Roberta Flack’s first LP is getting the 50th Anniversary treatment on its, erm, 51st Anniversary.
Great forward planning!
Neither the Mojo or Uncut reviews make it completely clear what is on offer, or the price, a common occurrence in those magazines unfortunately, but the obligatory vinly is pictured with 2 CDs and, yes, it appears that the obligatory vinly and 2 CDs is what you get.
I find the ways of the Record Industry increasingly bizarre, but wouldn’t it be better to release said product on the obligatory vinly OR compact disc rather than the obligatory vinly AND compact disc.
Yet another “no sale,” I’m afraid.
I don’t know how they keep finding different ways to not sell me records, but they do.
Alias says
Coincidentally I listened to that album this week. I have her first 2 albums on a vinyl twofer. She is a fabulous vocalist. The album has great tracks and filler. I don’t see how it can stretch to 2 CDs.
I didn’t know it was the 50th anniversary. What were the reviews like?
deramdaze says
The reviews were fine, it’s a great album, it’s from 69, and the bonus CD featured her live set from late 68, so a really nice 2-CD set … but not lumped on with an erroneous LP.
Both magazines gave it a 3/4 page spread.
On closer inspection, it’s a U.S. release and is limited to 3,000 copies.
What a miserable amount …. less than an A.F.C. Wimbledon crowd …. and quite why Uncut and Mojo got so busy on the matter is anyone’s guess.
Freebies?
3,000.
Hardly “spreading the word.”
Why don’t they want to SELL product?
I thought that’s what the Record Industry was built on!
Slug says
Oi, You! Mr Sarky – outside, now!
Never mind Roberta bleedin’ Flack (although Compared to What on that album is sublime) – I’ll have you know that AFC Wimbledon’s average home crowd this season was around 4350, which considering the record ever attendance at our tiny little ground is 4870, means we fill our stadium every single home game to over 90% capacity, something only Portsmouth in our league can improve upon. And when we finally get to move to our new home back at Plough Lane, we will more than double our current average. crowd. So there.
Slug says
(Sucks teeth) And another thing – It’s AFC and not A.F.C.
deramdaze says
No offence.
It was used to point out what (for an album by a reasonably famous act, and with one of the most famous songs of all time on it) a pitifully small number 3,000 actually is. That’s worldwide.
I’m not wildly sure the monthly magazines should give 4 pages over to a release with such a miserable number of copies available.
I don’t get it. I thought it was about making money.
Peter Grant must be turning in his grave!
Alias says
I wonder how many copies albums not available in supermarkets do sell. 3,000 must be enough for the company to make money.
Mike_H says
Yes, and then after a while they’ll have an unlimited rerelease in a cheaper package. This limited one is just an attention-grabber for the later one. I bet every major music review site/magazine got a copy.
Vulpes Vulpes says
Anything released on vinly only will not be purchased here.
I love vinyl – I have a big 2,500 LP wall full of the stuff – and I love playing it, but I will rarely buy vinyl these days, and as a matter of principle I certainly refuse to be forced into making a vinyl purchase by dint of some bearded marketing twat deciding that that’s the best way to re-release the work of someone whose shoes they are not fit to shine.