CT - Silver and Gold Records?

[dprid]

Does anybody know if any of the Cocteau Twins releases ever earned any Silver or Gold disks for their sales?

[willy]

I don't know. If that's any help.

[robin guthrie]

had one once..gave it to a nice welsh coulple who visited my studio....think it was treasure. Also know that other albums sold more but nobody ever gave us any more discs..I think they must have been expensive ... or maybe mender has got them all :)

[dprid]

Thank you Robin. I'd assumed you must have sold enough but never seen anything written about them. :)

[JohnnyV]

I think Leesa just booked a flight to Wales.

[mmmender]

Originally posted by JohnnyV
I think Leesa just booked a flight to Wales.

roflmao

[mmmender]

Thought some of you would be interested in seeing this pic as it's related to this old thread..............

http://www.cocteautwins.org/%7Eleesa/cocteautwins/cgraphix/HEAD_OVER_SILVER_RECORD.jpg

[bearclaw]

WOW !!! is that yours leesa or a pic from the net ? Head Over Heels is my fav cocteau album

[mmmender]

WOW !!! is that yours leesa or a pic from the net ? Head Over Heels is my fav cocteau album
No, I wish it were mine! I can't remember where I found the picture.....I just came across it recently when cleaning up my hard drive.

[hebe]

No, I wish it were mine! I can't remember where I found the picture.....I just came across it recently when cleaning up my hard drive.


That's very ncie, thanksssssssssssssssssssssssss!

[frarn]

I have always wondered this, so I'll ask it here .... when a group is presented with a silver/gold/platinum disk like this, is the disk a copy of the actual disk but in the relevant colour vinyl or is it just a metal "blank" with the discs label attached to it ... in other words if you were "daft enough" to try, and you put the disk on a record player would it actually play?????

if this is a stupid question, then please feel free to ignore and/or put it down to my advancing years!!

:D

[garp]

Actually I've wondered this myself, let me see if I can find an answer.

[Mr. ED]

^^ I'm guessing the sound would be a bit tinny!

ba-dum-bum!

[garp]

From the little I can gather they are Gold (etc.) plated versions of the album. I hope someone else has a more definitive answer, cause the internet let me down.

[dprid]

I recall a few years ago hearing someone say that the gold disk they got was actually just a gold-sprayed album with the relevant labels stuck on - it wasn't even a copy of their record. That was a few years ago though.

[Thackeray]

Considering the platinum group metals exchange now...I see that as credible. However I thought there was a time when the records were metal-plated. That had to have been either a misunderstanding or the metal discs actually played but that was well over 30 years ago.

I'm fairly certain that lead imbued vinyl will take an anodizing process and can be bonded with such metals. It only takes 1.53 milli-amps.

[ludwig]

As far as I remember this metal disc is the actual negative where the vinyl is pressed from. Don't know what kind of metal though.

[frarn]

thanks for your responses ...

Dave, I'd hate to think that the Gold record Robin gave to those Welsh visitors was actually a copy of "Perry Como sings Christmas Carols" though! :lmao:

[by the sea]

That HOH silver record sold on ebay, for something like 500GBP, around six months ago.

[mojo]

I have always wondered this, so I'll ask it here .... when a group is presented with a silver/gold/platinum disk like this, is the disk a copy of the actual disk but in the relevant colour vinyl or is it just a metal "blank" with the discs label attached to it ... in other words if you were "daft enough" to try, and you put the disk on a record player would it actually play?????

if this is a stupid question, then please feel free to ignore and/or put it down to my advancing years!!

:D

I know that back in the day when Creation existed, that old vinyl overstocks were just re-sprayed and mounted with the appropriate album sleeve for discs - before bands switched to using CD's - so chances are everyone did that! I don't think that the discs would be the actual one, just because they're expensive to make, but would be even more if it was based on the actual vinyl it was relating to as a special one-off manufacture. (I know they used to be around £60 to make one, but that was around 15 years ago)

[frarn]

JO!!