Thick/Complicated CD booklets

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What are some of the thickest and/or most complicated CD booklets you've seen?

The booklet for Wilco's "A Ghost Is Born" is pretty damn thick.

As for complicated, I STILL can't figure out how Tricky's "Maxinquaye" works. There's so many folds and staples that I just gave up and put the damn thing back in it's case.

― fjeafj, Monday, 21 June 2004 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

the new melvins record is a book, with a cd floating around somewhere in there. ditto on that one negativland album.

― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

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A little like trying to fold a roadmap back up.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Didn't Radiohead release Amnesiac in some limited-edition pressing that was an actual hard-bound book?

― F Ath, Monday, 21 June 2004 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah - all it does is mangle the disc

― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

but i guess if you like the multimedia potential of albums, you may love it

― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Hail To The Thief came packed in a roadmap, too. I have the "special packaging" for all three of their recent studio albums. If an album comes two ways - one in a digipak and one in a roadmap, or a hatbox, or a pita - I always buy the weird one.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Stereolab's Aluminum Tunes is made entirely of cardboard. Even the part that the discs are supposed to fit onto. Needless to say, it doesn't work very well, and the discs fall out all the time.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

(Actually, come to think of it, Switched On Vol. 2 isn't much better. The disc is supposed to fit into a fold inside the case, but it's WAY too tight, and I always feel like I'm going to destroy either the disc or the case getting it out.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Fucking Marxists!!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

The UK version of Hatful of Hollow had an awfully thick booklet -- I think I've only removed it once or twice as it was nearly impossible to put it back into the jewel case without tearing it.

― Evanston Wade (EWW), Monday, 21 June 2004 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

The "Volume" series of the early-mid 90's buys and sells this thread.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Monday, 21 June 2004 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I seem to recall those "Volume" books weren't akshully worth reading, tho. Or was I just being young and cynical at the time?

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Monday, 21 June 2004 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Some of the interviews were good, and the occasional running gag (i.e. "Running Up That Hill with Kate Bush"). Half of the tracks were by lesser known bands (that were often never heard from again) so reading through the whole book would be huge slog (I never succeeded in reading all of one -- did anybody?). The selected discographies for the bands were useful too.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Monday, 21 June 2004 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I've just checked and realised I was thinking of the "Trance Europe Express" series, which also had huge booklets I couldn't be arsed to read, but better music.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Monday, 21 June 2004 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

The neo folk band In Gowan Ring actually released their lyrics and some additional liner notes in a tightly bound scroll contained in the plastic space of the jewel case's spine. Really nice gimmick.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 01:51 (twenty-two years ago)

The Pet Shop Boys re-releases have huge booklets - there's a double sized slipcase around the book and jewel case.

Seeing the reference to Aluminium Tunes above, I bought a CD by A Whisper In The Noise at this year's ATP where the entire case is made from wood and held together with wire. And one by a psych band made out of cork bathroom tiles.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 08:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Early copies of "Kid A" had a booklet hidden in the CD tray, which you could just see poking through the hole in the middle. To get to it, you had to dismantle the box.

(Christ, I sound like Kate Thornton.)

BTW, I used to read all those "Volume" booklets from cover to cover, so there!

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 09:01 (twenty-two years ago)

The Trans-Europe Express booklets had better interviews of the artists than the Volume ones, but less jokes. Breakbeat Science booklets had mostly interviews and no jokes at all. They were all done by the same people, weren't they? I thought they were rather good.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 09:26 (twenty-two years ago)

The booklet for the jewel-case version of Lil' Beethoven by Sparks is, like, an inch thick (maybe)

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Early copies of "Kid A" had a booklet hidden in the CD tray, which you could just see poking through the hole in the middle. To get to it, you had to dismantle the box.

"We love you, Ace & Peter. - Gene & Paul

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

The Future Sound of London had a ltd.-edition version of Dead Cities that came with a massive booklet of fucked-up digital images in a slipcase.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

obviously there's that lovely-but-impossible-not-to-ruin 'different class' book/fold out lyric sheet/paper picture frame/choose-yr-own insert package. that was an effort getting in and out.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 22 June 2004 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Early copies of "Kid A" had a booklet hidden in the CD tray, which you could just see poking through the hole in the middle. To get to it, you had to dismantle the box.

sebadoh's harmacy did the same thing with its credits, hiding them on the tray card underneath the black disc holder.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually liked the Volume books, but would never have bothered to read the whole thing. They were colorful and had nice pictures/interesting facts.

― Bimble (bimble), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

The booklet in the first Carl Stalling Project CD is pretty thick (for being in a standard jewel case) and hard to pull out.

― Jesse Lawson (eatandoph), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Ditto Minor Threat's Complete Discography.

― Officer Pupp, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

that one's shredded beyond belief

― sexxxyDancer, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Every release from IPR ever to thread

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I propose that anyone who finds a CD booklet too complicated might themselves be described as thick.

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The booklet for De'Angelo's Voodoo is too thick to properly fit in the jewel case. I don't know how they did it at the factory. I've ripped mine to shreds.

― brad, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

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