The image of Saudi Oi Boys and Girls pogoing to the likes of the 4-Skins and Cock Sparrer under the desert skies is, I admit, a curious one. The benchmark for the semi-legal Western “new wave” cassette is born the human league thehumanleague oakey cokey saudi arabia pirate tape bootlegtape bootleg semilegal streetsemilegal cassette tape censorship inlay Add a couple of extra tracks from the smash hit album that followed (but not the REALLY big hit or people won’t buy THAT album) for no other reason than to fill up space on the tape and BINGO! But to maintain the “edginess” of the original sleeve, let’s rip the side off said snaps and get rid of the original album name as well. So why not replace the cover altogether with the face of an innocent baby, and add another pic of a four-year-old blowing out his birthday candles. The original cover of this, The Human League’s pre-superstardom release, featured the twin Saudi censor’s horrors of shapely bare ladies’ legs (along with a pair of trouser-clad man’s legs) AND naked (NAKED!!) babies.Ĭoupled with that the legs were seemingly dancing on top of aforementioned newborns, suggesting a level of cruelty that would have been too much for the average emir to bear. the rolling stones rollingstones stones jagger IMD 747 streetsemilegal semilegal piratecassette pirate tape bootleg tape cassette saudi censorship undercover IMD seemed so shocked by the whole thing that they decided to re-design the whole thing, replacing the cover with a pair of temptingly juicy red apples.Ĭredit for the 747 cover must go to the very comprehensive Italian StonesWorldCollection fansite who list a very large boxful of these kind of semi-legal cassettes of a Jagger-Richards nature. Curiously the track “Too Much Blood” is replaced with the equally sanguine “Let It Bleed”, for reasons best known to the 747 exec with the hatchet and the sellotape. In line with 747’s unbridled generosity possibly linked to their guilt complex over watering down classic Wesrtern sleeve art, some classic Stones material like “Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby Standing In The Shadows?” are bolted-on as extra bonus tracks. er… already covered up Undercover sleeve.ħ47 put the unclad female cover star into some sort of pinky-red leotard, adding a few extra “cover-up” motifs of their own, such as someone spraying fly-spray on a spider (which may have been a subtle comment on new technology killing old technology and fear of a yet unknown boom that would all but wipe cassettes off the face of the planet).
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Both titans of Saudi semi-legal cassette domination, 747 and IMD had a crack (no pun intended, sorry) at covering up the. Of course, in the Middle East, when it comes to the ladies, virtually everything is undercover.
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