1. WARSAW (LP + 7") RZM Productions Ltd. 1980
The original Warsaw bootleg was pressed by someone who worked in London's Portobello Market using a tape bought from a music industry contact. 500 copies were pressed in the US and shipped across to the UK where the sleeves had been printed.
UK bootleg released 1980
Record label: RZM Productions Ltd
No catalogue number on packaging or label
Black vinyl
500 copies
LP has Narrow matrix area and small matrix numbers: RZM-200-A RZM-200-B
7" EP has matrix numbers: RZM-100-A RZM-100-B in very small letters, particularly on side B
Laminated LP sleeve, some copies have a tiny white circle pressing error on the front as shown below. Over the years this laminate has shrunk back by about 1mm. "Warsaw" on the spine
LP label
EP label
All Of This For You Transmission The Leaders of Men Living in The Ice Age They Walked in Line Interzone Failures Warsaw Novelty Shadowplay No Love Lost
Exercise One Transmission Insight She's Lost Control The tracks were recorded for the unreleased album - the RCA sessions
The bonus EP featured "The First Peel Session"
Some of the LP tracks sounded too fast
How to identify an original:
We believe the first pressing had printing anomalies on the top left of the sleeve. Some copies also had a small white "o" on the right hand side.
Click images for more information.
2. WARSAW (LP+7") RZM Productions Ltd. 1981
Numerous successive reissues of the original Warsaw LP above, 1981 onwards.
Record label: RZM Productions Ltd
No catalogue number on packaging or label
Various vinyl colours - see below
LP and EP labels are similar to the original version above
Laminate sleeve with "Warsaw" on the spine. Like the listing above and also showing signs of the laminate shrinking
Narrow run off area and small matrix numbers, very similar, if not identical to the listing above
Matrix:
RZM-200-A / RZM-200-B (LPs)
RZM-100-A / RZM-100-B (7"s)
Example LP label
Example EP label
All of this for you Transmission The leaders of men Living in the ice age They walked in line Interzone Failures Warsaw Novelty Shadowplay No love lost
Exercise one Transmission Insight She's lost control The LPs and EPs were issued on various coloured vinyl, and mixed and matched, including:
LPs: EPs: Black
Clear
Transparent red
Solid red
Dark brown
Yellow
Dark Blue
Orange
Multicoloured
Black
Dark blue
Orange
Red
Yellow
Clear (with no label)
Multicoloured
Some copies appeared in different sleeves - see the two listings below
Note: This was also released as Warszawa
3. WARSAW (LP+7") Early 1980s
This is the same pressing as the early colour vinyl pressings above but in a different sleeve
Light brown cover, front and back separate inserts.
Clear LP, clear single
No labels
Back cover lists LP tracks only
Matrix numbers:
LP:
RZM-200-A
RZM-200-B
7":
RZM-100-A
RZM-100-B
All of this for you Transmission The leaders of men Living in the ice age They walked in line Interzone Failures Warsaw Novelty Shadowplay No love lost
Exercise one Transmission Insight She's lost control
4. WARSAW (LP) GTLP014 Early 1980s
This is the same pressing as the early colour vinyl pressings but in a different sleeve
Pressed on chocolate brown vinyl
Australia / New Zealand issue from 1980 / 1981
Plain sleeve with glued on photocopied insert featuring the Walker Brothers (which wraps around covering part of the back cover)
Matrix numbers:
RZM-200-A
RZM-200-B
All of this for you Transmission The leaders of men Living in the ice age They walked in line Interzone Failures Warsaw Novelty Shadowplay No love lost We have only heard of two copies in this sleeve. The brown vinyl LPs are the same pressing as the early colour vinyl pressings. One of the two copies also included a blue vinyl version of the EP with the following tracks:
Exercise one Transmission Insight She's lost control Dave Holden in New Zealand owns the one with the blue EP. He bought it as part of a job lot of 250 collectible LPs and singles that had formerly belonged to a DJ and talk show host who'd accumulated a lot of rare and promo vinyl in the 1980s.
