Record Store Day 2012

Linda · **Posted:** Sun Jan 29, 2012 1:41 am

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Iggy Pop named Record Store Day 2012 ambassador

Iggy Pop has been named ambassador of Record Store Day 2012.

Set to take place on April 21, Record Store Day sees exclusive releases and special shows to celebrate independent record shops. The Stooges main man has said of his new role: "As Record Store Day Ambassador for 2012 I feel like a representative from some exotic jungle full of life and death and sex and anger, called upon to wear a leopard skin and translate joy to the world of the dead."

He added: "A person should have a personality. You won't get one dicking around on a computer. It helps to go somewhere where there are other persons. Persons who are interested in something you are. That's how a record store or any shop that's got some life to it should work. It's not about selling shit."

He continued: "I got my name, my musical education and my personality all from working at a record store during my tender years. Small indie shops have always been a mix of theatre and laboratory. In the 50s and 60s the teen kids used to gather after school at these places to listen free to the latest singles and see if they liked the beat."

"You could buy the disc you liked for 79 cents and if you were lucky meet a chick. Clerks in these places became managers (like Brian Epstein), label heads (Jac Holzman), and Faces on album covers (like me)."

For more information on Record Store Day, visit http://www.recordstoreday.com. The Flaming Lips' frontman Wayne Coyne is working on a compilation of tracks with other artists for the 2012 event including Neon Indian, Lightning Bolt and Prefuse 73, reports Billboard.com.

http://www.nme.com/news/iggy-pop/61637

Tricky Kid · **Joined:** 23 Sep 2007 **Posts:** 8297

Iggy Pop wrote:

A person should have a personality. You won't get one dicking around on a computer.

Well, I believe Iggy has just given us our next forum tagline...

pghmusiclover · **Joined:** 15 Jul 2007 **Posts:** 3360

From Pitchfork last October:

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Flaming Lips Collecting Collaborations for Record Store Day Release
Tracks with Nick Cave, Death Cab, Neon Indian, possibly Lykke Li and Ke$ha
By Jenn Pelly on October 7, 2011 at 10:17 a.m.

Wayne Coyne tells Billboard that the Flaming Lips plan to release a Record Store Day compilation of collaborative tracks for next year's holiday. It will gather their work with Neon Indian, Lightning Bolt, and Prefuse 73, with whom they have released collaborative EPs this year, along with in-the-works collabs with Nick Cave, Death Cab for Cutie, Ghostland Observatory, and Cloudland Canyon. They also have their sights set on collaborations with Lykki Li and Ke$ha (!). Coyne also tells Billboard that a second compilation of collaborations will be released later next year.

Additional information and some clips here:

http://pitchfork.com/news/45221-preview ... -and-keha/

David Baker · 31 Oct 2006

ABBA will release a limited edition 12-inch vinyl single for Record Store Day on Saturday, April 21. Side A features Voulez-Vous (Extended Dance Remix), originally released as a promo-only single in the United States and France. This marks the first commercial vinyl release of this remix. On side B is the equally danceable If It Wasn't For The Nights, originally released on the Voulez-Vous album. This special Record Store Day release is pressed on blue glitter vinyl and packaged in a cardboard sleeve. The 12-inch single, which is limited to 4,000 numbered copies (catalogue number 00602527957302), is for sale exclusively in participating stores.

Willy Wilson · **Joined:** 22 Jan 2007 **Posts:** 939

These are just too cool - I've got to get them!!!

Buck Owens and The Knack record store day releases!

From Billboard...

Record Store Day is just around the corner on April 21, and Omnivore Recordings has announced two upcoming exclusive releases that day -- one of which will feature one of Country Music's all-time legends.

The burgeoning Los Angeles-based record label will issue an original, limited edition, vintage 1970 Buck Owens coloring book coupled with a four-song flexi-disc, and digital download card, of rare live material from the legendary country music Hall of Famer and pioneer of the Bakersfield Sound. Alongside that unique collection, Omnivore Recordings will also issue a 10" authorized bootleg EP from 1978 featuring L.A. power pop group The Knack, a year before "My Sharona" made them an overnight success. Both Buck Owens and The Knack are vinyl only, limited edition releases exclusively for Record Store Day and available only at participating retailers on April 21.

