Filed under: 1990-1991 Cake | Tags: Hard-to-Find, Music, Promo, Trashcan Sinatras, Vinyl
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Here’s the very rare 12″ promo for debut single, ‘Obscurity Knocks’. A very simple piece with a big letter A on one side of the white labels – good effort Go! Discs.
The plain black sleeve comes complete with a promo label. And that’s about it really.
Except to say that the A side is inscribed with the legend, ‘Youthenasia’
1990 Go! Discs GODX34
Filed under: 1990-1991 Cake | Tags: Cassette, Hard-to-Find, Import, Music, Promo, Trashcan Sinatras
Here’s a cassette version of debut album, ‘Cake’, all the way from Bangkok.
There’s not much to say about it though. The tape and the inner J-card is much different from the regular release as you would expect. I can’t imagine it would have been released in any great quantities in Thailand.
Nice all the same.
1990 Go! Discs/Polygram Records 828 201-4 Follow @fivehungryjoes
Filed under: 1990-1991 Cake | Tags: Hard-to-Find, Import, Music, Trashcan Sinatras, Vinyl
Here’s the 7″ vinyl of debut single ‘Obscurity Knocks’ – all the way from the outback.
Identical front and back cover to the regular UK release with the exception of the London Records logo, whilst the centre labels are altogether, entirely different.
1990 Go! Records Ltd/Go! Discs 876 074-7 (Australia)
Filed under: 1990-1991 Cake | Tags: Hard-to-Find, Music, Trashcan Sinatras, Vinyl
From the outside it looks like the regular 7-inch release doesn’t it?
But you’d be wrong.
Slide out the vinyl and you discover that the B-side label is also the A-side label – I believe the man from the pressing plant got his P45 after this discovery.
I’m not sure if the A-side does in fact play ‘Only Tongue Can Tell’ – the old Dansette disnae work anymore – but I’m sure it does.
Anyhoo, a nice wee rarity – tiddely-om-pom-pom!
1990 Go! Discs Ltd GOD41
Filed under: 1990-1991 Cake | Tags: Cassette, Hard-to-Find, Import, Music, Trashcan Sinatras
2-track US cassette of debut single ‘Obscurity Knocks’, with ‘Who’s He?’ on side two.
Rarer than a big woolly mammoth.
1991 Go! Discs/London Records 869314-4 (US)
Filed under: 1990-1991 Cake, 1998-2003 | Tags: CD, Import, Music, Trashcan Sinatras
Everyone loves Cake, but I think I may have overdone it.
It wasn’t until I bought the new super-duper, hi-res, super high material version that I realised I have six copies of the debut album. Overkill maybe, but you can never have enough Cake right?
Included here are the US, Canadian, UK releases and three from Japan – two of which include six extra tracks.
Now, when is that new re-release coming out again?
From the top: 1990 Go! Discs 828201-2 (UK) /1990 Go! Discs 828201-2 (US) /1990 Go! Discs 828201-2 (Canada) / 2008 Universal Records UICY-91292 (Japan) / 1998 Polydor K.K./PolyGram POCD-1984 (Japan) / 1990 Polydor Records JASRAC POCD-1028 (Japan)
Filed under: 1990-1991 Cake | Tags: Hard-to-Find, Music, Trashcan Sinatras, Vinyl
From the outside it looks like the regular 7-inch release of debut single ‘Obscurity Knocks’.
But when you slide the vinyl out – voilà – no labels!
All very strange.
1990 Go! Records Ltd/Go! Discs GOD34
3-track 12-inch release of third single ‘Circling The Circumference’, backed with ‘My Mistake’ and ‘White Horses’.
The images are stills from the single’s video.
1990 Go! Discs Ltd GODX46 869-177-1
3-track 12-inch release of second single ‘Only Tongue Can Tell’, backed with ‘Useless’ and ‘Tonight You Belong To Me’.
Housed in a black inner sleeve.
1990 Go! Discs Ltd GODX41 886-993-1
Here’s the 4-track 12-inch version of debut single ‘Obscurity Knocks’ – a title which perhaps became a self-fulfilling prophecy for TCS.
The inner ring of the A-side is inscribed with the legend ‘Youthenasia’, and the title track is backed with ‘The Best Man’s Fall’, ‘Drunken Chorus’ and ‘Who’s He?’.
1990 Go! Records Ltd/Go! Discs GODX34
