Culture Club - Colour By Numbers

Tracklist:
A1 Karma Chameleon
A2 It's A Miracle
A3 Black Money
A4 Changing Every Day
A5 That's The Way (I'm Only Trying To Help You)
B1 Church Of The Poison Mind
B2 Miss Me Blind
B3 Mister Man
B4 Stormkeeper
B5 Victims


Culture Club - Colour By Numbers
Virgin • Europe • 1983 • Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo • Cat#: 205 730


Issued with a three/six-page fold-out insert with pictures and lyrics in blue monotone.
Some releases also included a 7-inch flexi-disc with Boy George interview.

Cat# 205 730 appears on labels & back cover, cat# V 2285 on back cover, spine & insert, cat# 97448 on insert only.
Cat# V 2285 can be misinterpeted as V2285.

[On back cover:]
[MC logo] TCV 2285 [url=https://www.discogs.com/release/2119835]405 730[/url]
Distributed by the Ariola Group Of Companies in the Benelux, France, Spain, Germany, Austria and Switzerland
produced [...] for Do Not Erase Productions
℗ 1983 Virgin Records Ltd
© 1983 Virgin Records Ltd

[On labels:]
produced [...] for Do Not Erase Productions
℗ 1983 Virgin Records Ltd
© 1983 Virgin Records Ltd
published by Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd
except [A1 & A2] Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd/Pendulum Music Ltd/Warner Bros Music Ltd

[Additional runout information:]
All runout variants are stamped, except the '020', Roman numerals and the cutter signatures which are hand-etched, "timtom-cbs" is very difficult to read, if at all.

Similar European versions:
- [r=2569007] has different labels
- [r=8526551] has different labels and runouts


Barcodes & Other Identifiers:
Matrix / Runout (A-side label): S 205 730 A
Matrix / Runout (B-side label): S 205 730 B
Rights Society: GEMA STEMRA BIEM
Label Code: LC 3098
Price Code (Germany): - 320
Price Code (France): AE 660
Price Code (Spain): - I
Pressing Plant ID (B-side, centre label, embossed): 'Bass clef' symbol
Other (Back cover, bottom right corner, debossed non-ink stamp): ◸◿
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 1): 205730 A-1 II timtom-cbs-london Made in Germany
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 1): 020 205730 B-3 TY-CBS-U.K. Made in Germany
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 2): 205 730 A-1 III timtom-cbs-london Made in Germany
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 2): S 205 730 B-6 020 TY-CBS Made in Germany
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 3): 020 S 205730 A-4 timtom-cbs-london Made in Germany
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 3): 020 TY-CBS-U.K. 205730 B-3 Made in Germany
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 4): 020 205730 A-1 timtom cbs-london Made in Germany
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 4): 020 S205730 B-5 Ty-cbs Made in Germany
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 5): 205730 A-1 II timtom-cbs-london Made in Germany
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 5): 020 205730 B-4 TY-CBS-U.K. Made in Germany
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 6): 020 205730 A-2 Made in Germany
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 6): 020 205730 B-3 III Made in Germany
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 7): 020 205 730 A-1 III timtom-cbs-london Made in Germany
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 7): 205730 B-3 Made in Germany 020 TY-CBS-U.K.
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 8): 020 S 205 730 A-4 II Made in Germany
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 8): 020 205730 B-4 TY-CBS-U.K. Made in Germany
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 9): 020 S 205730 A-4 II timtom-cbs Made in Germany
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 9): 020 205730 B-5 TY-cbs Made in Germany
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 10): 020 S 205730 A-4 timtom∙cbs Made in Germany
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 10): 020 S 205730 B-6 TTY cbs Made in Germany