Talk:Teenage Angst

Teenage Angst - Cover (front)

A 12" vinyl bootleg that features selected live cuts, quotes and snippets of interviews with Andrew Eldritch
recorded during the early 1980s.

The distibution of this item was organized in an unprecedented way totally different from other bootlegs
by then. A quiz about The Sisters of Mercy was added as an inlay for the bootleg. Using the services
of modern internet sites, in first place the crowdsourced database Discogs, web users could obtain
one copy for free by answering the questions in the quiz correctly.


Release Notes

• Label: rhay creations

• Catalogue#: rhay 13

• Format: 12" vinyl LP

• Released: 2018

• Production Note: Lathe Cut

Remarks

• Strictly limited to 20 copies, not numbered.

• The vinyl is clear and fully transparent.

• The labels show a dark cloudy landscape with the word "MASTERPLAN" in big, white letters

across the middle and the catalogue# in smaller, but also white letters below.

Both labels are identical and give no information about the actual side of the record.

• The cover consists of a generic white sleeve with square prints glued to it.

• On the cover front, this print shows a black and white image of the scupture "Cloak of Conscience"

by Czech painter and sculptor Anna Chromý, a motive the artist widely elaborated in her work.

Above and below this print appear the bootleg title and the band name in capitals;

the letters are printed with a lacquer-like paint that is haptically perceivable at a touch.

• The print on the cover back gives the bootleg title, the track list and the bandname.

• The bootleg comes with a black ribbon holding a black envelope to the cover.

The envelope is sealed with white sealing wax and contains a dedication postcard,

a letter and the rhay creation mail order sheet.

• The vinyl is stored in a thick printed inner sleeve and is accompanied by an additional inlay.

• The catalogue# got messed up. The labels note correctly "rhay 13", just as in the mail order form,

but the postcards, the inner sleeves and the inlays state wrongly "rhay 15" as the catalogue#.

The Quiz

These are the questions and their solutions that compose the four letter code:

• The first letter of the second word that Andrew says just at the beginning of the gig in Nijmegen, Spring Tour 1984?

Andrew says "Hello there", so the letter is "T". You can proof it on this site.

• The tenth letter of the name of the first 12" bootleg of the Sisters Of Mercy ever, released way back in 1984?

It is the Psychedelic Session LP, so the letter is "I". Look it up on this site.

• The fourth letter of the run-out groove on side A of the Anaconda 7" (the additional word to "A PORKY PRIME CUT")?

The Word is "NOTHING", so the letter is "H". Check it on Discogs.

• The letter after the hyphen in the number of years of "Ever after ever more more more" at the 2nd gig ever in Stockholm?

Andrew sings at this concert twenty-six years, so the letter is "S". You can read it on this site.

• Accordingly, the four-letter code solution is: T-I-H-S (or S-H-I-T written backwards).

The worldwide distribution finalised this way:

Country    Number of copies        Germany     7 England     2 France     2 Spain     2 Austria     1 Belgium     1

Country Number of copies Finnland     1 Italy     1 Sweden     1 Switzerland     1 USA     1 Worldwide        20

Track List

    Side 1

Intro title	Source of the intro	Song title	Duration	Source
Intro	Excerpt from the radio broadcast       "Andrew Eldritch Presents      His Top Tunes" on BRT2 in 1984	A1  Some Kind Of Stranger	5:43	Lyceum, London, England    on Monday, March 25th, 1985
The Sisters And The Stones	Part of an interview with Andrew    Eldritch in July 1984	A2  Gimme Shelter	5:58	Kolingsborg Club, Stockholm, Sweden    on Friday, May 17th, 1985
Get Sensitive!	Quotes from the same concert	A3  Emma (Edit)	6:54	Het Doornrosje, Nijmegen, The Netherlands      on Tuesday, June 5th, 1984

    Side 2

Intro title	Source of the intro	Song title	Duration	Source
Collapse	Taken from a Belgium TV      interview of 1985	B1  Alice	3:13	Brixton Ace, London, England      Saturday, February 19th, 1983
The Reptile House Is Perverse	Snippet from an interview      realised in 1983 at the      American broadcasters WNYU	B2  Fix	2:43	Royal Albert Hall, London, England      Tue, 18-Jun-1985
Clocks	A short audio clip from the movie      "Withnail and I"	B3  Nine While Nine	4:20	Tiffany's, Newcastle, UK      Wed, 13-Mar-1985
We Are Not Gloomy	Quotes from the same concert	B4  No Time To Cry	4:23	Fenders Ballroom, Long Beach, USA      Thu, 30-May-1985
Barmherzigkeit	Quotes from the same concert	B5  Temple Of Love	4:20	Loft, West Berlin, West Germany      Tue, 30-Aug-1983

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