The coloring books are of great historical significance. Commissioned by Buck Owens in 1970, these original, uncirculated vintage coloring books have been safely stored by Buck Owens Enterprises for over 40 years. Original copies are sought-after by collectors and they are now officially being made available to the public this spring, for the first time since 1970. Omnivore Recordings is hand coupling a limited edition of 2,500 original stock coloring books with a newly pressed flexi-disc that includes four rare live tracks. The story told in the coloring book culminates in Buck & The Buckaroos playing a concert with four of Buck's biggest hits "Act Naturally," "Together Again," "I've Got A Tiger By The Tail," and "Crying Time" specifically highlighted and named below the double-page spread (and you can color it in). The flexi-disc and digital download card included with this coloring book feature rare live versions of those exact songs, curated from Buck Owens & The Buckaroos historic performance at the White House for President Lyndon Johnson on September 9, 1968.

This collector's bundle features a red, white or blue flexi-disc, which is viewable from the outside of the package and contains all four of the above-mentioned songs. The album "Live At The White House," from which the tracks are drawn, was recorded in 1968 and issued almost exactly four years later on Sept. 5, 1972 and has never been reissued in any form. The set includes live versions of many Owens classics, and originally included Buck's studio version of "You Ain't Gonna Have Ol' Buck To Kick Around No More," a No. 13 hit for Owens that year -- reportedly inspired by a statement from Richard Nixon after losing the California Governor's race in 1962.

Later this election year, Omnivore Recordings will release Live At The White House in its entirety for the first time on CD. This reissue also features a previously unissued bonus set that was broadcast to the astronauts aboard Apollo 16 in 1972, and has never before been heard on planet earth.

"We at Buck Owens Productions have enjoyed working with a record label that thinks outside the box set!" said Jim Shaw, longtime keyboardist for the Buckaroos, and executive of Buck Owens Productions. "Omnivore constantly surprises and delights us with their creative ideas."

Omnivore will also issue The Knack's Live In Los Angeles, 1978 that day. Culled from The Knack's late-frontman Doug Fieger's personal tape archive, Live In Los Angeles, 1978 captures The Knack at their pre-fame height, right before they would sign to Capitol and hit the big time. An authorized bootleg, this EP is being presented for the very first time as an historical document to the band and Los Angeles' late-'70s musical era. The Knack Live in Los Angeles, 1978 is limited to an edition total of only 1,500 10" records on red/yellow splatter-colored vinyl.

Charles · 19 Dec 2007

From The Kinks Facebook page

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We are pleased to announce that we will be releasing three Kinks albums on coloured vinyl limited to 500 each exclusively for Record Store Day. Over the coming days we will reveal which albums and in what colours, so stay tuned!

Plasquatch · **Joined:** 04 Apr 2009 **Posts:** 315

I wouldn't be surprised if that was UK-only.

Meanwhile, Warner Bros. is preparing another huge onslaught of releases.

The Black Keys: El Camino (Deluxe vinyl album)
Gary Clark Jr.: Gary Clark Jr. Presents HWUL Cuts Vol. I (12″ vinyl single)
Eric Clapton: Blues (Deluxe Vinyl Album Box Set)
Common: The Dreamer/The Believer (12″ vinyl album)
Wilco / Billy Bragg: Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions (3 CD and 1 DVD)
Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr.: We Almost Lost Detroit EP (12″ vinyl EP)
Disturbed: The Collection (Vinyl Album Box Set)
Dr. John: Locked Down (Vinyl album)
Fleetwood Mac: Fleetwood Mac (Deluxe and Standard vinyl editions)
Jeff The Brotherhood: Upstairs at United Vol. 3 (12″ vinyl EP)
Kimbra: Settle Down (Deluxe CD EP)
Metallica: Beyond Magnetic (12″ color vinyl EP)
Mastodon / Feist “A Commotion”/ “Black Tongue” (7″ vinyl single)
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Stadium Arcadium (Deluxe 180 Gram vinyl Box Set)
Ximena Sarinana: Maps / La Llorona (7″ vinyl single)
Regina Spektor: “The Prayer of François Villon (Molitva)”/ “Old Jacket (Stariy Pedjak)” (7″ color vinyl single)
Tegan and Sara: Get Along (12″ color vinyl album)

Also, the return of the Side by Side series:

