100 cd albums with colored jewelcases

8. Living Colour - Stain

Red tinted jewel box.

https://www.discogs.com/release/3480731-Living-Colour-Stain

9. Futurism Vol.1 = Pink

https://www.discogs.com/release/53842-Various-Futurism

10. Futurism Vol. 2 = Green

https://www.discogs.com/release/243695-Various-City-Rockers-Present-Futurism-2

https://i0.wp.com/recyclesound.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/alice-in-chains.png
Alice in Chains

12. Unwritten Law s/t is an opaque black case in a sleeve.
13. Boredoms, Seadrum / House of Sun, screenprinted opaque blue case
14. Orchid, Dance Tonight Revolution Tomorrow/Chaos Is Me comp CD, opaque red case with stamp

I know it's boring without pictures, sorry

https://ibb.co/VT30hxm
https://ibb.co/3s7wtxs
https://ibb.co/NmqLPh1

https://img.discogs.com/9HQcuQBSsxAMqfkbh18lJaugfp4=/fit-in/600x526/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7688315-1446761849-4502.jpeg.jpg

15. Madonna - Bedtime Stories

(just brought up by my partner earlier this week!)

16. DJ Shadow / QBert Mix (Live!!) (black/red)

https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/323578763427_/DJ-Shadow-LIVE-Q-Bert-Mix-CD.jpg

aka Camel Bobsled Race

it's funny, twenty years ago, i could have named twenty of these off the top of my head, just from owning CDs and spending so much time flipping through used CD bins. but it's all faded away after two decades of only buying vinyl except for friends' bands if they only had a CD.

These things always made me nervous about breaking and replacing them.

There a bunch of No Limit label albums that used those hard monochromatic plastic cases (as seen above w/the deluxe Very) with decal covers.

https://img.discogs.com/Nj2D08JATZmjhb--pK5r6WXrlRM=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-9523367-1497498866-9207.jpeg.jpg

17. Master P: Ghetto D

18. R.E.M. - Monster (orange)

19. Bright Eyes 'Digital Ash in a Digital Urn' black/grey tint on the jewel case.

20. Radiohead: Kid A (black tray w/second booklet underneath)

21. Primus - Brown Album
https://cloud10.todocoleccion.online/musica-cds/tc/2017/06/24/08/90781430.jpg

22. Jay-Z - Kingdom Come had the red tinted case

Was thinking you'll need to rule out those Rykodisc green tinted ones.

ha, was just about to post the Rykodisc Galaxie 500 reissues & saw this, didnt realize that was a wider phenomenon

yeah ditto the number 1 of the list (Josh Rouse, is actually on Rykodisc too) so it sorta don't count either even though it isn't a reissue, maybe they had some leftover greenish cd trays and started running regular albums with 'em as well.

These things always made me nervous about breaking and replacing them.

lol, so true.

good work fellas and fellettes!

Does frosted count as coloured?

Does lenticular count as colored? (Velvet's "Loaded" 2-CD edition)

23. Method Man and Redman - Blackout! (grey/"clear black"?)

https://u-mercari-images.mercdn.net/photos/m90616204052_1.jpg?width=1024&height=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&fit=crop&_=1638486256

re Madonna : thats just the inner tray thats non-standard as opposed to the actual whole jewel casing ?

xpost My Elvis Costello singles comp on Ryko was green tinted, as were the Morphine CDs I've seen. I don't think that was limited to reissues.

Iirc, Ryko tried to get a trademark copywrite on those green cases!

xp

Rykodisc trademarked their green tinted jewel cases--I think it's usually mentioned in the fine print with the copyright info.

They were also fragile. The prongs holding the disc broke off all the time.

thats just the inner tray thats non-standard as opposed to the actual whole jewel casing ?

Oh, sorry… Never mind REM then

24. Schoolhouse Rock Rocks was a yellow one

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/9zQAAOSwpEhgZ0gK/s-l300.jpg

25. The Tommy Boy Greatest Beats CDs were all different opaque colors

26. Asobi Seksu - Citrus

https://www.musik-sammler.de/cover/1180500/1180494_1_1455817661_300.jpg

Swap my earlier submission (#18) for Royal Trux - Hand of Glory (black opaque jewel case with sticker on front tray).

