The list for this year was published last night, and is longer than ever. Do any of the releases pique your interest? With no participating shops in Suffolk, I won’t be taking part, but there does seem to be a lot of pointless reissues, as mentioned in the linked article (though I’m sure several here would disagree with their opinion of the Monkees’ catalogue as nonessential…).
So, what are your thoughts on RSD these days? And if you’re a fan, what are you hoping to get?
The list: http://recordstoreday.co.uk/exclusive-releases/rsd-2016/
Ambivalence. I will go to a record store somewhere – most likely Carnival in Worcester. Mainly for the vibe than for any essential purchase. Although would quite like the Flaming Lips release and definitely My Darling Clementine EP. I can see both sides of the argument but still maintain that if it gets extra punters through the door even for one day then hopefully enough of them will enjoy the experience enough to do it again on non RSD. If anything I think it should be done twice a year.
That should read Carnival, Malvern, Worcestershire.
The box of rocksteady 7″s looks interesting, but it’s probably about a million quid. It’s churlish to moan about people buying records, but I am less and less interested in RSD every year. The local indie to my work closed in January, and I don’t think I’ll be making any special trips to get barged about by eBay speculators this year.
lord, I’m a misery.
Not heard of that one, is it on 7″ or 12″?
(and I think it’s spelled Lorde)
It’s on bile-coloured vinyl
Got the Fotheringay single last year, luckily my son was buying stuff for himself so I didn’t have to queue at some unearthly time in the morning. Picked it up later.
Yeah, my brother grabbed me the Small Faces LP last year. In the past I’ve bought a few bits from ebay some time after the event for low prices. I’m actually perusing ebay right now, and RSD stuff from previous years is mostly pretty cheap.
It’s been a few years since I was really excited by the records – I think the year that this cracker (Eli Paperboy Reed)
was released, and I heard it on the radio on the way to Monorail on the day and thought “ooh, I’ll be having THAT!”. Too many very expensive niche items – but I bought The Rationals EP about 6 months after the event for £4, and last week I bought the Stooges live LP from last RSD for £10 (was £25).
As one of the blokes in Monorail said to me when I bought the Rationals EP – “for guys like you, every day is Record Store Day”.
I have enjoyed the events, though – last year we had a bunch of bands playing in-stores, including James King and The Lonewolves and later Rose McDowall.
So – support your Record Stores ALL YEAR ROUND, gang.
And enjoy this hissy list : http://www.factmag.com/2016/03/09/record-store-day-2016-best-worst-vinyl-releases/
I don’t do Vinyl, haven’t bought any for the best part of 30 years. I am afraid that I am a CD man all the way.
I shall now stand in the corner, facing the wall while the massive laugh at me while pelting me with rotten fruit.
It’s the music that matters not the medium.
You and me both Jack. At Christmas my step son wanted vinyl for his new record player in a suitcase. Seeing HMV charging £25 for “Dark Side Of The Moon” when the CD was £7 struck me that someone was having a very festive laugh.
I admit that I’m part of the problem…. but then I still spend a lot on buying music. I’m normally happy with a download but I’d be happy to go to a record shop and pay over the odds for a special edition but I don’t want vinyl so end up missing out entirely and the retailers miss out on taking my money. I don’t really understand why RSD focuses on vinyl given that, despite it’s increased popularity is still a very small market compared with overall music sales.
Oh yes, and why is the BBC getting involved in what seems to be a commercial promotion?
Some of the Elvis albums look tempting. Also The Sonics live set and the Zombies compilation. Not sure if I can be bothered to queue though, and it’s highly likely that Spillers in Cardiff will only be stocking the more ‘indie landfill’ side of things anyway.
I enjoy RSD and have joined the 8am queues the last two years, and will be in again this year. This is the dream list, but I’ll just get Tusk… And maybe The Move. And The Idle Race. Oh god.
Christy Moore – Paddy On The Road
Field Music – Field Music
Fleetwood Mac – Alternate Tusk
The Idle Race – Idle Race
Matthew Sweet – Goodfriend
Micky Dolenz – Chance of a Lifetime / Livin’ On Lies
The Monkees – Classic Album Collection
The Move – Something Else by The Move
Regina Spektor – Begin To Hope
Hi DrJ, are you still based in the Old Sod? If so, where are you gonna be picking up these gems? Just curious, like, honest!
