Face The Music - ELO USA Issued 1975 -LP Discography

ELO - Face The Music USA issued 1975 - LPs and CDs.

Due to the size of the USA and various pressing plants around the USA, it is nearly impossible to collect and show all the different label variations. So instead, listed below are the main found issues of ELO's "Face The Music" LP album issues on LP & CD in the USA.

Single Releases

Evil Woman UA-XW729-Y

Strange Magic UA-XW770-Y

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Title

Face The Music

Format

Vinyl

Label

United Artists

Catalogue

UA-LA546-G

Issue Date

1975

Chart Position

Notes

First USA issue, with thick paper inner sleeve with printed lyrics & band photo.

There are 3 different main label variations.

Plus pressings with slight differences in text fonts used, gaps between the lines of text.

And a variation exists with the Jet Records logo on the LP label.

Title

Face The Music

Format

Vinyl

Label

United Artists

Catalogue

UA-LA546-G

Notes

A special banned Promo-LP UA-LA 546-G DJ without the track intros and Interludes were produced for the Radio Stations so the D.J.’s could play the songs directly.

"PROMO NOT FOR SALE" appears at the base of each label.

Track times are significantly different from the commercial release. On some copies the labels incorrectly have the standard track times from the commercial release.

With thick paper inner sleeve with printed lyrics & band photo.

Face The Music UA-LA546-G Sunburst Label

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Format

Vinyl

Label

United Artists

Catalogue

UA-LA546G

Re-Issue Date

1978

Notes

Re-issue in 1977 by United Artist with a "Sunburst" label design, with paper inner sleeve with printed lyrics.

There are at least 3 different label variations.

Plus slight differences in track/publication credits, text fonts used, gaps between the lines of text.

A T-Shirt flyer was often included with the first United Artists & Jet Records re-issues.

Format

Vinyl

Label

Jet Records

Catalogue

JZ 35527

Re-Issue Date

1978

Notes

Re-issue in 1978 by Jet Records with a paper inner sleeve with printed lyrics.

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Format

Vinyl

Label

Jet Records

Catalogue

Promo JZ 35527

Re-Issue Date

1978

Notes

Promo re-issue in 1978 by Jet Records, it came with paper inner sleeve with printed lyrics.

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Face The Music JZ 35527 Promo Side 1.jpg

Face The Music JZ 35527 Promo Side 2.jpg

Format

Vinyl

Label

Jet Records

Catalogue

PZ 35527

Re-Issue Date

1981

Notes

"Nice Price" re-issue in 1981 by Jet Records, plain white inner sleeve, no lyric sheet.

Later issues had a bar code on the rear cover.

Format

Label

Jet Records

Catalogue

ZK 35527

Re-Issue Date

1987

Notes

"Nice Price" CD issue in 1987 by Jet/CBS records, with lyric booklet including band photo and track list.

1st issue CDs used by mistake the DJ Promo Master Tapes without the track intros and Interludes which were produced for the Radio Stations so the D.J.’s could play the songs directly !

Track times are significantly different from the commercial release.

You could not see a difference on the sleeve and label, you have to listen to the CD !!

There are two later issue from around 1990 - 1994 that have the DIDP code printed on the CD below the Cat. No. ZK 35527

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Face The Music ZK 35527 Later 1990 - 1994 Issue CD

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Format

Label

CBS MasterSound

Catalogue

ZK 57184

Re-Issue Date

1993

Notes

Re-Issue 1993 - 24 karat gold compact disc in jewel case with outer card slipcase and fold out booklet with lyrics and LP inner sleeve images.

If you start playing the CD and then press the reverse button there is a "pre-gap" area before track one ("Fire On High") so that you can hear the backward-masked spoken introduction "unreversed".