Folder 292

UK

Labels numbered IRN 91 and IRN 92 with the EMI box: the only vinyl row on the master carrying those numbers is the UK 419183.

Catalogue: IRN 9, IRN 91, IRN 92
Label: EMI
Released: 1990
Confidence: Likely
Why this grade
UK EMI double pack, part IX of The First Ten Years, with the black Limited Edition hype sticker still on the front. The back sleeve carries IRN 9 over 79 4002 1 under barcode 0 077779 400119, and its print block reads Sleeve printed in England / Manufactured in England SP9004JU; the two records' labels read IRN 92 / IRN 92A / IRN 92B (The Evil That Men Do disc) and IRN 91 / IRN 91A / IRN 91B (Can I Play With Madness disc), each with the EMI box and the (P) 1988 ... (C) 1990 EMI RECORDS LTD lines. Of the four vinyl rows on the master only 419183 carries IRN 9, IRN 91, IRN 92; the European row 2616375 is a 45 RPM 198-7 94001 1 family number that appears nowhere on this copy (the sleeve's 79 4002 1 has no 198- prefix and the hype sticker says 33 1/3 RPM), the Italian row 7061923 is 2-52 7940011, and the South Korean IRN 9 row 26064163 is an unofficial pressing listed with no label, which the EMI-logo labels and the Manufactured in England print block rule out. All four run-outs were photographed and read IRN 91 A-1-1-1 / IRN 91 B-1-1-1 / IRN 92 A-1-1-1 / IRN 92 B-1-1-1, with a stamped Penthouse photographed four times, one frame after each side's run-out in the shooting sequence; none of the four Penthouse frames shows enough label to pin it to a side on its own. The grade stops at Probable rather than Confirmed because no release JSON for 419183 is cached, so the photographed run-out could not be compared with the matrix Discogs records for it; the catalogue number and country match one row, and nothing else was cross-checked. The owner's note (barcode 0077779400119, IRN 9, 79 4002 1, and the four run-outs with Penthouse) agrees with the photographs on every string and decided nothing the photographs did not already show. The version list is never complete, so an uncatalogued UK variant cannot be ruled out.
Reference: Discogs 419183
Median sale: DKK 276
Sale range: DKK 116-566
On sale now: 17, from DKK 89
Last sold: 24 October 2026

What the record says

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

IRN 91 A: IRN 91 A-1-1-1 / Penthouse (stamped); IRN 91 B: IRN 91 B-1-1-1 / Penthouse (stamped); IRN 92 A: IRN 92 A-1-1-1 / Penthouse (stamped); IRN 92 B: IRN 92 B-1-1-1 / Penthouse (stamped)

Every line of small print, and the photograph it came from — 19 of them

Front sleeve: IRON MAIDEN / CAN I PLAY WITH MADNESS artwork, black circular hype sticker top left, The First Ten Years roundel bottom left

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Hype sticker at native resolution: LIMITED EDITION round the rim, IRN 9, CAN I PLAY WITH MADNESS BLACK BART BLUES MASSACRE THE EVIL THAT MEN DO PROWLER '88 CHARLOTTE THE HARLOT '88 LISTEN WITH NICKO! PART IX CONTAINS "FIRST TEN YEARS" COLLECTORS BOX VOUCHER DETAILS INSIDE 33 1/3 RPM

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Front sleeve bottom-left corner: roundel reading 1980 1990 CAN I PLAY WITH MADNESS THE EVIL THAT MEN DO IX UP THE IRONS, with the corner worn through to white card

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Back sleeve: The Evil That Men Do artwork, barcode top right with IRN 9 / 79 4002 1 beneath it, EMI box bottom right, print block bottom left

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Back sleeve catalogue block at native resolution: barcode 0 077779 400119, IRN 9, 79 4002 1

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Back sleeve print block: Sleeve printed in England / Manufactured in England SP9004JU

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Back sleeve bottom right: red EMI box, lower edge of the sleeve rubbed to white

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Can I Play With Madness disc, side A run-out: IRN 91 A-1-1-1 stamped, with the label's IRN 91 / IRN 91A visible upside down above it

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Run-out: Penthouse stamped, photographed immediately after the IRN 91 A frames

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Can I Play With Madness disc, side B run-out: IRN 91 B-1-1-1 stamped, with the label's B BLACK BART BLUES MASSACRE visible upside down above it

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Run-out: Penthouse stamped, photographed immediately after the IRN 91 B frames

