Messages on MIM vinyl

[Enhiggerfau]

I dont tend to write here, but this was too odd...

Well, I bought some half an year ago Meat is Murder album and yesterday, when I was dusting its surface, I saw little messages scarped between tracks and that middle label;
-Doing the Wythenshawe waltz
-Illness as art
-F.A
And two number combinations (Im too lazy to copy them here).

Is this vinyl unique or do they all have these kind of messages?

 

[Kewpie]

Re: etchings

Hi, you should bookmark http://passionsjustlikemine.com, click 'official releases' and you find info of each release.

Those words are called 'etchings' by the way.



Yes, many other Smiths and Morrissey records have etchings.

 

[Enhiggerfau]

Etchings on vinyl:
UK: ILLNESS AS ART / DOING THE WYTHENSHAWE WALTZ it says but what does "F.A." mean?

 

[I am a Ghost]

Etchings on vinyl:
UK: ILLNESS AS ART / DOING THE WYTHENSHAWE WALTZ it says but what does "F.A." mean?

It means f*** all.

 

[Stephane]

It means f*** all.

F.A. is very likely someone's signature.

Stephane

 

[motorways]

Many pieces of vinyl have etchings. Not just Morrissey and The Smiths.

Have a look at the rest of your collection. It's kind of a cool insight into the artist. Usually 'tongue in cheek' sort of messages.

 

[Enhiggerfau]

It means f*** all.

Then I must do what all truly Morrissey fans do; Believe him. So, hej på dej!

But seriously; Once in my life Im glad to be unaware about something and have these kind of little suprises in store.

 

[I am a Ghost]

F.A. is very likely someone's signature.

Stephane

 

[georgejallen]

hahaha!


EDIT: on second glance, that's very morbid.

 

[Raphael Lambach]

It means f*** all.

But they'd said it using softer words.

 

[marred]

Re: etchings

Hi, you should bookmark http://passionsjustlikemine.com, click 'official releases' and you find info of each release.

Those words are called 'etchings' by the way.



Yes, many other Smiths and Morrissey records have etchings.

There's another word I can't put my finger on that they have been referred to as for a long time now. I mean I know they are physically etchings in that sense but damn I can't remember the word!

 

[mywar]

That little area between the actual music and the label is called the matrix. Most (all?) pressing plants allow you to put customized text there, which is etched into the pressing plate and then obviously on all subsequent records made with those plates. And yes, they will often have the initials or something of the person who cut the record, for reference.