''Let Likes Be Cured By Likes''

Sleeve - Front (First Press)

Sleeve - Back (First Press)

Vinyl: First Press. The above picture shows the two main variants.  Both were pressed with black labels on clear vinyl.  The record is single-sided; the ones with the logo have the label painted white on the blank side.  

Sleeve Opened - Front

Sleeve Opened - Back

First Press Inserts: The first press records often have a small flyer advertising Schizophrenic releases.
The pictures above and below show the front and back of one. There may be other designs.

Stats:

General:
Tracks: 1. Generation 2. Colour Removal 3. Black Iron Prison 4. No Pasaran 5. The Light That Never Comes On 6. Last Man Standing 7. Zezozose 8. Circling The Drain 9. Police
Year: 2004
Label: Schizophrenic Records SCHIZ 21
Matrix 1st Press: SCHIZ 21
Matrix 2nd Press: PIRATES PRESS SCHIZO 021 A 66126E1/A

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Pressing Info:
Figures based on the info on Toxic City, because the numbers seem to stack up better there, than on Discogs

First Press (2004):

Sleeves - 500 Total:

500 Brown paper with brown ink

Vinyl - 500 Total:

444 w/ FU logo

66 without - 8 had label painted white

Second Press (2006):

Sleeves - 850 Total:
630ish in brown ink sleeve
200 in black ink sleeve
Less than 20 in rejected sleeve

Vinyl - 850 Total:
400 on black / blue 'inside out'
400 on blue/orange split
50 w/ blue vinyl w/ black splatter

The 200 black ink sleeves contained all 50 of the blue w/ black splatter vinyl and 150 of the blue / orange

The 630 brown ink sleeves contained  250 blue / orange split  and  400 black / blue 'inside out'

The above figures are approx; the rejected sleeve contained a mixture of the colours.
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Inserts:
1st Press - Variable, mostly small inserts, see above
2nd press - Variable - see below

Variants:
Sleeve and vinyl variants - see below.

Sleeve Variants:

The 'regular' sleeve has three variants; one for the first press and two for the second.

Top: First Press - Brown print on brown  heavy-stock paper (500 copies)
Bottom Left: Second Press - Brown print on white heavy stock paper (approx 630 copies)
Bottom Right: Second Press - Black print on mixture of heavy and stock and thin paper (200 copies)

Vinyl Variants: 

First Press - 500 Total
Left: 'Clear' (66 copies)
Right: 'Clear With Logo' (444 copies)
(Approx numbers - 8 or so have white painted label, but no logo)

Second Press - 850 Total:
Top Left: Blue, black inside out (400 copies)
Top Right: Orange, blue split  (400 copies)
Bottom: Second Press - Blue with black splatter (50 copies)

Second Press Flip-side
The second press is double sided and has the same recording on both sides

Blue / Black 'inside out'
Pictured above are three examples of this variant.

Second Press Inserts:

Second Press Big Inserts - Front: A lot come with the large Schizoprenic insert shown above. These come on different types of paper.

Second Press Big Inserts - Back: The backs are variable; they are mostly the same layout, but have different images, reflecting available Schizophrenic stock

Second Press Small Inserts: 
Some of the second press have a small insert, an example is shown on the right of the picture above.
On the left is a gig flyer; this copy was bought at the gig.

Black-Ink Sleeves

Black - Ink Sleeves: These come on different weights of paper, some have a row of circles along the bottom edge, which looks like something to do with the hanger attached to the original artwork transparencies. Some of the black covers seem to be  printer's proofs - i.e. tests on different papers, for print quality. The one on the left at the bottom is on heavy shiny paper and the print quality is patchy - the record it came with also had a second sleeve,  which is one of the ones with rings on.

Notes:

''Let Likes Be Cured By Likes'' 

Recording has backwards messages at start and end of record.

Title reference 1:The band also released the Let Likes Be Cured By Likes live 12" (the title being a reference to one of homoeopathy's dicta, the "Law of Similars"). (Everything2.com)

Title reference 2:

Taking the Law of Similars one step further, there is a similar quote by Paracelsus about similar things. The Latin Phrases on which they're based are even more similar:

(Wikipedia)

Paracelsus pioneered the use of chemicals and minerals in medicine. His hermetical views were that sickness and health in the body relied on the harmony of man (microcosm) and Nature (macrocosm). (Wikipedia)

Sleeve Notes:

Homunculus (Wikipedia)
Homunculus (masculine, Latin for "little man", plural: "homunculi"; from the diminutive of homo) is a term used, generally, in various fields of study to refer to any representation of a small human being. Popularized in sixteenth century alchemy and nineteenth century fiction, it has historically referred to the creation of a miniature, fully formed human.

