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Sarge
07 Mar 2010, 15:30
Does anybody know why the album was released with a red cover in some countries and with a blue one in others?
Evil One
07 Mar 2010, 15:56
I thought one was the standard version and one had a couple of live tracks added on? I may be talking out my arse though.

No, I'm talking crap. Both UK releases were blue. Everywhere else was red. Maybe someone did some research and decided that British people buy more blue things than red?
wolfy35
07 Mar 2010, 17:05
I don't know if I'm mistaken but has it spmething to do with the name change? I have a copy of the artwork from when it went under the title Testify and that is in red I only ever saw it in blue under new title
Sarge
07 Mar 2010, 21:10
No, I don't think it has something to do with the name change. I have the ordinary German CD as well the two-disc special edition, the U.S. enhanced CD and one from Eastern Europe (Ukraine, I think). The German CDs and the U.S. release have red covers, the Ukrainian version has a blue one and contains an extra track (like the U.K. edition). All those CDs were released under the title Couldn't Have Said It Better.
samurai7
07 Mar 2010, 22:49
The Aussie one was red too. Uk one blue.
Vickip
07 Mar 2010, 23:16
Maybe it was just a marketing strategy by the record company :??:
duke knooby
07 Mar 2010, 23:20
SACD was red
RadioMaster
07 Mar 2010, 23:34
among others
AndyK
08 Mar 2010, 00:11
The vinyl's got a red cover ;-)
MeatLoafFanRay
08 Mar 2010, 00:19
The red cover looks the best imo. I've only ever seen the blue for sale in the UK. Since I like the red better I bought my copies from the USA. If I'm not mistaken the CHSIB single was red too as was Did I Say That.
carole
08 Mar 2010, 04:20
The red cover looks the best imo. I've only ever seen the blue for sale in the UK. Since I like the red better I bought my copies from the USA. If I'm not mistaken the CHSIB single was red too as was Did I Say That.

Yeah the Australian one was red and had the extra disc with live songs and was called CHSIB, but the CHSIB single I bought had a blue cover. I bought that European one with the extra disc but the videos never played, and I tried it on a few different DVD players, only 2 outa 3 played which was off Storytellers, which I had anyway.

Carole
RadioMaster
08 Mar 2010, 08:23
correct me if im wrong, but werent both versions featured in the ads and billboards? (both in one and the same ad I mean)
rocketwaveuk
08 Mar 2010, 18:13
I have both red and blue versions and the red is a hybred version for surround sound , and got the red t-shirt .
The Flying Mouse
11 Mar 2010, 20:49
The vinyl's got a red cover ;-)

:twisted: Really? :shock:

My vinyl copy has a blue cover.
Wario
12 Mar 2010, 02:43
:twisted: Really? :shock:

My vinyl copy has a blue cover.

Then you sir have a TREASURE :cool:
Sarge
13 Mar 2010, 01:34
I thought the only label who released it on vinyl was Polydor in Germany?
RadioMaster
13 Mar 2010, 08:59
:twisted: Really? :shock:

My vinyl copy has a blue cover.

cause you spray-painted it blue?
AndyK
13 Mar 2010, 20:19
cause you spray-painted it blue?

No, he's got confused with his Bucks Fizz collection :))