Format: LP
Release date: 2/10/1981
Label: Stiff
Catalogue No.: SEEZ 39
Secondary Cat. No.: –
Barcode: none
Chart Position: 5
Release notes: –
Tracks:
Cardiac Arrest
Shut Up
Sign Of The Times
Missing You
Mrs. Hutchinson
Tomorrow’s Dream
Grey Day
Pac-A-Mac
Promises Promises
Benny Bullfrog
When Dawn Arrives
The Opium Eaters
Day On The Town
Spent 29 weeks on the charts peaking at no. 5 in October 1981.
Certified Gold (100,000) on 5th October 1981.
Sleeve
Pressings made in France (label variants 4 & 5) have a textured sleeve.
Some AGI pressings (label variant 5) have a plain spine:
Inner
Variant 1
Card picture inner, curve cut-out on front
Variant 2
Card picture inner, wide V cut-out on rear
Labels
Variant 1: CBS
Variant 2: unknown
Variant 3: MPO (MADE IN ENGLAND labels)
Variant 4: MPO (MADE IN FRANCE labels)
Variant 5: AGI
Variant 6: Sonopress
Variant 7: Linguaphone (PAG)
Variant 1
Label profile: 62mm lip, 32mm ring
Lacquer cut by Arun Chakraverty at Master Room, London W1, pressed by CBS, Aston Clinton
Runouts – and combination of A1, A2, A5 and B1, B2, B5:
A-Side: SEEZ 39 A1 ARUN / SEEZ.39-A.2 ARUN – TAKE AWAY THE NO YOU FIRST THOUGHT OF / SEEZ-39-A5 TAKE AWAY THE NO. YOU FIRST THOUGHT OF ARUN
B-Side: SEEZ 39 B1 ANSWER IS SEVEN / SEEZ 39.B-2 / SEEZ 39-B5 ANSWER IS SEVEN
B9 also exists – see Virgin OVED 135 (1985) below (bottom)
Variant 2
Label profile: flat with 32mm ring
Plated by Eddy Gorecki at Gedmal Galvanic, Leicester. Lacquer cut by Arun Chakraverty at Master Room, London W1, pressed by unkown.
Runouts:
A-Side: SEEZ 39 A-1 EG ARUN – TAKE AWAY THE NO. YOU FIRST THOUGHT OF / B-Side:SEEZ 39 B1 ANSWER IS SEVEN EG
Variant 3
Label profile: flat with 32mm ring
Pressed by MPO France.
UK labels with ‘MADE IN ENGLAND’ used on these pressings.
Variant 4
Label profile: flat with 32mm ring
Pressed by MPO France.
Textured sleeve.
Same as variant 3 but with ‘MADE IN FRANCE’ on labels.
Runouts (variants 3 & 4) – some have an X after ‘3’ on either or both sides:
A-Side: SEEZ 39 A3 ARUN TAKE AWAY THE NO YOU FIRST THOUGHT MPO / B-Side: SEEZ 39 B3 ANSWER IS SEVEN MPO
Variant 5
Label profile: flat with 32mm ring
Pressed by AGI (Disco France).
Textured sleeve.
‘MADE IN FRANCE’ on labels.
Runouts:
A-Side: SEEZ 39 A3 ARUN TAKE AWAY THE NO YOU FIRST THOUGHT MPO AGI / B-Side: SEEZ 39 B3 ANSWER IS SEVEN MPO AGI
Variant 6
Label profile: 74mm lip, 32mm ring
Lacquer cut by Arun Chakraverty at Master Room, London W1, pressed by Sonopress, Germany
Runouts:
A-Side: SEEZ 39 A-6 III Made in Germany TAKE AWAY THE NO YOU FIRST THOUGHT OFF ARUN / B-Side: SEEZ 39 B-6 ‘/81 Made in Germany ARUN ANSWER IS SEVEN
Variant 7
Label profile: flat, 32mm ring
Lacquer cut by Arun Chakraverty at Master Room, London W1, plated by Peter ‘PAG’ Lawrence and pressed by Linguaphone, Slough, Berkshire
Runouts:
A-Side: SEEZ 39A 8 PAG ARUN – TAKE AWAY THE NO YOU FIRST THOUGHT OF / B-Side: SEEZ 39B8 PAG ARUN – ANSWER IS SEVEN
See also:
Virgin OVED 135 (1985)
Virgin OVED 135 with barcode (1988)
In Print
Songbook
52-page songbook ‘KY 16437’
1981L01