In Alchemy
Paracelsus is credited with the first mention of the homunculus in De homunculis (c. 1529-1532), and De natura rerum (1537).

The homunculus continued to appear in alchemical writings after Paracelsus' time. The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz (1616) for example, concludes with the creation of a male and female form identified as Homunculi duo. The allegorical text suggests to the reader that the ultimate goal of alchemy is not chrysopoeia, but it is instead the artificial generation of man. Here, the creation of homunculi symbolically represents spiritual regeneration and Christian soteriology.

Carl Jung believed that the concept first appeared in the Visions of Zosimos, written in the third century AD. In his commentary, Jung equates the homunculus with the Philosopher’s Stone, and the "inner man" in parallel with Christ. 

Ritual image:

''Ritual'' By Lynd Ward

Image From 'Rejected Artwork' Sleeve:

Copied from Dulce Et Decorum Est Blog:

This engraving, by the 17th century English artist John Payne, is the frontispiece to The Mirrour Which Flatters Not. Dedicated to their Maiesties of Great Britaine, by Le Sieur de la Serre, Historiographer of France. Enriched with faire Figures. (1639), a book of poetry by Jean Puget de La Serre, translated into English by Thomas Carey. The epigrams beneath the engraving read O that they were Wise, that they understood This, that they would Consider their Latter End! Deut. 32:29 and –Mors sola fatetur Quantula sint hominum corpuscula, a line from Juvenal’s tenth satire, which translates roughly to Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.

Commodity Fetishism:

White Painted label, without logo (8 copies)

Second Press 'Rejected Artwork' Sleeve - Front (Less than 20 copies)

Second Press  'Rejected Artwork' Sleeve - Back

Test Press (First Press)
From Craig at Schizophrenic:
they were made with old record sleeves turned inside out and the FU logo was screened on it. There are maybe 5 of these.

Test Press (First Press)
Picture taken from LFG Blog; maybe the blue-text covers were a 'band only' thing?

Test Press (Second Press) - 'What God Means To Me' Package (See pictures below)

From Craig at Schizophrenic:
What god means to me were large cardstock envelopes that were roughly 12x14. They were hand screened and contained the let likes be cured by likes testpress. the package also contained the rejected sleeve and two stickers. What god means to me and a take off from the Fuck ups 7". There were 10 copies made of the test press package.

Screen Printed Envelope - Front

Screen  Printed Envelope - Back

Test Pressing - Came in Rejected Sleeve

Test Pressing - Vinyl - 'A' Side

Test Pressing - Vinyl - 'B' Side

The stickers (Placed loose on stamped dust sleeve for picture)

Fuck Ups 7"

Germs 7" 

From Mixtape 3 Notes: 
We have worked with Craig Caron from Schizophrenic records before. He runs a great label and put out a liver 12" for us that turned out great. When he asked us to be on a cover tribute comp of the "YES LA" LP, I secretly went "groan" because I hate cover comps. Here is a section of the cover that resulted. I hooked my ipod speakers into my guitar pickups and played the actual Germs original, and started running it through various effects and looping pedals. What a disaster. Didn't ever hear back from Craig about the song, and the comp never came out...

Exceptions To the Rule

Pictured below are a few 'odd' ones

Exception 1 - This one arrived with the 'Looking For Gold' insert. Maybe its synchronicity #2 or maybe it just got misfiled

Exception 2 - This 'Inside out' pattern vinyl with black-text sleeve

Exception 3 - 'What God Means To Me' cover, with regular vinyl

CRIMINALLY INSANE

Who, or what is OVERTIME? Fill us in.

