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Artist: The B-52's
Title: Wild Planet
Format: 12"
Label: Island Records
Cat No: 202 587
Released: Aug 1980
Country:
Genres: New WavePost-Punk
Status Have
Added To List 22nd July 2025
Disc 1 | 12"
No Notes 
A Matrix:
S 202 587 A  
B Matrix:
S 202 587 B  

Additional Information

Comments Comes with a black and blue coloured inner sleeve. Cat# on sleeve is printed upside down.
The first 15.000 copies came with a "B-52's" patch.


Label differences in writing for these track titles:
A3: Running Around
B1: The Devil's In My Car
B3: Strobelight

Recorded at Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas, 4/1980.
℗ 1980 Island Records, Inc.
Ariola-Eurodisc GmbH., München

Im Ariola-Vertrieb
Printed in Western Germany by Mohndruck Graphische Betriebe GmbH, Gütersloh.

Cat# on labels: 202 587
Cat# on sleeve rear and spine: 202 587-320
Cat# on inner: 202 587/96 826

No bass clef on label side B.

German releases without a barcode:
[r167498] with the bass clef, Im Ariola Vertrieb.
[r5927193] with price code -270, Ariola Group of Companies.
[r3379233] with price code -320, Ariola Group of Companies.

German releases with a barcode:
[r7226875] with price code F: RC250
[r702726]: with price code F: RC330

Sonopress: (runout and year):
(i) Stamped additional Roman numerals I, II, III etc. appeared around 1981.
(ii) The "bass clef" symbol, usually embossed on the B-side centre label (was introduced in spring 1981).
Means: Although the absence of bass clef does not necessarily mean 1980, this seems correct here. "Around 1981" can also be 1980. So all versions with the bass clef are a repress or reissue.
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