Back cover of 1984

[Cato]

why is it upside-down? :confused:

discuss....

[Cato]

[jero]

Fine Dobermann!

[chefcraig]

The original U.S. 12-inch vinyl copy is correct, but for some odd reason many of the Japanese import versions of the album (including the mini-LPs released with a paper sleeve three years ago) feature the back cover upside down. This may have been randomly slipshod manufacturing errors, as some of the pages in the import CD version of 1984 were stapled either upside down or in the wrong order.

There is another theory to consider. Initially, the cover of 1984 was banned in England and a handful of European countries (a baby smoking was considered bad form), so it is conceivable the flipped back cover would work as an alternate front cover in some markets. Remember, the cover of Balance was changed upon it's release in Japan so as not to offend the sensitivities of the people there, due to the horrors of genetic disfiguration that resulted from WWII.

[VAiN]

This is maybe a bit of a reach... but maybe they figure you'd flip the album over from top to bottom, instead of left to right?

[chefcraig]

...but maybe they figure you'd flip the album over from top to bottom, instead of left to right?

Somewhere I have a two-record Zeppelin bootleg from 1977. When the vinyl was mastered, some wiseass wrote "How do you drive a Black Sabbath fan crazy? Flip for answer" in the run-off on side one of the set. When you turned the record over to side two, the message read "How do you drive a Black Sabbath fan crazy? Flip for answer."

[Etienne]

Maybe because bombs fall head first... Ugly timeframe, WWII

[sadaist]

why is it upside-down? :confused:

discuss....

Because you are on the other side of the Earth. Here it is right-side up.


signed - Sarah Palin

[Cato]

The original U.S. 12-inch vinyl copy is correct,

pics?

but for some odd reason many of the Japanese import versions of the album (including the mini-LPs released with a paper sleeve three years ago) feature the back cover upside down.

the "Obi" of the mini-1984 LP says that it's a downsized replica of the original U.S. vinyl that was released early....

[chefcraig]