Folder 283
Europe
The leading 0 on the barcode - the discriminator between the two European rows. Discogs files 13426268 as printing 190295 567699 with no 0 in front and 21169081 as printing 0 190295 567699; this copy prints the 0.
What the record says
Every line below was read off a native-resolution crop of the photograph named beside it.
No photograph of the inner mirror ring exists in this folder, so no matrix or SID code was read.
Every line of small print, and the photograph it came from — 5 of them
Sealed, front through the shrink-wrap: the standard cover art with a round black sticker reading THE STUDIO COLLECTION around the top, ORIGINALLY RELEASED and 1988 in red in the middle, and REMASTERED around the foot, with no barcode number on the sticker; a white shop price sticker reading 179.- on the wrap at upper right
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Sealed, rear through the wrap: the eight titles in two-tone blue, MOONCHILD · INFINITE DREAMS · CAN I PLAY WITH MADNESS / THE EVIL THAT MEN DO · SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON / THE PROPHECY · THE CLAIRVOYANT · ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG and Produced, Engineered and Mixed By Martin Birch.; a white rectangular importer sticker on the wrap; the Parlophone £ device and the word Parlophone in yellow; a vertical barcode block at lower right; a two-line yellow copyright block across the foot whose left-hand half (the ℗/© dates) is too soft to read even at native resolution
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Rear, lower half at native resolution: the importer sticker reads WMIS Limited, Cannon Place, 78 Cannon St, London EC4N 6AF, UK. Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH, Alter Wandrahm 14, 20457 Hamburg, Germany. products_wea@wmg.com; www.ironmaiden.com above the copyright block; the readable right-hand part of the block runs …copyright in this sound recording is owned by Iron Maiden LLP under exclusive license to Parlophone Records Ltd, …Maiden LLP. This label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved. 0190295567699. No Portuguese text, no ABPD device and no Rimo credit anywhere on the panel
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Barcode at native resolution: the digits under the bars read 0 190295 567699, with the leading 0 printed to the left of the first guard bar; beside it, printed vertically, …license to Parlophone Records Ltd. …rights reserved. 0190295567699 and the Parlophone device
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Spine through the wrap: black, printed only 0190295567699 in white at the right-hand end; no batch ID of the AA0000500 / AE0000300 kind the Brazilian rows print on their spines, and the shrink-wrap is unbroken along the seam
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The photographs
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The object, and what marks it out
Sleeve, labels and inserts
- Digipak - a card digipak with the cover art printed on the front panel and the icescape on the rear, as all seven candidate rows are packaged. The spine is black.
- Sealed - the original shrink-wrap is intact over the whole digipak. The hype sticker and a shop price sticker sit on the wrap, not on the card. Nothing inside has been seen: the booklet, tray and disc are described by Discogs for this row, not by these photographs.
- Condition - the wrap is creased and a little clouded along the spine seam; the card beneath looks bright with square corners.
- No disc photograph, and none possible without breaking the seal. No matrix ring, mastering SID or mould SID was read for this copy.
What distinguishes this pressing
- The leading
0on the barcode - the discriminator between the two European rows. Discogs files 13426268 as printing190295 567699with no0in front and 21169081 as printing0 190295 567699; this copy prints the0. - The rear panel layout - a two-line English copyright block, the Parlophone device and a bare
0190295567699on the spine. The Brazilian rows print a long Portuguese block with Rimo and ABPD credits and carry a batch ID on the spine, so they are excluded on the object rather than on the disc. - The WMIS / Warner Music Group Germany importer sticker - a European distribution sticker on the wrap. It says where the copy was sold into, not which row it is, and is corroboration only.
- The hype sticker without a barcode number - matches 21169081's note verbatim. The Brazilian notes describe the same sticker with
0190295567699added between1988andRemastered. - Not readable here: the matrix ring and SID codes. Both European rows record the same
0190295567699 AJ58402-01 manufactured by optimal media GmbHring, so the ring would only add a mould SID, and the copy is sealed.
Eight tracks, and the recording credits
Tracks 1-4
- 1Moonchild
- 2Infinite Dreams
- 3Can I Play With Madness
- 4The Evil That Men Do
Tracks 5-8
- 5Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
- 6The Prophecy
- 7The Clairvoyant
- 8Only The Good Die Young
Bruce Dickinson - vocals · Dave Murray - lead and rhythm guitar · Adrian Smith - lead and rhythm guitar, synth · Steve Harris - bass, string synth · Nicko McBrain - drums.
Produced, engineered and mixed by Martin Birch. Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound, New York. Recorded at Musicland Studios, Munich. Sleeve illustration, concept and design by Derek Riggs (with Rod Smallwood). Inner-sleeve photograph by Ross Halfin. Published by Zomba Music Publishers Ltd.
Personnel and studio credits are sourced from Discogs release 576952, the UK original, and apply to the recording 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
Settled on the packaging, with the disc never seen. The barcode returns seven rows. Five are Brazilian Rimo pressings whose rear panels look nothing like this one: Portuguese text, an ABPD device, a Rimo credit and a batch ID on the spine, none of which this copy has. That leaves the two European Optimal Media rows, 13426268 and 21169081, which Discogs separates only by whether the barcode's human-readable digits start with a 0. This copy prints 0 190295 567699, which is 21169081's form; 13426268's own rear photograph on Discogs shows 190295 567699 without it.
The owner's phone note, 0190295567699 Sealed, matches the spine and the rear panel and decided nothing by itself.
What is behind the seal: the mould SID (IFPI 97xx) that would pick one of 21169081's seven recorded variants, and the booklet and clear tray its note describes. Opening it is a real choice rather than a task, since the seal is part of what this copy is. Standing caveat: a European pressing absent from Discogs, or one catalogued on the strength of a single printed digit, cannot be excluded.