First-year pressing
The Message 1982 US Pressing (SH-584)
- Artist
- Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five Featuring: Melle Mel & Duke Bootee
- Title
- The Message
- Label
- Sugar Hill Records SH-584
- Country
- US
- Released
- 1982
- Format
- 12", 33 ⅓ RPM
Runout and matrix codes
Etched or stamped in the dead wax between the last track and the label. If yours match, you have this pressing.
- SH-584-ASide A label
- SH-584-BSide B label
- (VID 235 A)Side A label
- (VID 235 B)Side B label
- VID-235-A [illegible character]Side A runout etching
- VID-235-BSide B runout etching
- STERLINGSide A & B runout stamp
Other US pressings of The Message
- 1982Sugar Hill Records SH-58412", 33 ⅓ RPM, Single
- 1982Sugar Hill Records SH-58412", Promo
- 1982Sugar Hill Records SH 58412", 33 ⅓ RPM
- 1982Sugar Hill Records SH-58412", 33 ⅓ RPM
- 1982Sugar Hill Records SH 7877", 45 RPM, Promo
- 1982Sugar Hill Records SH 58412", 33 ⅓ RPM
- 1982Sugar Hill Records SH-58412", 33 ⅓ RPM
- 1982Sugar Hill Records SH-58412", 33 ⅓ RPM
- 1982Sugar Hill Records 62015212", 33 ⅓ RPM, Single Sided, Picture Disc
- 1982Sugar Hill Records SH-58412", 33 ⅓ RPM, Misprint
- 1997Rhino Records R0 72449 / Sugar Hill Records B-BOY 199712", 33 ⅓ RPM, Reissue
- 2004Sugar Hill Records SH-58412", Unofficial Release