IIRC (its been a while, obviously), the issue with
Control Domination was a blemish towards the end of the disc that caused the final few minutes of the last track to glitch or not play entirely. And that last track is awesome, so its understandable why its not pleasing to people.
I think the cause
might have been that the way the disc was placed, it ended up being too close to one of the points where the fastening screws were inserted, so the screw ended up scuffing the disk. But it could have been just a manufacturing issue as well. I remember a lot of chatter about it on the Malignant Tumorlist, but I don't think anybody ever definitely answered what happened.
There is a slight blemish on my copy towards the end, and I feel like I did notice at the time that it was close to where one of the screws had been sealed, but again, the decades may be misleading me. I'm lucky, though, in that my copy's always played fine.
To the point of the thread, I think I mentioned it the playlist thread somewhere, but this Broken Diode (pre-Human Larvae project) release, was the most infuriating packaging I've ever encountered:
https://www.discogs.com/release/961607-Broken-Diode-Screaming-On-The-InsideIt wasn't even that it was all that unusual in the extreme packaging department (screwing a CD in between two pieces of metal), its that the damn bolt on the screw WOULD...NOT...COME...OFF.
And it never truly did, either.
Over the course of multiple hours and having to deploy several tools, I managed to twist everything enough so that I could pull the CDR out. And that damn bolt is still there taunting me all those years later...
Thankfully, the disc wasn't damaged and its a pretty good slice of noise, but I'd prefer not to have take three week classes at Home Depot to open my music in the future.
