Blast Off! CD cover

I'm listening to Blast Off! and got a question about the cover. Usually, there is a wooden background but my copy has a tiger background (yellow with black stripes). Anyone can explain this?

If my memory served me correctly Slim Jim Phantom said in an interview for German youth magazine "BRAVO" that it has been a missprint of 20.000 copies which will become a collector's piece...how right he was.

BB

WOW!! To think I didn't know when I purchased it.

*the sound of everyone running to their collections, flipping through record after record... have I got it?*

Well uhhh... I think I have it... I just woke up and am having trouble distinguishing between wood and tiger print....


Kid.

Oh wait...

So it's meant to look like this? -





But some look like this -




Mine is the second one... I never knew there was a different cover.. I don't really pay attention, I just listen to the record


Kid.

The bottom shot that Kid posted is the standard UK pressing, right? I have to admit that I have never heard the "missprint" story before. Very interesting!

So it's... not a misprint?.. Doesn't matter, I wasn't planning on ever letting mine go anyway


Kid.

TommyM wrote:

The bottom shot that Kid posted is the standard UK pressing, right? I have to admit that I have never heard the "missprint" story before. Very interesting!

Ahh. One more to looking for.

Both my CD and Vinyl LP are the "leopard skin".....

uk....

Dave

Thanks for starting this thread Ufopsi.
Of course I had to check my covers, one of each(vinyl). BUT when I took the one copy something fell out of the cover, low and behold an extra copy of the "Sexy & 17" shaped picture disc - didn't even know I had it.

I got my copy in Switzerland - and I swear I saw both versions.

My Blast Off cd is the "wooden" background BUT it is signed by Mr. Slim Jim Phantom

Cheers PP

Kid Setzer wrote:

Oh wait...

So it's meant to look like this? -





But some look like this -




Mine is the second one... I never knew there was a different cover.. I don't really pay attention, I just listen to the record


Kid.

I got both

i thought one was the europe release and the other was the states version?

Yours truly

Confusedabilly

The Yellow and grey tiger is the standard Uk copy, and i thought that the other colour/color was the US copy.
The new re-issue has the later.
Blast-off.

Mark.

When "Blast Off!" came out back in 1989 in Germany you could only get the "yellow" cover . But a few month later you couldn't get it anymore and the record stores had only the "wooden" cover. I have both of them and both are made in Holland.

In the begining (when I did not know about the "wooden" cover) I always thought the yellow one would be the right one altough the backside looked a bit unfinish to me. Even the tour promoters used the yellow background for the ads in magazines.

Later on I saw - for the very first time - the wooden cover as CD format and I bought it because I didn't had it yet...at this time I did not have any CD-player...but my second Stray Cats-CD.

Later on I read that article in a music magazine about the Stray Cats reunion which included parts of a Slim Jim Phantom interview and it goes:

"...in June the Stray Cats will play German stages again. Until then you have to listen to their album BLAST OFF!. Special gimmick: The first 20.000 copies has been delivered in a "wrong" cover which has been used by mistake und that doesn't have the right color combination."

BB

HI....I HAVE THE EUROPEAN VERSION,THE YELLOW ONE,AND THE USA VERSION...THERE'S ANOTHER DIFFERENCE.THE BACK OF THE EUROPEAN PRINT,WITH THE BIG STRAY CATS LOGO,IS ALL PINK,WITH THE CAT LOGO IN BLACK.THE BACK COVER OF THE USA VERSION, IS WHITE WITH THE COLOURED STRAY CATS LOGO.IS IT RIGHT?