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    My DSoTM is marked with the Harvest logo. It cost �9.99.
    
    What difference is represented by the logo?

    
    The US issue is on Capitol.  Supposedly the UK Harvest issue has
    better sound.  Why they have separate masters for CDs in different
    countries I'll never understand.....
    
    Now if they would only issue the old German SQ mix on CD...8^) 
    8^)  8^)  8^)  8^)  8^)
    
    

    Just to add to the confusion (?), there appear to be at least 2
    pressings of the Harvest CD.  I picked mine up quite a while ago,
    and it is black on top with silver lettering.  I recently saw a
    newer version, and it is a silver platter with black lettering.
    
    Maybe the older, black one is worth $150 (hope, hope)?
    
    -- Benn

    Have other  Pink  Floyd  CDs  from Harvest increased in value as well. I
    have  "The  Wall" from Harvest, and there is a big difference between it
    and the US (Columbia?) version that a friend of mine has.

    BTW: In  an  earlier  note, there was a controversy over whether EMI and
    Harvest  were the same. My DSotM has both Harvest and EMI printed on the
    label.

    marty

    re -.1
    
    Mine has Harvest and EMI printed on mine also, but it looks like
    the EMI stuff is just copyright stuff.  Is yours silver with black
    writing?
    
    Give it up Benn, the silver CD's with black writing are ECO CD's.
    Clearly sound better and are worth more :-)
    
    Brett. 

  While I was out shopping for a CD player just over a year ago
a Salesman told me of his months of hunting for the ultimate
"Dark Side of The Moon" CD..
  Apparently there is a Japanese Import which is supposed to
be Far superior to that of the U.S. or U.K. Import versions..
Costly though; It was about 50% more than the usual Domestic cost...

    
         This seems to be a good spot to add this.  I don't know if
    this has happened to anyone else....But, for Christmas I received
    Floyd's  "Dark Side of the Moon"...Capitol release....I put it in
    the disc player..Sat back....and.......I got Joan Jett and the 
    Blackhearts.  Not EVEN trying to do PF. ;-*).....I moved up a couple
    of tracks.....Same thing.....JJatBH's.......Has this happend to
    anyone ???
    
    John
    

    I had a similar experience last year (in fact there is probably a note
    in here on it).  I bought Tears for Fears "Songs from the Big Chair"
    and got Bryan Adams.  Probably just a production glitch caused a disk
    to be mislabled.  I exchanged the disk for the one I wanted with
    absolutely no problems. 

    There have been a number of incidents of discs being incorrectly
    labelled and packaged.  The first I heard about was when a number
    of people played what they thought was going to be Lawrence Welk,
    and got the Sex Pistols instead.
    
    

    RE: wrong disk.
    
    I'd save the disk.  Could be a collectors item one day.  One can
    never tell what people are willing to pay for a few years down the
    line.
    
    Kenney
    

    re .7
    
    Was the disc itself marked as Pink Floyd or as Joan Jett?
    
    Don

    
    re:-1
    
         The disc itself *was* labled as Dark Side of the Moon.....
    
    John
    

    I've listened to both the US and UK versions this year.
    
    No difference at all to my philistine ears... (My Harvest has black
    writing on a silver platter)... still better than my somewhat beaten
    up 4th vinyl copy of DSoTM.
    
    Andy

    This note got me curious so I checked out my copy of DSoTM.  It
    is a Harvest with silver lettering and a black backround and it
    was printed in Japan.  Now is this 'one of the good ones'? 

    George

    RE: 14

    That's the  one I have as well. Black with silver writing. My "The Wall"
    is also from Japan and black with silver writing.

    Marty

    I would love to have Sex Pistols with Laurence Welk label :-)
    
    On Dark Side of Moon versions, I am confused. What are the difference
    in digital masters. I suppose the dynamic range could be lost due
    to  A/D conversion or some odd digital weighting could have been
    used or range or whatever. Does anybody have an answer or a pointer.
    
    Thanks,
    
    Les 

    The Harvest issues used to be fairly plentiful in the US before
    Capitol and CBS squared up the CD rights in the US. One can still
    find them by looking hard (I found the Harvest issue of MEDDLE
    just a few months ago, for example). They normally aren't any more
    expensive than the average UK import.
    
    re:.6
    
    I bought the Japanese (EMI label) DSotM back when I first started
    buying CD's. At the time, I only paid $22 (this was when the average
    price for new domestic CD's was $17-19). I've not done any A/B
    comparisons myself, but everything I've read about the different
    issues is that the Japanese is superior to any other. I could
    believe that *this* is the one that's going for $150.
    
    I've also heard of an MFSL issue that is supposed to be excellent.
    
    --- jerry

    My flatmate bought Roxy Music's Avalon, which turned out to be Phil
    Collins No Jacket Required.  He wrote into a CD magazine to see
    if this was/would be worth anything, but they said it was doubtful.
    

    
    
       check this out......Mobile Fidelity has released
    
         Pink Floyd____Dark Side Of The Moon
    
      on a (get this) 24k Gold (plated) CD..........and the sound is
    SUPERB!!!  it makes the U.S. cd sound like an echo.....
    
          it's on HARVEST and is made in JAPAN. also comes with a neat
    case that actually lifts the cd out of the case for you.....
    
                 all for only $26.99
    
    
                                               _Charlie_