Various – Lonely Is An Eyesore

Anyone wanna sell their copy to me? I need it for my collection.
Thanks!

Can a proud owner of this wooden set please post a more elaborate and thorough pictorial display? Cheers

Apart from the inner sleeve there should also be a square insert on light card listing all 4AD albums to date of release - in something like 2-point typeface!

Lisa & Brendan (DCD) have rejected their copies
and Martyn Young (Colourbox) remodelled his copy into a litter box......You could have made something nice out of it...but, alas....

... właśnie słucham wydania Tonpress SX-T 145. Chociaż płytę kupiłem 35 lat temu, słucha się jej przyjemnie przestrzennie, bez trzasków.

Strangely, some are ‘debating’ / casting doubt on the pressing numbers of the deluxe limited edition of Lonely Is an Eyesore (CAD D 703), where there is no reason for doubt. The UK pressing was definitely 10,000. And there was only a limited edition of this album in the UK.

I was there at the time, I remember it was easy to purchase (for years), no scrambling about getting last remaining copies etc. This is the time when vinyl still trumped the CD, just before the CD took over (88). Vinyl sold well.

It’s true 10,000 was a fairly high print run for a “limited edition”. But 4AD was also in its heyday, as was UK Indie – this album was a significant anthology. The 4AD, UK, Colourbox album also had a 10,000 press run for its limited edition with free mini album (10,000 UK copies + more ltd copies for other territories, eg 1,000, numbered, in Australia).

I repeat the below as it is buried in a "reply" I wrote in 2018:
The normal ltd edition (CAD D 703), i.e. fold-out card sleeve was definitely 10,000, so not that 'limited'. The oak box completist edition (CADX 703) was limited to 100.

There were 3 versions of this LP on vinyl.

CAD 703: initial quantities of which included a three-way folding inner sleeve, while later copies had a regular inner sleeve with an insert. Sleeve by 23 Envelope, Nigel Grierson, Danger Video and Arthur Parker.

CAD703D is a limited edition of 10,000 with some extra artwork (the outer folding case).

CAD703X is a deluxe wooden box, a limited edition of 100, containing all the different editions of Lonely Is An Eyesore (vinyl, cassette and CD)and some additional prints.
About the box: 30 were released for sale (£200 each directly from 4AD), 70 were given away to the bands, distributors of 4AD material and others. The prints were rather expensive, bringing the cost of production of the box up to £500. There are two prints, one 15×20 cm (etching) by Jinny McGarrity, where small details differ from box to box. The other is larger, 100x200cm (by Terry Dowling), printed on rice paper. The prints were wrapped in a sealed plastic-like paper.

VAD703 is a video. All the songs are the same as the other formats, except that the version of «Fish» is different. During the end titles on the video, an instrumental version of «Oomingmak» by Cocteau twins is played.

Some of the above info was taken from Eyesore.no, a fan site dedicated to 4AD from 1980 to about 2000.

Dif Juz ‘no motion’ phew! Timeless and amazing post rock/art rock/ambient rock/guitar abstractions. And the Cocteau’s gorgeous. ‘crushed’ make this essential.

This Canadian Vertigo version sounds 100,000x better than the UK LP. Hands down. It sounds so much fuller with much more detail like I'd never heard before.

Would be the perfect album if only 'Colourbox - Hot Doggie' and 'Dif Juz - No Motion' were left off.

Lonely is as lonely does. Lonely is an eyesore...

A lyric taken from the jangling almost frenetic "Fish" by Throwing Muses
for whence this compilation derived its name. The assemblage of dark &
lovely tracks by the artists from the 4AD label. is as brilliant as it ever was!

My favorite track is the whirlwind of color in "Crushed" by Cocteau Twins,
But the whole of the collection is brilliant... a nice intro to 4AD's oeuvre.

A note should be said about the cover... 4AD fans love obscurity and the
label delivered a murky and mystical cover that aptly matches the music within.