18/04/2026
The first of 2026’s opportunities to pick up pointless coloured vinyl and zoetrope pressings of records you already have. Hurrah!
As usual, I’ll be buying albums by the Colourfield and Talking Heads (CBS demos – finally I can ditch my bootleg LP) and many non-RSD bargains from my tiny local shop’s massive warehouse clearout.
Probably of most interest is the FGTH Peel & Kid Jensen sessions (from the recent massive CD box set).
Edith: the link didn’t appear.
https://www.recordstoreday.co.uk/rsd-list
Maybe you typed it in lemon juice
Bruce for me maybe, not too inspired by the list.
I just heard that vinyl-wise Meeting Across The River and Jungleland which have to follow each other when both played are on different sides. Appalling!
(there is also a CD version available)
Please can we have a CD version of Record Store Day?
(maybe without the splatter pattern on the disc itself).
A couple there I’d have on CD, notable the Stiff Little Fingers Peel Sessions set.
I have the original on vinyl, but if you want to get the CD version, you may need to sell a kidney
(have just had another proper look, and there are 6 CD releases on the list)
Bruce Kulick is now fully titled: “Bruce Kulick From Kiss”.
Why? hoping the attachment to the CCNHMs could shift more units maybe
Have just checked, Transformer is not a Kiss-ed up version of Lou Reed’s outing
(possibly more interesting if it was)
Good Gawd y’all! There’s a half-speed mastered LP of National Health’s ‘Of Queues and Cures’!!!
RSD is something I have never participated in. Looking at the list, I see there is an album I want a lot, but I know that my local record shop won’t stock it. Is it as simple as asking them to get a copy, or do I have to find a shop which might have ordered it?
You can ask them. Stores will normally look at the list and order what they think their customers might like. No guarantee that they get what they ordered though, and they will only know a day or two beforehand when they are delivered to the store.
Firstly they have to partake in RSD. My local shop (actually a garden shed) asks you to provide a wants list. They then gather all the requests and order them in. More often than not, they don’t get everything they order (some are pressed in such low numbers that each shop only gets one copy). Then it’s first come first served on the day.
I usually pop round after my lunch. I’ve always been lucky and got something I want from my RSD list. None of that queuing from 5am lark for me!
I will ask them then. I’m confident I won’t have any competition if they get it!
Oi @alias
You can’t leave it at that!
Ok it’s the Markolino Dimond Brujeria album.
Did an old employee from Andy’s Records compile the list? Bruce Springsteen under B etc . Tssk.
Not a great list, hints of barrel scraping (particularly with the Doors- whose releases I usually snap up). But I might pop into Spillers the week after to see if they still have a copy of the XTC one.
The XTC appears to be the first of a series of live records.
Skimming through the list yesterday, fatigue set in well before the bottom of the page, and I mistakenly thought it was taken from the Transistor Blast cd box.
I think some of the live stuff on ‘Transistor’ appeared on a single CD; possibly a BBC Sight and Sound one? Not in the same room as them, so can’t confirm.
The tracks I’ve played the most from Transistor are the various BBC sessions, with stuff from Big Express and Oranges and Lemons. Shame there wasn’t a real drummer involved.
The John Prine BBC sessions LP might be quite good.
The I-Roy album might be decent.
But I’ll probably end up getting nothing from RSD, as I tend to do. The range of RSD titles available in Sweden is always much smaller than in the US or UK.
The Horslips live LP is sensational, trust me!
I quite fancy ‘Here Come The Tears’ by The Tears and ‘Leisure Noise’ by Gay Dad….although I probably won’t fancy them when I see the prices!
Both very good albums, both bought on CD shortly after release, both purchased for a quid a pop.
I know a few will get The Tears because of the link to Suede (and Suede have, what, two RSD releases this year?) but… have I missed the Gay Dad revival? Nobody told me!
I am interested in the Labi Siffre and Iris Dement albums. Some of the live albums also look interesting, although price and quality of recording might determine whether or not I try and get them. I might try and get the House of Love one regardless, as I think I was there.
If you’re not bothered about the ‘bonus’ LP or coloured vinyl, there was a half-speed cut of the Labi Siffre album in 2023 which is still available for more reasonable non-RSD money.
Thank you, that’s very helpful to know, I can certainly live without the bonus LP and coloured vinyl.
Can anybody explain the appeal of Zoetrope versions?
Also I see the Springsteen live album is “RSD first”, same for the Neil Young one too I believe. So I will probably stay in bed.
See also: Air Conditioning, possibly the first picture disc/zoetrope LP (1970) released in the UK?
I guess the appeal is just the pattern it makes on the turntable when it spins…
Recreational drug use has a lot to answer for.
The worst part is, having paid RSD money for a shit pressing (picture disc) you need to spend yet more dosh on a phone app to view them.
I suppose, if you have a Technics 1210, the strobe light would also work.
Zoetrope albums are for people who put their “vinyls” in frames on the walls.
They won’t be playing them.
I’ve warmed (very, very, very slightly) to RSD just because the guy who has opened a record shop near us had a terrific time at the last couple.
I’m in no danger of going on the day itself obviously, I’ll probably go the day before, I’ll probably go the day after. Can anyone tell me why CDs are so poorly represented? He’d make more money if they were. Whenever it started (about 15/20 years ago?) it definitely wasn’t a vinly-only concern, it’s just mutated into that.
I see Bill Brudford is involved. I’ve never heard of him.