Colored vinyl that's easily mistaken for black vinyl.

List 'em.

The Police - Outlandos d'Amour
The Police - Synchronicity
The Cure - Pictures of You 12"
Squeeze - Argybargy
Joe Jackson - Body and Soul

What else you got?

My copy of Neil Young's Tonight's The Night looked normal but was translucent

Some of the early Factory albums were like that, "Return of the Durutti Column" for e.g.

Ooooh, I will need to check my copy of Tonight's the Night when I get home!

Nope.

Not my copy of Durutti's LC, either.

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This count?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGDBP_L3KRw

Technically not colored, but still endlessly cool.

**checks other Split Enz albums**

Yep, Conflicting Emotions is on dark brown vinyl, too. Another A+M album.

**also checks Squeeze whilst in that section of the alphabet**

Yep, Babylon and On. Also A+M, hmmmm......

i swear my UK copy of Elton John's Greatest Hits looks black but if you hold it up to the light it's red!

speaking of Tonight's The Night did anyone ever track down a copy that came with the pack of glitter? or was Shakey just having us on?

Lps were made with "Thinner" density vinyl during the shortage, possibly it was over by the time LC came out.

How thin would a piece of normally coloured vinyl have to be to be translucent and still play? & play more than once?

It's not the thin-ness of the vinyl (I don't think), it's the amount of 'hardener/colour' added to it (I think).

Yeah, my copies of Conflicting Emotionsm Argybargy and Babylon are pretty standard thickness/weight That's why I went so long without noticing that you can see through them in the right light.

some of the Throbbing Gristle singles looked like they were on black vinyl until you held them up to the light - and they were dark translucent red.

cook labs did this a lot in the 50's. kinda chocolate colored. they had weird vinyl. lots of bubbling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Records

Cook is sometimes said to have intended only to show the quality of his recording and molding process at an audio fair, with the added, unique feature of binaural (i.e., sterophonic) sound as attention-catching gimmick, and the response was so overwhelming that he decided to start producing and selling his equipment, together with the production of a tremendous number of stereo recordings. There was a somewhat similar unexpected result of his Microfusion process of record pressing. The process required the filling of each mold individually (he had a production-line at which a dozen or so individuals filled them simultaneously at his small factory, each mold-filler than handing the filled mold to an individual operating a nearby record press. The presses, which accepted one mold at a time, were much smaller than the presses used in the standard, hot-liquid-biscuit, process: the Cook presses were each not much bigger than a refrigerator. At some point it occurred to Emory Cook that it might make more sense for some record shops to press the records themselves, as customers requested them, rather than to pay shipping and stocking costs. The result was that by 1958 there were record shops on Caribbean islands from Puerto Rico to Trinidad that had a Cook record-press in the back of the store. Some of the owners of these small shops, or their associates, began recording local music themselves. They shipped the master tape recording of an album up to Cook, and (for about $100) he made a metal mold of it, which was shipped back to the record store, which, when asked for a copy of the record, would pull the mold for that record from the shelf, fill it with the powdered vinyl (which was sprayed from a device resembling an old-fashioned hair dryer and was covered the mold exactly), and then popped it in the oven-cum-high-pressure press