this one:
left is the US pressing on Chess from 1975, on the right its the Dutch pressing from a year before. The Dutch pressing has the album title "Angel Eyes" the US is "s/t" but the tracklisting is the same.
hope this helps.
peace.
The Tyrone Thomas and the Whole Damn Family is usually the staple for different cover pressings.
DJ Ferrari
Boz Scaggs - Slow Dancer has 2 different covers
Herbie Hancock - Thrust (same picture but different lay-out)
Crown Heights Affair "Foxy Lady" De-Lite DEP 2021
Crown Heights Affair "Dreaming A Dream" De-Lite DEP 2017
Same tracklisting, slightly different mix. Judging from the numbers, "Dreaming" is the first.
Almost, except for one song. On "Show", track 1 side 1 is "The Jugglers". On "Put", track 1 side 1 is "How Can You Go Home". The former is better, methinks.
As for music, Paul Mauriot is notorious for this.
Others I can think of:
Bo Hansson - Lord of The Ring/Sagan om Ringen
Frank Zappa - Weasels Ripped My flesh
Grady Tate "Windmills Of My Mind": Profile picture of him in front of a black background, smoking a cigarette
The Whole Darn family lp's are different, no? The one I have has a completely different version of 7 Minutes of Funk.
True, true... other than that track, they're the same LP, right?
You have the original Andy Warhol cover, with zipper.
The second one is how Spain sold it.
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Every country but the U.S. sold Pink Floyd's Relics[/b] with the illustrated cover (this being a Japanese pressing)
We in the U.S. had the one on the bottom
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I don't have my copy anymore, but the Taiwan pressing of Master Of Reality[/b] is a photo of the band, taken from the poster found inside.
Same album, different title and covers.
Weird, man!
You didn't include the famous sleeve for this record (naked girl)
Hendrix had basically a limitless number... there's an entire coffee table book of all foreign pressings of his albums... not reissues or bootlegs, original pressings of his albums from off-the-wall countries with all these badass psychedelic pics of the group on the sleeve...
Are both US issues? If so, which is first?
This has to be one of the most disturbing covers of all time...can I get a witness?
I mean, "Virgin Killer?" how about "Kiddie Pornographers??"
yikes.
Weird thing is, there's the low budget early 90's movie, "The Stoned Age," where the two metalhead main characters always talk about how this hot chick "looks like the chick on the cover of the 'Virgin Killers' record!" But, the chick in the movie is a (metalchick) hot 18/19 year old, not a 10 year old kid like on that cover...
I'll testify. That cover is sick meaning bad. No wonder they made an alternate version.
Now that's a clever one. The mail must go through. And yeah, I would.