Albums issued with different artwork than the original

Japan:



Everywhere else a year or so later:

 

Marvelettes "Smash Hits" hastily and shoddily repackaged a year later. Note the misspelling of the groups's name in the V2, fer cryin' out loud:

 

Weird - the US one didn't show up on the page for me. In case others can't see it too, here it is!

 

Another Best of George Harrison;


Beautiful South again;
This;

had to be changed to this cos of complaints.

 

Kim Mitchell "Akimbo Alogo" first pressings has him standing and holding a guitar. Later ones has him wearing a Ontario Provincial Police cap and lighting a smoke.

 

Renaissance - Ashes Are Burning

Here are some low res shots from the net. The original UK copy has the "smile" cover on the right. The US copy is on the left.

 

Has anyone mentioned Pearl Jam's Vs.? The LP and CD/ cassette had differing covers.

 

Bruce Hornsby And The Range. The first version with the light cover has a couple of different mixes too IIRC.

 

Aren't there also some different covers for Wish You Were Here?

 

Sonny Rollins, The Bridge.

 

The Mamas And The Papas original and censored covers of If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears on CD

 

Procol Harum

 

Dave Brubeck:

 

And the record club edition makes three:

 

It Ain't Easy

 

Counting just US copies...

Merry Christmas, mama...

 

I have never seen or known about that other cover. I love it.

 

My Favorite Peter Green

Original vinyl and CD

Though this is more of a variation than a totally different cover I was going to post The Who Tommy with the one that has the band images on the cover.

 

Did that original cover for "It Ain't Easy" actually make it out on to store shelves?

Tim

 

Regarding the Dire Straits example mentioned earlier, here is what the original LP of The Best Of The Wailers looks like:



And here's the CD:



As can be seen they changed the background color from white to beige, oversaturated the middle image, and they also edited the beverleys logo and the tracklisting size. Not really a different cover but it doesn't look the original.

Soul Revolution also got the treatment:

Original LP:



Rerelease by Trojan (which also meddles with the tracklisting a little).



This has to be the shoddiest cover Trojan has ever designed and makes you wonder why a new cover was even needed.

 

1985 release:

 

One more to add. The first cover was never actually released but was sent to websites when the album was up for pre-order.

Early cover:



Final cover:



I think the second cover is definitely an improvement as it's very reminiscent of the cover to their album Everybody Is Fantastic.

 

I didn't know about this, either--and it's one of my favorite albums ever!