Sorry, excluding Crusty Hoor 🙂
The past two years I’ve gone straight to Tower Records in Dawson St. It is amusing to be in a stuffed record store at 8am. I’ve usually had 2-3 things on my radar and they’ve always had what I was looking for there. Their Twitter feed in the run up to the day usually has a running commentary of what’s in store for RSD. To be honest, they have a lot of the titles for longer than just the day. Last year I thought I really needed the soundtrack to The Darjeeling Limited because I MIGHT NEVER SEE IT AGAIN. Anyway, they were giving them away a week later (good soundtrack tho’)
RAGE, Free Bird (I.e. Secret Book & Record Store) and Spin Dizzy have all been well-stocked on RSD in the past, and this year I have thought of heading to them first to spread the Euros around. Let me know where you end up!
Only the Dr Who film soundtracks as don’t have them on any format. And maybe the Magazine 12″. And perhaps Ou Est La Maison Fromage .
But it’s a pretty poor list with the usual pic disc nonsense and 80s singles that are 50s in yer local chazza. The US are getting Bowie Pye comp which I might have gone for
I’m a bit underwhelmed by the list. The only thing that jumps out is the Caverns Of Anti-Matter thing. I’ve not heard of quite a lot of the artists so perhaps there are some mega desirable items by bands that I don’t know about.
The Fall releases which look like semi-bootlegs just shows how little quality control is in place yet again.
This years award for release that you can get for 50p in a charity shop has to go to the green vinyl edition of Jona Lewie ‘You Can Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties’ –
I’ve done quite a bit of record shopping this year and I get the distinct impression that 2nd hand shops are springing up again and prices are rising – and that the record shops that survived the late 00s are doing fine selling reissues and new physical product to people that want it – I think RSD has been a big factor in that – but I do wonder if maybe it’s time to rethink RSD as it seems to be turning into a day of promoting Vinyl reissues – I don’t see much new music or music exclusive to RSD in there…just lots of old music on limited edition formats.
That award surely must go to Europe’s Final Countdown.
I missed that one – mind you last time Europe played Manchester there was a bunch of fans outside the venue they were playing waiting to get in at lunchtime – I guess all bands have their diehard fans even fecking Europe
Like ‘St. Patrick’s Day’ and ‘Cheltenham’, it’s underlined in my diary in red ink…..
‘Avoid like the Plague’.
Probably go to a supermarket and get a CD.
There are a number of things of interest, including the Shirley Collins, Jason Molina, Magazine and Down by the Jetty. But judging by past performance my ‘local’ record shop won’t answer questions as to which records they will try and get. It takes me two hours to get to the shop and means losing a day’s pay, so I won’t bother.
Well, if nothing else, I dare say it will galvanise the eel-marketeers to remind where the files may be located. Where there’s a worm(hole) theres a way or however the saying goes, as old Willard knows only too well.
Very Afterword.
Captain Beefheart – Live at Knebworth 1975
Derek & Clive – Punk Song
Jethro Tull with the London Symphony Orchestra – A Classic Case
The Shaggs – Sweet Maria/The Missouri Waltz
Various Artists – Songs The Bonzo Dog Band Taught Us
Various Artists – Get Me Home For Tea Rare Psychedelic Rock From The UK
Various Artists – Hello Kitty Hello World
Hi Beany, If I send you a C90 will you tape me that `Get Me Home For Tea…. comp. I`ll send it with a S.A.E. and don`t forget `home taping killed music`.
You are George Davenport of Pandemonium Records and I claim my £3 10s 0d postal order.
(One for the older Manchester clique that quip)
Oh, I remember that guy. His shop was on the first floor of a building on the Oxford Road. The first time I went in there he was having a violent argument with another customer and threatening to call the police about something. Hmmmm….
Oh boy there’s a story and a half. Some pals of mine were able to visit the waterlogged cellar in Newton Heath where most of Pandemonium’s vast stock ended up – it was sort of a record shop only he wouldn’t let you buy anything.
Last I heard George had won damages against the former landlord over the damaged stock and had taken up collecting CDs instead!
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/george-davenport-north-manchester-wins-6646471
Will probably give it a miss this year. I enjoy the day, but have ended up with quite a few non essential rather expensive purchases that just sit on my shelves for the most part.
The Earth vinyl 7″ of Bert Jansch’s 1979 non-album single ‘Black Birds of Brittany’, with a previously unreleased period track on the B-side and new artwork tying it in beautifully to the new artwork created for Earth’s recent deluxe vinyl edition of Bert’s 1979 bird-themed album ‘Avocet’ is worth drawing attention to.
Personally, I’ll also be on the lookout for Music On Vinyl’s Focus single, combining both the US and European versions of ‘Hocus Pocus’ for the first time.
I`m a bit pissed of about the Bert Jansch 7″, I bought the Earth issue of `Avocet` on vinyl and CD, I thought they would have issued the 7″ with the LP.
Ain`t doin` no record store queuin`.