Damian: Overtime was a band that Ben and Matt from No Warning and I started for the sole purpose of bumming people out three years ago. It was me trying to sing like the dude in Confront and music was ripped off all the bands we were into at the time. We recorded a demo and played a couple of shows and then I left for school and the band was put on hold. With those dudes being in No Warning it's kind of hard to do anything with the band but its always talked about.. Recently we recorded a new demo and changed the name to

(Interview TOHC issue 1 - 2002)

Pocket Sleeve

Double-sided insert

Stats:
Side A: Shut Up / Banging The Walls / The HIV / The War Has Begun / Has Been (Single-sided record)

Released: 2004
Label: Parts Unknown Records PUR006
Matrix A: PUR006 "This is the Zodiac Speaking"

Pressing Info:
Don't ask

Inserts: 
All (known) versions come with same insert

Variants: 
This is where it gets complicated; there are several sleeve and vinyl variants. The vinyl variants were all pressed on black and clear vinyl and have the same 'A' side label. The record is single-sided and most have the "Zodiac" text screen-print the 'B' side.

Vinyl: 'A' side label and 'B' side screen print.
 White screened text on black vinyl seems to be the most common version...

Here we have 5 variants of the screen print (4 on black, 1 on clear vinyl). The bottom right version has a white label on the 'B' side and no screen print ('A' side label is as per the other versions). 

The black screen text on black vinyl version (top right) was used for the "Pink Eye Fan-Club" box- set limited to 30. 

Further black vinyl variants are rumoured to exist (i.e. different screen print colours). If you see one please send us a picture.

The white-label ones seem to be less common. This one comes with a doodle by an unknown artist; others are left plain and some were used for the "Family Press" limited to 10

There is also a clear vinyl version with no screen-print or label, used for the “You can’t kill what you can’t see" press, limited to 8.

Sleeve & Other Variants:

"Pink Eye Fan Club" press had the black screen-print on black vinyl, bundled with the first edition of Damian's Killer zine. The record dust-sleeves are  hand-numbered out of 30 and have Crim-Sane crime-scene finger-prints dabbed on.  A Pink Eye button badge completes the package.

Unfortunately, several of the records have been orphaned from their zine, separated from their button and left to fend for themselves on discogs or ebay. The picture shows #2 (or maybe #28) with foster family.

"You can't kill what you can't see" Press  was limited to 8...

image from discogs

image from discogs

image from discogs

image from discogs

... it uses the clear vinyl with blank unlabeled 'B' side and comes with an acetate wrap-around sleeve.

''Criminally Insane has done run out of covers" press with alternate cover, apparently limited to 20

from popsike

 "Family" press, an actual unicorn with hand-drawn labels limited to 10

from popsike

Test pressing with alternate sleeve art. 

This one seems to come with a 2nd disk - the pink-screened variant. 

And there's more... mysterious pink sleeve, and what looks like a black dust sleeve with hand-drawn CI graphic...

(Image from Matador site)

Notes:

A short-lived side project between Damian Abraham of Fucked Up, Matt Delong of No Warning, and Ben Cook of both bands. This demo was originally released as a tape and then came out on a single-sided 7” with a seemingly infinite number of variants. I remember talking to Damian about this one and him telling me that even he doesn’t have all the variants of the record. Apparently the regular version of the record is on clear vinyl, with a black silk-screened B-side. The black vinyl version was supposed to have a blank B-side, but a small number of the copies had different colored silk-screening on the B-side... I’m pretty sure 7 copies exist of a white and pink screened B-side. I think there’s also another shade of pink, green, and blue screened B-side variants out there. There were also 30 copies of a Pink Eye Club edition, 20 copies with alternate art done by Damian when they ran out of covers, 10 copies of a family pressing which features hand-drawn art by Damian on the blank B-side label, and a test press with alternate art that I know about. Oh and the record itself? It totally rules. Total bare-bones, heavy-hittin’ hardcore that sounds like the perfect ground between Fucked Up and No Warning. Get into it.
Toxic City

What are the band's influences? I definitely hear DYS and ANTIDOTE...
Matt: Definitely a big DYS influence on the demo, , ANTIDOTE a bit too ya, the newer stuff is like Poison Idea...

Talk a bit about your upcoming 7", Where? When? With Whom? What songs?
Matt: We are doing 2 records, a 7" with Deranged and a 12"EP with Parts Unknown which is going to be 8 brand new songs...

(Interview TOHC issue 2.5  - 2002)

Full page ad for CI Demo - TOHC issue 9 - 2004

Parts Unknown ended up pressing the demo 7".  Some of the tracks intended for the LP appear on the Pink Eye CD and some apparently became Violent Minds songs.



The CI demo was also hand-dubbed to cassette for use ahead of the vinyl release