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Looking At Blue wrote:

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montichka wrote:

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You know, it had never really ocurred to me that, despite the glut of early collectable stuff from various countries, there were never any Norwegian-only releases of singles covers etc.

Surely Norway is such a small market, with less than five million people, that no such things would have been made.

That's very true. There were early Swedish-pressed releases, certainly of Wuthering Heights and The Kick Inside, though. Of course they do enjoy almost twice as large a population, and a bigger international profile. I don't recall ever seeing Swedish-specific pressings of anything else though, despite this being several years before the standard Euro-editions were common.

In the very beginning it seemed that many countries releasaed their own domestic pressing of Wuthering Heights: there are differently-sleeved versions from UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Portugal, USA, various South American countries (including some on 4 track EPs), Japan (as a b-side to Moving, presumably due to the a-side's runner-up position at the Tokyo muisc festival) and several others, albeit without picture covers, as well as several highly collectable and distinct pressings of The Kick Inside (the bizarre Uruguayan-only version, anyone?). Nothing specifically Norwegian though. It made it ever so interesting to collect all the different versions, some with just minor differences, others with completely different pictures. Those days are long gone, of course. We were lucky to even get a physical release of just the one single from Aerial, and even that wasn't universally available.

Monty x