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The Evil That Men Do disc, side A label: A THE EVIL THAT MEN DO (Smith / Dickinson / Harris), Produced, Engineered and Mixed by MARTIN BIRCH, IRN 92 / IRN 92A, (P) 1988 THE COPYRIGHT IN THIS SOUND RECORDING IS OWNED BY EMI RECORDS LTD (C) 1990 EMI RECORDS LTD ZOMBA MUSIC PUBLISHERS LTD, EMI box, rim ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. UNAUTHORISED COPYING, PUBLIC PERFORMANCE AND BROADCASTING OF THIS DISC FORBIDDEN

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The Evil That Men Do disc, side A run-out: IRN 92 A-1-1-1 stamped, with the label's THE EVIL THAT MEN DO visible upside down above it

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Run-out: Penthouse stamped, photographed immediately after the IRN 92 A frames

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The Evil That Men Do disc, side B label: B PROWLER '88 (Harris), CHARLOTTE THE HARLOT '88 (Murray), Produced, Engineered and Mixed by MARTIN BIRCH, LISTEN WITH NICKO! PART IX Produced by N. McBRAIN, IRN 92 / IRN 92B, same EMI copyright lines, ZOMBA MUSIC PUBLISHERS LTD, EMI box

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The Evil That Men Do disc, side B run-out: IRN 92 B-1-1-1 stamped, with the label's IRN 92 / IRN 92B visible upside down above it

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Run-out: Penthouse stamped, photographed immediately after the IRN 92 B frames, with the edge of bold yellow label lettering at the top of the frame

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Can I Play With Madness disc, side A label: A CAN I PLAY WITH MADNESS (Smith / Dickinson / Harris), Produced, Engineered and Mixed by MARTIN BIRCH, IRN 91 / IRN 91A, same EMI copyright lines, ZOMBA MUSIC PUBLISHERS LTD, EMI box

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Can I Play With Madness disc, side B label: B BLACK BART BLUES (Harris / Dickinson), MASSACRE (Lynott / Gorham / Downey), Produced, Engineered and Mixed by MARTIN BIRCH, IRN 91 / IRN 91B, Track 1 ZOMBA MUSIC PUBLISHERS LTD Track 2 PIPPIN THE FRIENDLY RANGER / CHAPPELL MUSIC LTD, EMI box

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The photographs

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The object, and what marks it out

Sleeve, labels and inserts

Double pack sleeve with Can I Play With Madness on the front and The Evil That Men Do on the back, The First Ten Years roundel bottom left on the front, and the black circular Limited Edition hype sticker still on the front top left. Corner and edge wear, worn through to white card at the bottom-left front corner and along the lower back edge.
Two black vinyl 12" records, one per single, each with the grey Eddie-under-the-streetlamp labels, red Iron Maiden logo and red EMI box.
No inner sleeves, voucher or other inserts are visible in the photographs.

What distinguishes this pressing

Labels numbered IRN 91 and IRN 92 with the EMI box: the only vinyl row on the master carrying those numbers is the UK 419183.
Manufactured in England SP9004JU on the back sleeve, against the unofficial South Korean IRN 9 row 26064163, which is listed with no label.
No 198- prefix on the sleeve's 79 4002 1 and 33 1/3 RPM on the hype sticker, against the European 45 RPM row 2616375 with its 198-79 4002 1 family numbers.
Stamped run-outs IRN 91 A-1-1-1 / IRN 91 B-1-1-1 / IRN 92 A-1-1-1 / IRN 92 B-1-1-1 with Penthouse, recorded here for comparison once 419183's matrix fields are to hand.

Seven tracks, two sides, and the recording credits

Side A

ACan I Play With Madness
B1Black Bart Blues
B2Massacre

Side B

CThe Evil That Men Do
D1Prowler '88
D2Charlotte The Harlot '88
D3Listen With Nicko! Part IX

Can I Play With Madness, Black Bart Blues, Massacre, The Evil That Men Do, Prowler '88 and Charlotte The Harlot '88 produced, engineered and mixed by Martin Birch. Listen With Nicko! Part IX produced by Nicko McBrain. Illustration by Derek Riggs; photography by Ross Halfin; packaging design by The Complete Works. Pressed by EMI Swindon. Phonographic copyright EMI Records Ltd.

Credits are sourced from Discogs release 383868, the UK CD IRN 9, and apply to the recording rather than to this pressing; the UK double 12" is release 419183 (IRN 9). 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.

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

One UK row fits and nothing contradicts it, but the run-out was never compared with what Discogs records for 419183 because that release's JSON is not cached. Fetching release 419183 and checking its Matrix / Runout fields against IRN 91 A-1-1-1 Penthouse and the other three sides is what would lift this from Probable to Confirmed. Standing caveat: the method cannot exclude a pressing absent from Discogs.