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Thanks Jay!! Awesome design! 💜

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Pretty cool! About the Mexican editions, the One by CBS Colubia was the original one. Then the Polygram versión was edites out around 87 when they took Over distributiion. The CBS versión of the LP was terrible. My parents took me like 3 times to the récord Store to exchange it as the stylus would skip on Synchronicity I at severa points

I have the one with Andy next to a woman exposing her breasts.

How's AXEL F? Anybody seen it yet? It gets OK scores on Rotten Tmtes, anyway...

Great video. I really wish I could track down how rare my cover is - I've tried searching and haven't seen it. Front: RYB-Sting/Andy/Stewart - Sting's upper-left is the Synchronicity passage. Any ideas?

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No we dont

I love the product placement!

I will. Oh incidentally, one other I picked up was a CRC copy, the one that has fuschia instead of red. I happened to notice that if it's placed in a dimly light area, it actually looks red!

@jimverdi7990 Hi Jim, you certainly have touched upon one physical attribute of the synchronicity albums which I purposefully have not really gotten into. These albums were often pressed on a special type of vinyl called KC-600 audiophile vinyl. A physical attribute of the material itself, as you mentioned, is translucent,….. despite looking like it they are black when not held to the light. When held to the light, some appear more purple and the other appear more brown. In my experience, perhaps 10 to 20% of them are brown while the remaining are purple however, I do not consider these to be color vinyl. They were not marketed as such, and again this is a physical attribute of the actual KC-600 material itself that came that way from the vinyl supplier…. It is interesting and cool to discover as a little surprise, though, I totally agree with you. And although I cherish seeing the brown ones as the ones that seem to be a little bit scarcer, I do not assign greater value to them because they are brown. I don’t think anyone else is doing so, either. 

Here is an interesting discussion about it… 
forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/share-your-records-pressed-on-secret-quiex-type-vinyl-not-colored-clear-vinyl.285211/page-10

Commented initially on your first video Jay. When you can, please get to checking the vinyl up to light. I'm curious

Jay, I've owned a copy of this album since it came out, and I only just heard about this last night from an acquaintance of mine who runs a local record shop. One detail you left out, (which goes into a whole different area) is the focus on the vinyl itself of each record. I held my record (what appears to the naked eye black vinyl), up to the light and BOOM! It's actually translucent purple! I NEVER knew it before he mentioned it to me, which drew me to watching your video, in hopes that you'd have touched base on it. Now, I'm very curious as to how many different colored translucent vinyl copies exist! Maybe you mention this in your part 2 video, which I haven't watched yet. I must say, I found your video quite enjoyable and it's nice to find someone else (like myself), who has such a high span of attentiveness to detail to be able to differentiate to the "average Joe". I hope somehow I can meet you some day. Thanks so much for the "variant" education and time you've spent on this album!

So cool man!!!

This rare soundcheck footage includes a fair amount of DELMAR with Sting!!! > ruclips.net/video/c0cGKAdyzPE/видео.html

where is that located in tokyo japan?

I thought there was only one!

Ok I think maybe I figured it out. It is a blended US #37 that is missing “Murder by Numbers” on side 2

I think I may have a version that isn’t in your collection, the order of color stripes matches that of the UK versions: yellow, blue, red on front and blue, red, yellow on the bottom. The front cover matches one of the black/white or bronze, silver, gold versions but it has the color stripes. It is also missing “Murder by Numbers” side 2 ends with “Tea in the Sahara.” Also the band members are mixed up in each of the front color stripes i.e. yellow has Andy, Sting, Stewart, blue has Andy and Stewart, and red has pictures of Andy, Sting, Stewart. It says A&M 1983. Also there is the butterfly on the back cover. Very odd. Let me know if you want to see pictures. I’m going to rewatch your video and see if it is in there but I don’t think it is. It’s close to #31 but there are differences in the images. I think it might be one of the missing 30s it is close to 31 but there are image differences.

Thank you! GREAT video!!

Photography by Duane Michals. 📷

Why were so many variations of this album made?

One of the best album cover concepts of all-time. Great work on the vid. The printers must've been like wtf crazy rock band lol Is there a way to know the rarity of each of the 38 US set variations there are? Great find on the A&M execs to get the band to sign it. Especially Sting. A Sci-Fi collector in the UK I knew rode a train in France sitting across (somehow) from Sting and his wife. He pulled out a Sci-Fi mag he just purchased with Sting in the movie Dune on the cover. He asked him to sign it. Sting said "That's not me". He replied something to the effect "Well whomever it is you resemble the bloke. Could you be so kind as to sign it." Sting and Trudy laughed so he signed it. 28:00 '4 Colour ' is also referred to in graphic design and printing as '4-Color process' or sometimes 'Full color process' meaning the 'CMYK' printing process. Cyan Magenta Yellow and Black. 'K' also meaning Keyline or Key Plate (less common) which is always the black plate. Most often used for type. Black also being used for 'Registration marks' that look like a crosshairs in a circle that appear off of the image area to align the CMYK plates. which are later cropped off. Ah it's all coming back to me. I don't want to tell you about Rapidograph pens, gauche, rubylith, rub down trnsfers and photostats lol Then came computers.

