i'm listening to old cassettes. this is a scan of my insert for bush' sixteen stone.

i've always known this was rare, but i wonder how rare nowadays.

this is a canadian release manufactured before the x was inserted. no x on the spine either.

oddly, there is an x on the cassette itself, which is the intc-9000 version with the extra acoustic tracks and not this 92531 sleeve version, which is identical to the us release.

the cassette was purchased on import in a corporate music store in very early 1995, in the brief period between when bush hit it huge in the united states and they more slowly got into rotation on muchmusic. there was a time lag in bush getting placed into rotation in canada. my interest in bush before they were beamed from tvs everywhere was that i had a subscription to guitar world, and they had a tab for everything zen, which wasn't a hit here. so i bought this in that brief period of time when these weren't actually being massively produced yet and the copyright issue hadn't yet clicked in.

i don't know how many of these there actually are.

it's something to take note of as a i sort through this disparate media collection.