Talk:List of picture discs

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You know what would really make this page interesting? A nice tabular layout with a scan of each actual disc. Graham 03:06, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Isn't this page quite useless? There are so ridiculously many picture discs, it would be almost as hard to make a page "List of all records ever produced". This list will always be either mostly incomplete (which makes it useless) or unbelievably long. --222.1.132.122 14:08, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The same could be said of hundreds of 'list' articles on WP, why single this one out? If what you say is true, why are there only a few tens of entries on the page? I don't think there are that many picture discs around, as a fad it didn't last that long, and only the odd release made from time to time since. Graham 00:14, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
There are easily thousands of picture discs made, if not tens of thousands. In a scummy record store the other day, I randomly saw saw Huey Lewis and The News and Duran Duran picture discs. And that was only after 5 minutes of browsing. At some point I'll track these down and add them to the list. But the point is, there are a lot of these. And a lot of picture disc bootlegs. Michaelwsherman 11:10, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
In fact just today I bought two 12" single picture discs which were both made in 2006. -- Borb 00:17, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

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  • quite a nice list; short and concise
  • like many other lists it could be better;

Dilane 05:15, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

I work in a record store and let me tell you that there are probably millions of picture discs. There are seven inch picture discs, 10 inch picture discs, 12 inch picture discs and odd shaped picture discs. This list would be cool if it was complete, but it never will be. Every band has picture discs. I have seen Engelbert Humperdink picture discs, Barry Manilow picture discs, in fact the Barry Manilow picture discs are in a double Lp set. That just goes to show that even if your music is awful, you can still get a picture disc made. What i'm trying to say is, there are so many picture discs that it would be impossible to make a list of all of them. I have seen thousands at my work and I guarantee I haven't even seen one percent of all of the picture discs that have been made. Abba to Zz top and everyone in between probably has had a picture disc made at one time or another. --Theologan 03:32, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

You're right, for example I think nearly every major (Heavy) Metal release is also released as a picture disc besides the normal release. You could also just add just about the whole Iron Maiden catalogue to "Shaped Discs" section, I think. It's better just to add the released formats to the albums in the sections of each band. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.108.2.66 (talk) 15:06, August 29, 2007 (UTC)

It's a terrible mess, and not really the kind of thing Wikipedia is made for. The problem is that it has to be generated by hand, whereas the best solution would be to generate the list from tagged information in the albums' infoboxes. At the moment it has a mixture of picture discs, shaped discs (which may or may not also be picture discs), a special list dedicated to the band KISS, and a "misc" section that baffles me. -Ashley Pomeroy 17:39, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

I agree it's a mess. Couldn't they at least be alphabetized? Huw Powell (talk) 00:22, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Chronological order

I have edited the first part of the list to correct the chronological order. It seem only of interest to list discs produced prior to 1980 as after that almost every major group released at least one. New techniques post 1980 could be included as a section unto itself.

I feel pre 1970 disc should be a seperate section as they were not true picture discs in the modern sense of the term, but certainly of great interest.

Aimulti (talk) 10:43, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Does EVERYONE agree?

May I suggest that this page is changed in the following manner?

Section One. Picture Discs 1934 to 1969. These are very different in manufacture from the modern picture record.

Section Two. Picture discs and unusual pressings from 1970 to 1975. Complete list.

Section Three. Records using new techniques only. Post 1975.

If everyone agrees (within the next 14 days) I will go ahead and rework the page. Aimulti (talk) 21:49, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Blondes have more fun by Rod Stewart

Released in 1978 not 1980. Moved to correct position. Aimulti (talk) 09:06, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Self promotional material, needs sources to go back in

This is a list of picture discs and one editor has done alot of edits putting in alot of I think trivial stuff about himself without sources. Does some body have good sources, put it back in.

About Curved Air, - First rock picture disc. Warner Bros. Records/Lymark Productions (production company) Designed by Mark Hanau. Winner of the New Musical Express (weekly music paper - UK) Special Award for Album Design 1971. Pressed by Metronome Records Gmbh. (Hamburg - Germany). NOTE. After the first 200 pressings the artwork on the "A" side was edited removing some credits and phone numbers. The first 200 have the text forming a complete almost unbroken circle and include the manager's home phone number (883-1021). RetroS1mone talk 12:47, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

About Saturnalia, Matrix Records (Distributed by Polygram). Design & photography by Mark Hanau. VariVue 3D effect inserts. (see lenticular printing) Pressed by Metronome Records Gmbh. Inserts by VeriVue Inc. (Mount Vernon. NY). 24 Page booklet on 'Magical love' and Cosmology (plus Rainbow Theatre concert ticket) included in original release. RetroS1mone talk 12:49, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Translumafractadisc,

- First Han-O-Disc produced for The Label (record company (UK) in 1979. Parts of the Medusa image light up in the dark and the face has a defraction grating (Rainbow film) under it. Parts of disc are also transparent, hence the name 'translumadefractadisc'. Designed by Mark Hanau. Process invented by Mark Hanau. Only solvent (THF) welded Han-O-Disc (discs were pressed in two thin halves). Later releases used Radio Frequency (RF) welding and then finally UV diacromate welding. See Picture discs. RetroS1mone talk 12:51, 27 May 2008 (UTC)