Mark your Calendars! The 2015 Record Store Day is Saturday, April 18! If you’re a resident of Jersey City, make your way over to Iris Records to partake!
When people see my vinyl record collection, one of the first questions I receive is “Why don’t you use Spotify” or “You know you could just steal that on Pirate Bay”. The typical response to this question from vinyl-collecting nerds worldwide is “It just sounds better, trust me.” While I do agree with that response, that’s not why I love records so much. The advent of digital music libraries changed the way most people listen to music, and in my opinion, something sacred was lost
What you ask? Well, nowadays most people don’t actually listen to albums, beginning to end, the way they were intended to be heard. A record, like a cassette tape, requires the listener be attentive when listening to an artist’s work. It also removes the concept of shuffling through songs or listening to a music library of 1000s of songs. Sure, you can skip songs, but that’s not the point. The point is that when an artist creates a work of art, the viewer must take in the whole work to really appreciate it. You wouldn’t skip to the middle of a book, or only look at half of a painting, would you? Anyways, to celebrate the love of vinyl, here’s a list of Record Store Day releases that we’re excited for – Dennis Marrero.
2015 Record Store Day Release Highlights
Ryan Adams – Come Pick Me Up
FORMAT: 7″ Vinyl
Two unreleased tracks from the forthcoming deluxe reissue of “Heartbreaker” (coming in late 2015).
TRACKLIST: “Come Pick Me Up” (alternate take); “When The Rope Gets Tight” (previously unreleased)
Syd Barrett/R.E.M. – Dark Globe
FORMAT: 7″ Colored Vinyl
7″ 45 RPM purple vinyl. Part of Rhino’s now celebrated RSD exclusive Side By Side 7″ singles series. Two artists perform the same song.
TRACKLIST: “Dark Globe”/”Dark Globe”
Blitzen Trapper – Harvest
FORMAT: 12″ Vinyl
Live recording of the band covering the Neil Young album “Harvest” live at the Doug Fir Lounge in Portland, OR. 180 gram vinyl w/ download card.
Buzzcocks – The Way
Format: 7″ Colored Vinyl
The A-side is the title track to their critically acclaimed album from 2014 and the B-Side is an unissued track from the same sessions.
TRACKLIST: “The Way”/”Generation Suicide”
Death Cab For Cutie/Freedy Johnston- Bad Reputation
Format: 7″ Colored Vinyl
7″ 45 RPM Vinyl is baby blue w/coke bottle green splatter
TRACKLIST: Bad Reputation/Bad Reputation
The Flaming Lips – Bad Days (Format: 10″ Colored Vinyl)
Format: 120″ Colored Vinyl
2015 marks the 20th anniversary of the critically worshipped Clouds Taste Metallic, The Flaming Lips 7th studio album originally released in 1995. THE LIPS love RSD and to celebrate, they offer a series three Limited Edition 10” EP’s on different colored vinyl that contain tracks only released overseas.
Jerry Garcia – Garcia (Compliments)
Format: 12″ Colored Vinyl
Limited re-issue on colored vinyl. Translucent Green Vinyl,individually numbered foil stamped packaging, front cover embossed
Grizzly Bear – Horn of Plenty
Format: 12″ Vinyl
This special reissue of Grizzly Bear’s debut album includes original artwork and splatter vinyl treatment. The mp3 download card includes 14 album tracks and 17 bonus remixes including Dntel, Efterklang, Ariel Pink, Soft Pink Truth, Final Fantasy and more.
Interpol – Everything is Wrong
Format: 7″ Vinyl
The b-side of this single is a never-before-released track, exclusive to this Record Store Day release. The artwork is by Shepard Fairey.
TRACKLIST: 1. Everything is Wrong; 2. What is What
The Kinks – Kinksize Session
Format: 7″ Vinyl
Originally released in 1964, The Kinks 1st EP, long out of print, presented on 7″ as it was originally issued / Includes 4 tracks
TRACKLIST: Louie Louie, I Gotta Go Now; I’ve Got That Feeling, Things Are Getting Better
Johnny Marr – I Feel you
FORMAT: Limited edition colored numbered 7″ vinyl
TRACKLIST:I Feel You” (Depeche Mode); Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (The Smiths)
The Replacements – Replacements EP
FORMAT: 10″ Vinyl
10″ black regular weight vinyl 4 song EP from Pleased to Meet Me. Originally released in the UK as a 7″.
TRACKLIST: Alex Chilton; Nightclub Jitters; Election Day; Route 66
Violent Femmes – Happy New Year
FORMAT: 12″ Vinyl
12″ Vinyl EP with FOUR brand new songs recorded by the band in Hobart, Tasmania over the 2014 Holiday. This is the first new music from the Violent Femmes in 17 years!
TRACKLIST: Happy New Year Next Year; Love Love Love Love Love; Good At/For Nothing; Fast Horses
Built To Spill – Untethered Moon
FORMAT: 12′ Vinyl
Untethered Moon shows BTS’s creative process continues to ebb, flow and evolve in its own orbit, reemerging on record for the first time since 2009’s There Is No Enemy with ten new songs.
Frank Zappa – Overture From Frank Zappa’s “200 Motels”
FORMAT: 7″ Colored Vinyl
In October 2013, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of conductor Essa-Pekka Salonen, recorded the music of composer Frank Zappa which he had originally scored for his cult-classic movie “200 Motels.” This limited-edition, purple-colored 7” single contains the opening piece from the concert, “Overture” (from 200 Motels) and another gem from the Zappa canon on the B-side.
View a full listing of all the official releases here
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