You could also refer to the last one as a 'comp' or 'comprehensive layout' (term we use in graphic design). Great videos of the covers.

Hey Jay - Went looking for a video to see all the versions, and OF COURSE the definitive breakdown was by you! By the way, I have the bronze/gold/silver one and the CRC one. (Is that the only one with the pink color?) Signed, your buddy with the clear record sleeves and Peter Hammill tapes.

Bizarre!!

OCD LOL

Hi again Jay. thanks for all your replies thus far. totally appreciate it very much. i went on ebay earlier to browse the synchro LP copies for sale and realized that the nude lady cover (front or back version) is not as rare as i had thought spotted quite a few copies with prices starting from 10usd. did not see any gold or b&w covers with the buy now option. also read a discogs commenter who mentioned that the b&w covers are due to a jacket printing error (due to no color ink in the printer?) but i doubt so. also found out through forums browsing that the brown vinyl version (when seen under bright light) is rarer than the purplish one. right now i just have 1 copy with the common cover and purplish vinyl. decided earlier that i will be going for 2 more copies with nude back and front and if im lucky to spot at nice prices the gold and b&w ones as well. lets see.

hi Jay i need to ask u smth. is the variant with the nude girl considered rare? how many variations of the 3 colour variants (red blue yellow in any order) has the nude girl. a friend told me its not super rare but rarer than the non nudes and mentioned the gold/brass ones are rarer as well as those b and w ones. those without the photos are rarer than dinosaur fossils EDIT: just saw your video again. out of the 36 colored variants 1 has the nude gal on the front while 1 has it on the back. i will consider this to be pretty rare. 🔎

I SUSPECT YOU HAVE THE MOST NUMBER OF VARIANTS OF THIS POLICE ALBUM IN THE WHOLE WORLD. SUPERB EFFORT IN COLLECTING ALL THESE

Man,what an amazing collection!!

I have three Klark Kent albums as well as those 45s. (I love the Office Talk (Office Giirls?) on kazoo!) I think I have all of those pins. I used to wear them on the lapels of my jackets, like every other new wave asshole in 1983! THanks for posting this. What a great collection.

Japan really doesnt like graff... the overwhelming amount of stickers instead of actual tags or pieces proves that...

My question would be: How Many of those albums doesn't have murder by numbers

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Good beginning intro into Dead music. You cats sound so much like Chicago it would be good to hear you do Only the Beginning by Chicago.The way they end the song is what i would've like to heard At Skull and Roses as the band was being rotated off the stage. Where are you cats playing nest?

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This is an invaluable video to any vinyl freak like myself. I was aware of the cover variations back when the album was first released, but I didn't think much of it. Had I cared at the time, I would've bought every version I could find. Interestingly enough, I bought my original copy in Overland Park, KS at Peaches Records. That copy was a yellow stripe on top with Stewart on the goat in the middle. I first watched this video about a year ago. Since then I've revisited it several times and about three months ago I decided to go down the rabbit hole and attempt to acquire as may variations as possible. I know I'll most likely never find the black and white copies, but I've managed to find all but three of the colored versions in three months.

This particular arrangement is NOT on their album... The album also slays...

누구나 세월을 이기는 장사는 없습니다 나이가 듦에도 아주 멋진 모습입니다 목소리는 예전이나 현재나 변함없는 Very good 👍

Very good seats! Although it's a real shame to SIT at a Sting concert...

I have the leftmost of the three buttons you showed. Pretty sure they sold those at the merch table during the Synchronicity tour, which I saw twice. Once in Hartford CT and once in Syracuse NY.

I came here because playing a video of the full album I suddenly noticed this Asian looking girl on the cover (left below on versions 26-28 in the previous video). I was curious who she was and wondered if there was some list of all the persons on the cover. Was she someone special, member of staff, Andy's girl-friend, a model, or ...? Trying to find out, knowing this was no Sergeant Pepper, I discovered the phenomenon of the variations (which explains why I never had noticed her on my own vinyl album cover from '83). Great job, but could you do another one on the pictures (should be far less work i guess)?

I just got a BRY "nude" blender, I could be wrong, but doesn't that one have some photos that don't appear on the others? like Andy with the nude girl, Sting profile with a human skeleton, and the weird Andy butterfly photo....Am I right? Congratulations on the awesome collection!

I really dig this and the album. I've been following since the shakedown video tease.