Ultravox – ‘Systems of Romance’ Jap mini LP sleeve (Island/Universal, UICY-93075)

The third and final one of these Island-era Ultravox mini-LP sleeve issues (sadly, there wasn’t one for the 1980 ‘Three Into One’ compilation, which would have made it a nice set).

^ Front sleeve and insert designs, front cover of the booklet, CD label

Like the other two, this CD is as per the UK re-issue from 2006 in its musical content, so as well as the ten original album tracks it features two bonus tracks – ‘Cross Fade’ (from the B side of the ‘Quiet Men’ single) and ‘Quiet Men’ (Full version).

^ Back sleeve and insert designs, back cover of the booklet and CD label design again

The sleeve design is reproduced faithfully, even on the same high-gloss card stock as the original vinyl album – and the inner sleeve is also shrunk down perfectly too. Once again there is an additional Japanese info and lyric booklet – the front cover features the ‘Slow Motion’ single sleeve design in full colour, while the rear of the booklet features the front sleeve design of the ‘Quiet Men’ single – the middle pages centrepsread feature one of John Foxx’s collages, you can see this in the picture below. There is also the outer ‘obi’ band (the reverse of which is shown in the pic below, you can see the front in a previous post that shows all three albums together). The label design is pretty similar to that of side one of the original album label design, but doesn’t include any of the track listing. Note, this is different to the UK CD re-issue, which used the album cover design instead on the label.

^ Booklet centrespread detail

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