All 4 pressings

Folder 156

Europe

Matrix 2-1-3-NL with IFPI L047 separates this copy from the Mediamotion repress (020209-NL).

Catalogue
7243 5 43103 2 4
Label
EMI
Released
2002
Confidence
Still up in the air (2)
Why this grade

European EMI first issue, glass-mastered at Uden: the mirror ring reads EMI UDEN 5431032 @ 2, 2-1-3-NL and IFPI L047. That rules out the later Mediamotion repress (r24852542), whose matrix ends 020209-NL and whose mould code is ifpi AAH. It does not settle which plant pressed it: Uden glass masters went to both EMI Uden (r380225, mould ifpi 15) and EMI Italiana at Caronno Pertusella (r15406836, mould ifpi 25). Discogs lists 2-1-3-NL only under the Italian pressing, but the Uden entry lists many different glass-master numbers and cannot be treated as complete, so the matrix leans Italian without deciding it. The owner's note (EMI UDEN 543132 @ 2 2-1-3-NL IFPI L047) agrees with the photographs apart from a dropped digit in the catalogue string, which the photograph reads as 5431032; the note names no mould SID either, so it does not decide the plant. The version list is incomplete by construction, so an uncatalogued pressing cannot be excluded.

Reference
Candidate 380225 Candidate 15406836
Estimated worth
DKK 37-38
Basis
2 of 2 candidate releases have sold
A photograph of pressing 156, Europe

What the record says

Every line below was read off a native-resolution crop of the photograph named beside it.

EMI UDEN 5431032 @ 2 2-1-3-NL / IFPI L047

Every line of small print, and the photograph it came from — 9 of them

Rear inlay: Place of manufacture as stated on label. Marketed and distributed by EMI, Printed in EU. UK: 543 1032. F: PM520, EMI, barcode number 7243 5 43103 2 4

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Rear inlay tracklist of sixteen tracks, Run To The Hills to Fear Of The Dark (Live At Rock In Rio)

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Disc face print: Stereo. LC 0542. Made in EU. 7243 5 43103 2 4, © 2002 The copyright

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Booklet back and inner tray card carry 7243 5 43103 2 4

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Booklet credits: Tracks I - XII digitally remastered and track XIV mastered by Simon Heyworth at Chop 'Em Out, Tracks XV & XVI mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound, New York, Compiled by Nick Watson for Sanctuary Mastering at The Townhouse

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Mirror ring under raking light: EMI UDEN 5431032

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Mirror ring continues: 5431032 @ 2

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Mirror ring, clear hub area: 2-1-3-NL

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Mirror ring mastering SID, mirrored as seen from the play side: IFPI L047

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The photographs

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The object, and what marks it out

Sleeve, labels and inserts

  • Standard jewel case with a clear tray; the tray card under the disc shows the Edward The Great crest.
  • Staple-bound lyric booklet with Steve Harris sleeve notes dated October 2002, framed band photographs and a credits page.
  • Black picture-printed disc with the tracklist in gold around the hub.

What distinguishes this pressing

  • Matrix 2-1-3-NL with IFPI L047 separates this copy from the Mediamotion repress (020209-NL).
  • The mould SID code (ifpi 15 for Uden, ifpi 25 for Caronno Pertusella) is what separates the two remaining candidates, and it is not photographed.
Sixteen tracks, and the recording credits

Tracks 1-8

  1. 1Run To The Hills
  2. 2The Number Of The Beast
  3. 3Flight Of Icarus
  4. 4The Trooper
  5. 52 Minutes To Midnight
  6. 6Wasted Years
  7. 7Can I Play With Madness
  8. 8The Evil That Men Do

Tracks 9-16

  1. 9The Clairvoyant
  2. 10Infinite Dreams
  3. 11Holy Smoke
  4. 12Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter
  5. 13Man On The Edge
  6. 14Futureal
  7. 15The Wicker Man
  8. 16Fear Of The Dark (Live At Rock In Rio)

A sixteen-track greatest-hits compilation issued in 2002, compiled by Nick Watson and digitally remastered by Simon Heyworth at Chop 'Em Out. The recordings it collects were made across two decades by several different Iron Maiden line-ups, so no single set of session credits applies to the record as a whole; the release credits Martin Birch and Steve Harris as producers of the material it draws on, liner notes to Steve Harris, front-cover illustration to Tom Adams, and publishing to Zomba Music Publishers Ltd.

Compilation and remastering credits are sourced from Discogs release 380225, the EMI CD, and apply to the 2002 release rather than to this pressing. Where this copy's own packaging carries the producer, publisher or copyright lines, they are quoted in the evidence above.

Condition, from the photographs

A photograph cannot grade a record - this is a description of what is visible, not a grade.

  • Case/inlay: general handling wear with some edge and corner softening; no cracks or splits visible in these shots.
  • Disc: light surface marks and handling sheen catch the light. No visible deep scratches or disc-face damage in these photographs.

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

A raking-light photograph of the mould SID code on the inner ring (clear plastic hub side): ifpi 15 means EMI Uden, ifpi 25 means EMI Italiana.