Folder 113
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia, Jugoton. Four lines beside the logo, and the labels are on the wrong sides - a 1984 A side against a 1986 B side.
What the record says
Every line below was read off a native-resolution crop of the photograph named beside it.
Run-out photographed, both sides, across twenty-five frames. The face carrying the eye-in-sand label reads LSEMI 11082, then A, then 20 10 84, with SB further round. The face carrying the printed tracklist label reads LSEMI 11082, then a character read as B, then 28 10 86, and SB. Discogs gives 9743036's variant 2 as LSEMI 11082 A 201084 SB and LSEMI 11082 B 281086 SB, which is these two strings unspaced. Two things are worth saying about how that was read. No single frame holds a whole string: each is assembled from three or four overlapping shots, and the flash washes the deadwax badly enough that twenty-one frames of one side were needed to get it. And the side letter on the second face is the weakest character in either string - upright and unmirrored it reads as a B, but a 3 is not excluded from these photographs alone; it is the date beside it, which is unambiguous, that does the work.
Barcode and Other Identifiers: Matrix / Runout
As Discogs records them for release 9743036. Green: in my collection (3 of 4). Red: missing.
| ✓ | Matrix / Runout (Variant 1: Runout side A) | LSEMI 11082 A 201084 SB — this copy |
| ✗ | Matrix / Runout (Variant 1: Runout side B) | LSEMI 11082 B 201084 SB |
| ✓ | Matrix / Runout (Variant 2: Runout side A) | LSEMI 11082 A 201084 SB — this copy |
| ✓ | Matrix / Runout (Variant 2: Runout side B) | LSEMI 11082 B 281086 SB — this copy |
Every line of small print, and the photograph it came from — 14 of them
Back cover, beside the boxed Jugoton logo, four lines: radna organizacija za nakladu · nosilaca zvuka i slike p.o. · Zagreb – Niška b.b. · Made in Yugoslavia
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Back cover, same block: LSEMI 11082, and at the right Urednik redakcije: Veljko Despot · Glavni i odgovorni urednik: Siniša Škarica
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Back cover: PLAYING TIME: 51.20
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Label, printed face: EJ 2402001 over LSEMI 11082, 33⅓ R.P.M. Stereo, and THIS SIDE / OTHER SIDE tracklists with running times
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Label rim, printed face: SVA PRAVA IZDAVAČA I VLASNIKA SNIMLJENOG DJELA SU PRIDRŽANA. ZABRANJENO JE NEOVLAŠTENO UMNOŽAVANJE…
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Label rim, printed face: PROIZVEO JUGOTON ZAGREB JUGOSLAVIJA and a SOKOJ mark
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Label, other face: the eye-in-sand artwork, with no rim text of any kind
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Run-out, eye-label face, etched: LSEMI 11082
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Run-out, eye-label face, etched: A, and further round 20 10 84
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Run-out, printed-label face, etched: LSEMI 11082
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Run-out, printed-label face, etched: the side character, then 28 10 86
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Run-out, both faces, etched: SB
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Inner sleeve: printed both faces - lyrics over the sand image on one, the band at the temple on the other
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Inner sleeve, beside the lyric block: LSEMI 11082
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The photographs
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The object, and what marks it out
Sleeve, labels and inserts
- Outer sleeve - single, standard artwork. The back cover is the Yugoslav one, with the Jugoton block, the two editors' names and
Made in Yugoslaviaset into the star field. Discoloured and stained across the rear. - Inner sleeve - printed both sides, lyrics and band image, carrying
LSEMI 11082. - Labels - the international sand design, but applied to the wrong faces: the printed tracklist label sits on the side whose run-out is cut
B, and the eye-in-sand label on the side cutA. - Vinyl - black.
What distinguishes this pressing
- Four lines beside the Jugoton logo.
radna organizacija za nakladu/nosilaca zvuka i slike p.o./Zagreb – Niška b.b./Made in Yugoslavia. The other Jugoton entry for this catalogue number sets three there, and Discogs' notes on both entries name that count as the difference between them. Nothing else on either sleeve differs. - The labels are reversed. The label printed with
THIS SIDE: 1. Aces High …is stuck to the face whose deadwax is cutB, and the blank eye-in-sand label to the face cutA. So the side this record announces as side one plays side two. Discogs records exactly this as 9743036's variant 2 - “Label of B-side sticked on the A-side and the other way around” - and it is the second, independent thing that pins the copy. - A 1984 A side and a 1986 B side.
