Treasure - Album Covers/discussion

[Dave]

Hello everyone,

For Odyssey we had an album covers discussion thread so I thought it would be a good idea to start one for Treasure, too. We now know thanks to Roger that there will be two covers - one for the UK edition and another for everywhere else. The three UK online retailers to post the Treasure album cover most recently have shown the cover below. Only the first one - Crotchet - posted the Red Dress cover mentioned in the 3rd International album thread ... so I'm going for the one below as the UK album cover (wonderful photo, courtesy of Woolworths) . We shall see!

Cheers, Dave

PS there's now an even better cover photo at Amazon UK (thanks Katie!)

[Dori]

I'm in New Zealand and i really really hope that picture up there is the one we're getting. I really like it a lot!! Though the red dress is also nice, but i just like this one better. Don't know why though!
Dori

[roger]

When I first saw the "red dress" cover, I thought it couldn't be better. Then I saw this one! They are equally lovely and I am glad I'm not the one who has to chose! Of course, it raises the inevitable question, why does the UK need a different cover to everywhere else?

Roger

[Dori]

Yeah, why is that? I mean, for Odyssey, that new one wasn't realesed in UK until the next year. Everyone had that same blue cover with Hayley on the rocks in front of a beach. I don't understand why they have different covers for every regions...
Dori

[1littlegirl]

Maybe they decided to use both covers since they couldn't decide on just one! i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

I hope the US gets the one with Hayley sitting on the treasure chest. I really like that one a lot. i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif But both of the covers are very lovely though.

[Belinda]

Hi Everyone,
Last time the Japanese cover was different,although that cover is on my cassette copy of Odyssey,
This time its the UK,Maybe we are taking turns.

I don't mind which cover is on the CD as long as we get it, (and Quick) i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

Belinda

[Richard]

Hello everybody!

I like both cover photographs, so I'm not worried which one is on the UK version of 'Treasure'. I just want to get the album into my CD player! i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

Best Wishes,

Richard

[grant]

I think I've said before I think the album cover photo on this thread is awsome - probably the best I've ever seen.

AS a collector it probably won't matter which cover they use for which version. Even if the track listings are identical, I'll still get both!!

Grant

[jons]

I like the first one better.

[roger]

I think the first one is more eye-catching and therefore might leap out at you from the rack. I'll be ready to catch one if it does!

Roger

[postscript]

roger said:

When I first saw the "red dress" cover, I thought it couldn't be better. Then I saw this one! They are equally lovely and I am glad I'm not the one who has to chose! Of course, it raises the inevitable question, why does the UK need a different cover to everywhere else?

Roger

I entirely agree. It is rather like that 'alteration' of one extra song with 'All Angels' for the EU against 13 only for the UK. It is ridiculous. What ever one's views on the EU we are in the EU. If one is to keep separate then obviously the UK should have had the 14 tracks and the EU version (which one cannot seem to get in the UK which is in the EU) only the 13, then I wouldn't have wasted so much time pointlessly!

On this basis we should have a Scottish one and an English one, seeing that is the way the UK is currently wagging!?

Peter S.

[roger]

Hi Peter,

I don't want to focus on All Angels' CD on this board so I will attempt to respond to your point in general terms only. Let us assume that a14-track CD failed to qualify for inclusion in the classical charts due to the 60 per cent rule. The UK version would either need to add one classical track, or omit one non-classical track. That doesn't necessarily expain the variation in All Angels case; I use it merely to demonstrate that there is usual a reason of which we are often blissfully unaware.

However, reasons such as that can never explain the reason for two different covers. Er... can they?

Roger

[postscript]

roger said:

Hi Peter,

I don't want to focus on All Angels' CD on this board so I will attempt to respond to your point in general terms only. Let us assume that a14-track CD failed to qualify for inclusion in the classical charts due to the 60 per cent rule. The UK version would either need to add one classical track, or omit one non-classical track. That doesn't necessarily explain the variation in All Angels case; I use it merely to demonstrate that there is usual a reason of which we are often blissfully unaware.

However, reasons such as that can never explain the reason for two different covers. Er... can they?

Roger

Hi Roger.
Thanks for coping with my 'side-track' with 'All Angels' but as you obviously appreciated it was meant purely as a practical and recent example.

However, accepting your reasoning, which certainly seems rational, that WOULD explain different covers! How else could such distinction be easily made by 'mere carton humpers' in storage and despatching but by distinctive colour differences?

Okay, catalogue numbers, very small identifier in the event of a mix-up and no one in those areas takes notice of a difference of one track title in the back page list.

Plausible?

Peter S.

[roger]

Hi Peter,

Yeah, to easily distinguishing between two versions is certainly a plausible explanation except that the rest of the world will not all have the same version as one another. My guess is that there are likely to be at least 6 (not including Special Editions). So if that is the reason, there needs to be at least 6 different covers!

This is purely conjecture so please don't read too much into it. Steve said the UK version will have one cover and the rest of the world will have the other. I wonder if he meant UK, US, New Zealand, Australia, Honk Kong, Japan, Germany, etc will ALL have one cover and the International version (for everywhere else) will have the other? That *might* make a little more sense and so is probably completely wrong!

Roger

[kmsmith8]

Amazon.co.uk now has a picture of Treasure posted, which is of a better quality than the other ones that have been released.

Here it is:



Katie