The bane of all professional artists, creation of "unofficial" releases. Those that are not released through official channels and the artist receives no payments.
This CD is one of those beasties, but funny enough some people collect these things ....
"Unofficial" "Bootlegs" or "Unauthorised" are all rip offs, some low-life is cashing in on the success of an artist, the record labels cutely call it "depriving the artist of income" - so lame!
It is STEALING!
WARNING: this copy has MARGINAL media - please read the description entirely!
KYLIE MINOGUE - Fever UNOFFICIAL (20 Track release!)
No Label Indicated
Cat# MTV-3584
Maxtrix code: KYLIE MINOGUE
NOTHING ELSE (No IFPI etc ... not really surprising, the pirate isn't going to tell you who pressed the CD!)
2001~2002 (approximation)
CD case, front cover and rear insert are in very good condition.
Compared to the official release there are substantial differences in the printed material e.g square panel on the front cover (that is not a sticker), catalogue number on the front cover, graphics look "over-exposed" - that is one very brown/red Kylie! Inside the cover is monochrome, white horizontal lines on the inside front and rear panel, no credits to any record company, the artist or producers etc AND the track listing on the rear is incorrect. Shows a Track 21, well there ain't one! I checked a few things and this CD has only 20 tracks, not 21 (see below for the song titles) and finally the screen printed/pressed CD is a simple Pink graphic on a white background.
CD media is in good MINUS condition, visually inspected and I can see quite a few light ~ medium scratches across the data area. I gave the CD a good manual clean and then played it on a couple of my studio CD players and read off the datastream errors while listening intently to the CD. I had a hiccup (the laser lost its way in Track 16 BUT then found the spiral again and all was good). Gave it yet another good cleanup and this time, NO problems with playback at all. Datastream error rates were higher than normal (non-audible as automatically corrected) so the listening audio was fine. NO glitches, NO eeeeeee sort of rubbish, just Kylie singing her heart out! I double checked the TOC as the printed material indicated 21 tracks but there are definitely only 20 tracks on this pressing.
In the end, this is really only offered for the collector of all things Kylie and it may well be that the new owner may just want the printed material, already having a CD in better condition.
TRACKS: More More More, Love At First Sight, Can't Get You Out Of My Head, Fever, Give It To Me, Fragile, Come Into My World, In Your Eyes, Dancefloor, Love Affair, Your Love, Burning Up, Tightrope, Spinning Around, On A Night Like This, Kids (With Robbie Williams), Light Years, So Now Goodbye, Please Stay, Under The Influence Of Love, I'm So High
NOTE: the inter-track gap is noticeably longer than a "standard" release, most being approximately 3 seconds, this can trick you into thinking the CD has stopped playing!
