ColourboxColourbox

Label:

4AD – CAD 508 CD

Format:

CD , Album

Country:

UK

Released:

Genre:

Electronic

Style:

Synth-pop

Tracklist

1 Sleepwalker 2:15
2 Just Give 'Em Whiskey 4:19
3 Say You
Written-ByU-Roy
3:58
4 The Moon Is Blue 4:37
5 Inside Informer 4:24
6 Punch
ProducerBob Carter
Written-ByM. Young*
5:01
7 Suspicion 4:27
8 Manic
Guitar [Solo]William Orbit
2:26
9 You Keep Me Hanging On
Written-ByHolland/Dozier/Holland*
5:38
10 Arena
Mixed ByHugh Jones
TablaChris Karan
4:23
11 Edit The Dragon 2:20
12 Hipnition
Instruments, Written-ByIan Robbins
3:29
13 We Walk Around The Streets 0:24
14 Arena II 5:03

Companies, etc.

  • Recorded AtPalladium Studios
  • Recorded AtGuerilla Studios
  • Recorded AtRooster Studios
  • Recorded AtMaison Rouge
  • Mixed AtGuerilla Studios
  • Mixed AtRooster Studios
  • Mixed AtMaison Rouge
  • Mixed AtR.G. Jones Studios
  • Engineered AtPalladium Studios
  • Engineered AtGuerilla Studios
  • Engineered AtRooster Studios
  • Glass Mastered AtNimbus

Credits

  • Design [Insert Design]23 Envelope
  • Engineer [Guerilla]Rico*
  • Engineer [Palladium]Jon Turner*
  • Engineer [Rooster]John Madden (6)
  • InstrumentsS. & M. Young (tracks: 1 to 11, 13, 14)
  • ProducerMartyn Young (tracks: 1 to 5, 7 to 14)
  • VocalsLorita Grahame
  • Written-ByS. & M. Young (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14)

Notes

This is the original CD release from 1986 so is a NIMBUS pressing, does not have SID codes on the disc and there is no barcode on the artwork. Some copies have jewel case sticker: "5 01443 650802" / "5014436508028" scanned.

Packaged in a standard jewel case with a 6- folded insert. Track durations are not printed on the release.

Tracks 1-10 from Colourbox LP and Tracks 11-14 from Side A of Colourbox (Bonus Mini-LP) all which are on Colourbox

Recorded at Palladium, Guerilla, Rooster and Maison Rouge.
Mixed at Guerilla, Rooster and Maison Rouge.
Engineered at Palladium, Guerilla and Rooster.
Track 10: Mixed at R.G. Jones.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • SPARS Code: A·A·D
  • Matrix / Runout (Variant 1): CAD 508 CD : MASTERED BY NIMBUS
  • Matrix / Runout (Variant 2): CAD 508 CD :: 1:3 MASTERED BY NIMBUS
  • Matrix / Runout (Variant 3): CAD 508 CD :: 1:8 MASTERED BY NIMBUS
  • Matrix / Runout (Variant 4): CAD 508 CD : NIMBUS ENGLAND
  • Matrix / Runout (Variant 5): CAD 508 CD · NIMBUS ENGLAND
  • Matrix / Runout (Variant 6): CAD 508 CD : 1:6 MASTERED BY NIMBUS

Other Versions (5 of 32)

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Title (Format) Label Cat# Country Year
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Colourbox (Cassette, Album, White shell) 4AD CAD C 508 UK 1985
Colourbox (LP, Album, Limited Edition, LP, Mini-Album) 4AD 302 672, 302 672-620 1985
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Colourbox (LP, Album) 4AD CAD 508 UK 1985
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Colourbox (LP, Album, LP, Mini-Album) 4AD CAD 508, MAD 509 UK 1985
Colourbox (LP, Album, Stereo, LP, Mini-Album, Stereo) Vertigo VOG-1-3356 Canada 1985

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Reviews

  • StanFREDO's avatar
    StanFREDO
    Seminal! Just months later they came back with "Pump Up The Volume" (help from AR Kane) and we never looked back!
    • Superenigmatix's avatar
      Superenigmatix
      Edited 5 years ago
      My version of this CD is disintegrating from the edges. Not bronzing like the PDO CDs but flaking where my fingerprints have been.

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