Echo & the Bunnymen
Ocean Rain
WEA / Korova 240 388
made in West Germany for international markets
color scheme: teal background with purple reticle and silver paint lettering
genre: rock
LP originally released in 1984


MADE IN WEST | | GERMANY BY POLYGRAM
Matrix number: 2292 40388-2 2893 709 03 #
Known suffixes: V [LU], YU
The POLYGRAM disc face can also be found with MADE IN W. GERMANY BY PDO etched around the center hole.
Known suffixes: AG
There also exists a variation (not pictured) with MADE IN WEST | | GERMANY (no POLYGRAM), which has
MADE IN W. GERMANY BY PDO etched around the center hole.


Front cover of the six-page foldout booklet
Page two reads "Manufactured by PolyGram Hannover, West Germany.
Printed in West Germany."
"Printed in West Germany by Imprimé en Allemagne par Kaiser, Essen ˇ Made in West Germany"
is printed on page four.


Rear tray insert, "Printed in West Germany." with no barcode.
The POLYGRAM versions can be found with this back inlay.
"240 388-2 is printed on the reverse.


Rear tray insert says "Manufactured in Germany by Record Service GmbH, Alsdorf."
The PDO version can be found with this back inlay, still without barcode.
The booklet no longer says "Printed in West Germany."


This target CD was also released in Japan with the addition of this sticker obi
which bears the catalog number 32XP-114.

Notes: This disc might have been briefly distributed in the USA, as it turns up here occasionally.
It should prove easier to find in Europe.

Jewel case info: smooth frosted two-dimple, nothing embossed on the back, "32" is embossed on one tab,
and "34" is embossed on the back portion, inside bottom center. Eight-prong disc tray embossed "Patents pending 23"

08/31/19