Description
Polish pressed music cassette. Clear Ilon cassette with gold text.
Poland is probably the country that had the most record labels in the world that only released cassettes. But even though there were lots of labels the market was still small as they only printed these for their own market inside of Poland. And a label in one town maybe lacked the distribution for another town and so on. A Warzaw or Krakow label might print more copies of a tape then labels from a smaller town. So even if there are thousands of releases you will notice how rare some are if you start to try to list the catalogue number of one particular label. Some cassettes just rarely shows up. One label were Ilon. Some suggests its an Ukrainian label and maybe its both. Where they were based are for me unkonwn (if anyone has more information then please contact me). The label showed up in the early 90s and after the new copyright laws of May 1994 it seems like they continued for a few years more with just releasing compilation and Russia and Polish artists. Approximately around 1100 titles were released during their active years. One of the gimmicks the label used was that they printed Produced In Germany on several of their covers
This isn’t a perfect roundup of ZZ Top’s superstar years of the ’80s, but it comes pretty close. It dips back into the ’70s for “Pearl Necklace”, with a couple of selections from the post-peak ’90s, but this does offer the MTV-era basics: “Gimme All Your Lovin’,” “Sharp Dressed Man,” “Rough Boy,” “Tush,” “My Head’s in Mississippi,” “Doubleback,” and “Cheap Sunglasses”. You can hardly put down a best of ZZ Top with just 10 tracks but the basics are here, making this a good complement to the ’70s-focused The Best of ZZ Top (although it would be nice if a definitive disc, with all the hits, would appear on the market). The album also features the new track “Viva Las Vegas”. This cassette release has three tracks heavily misspelled.
Track liist:
1. Gimme All Your Loviva (Gimme All Your Lovin)
2. Shard Dressed Mana (Sharp Dressed Man)
3. Rough Boy
4. Tush
5. My Heads In Nationwide (Im Bad Im Nationwide)
6. My Heads In Mississippi
7. Pearl Necklace
8. Viva Las Vegas
9. Doubleback
10. Cheap Sunglasses