Brown vinyl LP
Blue vinyl EP
5. WARSAW (LP) RZM Productions Ltd.
Hand-folded poster sleeve with the "Unknown Pleasures" logo plus the words "Unknown Pleasures" and "FACT 10".
The LP label says "J.D. 'Warsaw", lists the tracks, and has "RZM PRODUCTIONS LTD." at the bottom.
The only version of this we have come across has no free single
Record label: RZM Productions Ltd
No catalogue number on packaging or label
Released on black vinyl, and clear vinyl
Matrix numbers are different to the listings above:
RZM-200/A
RZM-200/B
All of this for you Transmission The leaders of men Living in the ice age They walked in line Interzone Failures Warsaw Novelty Shadowplay No love lost
6. WARSAW (LP + 7") RZM 200 RZM Productions Ltd. 1981
Record label: RZM Productions Ltd
Catalogue No: RZM 200 (LP) and RZM 100 (7")
Black vinyl with free black vinyl 7"
The LP in pressed on thinner vinyl than the original above.
Black and white glossy (not laminated) sleeve. "Warsaw" on spine.
Printed labels, see images below. Some copies have plain white labels.
Matrix numbers:
LP: RZM 200 A EG / RZM 200 B EG (in large letters, wide run-off grooves)
7": RZM 100 A EG / RZM 100 B EG (in large letters)Record labels:
Similar to the original but RZM 200A/B on the left of the label - see below. UK copyright notice and states "Made in England". The labels are flat (no contours like the original edition).
For many years we thought this was the original British Warsaw but we now believe the version with the "o" misprint on the cover (see above) was the first
LP label
EP label
The LP was also issued on its own with an A4 insert sleeve, presumably because they pressed more LPs than covers, which states "This is the original US pressing".
All of this for you | Transmission |
The leaders of men | Living in the ice age |
They walked in line | Interzone |
Failures | Warsaw |
Novelty | Shadowplay |
No love lost |
Exercise one | Transmission |
Insight | She's lost control |
Some copies were issued in an insert cover, maybe they ran out of sleeves.
Probably an American picture disc.
No catalogue number
Unlike the LP below, this version does not have "WARSAW" below the image
on
the picture side, and it's got a clear "circle" around the outer edge.
Matrix numbers (on the "wrong" sides):
Picture side: RZM 200 B
Tracklist side: RZM 200 A
There's also 42382 in the centre, where the label would be
All of this for you | Transmission |
The leaders of men | Living in the ice age |
They walked in line | Interzone |
Failures | Warsaw |
Novelty | Shadowplay |
No love lost |
All of this for you | Transmission |
The leaders of men | Living in the ice age |
They walked in line | Interzone |
Failures | Warsaw |
Novelty | Shadowplay |
No love lost |
Stiff, black, cardboard sleeve with photocopied inserts.
Matrix number: JD 3/4
Scans courtesy incubation web site |
All of this for you | Transmission |
The leaders of men | Living in the ice age |
They walked in line | Interzone |
Failures | Warsaw |
Novelty | Shadowplay |
No love lost |
The record & labels are identical to the reissued Box File "Warsaw" LP; the labels are black on green, and depict a drawing of a man reading a newspaper (same on both sides). The matrix number/run-off groove notations are JD-3 (side 1) and JD-4 (side 2). The track-lisiting is the same as the original (and Box File) version.
It appears that all three of the records in the reissue of the box set have been released individually in poor quality covers. Maybe they ran out of boxes
See also: Box set reissue, Komackino and Le Terme
Australian LP
Record label: Stiff Kittens Product
Catalogue No: M-1
Single sheet paper insert sleeve - either yellow or light grey
Generic white sleeve with label holes
Labels: Plain white. Some copies appear to have been stamped with basic
info using a home printing set or similar
Matrix numbers:
M1-A
M1-B
Yellow insert version |
Grey insert version |
Plain label |
Printed label example |
In addition to the track listing the insert
has the following information;
Words & Music By Warsaw
Bernard Albrecht: Guitar
Peter Hook: Bass
Steven Morris: Drums
Ian Curtis: Voices
Recorded in Manchester, 1977
Sleeve Designed By Happy Porpak
Stiff Kittens PRODUCT
All of this for you | Transmission |
The leaders of men | Living in the ice age |
They walked in line | Interzone |
Failures | Warsaw |
Novelty | Shadowplay |
No love lost |
Japanese LP
Brown cardboard cover with "Warsaw" stamped on the front
No single
Individually numbered (stamped) and glued on insert with song titles and
the words "NUMBERED EDITION OF 500".
