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The second of four Palazzograssi 7" vinyl bootlegs from the 1980ies ...

Victims Of Circumstance 7" Vinyl Cover Front

Victims Of Circumstance 7" Vinyl Cover Back

Release Notes

• Label: Palazzograssi Records Inc.
• Format: 7" vinyl single
• Catalogue#: VOC 7
• Released: 1987

Tracklist
Side A:

• Marian - Vocals by Marx featuring different lyrics and often referred to as Red Skies Disappear due to a line in the chorus
• Dance On Glass - Vocals by Hussey

Side B:

• Rock And A Hard Place - Vocals by Eldritch
• Garden Of Delight - Vocals by Eldritch

Source

• Strawberry Sessions 1984

Original Cover Notes

All Tracks Demo Versions

This is the second PALAZZOGRASSI PRODUCTION in a series of three. The first was "SILENCE IS PLATINUM", a limited edition box set of two 7" EPs and the third, which is scheduled for Spring 1988 is "REVERBERATION ACROSS THE NATION": a document of THE SISTERS OF MERCY show in Rome on 2nd May 1985. This will be a strictly limited edition of only 50 numbered copies, each with a complete SISTERS OF MERCY discography booklet.

"For the last time Rise & Reverberate" - THE PHANTOM TWINS

• Later on, a fourth Palazzograssi Production was in fact added to this series of 7" vinyl bootlegs: The Last Magician Of Rational Thought.
  

Mind: Three further bootlegs of the same title - but with more tracks - do exist:

• a cassette bootleg
• an Australian Bootleg CD
• a probably homemade bootleg CD

For recent price developments of available issues of Victims Of Circumstance 7" single see

• sistersbootlegs/Victims Of Circumstance 7" or
• popsike.com/Victims of Circumstance...
  

Remarks on released and unreleased issues

Releases, promos and test pressings

• The original was limited to 1000 copies, pressed on black vinyl, and had a numbered smooth sleeve

Originals on black vinyl with numbered sleeves that do have an additional print on the inside are also said to exist.

• As both Phantom Twins wanted to have the number 1 issue, two copies numbered 0001 were done.

• Allegedly, some promo copies of this original were manufactured. The sleeves of these are grey on the front instead of black,

they are not numbered and have some additional print on the inside. No information on how many of these were done

or distributed available so far.

• A further 500 copies were pressed, numbered up to 1500/1000

Test Pressing with Cover

• Later on, the single was reissued with a more stable, glossy sleeve and including copies on white vinyl.

Both (black and white vinyl) editions are allegedly not numbered, though numbered versions have been sighted.

However, although the cover states that the EPs were limited to 1000 copies, some owners of this record

have to note that the white box on the sleeve for the individual numbering is blank.

• Under catalogue# PG002 (instead of VOC7), a white labelled test pressing was done

the sleeve of which only a dull matt proof, without any lamination or numbering. This test

run consisted of two copies only. However, Palazzograssi were not content with the quality

of this pressing and chose for another pressing plant, hence the different catalogue#.

Cover Variations

Test proof in purple

Test Proof in light grey with red finish

According to our information, Palazzograssi experimented a lot with different colours for
the sleeve of this record. The following variations
were done but never got released or distributed:

• an unnumbered yellow test-proof for the original release to check the sleeve quality and to decide

about their final colour

• a further test-proof, this time in light grey with red finish and additional print on the inside

• another test-proof in purple

Gatefold Test Proof (Front)

Gatefold Test Proof (Back)

• a limited edition of 26 copies in gatefold sleeves numbered A - Z were envisaged as well.

Test-proofs were done, but the idea was abandoned later. These sleeves were, of course, not numbered.

The colour of the background print on inside of the gatefold is silver-metallic.

All kind of further (and reliable) information on all these tests and variations, including photos, are entirely welcome.

Additional Pictures

- please click into pictures for larger view -

Testproofs for non-gatefold covers (original blue and purple)

Victims Of Circumstance - with white vinyl