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    Posted: February 10 2009 at 18:59
 
 
 
Difference should be obvious?


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Points: 7935 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2009 at 20:19
If memory serves, vinyl and CD have different covers.
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Points: 10841 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2009 at 11:07
I never saw the second one. Isn't it some kind of censured version?
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Points: 16111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2009 at 11:45
I believe the second one is the CD version, because that's the only one I've never seen
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Points: 10841 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2009 at 11:57
Originally posted by King By-Tor King By-Tor wrote:

I believe the second one is the CD version, because that's the only one I've never seen


In France, I've never seen the second one on CD.
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Points: 67 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2009 at 12:16
It's the re-release cover. No reason really, probably just to show the difference. Riggs proberly painted two versions and they were nice enough to use both.
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Points: 5536 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2009 at 12:28
No, the first one is the true one, the second is not on CD version, look at their official site, maybe is some kind of bootleg cover art if exists something like that. The first one is the original cover art.
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Points: 16111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2009 at 12:59
Bootleg? Then how come I have it as part of their official remaster series which I bought at bloody HMV? TongueWink

The Americas are known for being squeemish. Hell, to buy the correct cover for Motley Crue's "Shout At The Devil" you have to go to europe. This is probably the American version
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I've never seen the second one. my CD cover  has the first one. I also believe that it must be some sort  of censured version. it'd be nice to find out what's the true about this.
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Points: 709 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2009 at 13:41
Wikipedia has some info on the different album covers but doesn't really explain why...

Quote Two versions of the cover exist. The original 1990 version has Eddie bursting from his grave and grabbing the grave-digger by the neck. The cover was altered for the 1998 re-release. In this version the grave-digger is absent. The original cover can still be seen on the disc's label, however. Additionally an inscription was added to the plaque on the tomb, which reads After the Daylight, The Night of Pain, That is not Dead, Which Can Rise Again. The picture disc LP shows Eddie firing a weapon made of four machine guns (a reference to the album's opening track, "Tailgunner"). It has the original cover on side 2.
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Points: 3577 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2009 at 13:49

I have the first one (with the gravedigger) and the vinyl was color blue.

Also it came with a poster

maybe it's a collector item's




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Points: 7935 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2009 at 13:51
Originally posted by EvilGnome EvilGnome wrote:

Wikipedia has some info on the different album covers but doesn't really explain why...

Quote The picture disc LP shows Eddie firing a weapon made of four machine guns (a reference to the album's opening track, "Tailgunner").

I had an LP (after buying CD I gave LP to one of my friends) and it was something like "Eddie firing a weapon". Don't remember well, but it seems Eddie was painted on yellow background. Unfortunately I could not find that picture on the web.
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Points: 2822 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2009 at 19:35

The first Maiden album also had its cover redesigned when it was reissued.  They decided to make Eddie look the way he looks on all the other Maiden sleeves.

 
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Points: 6457 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2009 at 01:56
My guess is that they just thought that the grave digger looked kind of dumb and messed up an otherwise good looking cover. I like the re-release version better. (Possibly because that's the one I have and am used to.) The Number of the Beast remaster also has a bit different cover, the colours are darker. I think I've heard that that was the way it was supposed to be on the original release but the cover printing company messed the colours up.
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Points: 2531 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2009 at 02:29
actually this one is the original one
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