Factory replica labels
No record company
Matrix numbers:
FAC PRO 8425 A
FAC PRO 8425 B
Exercise One * No Love Lost Sound Of Music * Transmission All of this for you Living in the ice age The leaders of men Interzone They walked in line Warsaw Failures Shadowplay Novelty
This LP has a different track list to the standard Warsaw LPs with two additional tracks: Exercise One* from the 1st Peel session and The Sound Of Music* from the 2nd Peel session
Some versions don't have the insert stuck to the back cover, or the individual number stamped on them.
12. WARSAW (LP) Geebo Geebo Records 1985
German LP released 1985
Record label: Geebo Geebo Records
No catalogue number on packaging or label
Sleeve: no "Warsaw" on spine.
Labels:
Side A: White label "Geebo Geebo" in black text
Side B: Black label "Geebo Geebo" in white text
Most copies didn't include an EP. A few apparently came with an EP very similar to release No 6 above
LP matrix numbers:
^^ RZM 200 A
^^ RZM 200 BThere's also a Warsaw LP in a colour cover with the same matrix numbers
LP labels
All of this for you Transmission The leaders of men Living in the ice age They walked in line Interzone Failures Warsaw Novelty Shadowplay No love lost
13. WARSAW (LP or LP+7") RZM 200 RZM Productions Ltd. Mid / late 1980s
American LP. Probably a mid/late '80s pressing.
Record label: RZM Productions Ltd
Catalogue No: RZM 200
Pressed on blue or black vinyl.
Some came with a free EP (same vinyl colours) some didn't.
Sleeve: Paper pasted onto generic card sleeve. No "Warsaw" on spine.
The labels are very similar to release No 6 above. The contours are different, indicating a different pressing, but the information printed on them is identical.
LP Matrix numbers:
RZM 200 A JDW-1-A [this last bit is crossed out]
RZM 200 B JDW-1-B [this last bit is crossed out]
Thick card non-laminated/non-glossy black pasted sleeve, which otherwise looks similar to the original and other reissues. No "Warsaw" on spine.Where included, the EP has:
Very small matrix numbers, particularly on side B.:
RZM-100-A
RZM-100-B
In generic plain white sleeve with label holes like most of the bonus 7" EPs.
No catalogue number or copyright message on the label.
LP label
EP label
All of this for you Transmission The leaders of men Living in the ice age They walked in line Interzone Failures Warsaw Novelty Shadowplay No love lost
Exercise one Transmission Insight She's lost control
14. WARSAW (LP+7") RZM 200 RZM Productions Ltd. Mid / late 1980s
American LP. Very similar to the listing above except:
LP has plain white/tan labels with raised outer "circle" and wide run-out grooves.
7" has different labels
LP matrix numbers:
RZM 200 A
RZM 200 B
7" matrix - no hyphens:
RZM 100 A
RZM 100 B
LP label
EP label
All of this for you Transmission The leaders of men Living in the ice age They walked in line Interzone Failures Warsaw Novelty Shadowplay No love lost
Exercise one Transmission Insight She's lost control
15. WARSAW (LP) 1980s
European bootleg. Possibly German.
No single
Plain white labels.
Matrix numbers:
^^ RZM 200 A
^^ RZM 200 B
These matrix numbers are the same as the German Warsaw LP on Geebo Geebo records
All of this for you Transmission The leaders of men Living in the ice age They walked in line Interzone Failures Warsaw Novelty Shadowplay No love lost
16. WARSAW (LP) 159088 Retropop 2001
German LP reisssue of the Retropop Warsaw CD.
The front cover is the same as the CD. The back cover is slightly different.
No single.
