Picture sleeves

[Freddy C]

They just don't look right on Jamaican singles, do they?

In these days of promo videos and enhanced CDs isn't there something that seems so right about a seven inch record in a plain white bag. It just seems more honest: you know you bought it because of the music contained in the groove.

Such a pure experience is becoming rarer in these times.

[rasadam]

[skitter]

Don't be silly, Fred. I have some very decent 7" in picture sleeves and many dull, boring discs in plain white sleeves.

Observer

[Freddy C]

skitter said:

... and many dull, boring discs in plain white sleeves.

Observer

Yes, I believe you're trying to shift some of these to 'suckers' over at Chapatti Mouth.

My Sheila Hylton 7'' has a picture sleeve but it wasn't pressed on the island.

[swedon]

there used to be (and prob still is) a number of secondhand recordstores in sweden that would´nt take the records you brought, unless they had printed covers. it used to be a pain trying to explain and make these people believe, that this was the way they came originally... however sweet the tunes you´d bring them, if not refuse them you´d get an offer based on the fact that the covers were missing... many stores in sweden that was selling all kinds of music on all kinds of formats, did´t have any reggae 7" for this reason.. ....as for myself, i like the plain white sleeves....you can always change one if its broken or trade for a nicer one if you want to give a tune some extra special treatment. i can do without printed covers with a picture of some butt ugly band or whatever.. i do like some printed ones tho.. like a few company logo sleeves...for instance, the one they used for the kunta kinte 7" comes to mind.

[Dadi Digi]

I only have a few I can think of right now. Millie Smalls "lolipop" and the Concious Brothers "Concious man" being another. Oh yeah and Bounty Killer's "Sufferah" 7" on special promo from VP. It comes in a picture sleeve.

[timp]

I want one of these:


from that man sf2030 again...

[skitter]

I have the Kentrick Patrick tune on Port O' Jam but I don't have any copies of this sleeve. I have a few sleeves printed with the Blue Beat logo plus hundreds of Jamaican sleeves like Red Dynamics, Federal, hundreds of the leopard skin Doctor Bird and Rio sleeves, S1 from the early 1970s and all those bright pink and blue sleeves that pre-releases came in. I have picture sleeves of acts like Jimmy Cliff, Culture, Steel Pulse, Matumbi, Janet Kay, Ini Kamoze, Knowledge, Tapper Zukie, Sugar Minott and many more. I'm indifferent as to whether a vinyl has a plain or picture sleeve.

Reel

[Freddy C]

I don't really mind picture sleeves - a great many of my non-Jamaican 7'' and 12'' have them and where one was offered, I do prefer to have it.

However, they are more impractical to care for than the plain white bag (which can be switched for a new one) and they represent to me (to a certain extent) the over-packaged, heavy on the promotion, style over content era that we live in, where you can hardly get a track played by the media if it doesn't have a video to accompany it.

When, as is almost always the case with Jamaican singles, you don't get a picture sleeve, I find that I don't actually want one, whereas if I have a British 7'' without a sleeve but the first half of the run came with one, I feel that something is missing.

[timp]

Now I think about it there is at least one Dennis Brown Jamaican picture Sleeve on Joe Gibbs (and probably many others too).

To be honest it's a bit of a relief that most Reggae 7"s don't have picture sleeves - it would just be a pain having to look after the things, worrying about tears and creases and even more boring threads on message boards about ebay ("wrong sleeve on my Shaka Killer").

I like die cut sleeves though. Still I'm happy enough looking at the things on websites...without having to worry about looking after them:



(both of the above taken from DanceCrasher - scans provided by the might Al Kaatz)

[dudley1ne4]

this is always a sight for sore eyes. ;D

[dudley1ne4]