27. STNNNG Fake Fake

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2546654897_16.jpg

This was a band I played with, CD was in a red jewel case, the artwork was an anaglyph, when you looked at the artwork in the jewel case it was all skulls/blood/etc, then when you removed the case the actual artwork was ice cream cones, little funny animals, etc. I think you might have had to physically disassemble it in order to get to the song titles & credits and if that isn't the case it is what we should have done. We did manage to duplicate it for the LP release as well.

^that's cool

This is a good topic... trying to think of any others I've owned, without actually digging thru my CDs. That Lou Reed one up top, for sure.

28 E.A.R. - Continuum - pretty great album that would be fun as a vinyl reissue actually

https://ibb.co/jz6xcg7

https://i.etsystatic.com/5964846/r/il/4195d2/3294275414/il_1588xN.3294275414_ic3e.jpg
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/kXAAAOSwAj9dsHhi/s-l1600.jpg

I think those are just colored trays(?)

True. It was novel at the time.

13. Boredoms, Seadrum / House of Sun, screenprinted opaque blue case

I have this one, too (I cheated and pulled out my "B" stack b/c I thought there'd be at least one other Boredoms example, but no)

xp — I'll try and overcompensate:

https://img.discogs.com/51MKvTop-mt33J0QdITbKgPp4Hk=/fit-in/600x519/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1933695-1253421885.jpeg.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/pTEebU455ShV3fmgG9G4x0x-D4k=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-169724-1540333042-9378.jpeg.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/Sfop7wjJ4q1CwgeV1jEmUfikBvc=/fit-in/600x519/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-169724-1246008542.jpeg.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/wbeAcpZQbsVAC6SiLdnEcywmBRM=/fit-in/595x528/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-169724-1515340603-1598.jpeg.jpg

Have we quit numbering these?

32 (I think):
Sunn 0))) - Flight of the Behemoth
https://www.discogs.com/master/2261-Sunn-O-3-Flight-Of-The-Behemoth

upsilon acrux in the acrux of the upsilon king

https://www.frogworth.com/jewel/atnif.jpg
Alexandra Atnif - <rhythmic brutalism>

https://www.frogworth.com/jewel/automation.jpg
Automation - Dub Terror Exhaust
(Laswell alias)

And also:
https://www.frogworth.com/jewel/laswellbullen.jpg
Bill Laswell / Nicholas James Bullen - Subsonic 2 (Sub Rosa)

https://www.frogworth.com/jewel/hill.jpg
Zach Hill - Face Tat (Daymare version)

https://www.frogworth.com/jewel/machtran.jpg
Machine Translations - Happy

https://www.frogworth.com/jewel/nww.jpg
Nurse With Wound - Paranoia in hi-fi

https://www.frogworth.com/jewel/sft.jpg
Simon Fisher Turner - Live Blue Roma

https://www.frogworth.com/jewel/random1.jpg
https://www.frogworth.com/jewel/random2.jpg
Random - new interpretations of Gary Numan

Some of those look like colored tray only? (After being tripped up by it myself, I’m now the tray-only cop!)

https://www.frogworth.com/jewel/skampler.jpg
Obligatory cracked case of Skampler that every IDM fan from the mid-'90s owns/owned.

Tsk, coloured tray is enough for them to escape the CD case armageddon (oh yeah images ded on that post) but I do apologise for breaking protocol.

https://img.discogs.com/-U6ChRZ-Y1q6WNIDkoiP-H9ZbB8=/fit-in/600x534/filters:strip_icc():format(webp):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3182140-1488947528-5504.jpeg.jpg

Alice In Chains: Best Of The Box

https://www.discogs.com/release/572242-Spiritualized-Royal-Albert-Hall-October-10-1997-Live/image/SW1hZ2U6MTk0NDEwOTA=?ev=rr

spiritualized at Royal Albert Hall (solid orange with a slipcase)

their "Volume 1" is solid white with a slipcase. there was a volume 2 as well which might be the same

(and Pure Phase came in a luminous box but not strictly a jewel case)

Hector Zazou - Sahara Blue

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61ChbYqm0aL._SX355_.jpg

The coloring is actually marbled, though you can't tell in the picture. I can barely see it in real life, and I'm holding the jewel case up to the light as we speak.