White labels with black print. Some state catalogue number 6-502 614, others state 159088.
Matrix numbers:
159088 A
159088 B
Thanks the incubation web site for the scans.
1 All of this for you 10 Novelty 2 They walked in line 11 No love lost 3 Failures 12 Exercise one 4 Ice age 13 Insight 5 Interzone 14 She's lost control 6 Warsaw 15 Transmission 7 Transmission 16 You're no good for me 8 Shadowplay 9 Leaders of Men
This LP has a different track list to the standard Warsaw LPs:
See also the Grey marble Warsaw LP listing below
Tracks 1-11 from the "Warsaw" bootleg
Tracks 12-15 are from the "The First Peel Session"
Track 16 is from The Warsaw Demo.
17. WARSAW (LP) 2001(?)
Grey marble vinyl. Plain white labels, plain white sleeve with a 21,5 x 15 cm glued-on picture on the front
Approximately 20 copies made.
This appears to be a copy of the Retropop Warsaw LP listed above
Matrix numbers:
159088 A
159088 B
1 All of this for you 10 Novelty 2 They walked in line 11 No love lost 3 Failures 12 Exercise one 4 Ice age 13 Insight 5 Interzone 14 She's lost control 6 Warsaw 15 Transmission 7 Transmission 16 You're no good for me 8 Shadowplay 9 Leaders of Men Like the Retropop LP, this one has a different track list to the standard Warsaw LPs:
Tracks 1-11 from the "Warsaw" bootleg
Tracks 12-15 are from the "The First Peel Session"
Track 16 is from The Warsaw Demo.
18. WARSAW (LP) RZM Productions Ltd. Early 1990s
Australian bootleg
Black vinyl
White labels with black text
No catalogue number on packaging or label
Matrix numbers:
Warsaw Ⓐ P&F
Warsaw Ⓑ P&F
A side label
B side labelScans courtesy new-order.net
All of this for you Transmission The leaders of men Living in the ice age They walked in line Interzone Failures Warsaw Novelty Shadowplay No love lost
19. WARSAW (LP) RZM Productions Ltd. 1990/91
Australian bootleg released 1990 or 1991.
Black vinyl released 1990/91, and later reissues on white vinyl with sticker on cover saying "Limited edition COLOURED VINYL"
No catalogue number on packaging or label
Glossy sleeve
Labels: Some copies have white labels with black print, others have black labels with white print
No single. Nothing on spine.
White or orange sticker on cover saying "Limited edition COLOURED VINYL"
Matrix numbers:
WARSAW-A
WARSAW-B
There's also a line "-" above both the last "A" and "B" in the matrix.
Labels are black on white
... or white on black
All of this for you Transmission The leaders of men Living in the ice age They walked in line Interzone Failures Warsaw Novelty Shadowplay No love lost
20. WARSAW (LP) RZM Productions Ltd. 2004
Australian bootleg
Black vinyl. Re-pressed on slightly marbled white vinyl in 2006
Light purple / pink labels with black text.
No catalogue number on packaging or label
No matrix numbers.
All of this for you Transmission The leaders of men Living in the ice age They walked in line Interzone Failures Warsaw Novelty Shadowplay No love lost
21. WARSAW (LP) RZM Productions Ltd. 2006
Australian bootleg released 2006.
No catalogue number on packaging or label
Matrix: WARSAW
This may have the same matrix number (Warsaw) as the LP above but it's a different pressing - there
is a slight difference in the way the matrix numbers are written.
All of this for you Transmission The leaders of men Living in the ice age They walked in line Interzone Failures Warsaw Novelty Shadowplay No love lost
22. WARSAW (LP) RZM Productions Ltd. 2006
Australian bootleg released 2006.
Same sleeve as the ones above.
Black vinyl.
Labels: either white, or very dark purple labels with the same info as the LP above.
Matrix: JD WARZAW A and JD WARZAW B - notice the "Z" rather than "S" ("hand-written", not stamped, in large letters)
A side label
B side label
All of this for you Transmission The leaders of men Living in the ice age They walked in line Interzone Failures Warsaw Novelty Shadowplay No love lost
23. WARSAW (LP) RZM 200 RZM Productions Ltd. 2006
European bootleg released 2006
Heavy vinyl
Shiny sleeve
White labels with black text.
