Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted June 28, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted June 28, 2021 8 hours ago, Lorne Malvo said: Robbie Williams Greatest Hits has got a massive cunt on the cover, if that counts. Why is Boris Johnson on the cover? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted June 29, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted June 29, 2021 9 hours ago, neil said: Local band to me coz they were from Harlow. Controversial because this was "banned" from the singles charts due to the "free gift" of the fortune telling fish. Weirdly, there was a late Leonard Cohen album that also came with a free fortune telling fish, but without any explanation as to why. The ban on free gifts was because bands realised that they could give away "free" T-shirts, stickers and badges with their singles, and people would buy them for the gifts as much - if not more than - for the song, and it gave them an unfair advantage in the charts. Applying that to a miracle fish seems a bit of a stretch, but you never know. It's why, after that ban, a lot of bands started releasing multiple versions of the same single - different formats, or the same A-Side with different B-Sides. When Iron Maiden released Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter, they had something like six or seven versions of it out at once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members gmoney Posted June 29, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted June 29, 2021 The Manic Street Preachers were pretty bad for releasing different versions of singles, different covers etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 10 hours ago, neil said: Local band to me coz they were from Harlow. Seen these quite a lot as my ex in laws were huge Otway fans. My ex designed the poster for one of Murray’s solo tours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators neil Posted June 29, 2021 Moderators Share Posted June 29, 2021 The different single versions was such a load of shite, but also as a 17 year old fanboy at the time irresistible. Wasn't so bad to begin with, different b-sides at least, sometimes a limited run, but eventually it just turned into different colours of the same cover with the same songs on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 What a very friendly looking well dressed bunch, I wonder where this was taken? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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