XTC - Transistor Blast box set of BBC sessions

https://img.discogs.com/9-LSu1htPUuSL2rOfUcjXtgWIXc=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-958173-1350139405-9862.jpeg.jpg

^love it.

Turns out I get the Morphine Rykodisc too, it doesn't work quite as well compared to Josh Rouse, in fact it's a mess (with Rouse I thought it was a one-off intentional thing).

Benga's diary of an afro warrior is another solid black one (with a slip case)

https://images2.imgbox.com/48/65/CkXV6EX2_o.png

Tinted, um, aquamarine I guess.

Pet Shop Boys - Release

been having a dig around my collection, and remembered re this one :

https://www.discogs.com/release/97265-Pet-Shop-Boys-Release

the jewel is all white, with the band/album title embossed on the front.
and then there were different editions with different coloured cardboard slipcases.

Snoop Dog - Bush

https://www.discogs.com/release/6987961-Snoop-Dogg-Bush

Blue jewel case with cardboard slipcase with the actual cover artwork.

and i think thats all of them from my collection ..

Automation - Dub Terror Exhaust
(Laswell alias)

out of everything mentioned on this list, this is one of the cds i really regret not buying.
i spotted it when i was in one of my 'bill laswell ? nahhhh .. ' phases and so did not get it.
an experience i have learnt from,
i.e. i now buy stuff when i spot them in my charity shop adventures, knowing i may not like it now, but at some point i know i will.

If just the back counts:
https://img.discogs.com/kJGbWQWR4rOrlfUU69ulgAt2FD0=/fit-in/600x522/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-11408-1370385659-3862.jpeg.jpg

Talking Heads - Brick
https://img.discogs.com/MMQ-OIvKbY7Dc3wH0lB_dSZp3qs=/fit-in/407x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1570556-1229475350.jpeg.jpg
(Back and tray of each disc, front was clear.)

Redman - Dare iz a Darkside

http://www.oldschool.mod3sign.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Redman-Dare-iz-a-Darkside-fr1.jpg

Helmet - Betty

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/KIUAAOSweWtcYXD2/s-l400.jpg

Willie Nelson and The Offenders: Me and The Drummer

(includes a little shake-able die in the spine!)

https://www.discogs.com/master/919135-Willie-Nelson-And-The-Offenders-Me-And-The-Drummer

Also a fan of the bright-yellow spine of Chestnut Station's In Your Living Room.

Willie Nelson and The Offenders: Me and The Drummer

(includes a little shake-able die in the spine!)

https://www.discogs.com/master/919135-Willie-Nelson-And-The-Offenders-Me-And-The-Drummer

― ... (Eazy), Sunday, December 5, 2021 12:50 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://img.discogs.com/J0xjq-qsiuGkbQ5jCdXFHB_ITTI=/fit-in/600x523/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7698104-1594226593-4302.jpeg.jpg

Can we also use this thread for things found in the spine?

https://i.imgur.com/8hOSgaQ.jpg

wow!

I remember a very obscure cd r label from the Netherlands who put q-tips in the spine.

Can't find a picture, but L.A. power pop band Sparkle*Jets UK's "Bamboo Lounge" CD came with a cocktail umbrella in the spine.

🖼

Alice In Chains: Best Of The Box

which is #11 in the list above

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/cx0AAOSwe5FfMrDN/s-l400.jpg

First one I remember

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/7fQAAOSwWDZhigou/s-l1600.jpg

IQU - Chotto Matte a Moment
https://img.discogs.com/OLWNCzB5kol6qq9mtcFQbw46cu0=/fit-in/600x529/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-15168406-1587580249-5054.jpeg.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/2nOeyuHEiWXJUJBm_c6uUEYl3tw=/fit-in/391x551/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-805436-1165936562.jpeg.jpg

Spines of the Pink Floyd "Shine On" box set. Black jewel cases with small stickers of the album covers on the front.

Jay-Z: The Black Album (solid black jewelbox)

Minus 5: Down With Wilco (red tinted case)

Aphex Twin - Classics (white)

Julian Cope - Jehovakill (blue limited edition with sticker)

Jewelian Case

> Aphex Twin - Classics (white)

that's just the tray though, not the case (based on my copy and the dozen i looked at on discogs)