Difference between revisions of "The Garden Of Delight (LP)"

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A studio bootleg LP that was released by a Australian manufacture over this decade in various editions.
Like its more recent American fraternal twin Light And Shadow it contains mainly demos from from the First And Last And Always era.

Release Notes

• Label: Dark World Music

• Catalogue#: GOD 01

• Format: 12" vinyl LP

• Released: 2014 Australia

General remarks

• The labels of all the editions show the white head and star logo on black background

with "SIDE A/B" respectively printed in also white letters below.

• The basic image of the artwork on the cover front shows a band photo taken in 1984 at Leed's cementery.

The design of the sleeves changes slightly from one edition to another, but keeps this images as the main theme.

• Back cover notes, beside the album title, the band's name and the track list:

STUDIO DEMOS AND OUTTAKES 1984

ANDREW ELDRITCH-VOCALS

WAYNE HUSSEY-GUITAR/VOCALS

GARY MARX-GUITARS/VOCALS

CRAIG ADAMS-BASS

DOCTOR AVALANCHE-DRUMS

DARK WORLD MUSIC

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

• A much older 7" bootleg with a similar name does exist as well.

• The content of the album is identically to the second record of the more recently released 2LP bootleg Serpents Kiss.

Sources

• The versions of the songs presented on this bootleg were mainly taken from the Strawberry Sessions in 1984.

Editions

The LP was released in four editions.

First Edition

• Issued in 2014
• Released in three different vinyl colours: green translucent, orange with black ink spots and grey marbled.
• This edition was limited to 75 copies, 25 each colour.
• The vinyls are housed in a black generic cover with two stickers centrically glued to it on each side.

The back cover sticker shows additionally to the common notes of all the releases a white field for the numbering:

LIMITED EDITION _____ /75 COPIES

Second Edition

• Made in 2015
• Released in four different vinyl colours: green translucent with black and yellow smoke, orange with black ink,

grey marbled and plain white.

• This time the album was limited to 100 copies, 25 each colour.
• It comes in a more sophisticated black and white picture sleeve, using the same art works,

but filling up the whole 12" surface. The additional notes on the back cover state:

LIMITED EDITION _____ /100 COPIES

• There was a CD with the same content added to the first copies that were sold.

Third Edition

• Released in 2016
• Exists in four different vinyl colours: green translucent, orange with black ink spots and gray marbled and plain white.
• The cover is a white generic one and comes with a 12" inlay that merges the front and back cover artworks of the second edition.

Allthough the design is very similar it differs in the size of the semi-transparent head and star logo.

Also the back ground colour is changed to white.

• There isn't any numbering included.

Fourth Edition

• Published in 2017
• It was made in six different vinyl colours: green translucent, orange with black ink spots, gray marbled, clean white and two new colors:

purple marbled and gold brown (caramel) with black ink spots.

• The cover is nearly identical the one of the second edition, but it was printed with a blue filter.
• This edition is not numbered either and contains the insert of the third edition.

For recent price developments of all these editions see popsike/The Garden Of Delight.

CD Edition

Track List

Additional Pictures

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