Why are two cover art versions of no Prayer For ??
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Topic: Why are two cover art versions of no Prayer For ??
Posted By: Alberto Muņoz
Subject: Why are two cover art versions of no Prayer For ??
Date Posted: February 10 2009 at 18:59
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Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: February 10 2009 at 20:19
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If memory serves, vinyl and CD have different covers. ------------- Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour) |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: February 11 2009 at 11:07
| I never saw the second one. Isn't it some kind of censured version? |
Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date 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 |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: February 11 2009 at 11:57
In France, I've never seen the second one on CD. |
King By-Tor wrote:Posted By: Lev
Date Posted: February 11 2009 at 12:16
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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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Posted By: b_olariu
Date 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. |
Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date 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?   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 |
Posted By: Ommadawn
Date Posted: February 11 2009 at 13:27
| 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. |
Posted By: EvilGnome
Date Posted: February 11 2009 at 13:41
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Prayer_for_the_Dying - Wikipedia has some info on the different album covers but doesn't really explain why...
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Posted By: Alberto Muņoz
Date Posted: February 11 2009 at 13:49
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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 ------------- |
Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: February 11 2009 at 13:51
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. ------------- Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour) |
Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: February 11 2009 at 19:35
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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. ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: February 12 2009 at 01:56
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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. ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42652" rel="nofollow - It's on PA! 
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Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: February 12 2009 at 02:29
actually this one is the original one
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