Record label: RZM Productions Ltd
Catalogue No: RZM 200 printed on the label.
Labels: similar to the first US issue
Pressed on four different colours: blue, red, green, or yellow vinyl. Front cover sticker, where present, indicates the vinyl colour.
A black vinyl version appeared in 2007
Matrix numbers, handwritten and different to previous versions:
RZM 200 A1
RZM 200 B1
A side label (red vinyl)
B side label (green vinyl)
All of this for you Transmission The leaders of men Living in the ice age They walked in line Interzone Failures Warsaw Novelty Shadowplay No love lost A black vinyl, plain white label, version of this LP was later included in The Early Years Box
24. WARSAW (LP) 69654 Vinyl Passion. 2007
Pressed on 180gm black vinyl
Label: Vinyl Passion
Catalogue No: VP 80000
1.000 copies Made in The Netherlands 2007
Matrix numbers:
Side A: 69654 1A VP 80000
Side B: 69654 2B VP 80000
All of this for you Interzone The leaders of men Warsaw They walked in line Shadowplay Failures As you said Novelty Inside the line No love lost Gutz Transmission At A Later date Living in the ice age The kill You're No Good For Me This LP has a different track list to the standard Warsaw LPs
All of side A + side B tracks 1-3: RCA album sessions 05/1978;
Side B track 4: Komakino flexi uncredited 3rd track "As You Said";
Side B tracks 5-9 Warsaw demos 18 July 1977See WARSAW (CD) MPG 74034 Movie Play Gold 1994 for the (earlier CD version)
Reissued in 2024 in a different sleeve - see listing 30 below
25. WARSAW (LP) 2012
UK release
No record label identified
No catalogue No
24" x 36" fold-out poster sleeve
Generic plain white inner sleeve
Black vinyl with plain white labels; green/lightly marbled yellow / orangey-red vinyl with plain black labels; and cloudy clear (sometimes described as "neon" or "glow in the dark") vinyl available both with plain black labels and also with printed picture labels (front cover image with the Unknown Pleasures wavy lines over it).
Matrix numbers:
WARSAW-A1
WARSAW-B1
Front as folded
Back
The Drawback Transmission The Leaders of Men Living in the ice age They walked in line Interzone Failures Warsaw Novelty Shadowplay No Love Lost As you said
This LP has a different track list to the standard Warsaw LPs
All tracks RCA album sessions May 1978 except B6 "Komakino" flexi uncredited 3rd track from the Closer sessions March 1980
The front cover features a Kevin Cummins' Manchester City Centre photo from January 1979
26. WARSAW (LP) 2016
Probably a European bootleg released 2016
Pressed on heavy vinyl
No record label identified
No catalogue number on packaging or label
Glossy sleeve
Front cover looks like most of these Warsaw sleeves, but the pulsar image is slightly smaller than before.
Back cover lists the usual 11 songs, but in one single row unlike the original sleeve, and this version actually has 17 songs, as detailed on the insert
"Warsaw" printed on the spine.
Black vinyl
Insert: single-sided black sheet with the full track listing and Warsaw photo by Kevin Cummins, from Rafters 30 June 1977
One plain black label and one with only a detail of the front cover pulsar image "wavy lines".
Matrix numbers:
WARS A
WARS B
Labels
Insert
1 The Drawback 1 Interzone 2 The Leaders of Men 2 Warsaw 3 They walked in line 3 Shadowplay 4 Failures 4 As You Said 5 Novelty 5 Inside The Line 6 No Love Lost 6 Gutz 7 Transmission 7 At A Later Date 8 Ice Age 8 The Kill
9 You're No Good For Me
This LP has a different track list to the standard Warsaw LPs
A1 - B3 RCA sessions, May 1978
B4 "Komakino" flexi 3rd uncredited track, "Closer" sessions, London, Britannia Row, March 1980
B5 - B9 Warsaw demos, Pennine Sound Studios, Oldham 18 July 1977 (insert incorrectly states Manchester)
27. WARSAW (LP) PC-375 Planet Claire Records 2016
French bootleg released 2016
Reissue of the LP above with different sleeve and labels.
