Selling England By The Pound 1994 CD booklet

**gingernut** · 04-14-2015

Just noticed that the booklet is a really unprofessional job, not befitting the marvellous music on the CD. The booklet starts with The Battle Of Epping Forest, prints half the lyrics then has After The Ordeal listed with more The Battle lyrics as if they belong to The Battle, followed by The Battle..continued. Cinema Show and Aisle Of Plenty follow. The second half of the booklet then starts with Dancing With The Moonlit Knight!!!

How on earth did such a shockingly bad botch job ever get through to production? More Fool Me for not rejecting this as faulty when I bought it. See what I did there?

**JJ88** · 04-14-2015

These have a variety of botches, sadly. 'Seconds Out' and 'Three Sides Live' for instance had the 'tracking' in the wrong place.

**PotatoSolution** · 04-14-2015

I still don't know what the "official" title of my favorite Genesis song is, because it's spelled differently on various editions it's appeared on. Is it "Carpet Crawlers", or "Carpet Crawl", or "The Carpet Crawlers", or ...?

**Proglodite** · 04-14-2015

The Crawling Carpets

**Dave (in MA)** · 04-14-2015

"And the lava's the lover who licks your boobs away." My Seconds Out booklet.

**bob_32_116** · 04-14-2015

Originally Posted by Dave (in MA)

"And the lava's the lover who licks your boobs away." My Seconds Out booklet.

The funny thing is, if that was a Gabriel lyric, you would not immediately pick it up as a misprint. It's quite in character for him.

With their bodies they test, touch, taste
All that is mine

**progeezer's ghost** · 04-15-2015

Originally Posted by gingernut

Just noticed that the booklet is a really unprofessional job, not befitting the marvellous music on the CD. The booklet starts with The Battle Of Epping Forest, prints half the lyrics then has After The Ordeal listed with more The Battle lyrics as if they belong to The Battle, followed by The Battle..continued. Cinema Show and Aisle Of Plenty follow. The second half of the booklet then starts with Dancing With The Moonlit Knight!!!

How on earth did such a shockingly bad botch job ever get through to production? More Fool Me for not rejecting this as faulty when I bought it. See what I did there?

I have both the Nursery Cryme and Selling England By The Pound reissues, and the lyrics are printed this way on both.

However, the lyric sheets for Foxtrot (reissued by the same label) are printed in order.

**olivetti** · 04-15-2015

the vinyl replica (japan) is correct!

**ItalProgRules** · 04-15-2015

Yep, I have that version, one of four of that title!

That booklet was completely botched.

As for sound, for my money, no version has ever come close to the perfection of the original vinyl.

**jeffo621** · 04-15-2015

Originally Posted by bob_32_116

The funny thing is, if that was a Gabriel lyric, you would not immediately pick it up as a misprint. It's quite in character for him.

Howzabout a song or two later:

Don't Delay. Dock the dick!

I'm pretty sure that I had a version of Nursery Cryme that didn't include Steve Hackett in the liner notes when crediting the bandmembers. Maybe Tony Banks had something to do with that?

**ronmac** · 04-15-2015

There's no excuse for such a lack of attention to detail. I'm a designer and there's not much that aggravates me more than that.

Originally Posted by olivetti

the vinyl replica (japan) is correct!

I have some Japanese vinyls of Beatles releases and the lyrics are quite hilarious. Apparently, someone was tasked with the job of transcribing them by ear. Even previously released classics, Like "Rock and Roll Music" were botched with lines like "So keep a rocking that piano" being printed as "So keep a rocking that beat I know." Really? Even if Lennon's singing is hard to discern, Chuck's original is quite clear.

**Halmyre** · 04-15-2015

Originally Posted by ronmac

There's no excuse for such a lack of attention to detail. I'm a designer and there's not much that aggravates me more than that.

I have some Japanese vinyls of Beatles releases and the lyrics are quite hilarious. Apparently, someone was tasked with the job of transcribing them by ear. Even previously released classics, Like "Rock and Roll Music" were botched with lines like "So keep a rocking that piano" being printed as "So keep a rocking that beat I know." Really? Even if Lennon's singing is hard to discern, Chuck's original is quite clear.

My favourite Japanese mistranslation is from Zepp's "Immigrant Song" - 'we are your overload'.

**ItalProgRules** · 04-15-2015

Pink Floyd's 'Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" is like that.

I have one CD booklet that has the line "Knowledge of love is knowledge of shadow" and another has it as "One inch of love is one inch of shadow..."

**GuitarGeek** · 04-15-2015

Originally Posted by ronmac

I have some Japanese vinyls of Beatles releases and the lyrics are quite hilarious. Apparently, someone was tasked with the job of transcribing them by ear. Even previously released classics, Like "Rock and Roll Music" were botched with lines like "So keep a rocking that piano" being printed as "So keep a rocking that beat I know." Really? Even if Lennon's singing is hard to discern, Chuck's original is quite clear.

From what I understand, they don't use "professional" translators. They just use guys who work in the office whose ability with English isn't really up to doing the task accurately. I imagine the use of literary devices like alliteration, slang, etc, makes the job probably difficult even for a pro.

There was a Blue Oyster Cult website a number of years ago that listed on the mistranslated lyrics in the Japanese editions of their albums.

**ronmac** · 04-16-2015

Originally Posted by GuitarGeek

From what I understand, they don't use "professional" translators. They just use guys who work in the office whose ability with English isn't really up to doing the task accurately. I imagine the use of literary devices like alliteration, slang, etc, makes the job probably difficult even for a pro.

There was a Blue Oyster Cult website a number of years ago that listed on the mistranslated lyrics in the Japanese editions of their albums.

Then there's this:

http://www.engrish.com/

All in good fun, folks.