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jetengine · 09.02.2007, 08:10 AM

Yes!!! This is the sort of copy I have! Digital cameras (and various computer processes in general) tend to somewhat distort true colours--for example, making the SYR2 vinyl look more 'seafoam'- or 'aqua'-coloured in your first photo (and the Sister and EVOL vinyl more greyish and peachy than what they are purple and pink); but still, there can be no question, that's the colour vinyl my copy is pressed on. In normal house light, as I've said before, it looks almost identical to the shade of green that you associate with the Welsh flag and eisteddfodd wardrobes (the kind participating little girls traditionally wore). As anyone should plainly see, it in no way resembles the Experimental Jet Set-type blue of the usual copies you come across on discography and fan sites, ebay, etc.

So now I'm left wondering something else: those earliest copies of SYR2 we're always reading about in discographies, the ones supposedly pressed mistakenly on black vinyl, Could those actually be these green-vinyl copies? Could the writers of those discographies actually be referring to an original small first-pressing (accidental or intended), but simply got the colour wrong, and a legend about "the few copies on black vinyl" has grown up around this as a result? (Black as the colour of choice for such a legend may have been spurred on by the fact that the record's third and future pressings were on black vinyl.) I think it's at least plausible.

As for the origins of the coloured EVOL and Sister LPs, to the best of my knowledge, they were reissued in coloured editions circa 1990--I'm not sure about how large or small the press runs were, although I have a feeling it was fairly limited (you don't see these coloured copies in circulation much). In fact, if I'm not mistaken, I believe a large portion of all SST Records' 'classic albums' were reissued in limited coloured-vinyl editions at that same time.

Not the greatest and most revealing photo (courtesy of Chris Lawrence's site referenced above), but obviously a shade of blue far from resembling anything like the green copy Stu666 has so kindly photographed and posted:

Alright! I found a more revealing photo! From my perspective, this could be Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star with a different label on it--so blue it would be better suited to the Scottish flag than what it would the Welsh!

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09.02.2007, 08:10 AM	#11
jetengine children of satan Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 399	Yes!!! This is the sort of copy I have! Digital cameras (and various computer processes in general) tend to somewhat distort true colours--for example, making the SYR2 vinyl look more 'seafoam'- or 'aqua'-coloured in your first photo (and the Sister and EVOL vinyl more greyish and peachy than what they are purple and pink); but still, there can be no question, that's the colour vinyl my copy is pressed on. In normal house light, as I've said before, it looks almost identical to the shade of green that you associate with the Welsh flag and eisteddfodd wardrobes (the kind participating little girls traditionally wore). As anyone should plainly see, it in no way resembles the Experimental Jet Set-type blue of the usual copies you come across on discography and fan sites, ebay, etc. So now I'm left wondering something else: those earliest copies of SYR2 we're always reading about in discographies, the ones supposedly pressed mistakenly on black vinyl, Could those actually be these green-vinyl copies? Could the writers of those discographies actually be referring to an original small first-pressing (accidental or intended), but simply got the colour wrong, and a legend about "the few copies on black vinyl" has grown up around this as a result? (Black as the colour of choice for such a legend may have been spurred on by the fact that the record's third and future pressings were on black vinyl.) I think it's at least plausible. As for the origins of the coloured EVOL and Sister LPs, to the best of my knowledge, they were reissued in coloured editions circa 1990--I'm not sure about how large or small the press runs were, although I have a feeling it was fairly limited (you don't see these coloured copies in circulation much). In fact, if I'm not mistaken, I believe a large portion of all SST Records' 'classic albums' were reissued in limited coloured-vinyl editions at that same time. Not the greatest and most revealing photo (courtesy of Chris Lawrence's site referenced above), but obviously a shade of blue far from resembling anything like the green copy Stu666 has so kindly photographed and posted: Alright! I found a more revealing photo! From my perspective, this could be Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star with a different label on it--so blue it would be better suited to the Scottish flag than what it would the Welsh! [IMG]http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/ [/IMG]
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