Folder 95
US
The mini vinyl replica packaging itself - the discriminator. It excludes all four CK 86215 rows outright: Discogs records three of them as a jewel case in an O-card and the fourth, 28475026, as a plain jewel case. None of them is a card sleeve.
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 — 8 of them
Front, through the wrap, white sticker: THE RETURN OF THE BEAST! / LIMITED EDITION "MINI VINYL CD" / featuring "Can I Play With Madness" and "The Evil That Men Do" / Includes expanded liner notes, and a special enhanced section with videos, bios, photo galleries and much more!
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The same sticker, red panel, at native resolution: Now available for the first time: The legendary Soundhouse Tapes! / Collect and mail in 6 Eddie proof-of-purchase stickers from these specially marked CDs with $6.66 and receive CD. Offer expires 6-6-03 or while supplies last. See inside for details. and, at its foot, the code K 86039-S1
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Rear of the card sleeve: the Sanctuary and Metal-Is devices
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Rear of the card sleeve, fine print: FACSIMILE OF ORIGINAL LP BACK COVER, Digitally remastered, Under Exclusive License To Sanctuary Copyrights Ltd., Manufactured by Columbia Records and 550 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022-3211
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Booklet, centre spread: the eight titles with writer credits, an enhanced CD Video Section listing CAN I PLAY WITH MADNESS, THE EVIL THAT MEN DO, THE CLAIRVOYANT (excerpt) and INFINITE DREAMS (excerpt), the five personnel credits, and a facing page of 1988 tour dates
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Disc face: a picture label over the album artwork, CK 86215 at the left, and the Sanctuary, Metal-Is, CD EXTRA and COMPACT DISC DIGITAL AUDIO devices at the right
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Loose insert, front: THE RETURN OF THE BEAST! / The New Double Album From Iron Maiden's Headlining Show At The Rock In Rio Festival! / IN STORES NOW! / Rock In Rio DVD Coming Soon!, coded ORAW 27005-I1; beside it the Eddie coin sticker card, LIBERTY / IN EDDIE WE TRUST / 2001
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The same insert's other side: SPECIAL CD EDITION OF THE LEGENDARY FIRST RECORDING FROM IRON MAIDEN: THE SOUNDHOUSE TAPES, the six-sticker offer, $6.66 made out to Sony Music Entertainment Inc. and the return address THE SOUNDHOUSE TAPES OFFER, Sony Music Entertainment Inc., PO Box 4000, Carrollton, GA 30117
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The photographs
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The object, and what marks it out
Sleeve, labels and inserts
- Mini-LP card sleeve reproducing the LP jacket front and back at CD size, in the
mini vinylstyle, rather than a jewel case. - Complete for its issue - the 24-page booklet, the picture-label disc, the two-sided
Rock In Rio/ Soundhouse Tapes sheet and the Eddie coin sticker are all present and photographed. - The front photograph shows the copy still in a clear wrap; the later frames show the contents out of the sleeve, so it has been opened.
- Two card sleeves appear side by side in the last two frames, one inside a clear wrap and one not, both showing the front artwork. This is recorded as what the photographs show and is NOT interpreted here - see the confidence section.
What distinguishes this pressing
- The mini vinyl replica packaging itself - the discriminator. It excludes all four
CK 86215rows outright: Discogs records three of them as a jewel case in an O-card and the fourth, 28475026, as a plain jewel case. None of them is a card sleeve. K 86039-S1on the front sticker - namesCK 86039. Two rows in this master carry that number: 4503482 and 8284810, a Russian unofficial release. The sticker narrows to those two; the packaging finishes the job, since 8284810 is recorded as a plain jewel case.- The
Rock In Riosheet and the Eddie coin sticker - 4503482's own notes list apromotional Rock in Rio advertisement sheet and a special Eddie coin stickeramong its contents. Both are photographed here. CK 86215on the disc face - recorded as a fact of the object and explicitly NOT treated as a match against the O-card rows. Sanctuary used the standard reissue's disc inside the replica sleeve; the number on the disc is not the number of the release.Manufactured by Columbia Records- shared by 4503482 and all fourCK 86215rows. Corroboration, no help.
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 packaging, which for this release is the stronger evidence. The disc says CK 86215 and the sticker says CK 86039, and only one of those two numbers belongs to a release shaped like this object. Every CK 86215 row is a jewel case, three of them in an O-card and one plain, and the second CK 86039 row, 8284810, is a plain jewel case too; this is a card mini-LP sleeve. 4503482 is the only CK 86039 row filed Mini Vinyl Replica, and its notes name the booklet, the Rock In Rio sheet and the Eddie coin sticker that are sitting in these photographs. The master's other mini-LP row, 3747988, is the Japanese TOCP-66608 replica and is not in contention here.
One thing here is unresolved, and it is not the identification. The last two frames show two card sleeves side by side, one wrapped and one not. A single sleeve cannot be both, so this folder may hold two copies rather than one, exactly as folder 94 did before it was split. Nothing in the photographs distinguishes them, so nothing here is claimed about a second copy; if there is one, it wants its own folder and its own entry.
What would settle the pressing further, rather than the count: the inner mirror ring, which is not photographed. 4503482 records no matrix at all, so reading this disc's would produce a new datum rather than a comparison.
Standing caveat: the version list is incomplete by construction.