I`m a bit pissed off about the Bert Jansch 7″, I bought the Earth issue of `Avocet` on vinyl and CD, I thought they would have issued the 7″ with the LP.
Ain`t doin` no record store queuin`.
?!? hmmmm
You’re REALLY p***ed off, then, Birdy?
No-one tempted by Bill Wyman’s Monkey Grip? On picture disc? No-one?
Only as a back-up if the Alan Partridge picture disc sells out.
I wonder, assuming some people actually buys the Partridge disc, will anyone actually ever play it ?
I’d put the Partridge next to my bootleg of Wings in Prestatyn and Joni Mitchell song that woefully doesn’t take into consideration the pedestrianisation of Norwich City centre
If you listen carefully to that Prestatyn boot, you can just make out the sound of an over-refreshed Pencilsqueezer being ejected from the back of the hall He’s still barred, apparently.
Still over-refreshed too as it happens.
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Hoping for this, on 12″ glitter vinyl impregnated with the smell of cheese.
http://i1350.photobucket.com/albums/p773/minibreakfast/DSCN0184_zpstsqcqczv.jpg
Mine is impregnated with the smell of musty old clothes.
Mine smells of despair.
Not really! It reeks of EURO DISCO FUN TIMES!
This evening I’ve seen emails and tweets from three different record shops asking people what they’d like them to order in from the massive RSD list. They’re obviously worried about getting saddled with loads of unsellable tat.
SOOTY AND SWEEP – THE DISCO YEARS. 1977 outing, in which our loveable duo cover such classics as The Trammps’ ‘Disco Inferno’, The Bee Gees’ ‘Jive Talking’ and Tina Charles’ ‘I Love To Love’ in their inimitable squeaky/completely silent style. It gives the lie to the notion that RSD has become a massive barrel scraping cash grab where outlandishly shit records, that were once available in charity shops for 50p or were never released in the first place for good reason are now being sold for £48. £47.99
Shite Enough for @beany!
I’m starting to get a complex about these unfair mentions. Lesser mortals would buckle under such barely disguised abuse and contempt *
* I already have that LP. 50p? Came in a job lot from a local auction. More like 5p. Result.
P.S. Watch this space. Auction day tomorrow and I have my eye on some pretty good shit. Pardon my French.
Bloody hell, is Butch on it? I’d love to hear him blowing some skronking abstract tenor over the likes of Ra Ra Rasputin.
Fear not. One of these I shall find the time to post the “best of the best” onto this thing we call “the internet” for a right good knees-up. Especially from those cheapo Top Of The Pops compilations, once I find which room they are hiding. I’ve yet to find a better Rod Stewart impersonator than the one what found me the other day.
Do you know nothing ? It’s Sweep that plays tenor. You can find the clip on You Tube of the arcade machine with him on tenor, Sooty on drums and Sue on piano. Alternatively go immediately to the Dorchester Teddy Bear Musuem and put 20p in the slot.
Hoi!
I refer you to the opening of this mighty cultural artefact, courtesy of @black-celebration.
Eat my Butch, Beeeeatch!
It was a good thread anyway
This is clearly some third rate version of the band that is currently touring. I gather that Butch is the only original cast member, but was never one of the core trio, so it is akin to the 2016 version of Dr Feelgood. The Sooty ,Sweep and Sue pictured here are jumped up sock puppets.
Here is the real thing.
That’s not the real anything. Those lifeless cadavers are Frankenstein’s puppets. That’s not a player piano, it’s Player Puppetry.
Compare the action in the clip above. Singing mice! Soo nutting the keyboard, Monk-style! Trombone-crazee Sweep unable to hold still during the Creedence song! Kids pogo-ing! Through the whole thing!
You are so easily taken in. The real Sweep was always more your studio genius, sent minions out on the road to do the fridge. Just a succession of dupes in suits. The bunch you are talking about actually spent most of their time as Wombles.
Another exclusive for RSD. Remastered 18LP Endlessly Expanded Box, infused with the smell of disappointment. £175.99.
http://i1350.photobucket.com/albums/p773/minibreakfast/endless%20flight_zpsllatgfov.jpg
I stared at that sleeve for ages trying to figure out what was wrong with it. Then I twigged: the lack of a British Heart Foundation price sticker.
I’ve just realised that that pic looks precisely like the view from an open helicoptor door a nanosecond after someone has successfully pushed Leo out of it.
I was interested in the Grateful Dead 4LP live set. Until I found out the price – £120. One hundred and twenty pounds. Include me out.
Record Day came early for me with this LP part of today’s auction booty. I had never seen this before yesterday and had to hang around for 2 hours just to get a chance to bid and win.
https://flic.kr/p/Eqsgmz