For a change, more than one I’m interested in.
Talking Heads – live at the Agora (2 x 45rpm cut of this heavily-bootlegged Warners radio show)
Sunhouse – Crazy on the Weekend
The Colourfield – Virgins & Philistines expanded
In my ‘maybe’ pile:
Dreadzone – Second Light
Jackie DeShannon – demos
Suede – Sci-fi Lullabies 2
https://www.recordstoreday.co.uk/rsd-list?syclid=cuihekoguric73dhljl0
The two standouts for me are the Joni Mitchell and Status Quo 1976 live sets. Sadly, it wasn’t a joint performance.
And Belly – King. I missed that. It’s going to be an expensive day…
And Sunhouse…the wonderful Gavin Clark’s (RIP) band. Great stuff, I’m in for that alone!
Yep, that’s in my must-have list, too.
The Colourfield expanded is on my radar as I have bought all three Specials and The Beat double-LP sets and they’ve been really good. I once worked with the bloke who is behind the current Chrysalis label reissues on a Cherry Red release, so I know his intentions are good.
Not much for me
2x45rpm is a pain. You have to swap sides/records every 10 minutes or so. And according to mastering engineer Kevin Gray they don’t any sound better than a similarly mastered 33 1/3 version
This from the guy who thinks an imagined Beatles As and Bs CD release is best served on 22 individual (count them!) CDs.
I don’t say that. I said it was available. It’s a replica of the original singles as they came out representing 7 inch releases from the 60s, with lovely picture sleeves. When they were released they were the first mono mixes on CD for most of them. And of course just rip them and place in any order you like. Any fool knows how to do that
You definitely did say that. ‘They’ve already done that’ you said… only they haven’t… unless, that is, you get Dai’s Ready Reckoner out.
I’m sorry I didn’t have it readily to hand!
So you are on the RSD thread here. What are you thinking about picking up? Or are you just trolling as usual
And what’s that got to do with RSD?
The original promo LP is over 49:30 long, which is pushing it (there were two masterings, after David Byrne complained about the sound quality). So adding an extra track would require spreading it over three sides of 33.33rpm vinyl, or four sides at 45rpm.
I have a bootleg LP and it sounds, well, alright, but that could be down to the unofficial pressing. Last year’s 45 rpm RSD live album sounds fantastic (as does the AAA 33.33rpm cut of ’77).
I’ve been waiting for this to appear for RSD for years, since the Pretenders equivalent Warners 1980 promo got a RSD release in 2020.
The bigger surprise is that they didn’t do the CBGB set from the recent ’77 box instead.
Re: “The bigger surprise is that they didn’t do the CBGB set from the recent ’77 box”
Yeah – that’s the one I was hoping for…
I would have considered the vinyl box set, with the CBGB gig and the replica 7″ singles, and I can’t be the only one this side of the Atlantic, but it was released only in the US. Expensive enough in $, there’s no way it would be sane on import. Rhino operating a bit of Trumponomics there.
This is where digital HD files come into their own. Doesn’t matter if the source recording doesn’t fit on a particular physical media format, you can play it all continuously if you want to. Or divide it up in whatever way suits you.
Trouble is for RSD if it’s listed as a double album you are probably looking at twice the price
I am mainly a vinyl guy, but for live recordings I agree that streaming digital files can be the better listening experience
I must admit, I agree. For live albums, CD or hi-res streaming are my favoured formats. I don’t want the mood put on hold every 15 or 20 minutes.
Zoetrope picture discs of All Things Must Pass, is there a device to watch them on?
You need a mobile phone and a paid-for app. No, I’m not making this up!
Ta for that Fentz, I think not then.
Plus picture disc = shit sound.
So, let’s see.
Your original. Sounds like recorded in a yurt of sand and glue. Still more or less brilliant, even the Apple Jam is fun.
2001: All Things Must Pass: 30th Anniversary Edition. Five bonus tracks, and Hari rejigged Apple Jam. Some of the drenchy echo removed. Remastered. V well received.
2011: All Things Must Pass 40th Anniversary. Vinyl triple record set, remastered digital edition. I think this version reverts to the pre 2001 version
2014. All Things Must Pass (included on The Apple Years box set). It’s now been four, long difficult years since we’ve had a new iteration of ATMP but the faithful are finally rewarded with yet another remaster. This one is very close to the 2001 remaster.
2021. 50th anniversary orgy of marketing mayhem. Seven different versions available from your bog standard cd to a bonkers Uber Deluxe Edition box set. This includes 70 tracks across 5 CDs/8LPs, including outtakes, jams and 47 demos, 42 of which are previously unreleased and a scrapbook containing archival notes and track-by-track annotation curated by Olivia Harrison.
The Uber Deluxe set adds a 44-page book on the creation of the 1970 triple album, along with scale replica figurines of Harrison and the Friar Park gnomes, an illustration by Voormann, and Paramahansa Yogananda’s text “Light from the Great Ones”, among other extras.
2025. Crowds gather anxiously at the gates of Friar Park as announcement made for the release of a RSD 2025 special edition printed on zoetrope vinyl. Finally, this classic 1970 album is being released as its maker intended.
Zoetrope is a bit ridiculous and guess what? They have gone back to the original 1970 version for this. Waste of a release
Phew, thank heavens I won’t have to set the alarm this year.
Bobby Charles
Coral
Liminanas
Mark Knopfler
And maybe the Van Morrison
The much criminally under-rated Bobby Charles rarities set looks good but I’ll hold out for the inevitable post-RSD release.
On every single Record Store Day, the good people at Elemental Music manage to put out ANOTHER set of unheard Bill Evans live recordings from some obscure corner of Europe. It’s incredible. Is there any town in Europe where Bill plus a bassist and drummer DIDN’T play a dynamite set, which is only now seeing the light of day?
Well, I looked through this year’s RSD list posted by fentonsteve at the top of the page, and sure enough, there it was: “Bill Evans – Further Ahead: Live in Finland 1964-1969”. I knew it.
Heresy, I know, but there are other jazz pianists I prefer to good ol’ introspective Bill.
Even Miles preferred Wynton Kelly for piano duties on Kind Of Blue’s “Freddie Freeloader”, because Bill wasn’t a bluesy enough player for the tune.