20 10 84and28 10 86are cut into the two run-outs. Read as Jugoton's day-month-year, that is 20 October 1984 - the release date Discogs carries for the record - against 28 October 1986, two years later. This copy's B side was cut from later metalwork than its A side, and the entry it belongs to is still filed under 1984. SBin both run-outs - the same two letters on a side cut in 1984 and a side cut in 1986.LSEMI 11082andEJ 2402001together on one label. The Jugoton number and the EMI international number, printed side by side; the run-out cuts the Jugoton one, where the Japanese, European and Argentine copies on this shelf all cut the EMI one.SOKOJon the label rim withPROIZVEO JUGOTON ZAGREB JUGOSLAVIJA- the Yugoslav authors' society and the manufacturing statement, shared by both Jugoton entries and so no help in separating them.
Eight tracks, two sides, and the recording credits
Side A
- A1Aces High
- A22 Minutes To Midnight
- A3Losfer Words (Big 'Orra)
- A4Flash Of The Blade
- A5The Duellists
Side B
- B1Back In The Village
- B2Powerslave
- B3Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
Bruce Dickinson - vocals · Dave Murray - lead and rhythm guitar · Adrian Smith - lead and rhythm guitar · Steve Harris - bass · Nicko McBrain - drums.
Produced, engineered and mixed by Martin Birch, assisted by Bruce Buchhalter and Frank Gibson. Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound. Recorded at Compass Point Studios, Nassau; mixed at Electric Lady Studios, New York. Sleeve illustration by Derek Riggs; sleeve and design concept by Derek Riggs, Iron Maiden and Rod Smallwood. Photography by Moshe Brakha. Published by Zomba Music Publishers Ltd.
Personnel and studio credits are sourced from Discogs release 1846534, the UK original, and apply to the recording rather than to this pressing. The producer, publisher and copyright lines are independently corroborated by this copy's own label, quoted above.
Condition, from the photographs
A photograph cannot grade a record - this is a description of what is visible, not a grade.
- Sleeve: general handling wear with some edge and corner softening; no splits or seam separation visible in these shots.
- Vinyl: light surface marks and handling sheen catch the light. No visible deep scratches, warping or edge damage in these photographs. The labels are clean and unmarked.
Nothing on this page comes from playing the record. No Goldmine grade is claimed for it, or any other. I have no record of where this copy came from.
What is settled, and what is not
Confirmed. Yugoslavia, LSEMI 11082 and EJ 2402001 are certain from the label and the back cover. The fetched version list holds four Yugoslav entries; two are the vinyl LP under this number, and they exist as two entries for exactly one reason:
How the other candidates were ruled out
| Candidate | Verdict |
|---|---|
| 9743036 | Matches. “Four lines of text right to Jugoton on back cover, different to [910168] which has three lines of text.” This back cover sets four. Its variant 2 then matches the record itself: run-outs LSEMI 11082 A 201084 SB and LSEMI 11082 B 281086 SB, and “The record labels of variant 2 are reversed. Label of B-side sticked on the A-side and the other way around.” |
| 910168 | Ruled out on the back cover: “Three lines of text next to Jugoton”. There are four here. Its run-outs are also both dated 201084; this record's B side is dated 281086. |
| 4769238 | Ruled out on format: a Jugoton cassette, CAEMI 9115. |
| 5519258 | Ruled out on catalogue number and status: 1551 on M Records, filed by Discogs as an Unofficial Release. |
Two independent marks, which is what makes this Confirmed rather than Probable. The line count decides which entry; the reversed labels and the 281086 date decide which variant of it, and neither could have been guessed from the other. It is also worth naming what did NOT decide it: the A-side run-out is LSEMI 11082 A 201084 SB on both entries and on both of 9743036's variants, so the string this project would normally lean on hardest is here the one that separates nothing.
Standing caveat: this method cannot exclude a pressing absent from Discogs. The version list is incomplete by construction, so a single surviving candidate is a best match, not a proof of uniqueness.
What is open is the side character on the B face, and it is a single glyph. Read off IMG_2134 it is upright and unmirrored and looks like a B, which is what the release records; a 3 is not excluded from the photographs alone. Nothing turns on it - 28 10 86 beside it is unambiguous, and that date appears on exactly one variant of exactly one Yugoslav entry - but a square-on raking-light frame of that one character would settle it, and would cost one photograph.
And one thing the reversed labels make worth checking by ear rather than by eye: play the face whose label says THIS SIDE: Aces High. If it opens with Back In The Village, the labels are reversed on the record as well as in the deadwax reading, and this dossier is right for a second, independent reason.