Pressed on heavy black vinyl
Record label: Planet Claire Records
Catalogue number: PC-375
Glossy sleeve different to LP above, "WARSAW" on front cover and all 17 songs listed on the back
States: "Planet Claire Records, 11, la canebière . CS 603340-13211 Marseille Cedex OI. France" - actually the address of the the Marseille Office of Tourism and Conventions.
WARSAW on the spine.
A-side label (which is plain black on the other version) lists all the 17 songs ("This side" and "That side"), the B-side label is the same as on the other version (wavy lines front cover image detail).
No insert.
Matrix numbers:
WARS A
WARS B
1 The Drawback 1 Interzone 2 The Leaders of Men 2 Warsaw 3 They walked in line 3 Shadowplay 4 Failures 4 As You Said 5 Novelty 5 Inside The Line 6 No Love Lost 6 Gutz 7 Transmission 7 At A Later Date 8 Ice Age 8 The Kill
9 You're No Good For Me
This LP has a different track list to the standard Warsaw LPs
A1 - B3 RCA sessions, May 1978
B4 "Komakino" flexi 3rd uncredited track, "Closer" sessions, London, Britannia Row, March 1980
B5 - B9 Warsaw demos, Pennine Sound Studios, Oldham 18 July 1977 (insert incorrectly states Manchester)
28. WARSAW (LP) DOL 981H 2018
Released on DOL label 2018
Catalogue No: 981H
Black vinyl
Reissued 2018 as limited grey vinyl edition with a numbered front cover sticker (cover says 2013)
Reissued 5 November 2020 on grey vinyl again with a different unnumbered front cover sticker
Black and white labels.
Sticker on front is stuck to shrink wrap
All versions are on 180g Vinyl
Matrix NUMBERS: 17225E1/A 17225E2/A
All of this for you Transmission The leaders of men Living in the ice age They walked in line Interzone Failures Warsaw Novelty Shadowplay No love lost
Some Ebay sellers attempted to pass this off as a Record Store Day release at highly inflated prices.
29. WARSAW (LP) Outsider Records OUTS01 2021
Released on Outsider Records 2021
Cat.no.: OUTS01
Silver vinyl
Barcode on back cover: 0 712221 921278
Similar cover to No 28 above but same tracks as 26 and 27
1 The Drawback 1 Interzone 2 The Leaders of Men 2 Warsaw 3 They walked in line 3 Shadowplay 4 Failures 4 As You Said 5 Novelty 5 Inside The Line 6 No Love Lost 6 Gutz 7 Transmission 7 At A Later Date 8 Ice Age 8 The Kill
9 You're No Good For Me
This LP has a different track list to the standard Warsaw LPs
A1 - B3 RCA sessions, May 1978
B4 "Komakino" flexi 3rd uncredited track, "Closer" sessions, London, Britannia Row, March 1980
B5 - B9 Warsaw demos, Pennine Sound Studios, Oldham 18 July 1977
30. WARSAW (LP) VP 90152 Vinyl Passion 2024
Appears to be a reissue of the 2007 release on Vinyl Passion above (listing 24)
Pressed on 180gm black, cloudy-clear, and "Dracula red & black marble" vinyl
Coloured vinyl versions have a Sticker saying so on the shrink wrap
The "Dracula red... vinyl version also has a barcode sticker on the back 8 719039 006823 which is different to the one printed on all the back covers (see below)
Label: Vinyl Passion
Cat.no.: VP 90152
Back cover states "© 2024 Sound Factory.B.V. Made in The Netherlands"
Barcode on back cover: 8 719039 006694
Matrix numbers:
21911 1A VP 90053
21911 1B VP 90053
Dracula red & black marble
All of this for you Interzone The leaders of men Warsaw They walked in line Shadowplay Failures As you said Novelty Inside the line No love lost Gutz Transmission At A Later date Living in the ice age The kill You're No Good For Me