The Flaming Lips / Mastodon: “A Spoonful Weighs A Ton” (7″ baby pink vinyl single)
Sara Watkins(Featuring Fiona Apple) / The Everly Brothers: “You’re The One I Love” (7″ olive green with blue/black splatter vinyl single)
Michael Bublé / Ray Charles: Georgia On My Mind(7″ Georgia Peach vinyl single)
Carolina Chocolate Drops / Run-DMC: “You Be Illin’” (7″ Coke-bottle green vinyl single)
MC5 / Afrika Bambaataa: “Kick Out the Jams” (7″ White with red splatter vinyl single)
Otis Redding / Aretha Franklin: “Respect” (7″ gold vinyl single)

And the previously-mentioned Flaming Lips collaboration record.

Charles · 19 Dec 2007

I'm going to have to look out for the Wilco/Billy Bragg Mermaid Av. set.

Charles · 19 Dec 2007

The 1st of the 3 Kinks is Face To Face in blue vinyl.

Picture at
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=332751420104929

Geff R. · 27 Sep 2006

I know they call it RECORD store day, but these days my interest is pretty much 100% digital, even if vinyl is superior in some ways, Last year I bought the AWFUL Todd Rundgren Blues cd, because i mistakenly thought it would be a limited ed.

Brainiac McGee · **Joined:** 10 Jun 2011 **Posts:** 2941

The Janis Joplin people are apparently preparing a couple of new vinyl sets:

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"[There will be] a limited edition double 10-inch vinyl version Highlights from The Pearl Sessions ready for Record Store Day (on April 21), and there will be a limited edition 12-inch vinyl version of Pearl with classic art available from http://www.officialjanis.com.

http://www.music-news.com/shownews.asp? ... emID=49664

Technically, like the sets that were issued last November, these appear not to be Record Store Day "exclusives".

Tricky Kid · **Joined:** 23 Sep 2007 **Posts:** 8297

Charles wrote:

I'm going to have to look out for the Wilco/Billy Bragg Mermaid Av. set.

Is there anything actually new in this compilation?

Charles · 19 Dec 2007

Tricky Kid wrote:

Charles wrote:

I'm going to have to look out for the Wilco/Billy Bragg Mermaid Av. set.

Is there anything actually new in this compilation?

From http://popdose.com/clapton-wilco-black- ... xclusives/

Wilco / Billy Bragg: Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions (3 CD and 1 DVD)

On April 21, 2012 Nonesuch releases Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions, which includes: Mermaid Avenue; Mermaid Avenue Vol. II (re-mastered); Mermaid Avenue Vol. III, comprising 17 previously unreleased recordings made during the Mermaid Avenue sessions; director Kim Hopkins’ 1999 film Man in the Sand, which documents those sessions; and a 48-page booklet with new liner notes by Nora Guthrie, full lyrics, archival photographs, and facsimiles of lyric sheets and sketches by Woody Guthrie.

Charles · 19 Dec 2007

Apparently, it won't be a Record Store Day exclusive, Nonesuch Records and Amazon have pre-order links for it.

Tricky Kid · **Joined:** 23 Sep 2007 **Posts:** 8297

Thanks for the sleuthing! Not a priority release for me, then...

Charles · 19 Dec 2007

The 2nd of the 3 Kinks is Something Else in red vinyl.

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http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=335113819868689

GeeEff · 20 Jun 2007

Hi. I know I'm supposed to worship and revere RSD...but I don't. I gotta vent. Last year (or maybe it was two years ago...) I tried to get into the RSD spirit. I've got 1000s of records...so I bought a RSD T-Shirt...AFTER several email exchanges w/one of the organizers of the whole shebang...to confirm that my size would indeed be...my size! She couldn't reassure me enough. At my age...and size...this stuff is important!

Well, let me tell you...the thing was so small and so cheaply made...you could see through it.
I asked for a refund. The woman said RSD doesn't give refunds! Say what?
There was NO POLICY on their website.
Fool woman could not have been more insulting when I stated my case. What arrogance! What narcissism!
In addition....
Woman said: "well maybe you can give it to someone who is excited about RSD as you are!"
What balls!

My son wears it around the house. He's young and skinny like The Strokes!
The bank was really ready to go after RSD,..I mean really ready to get me my $$$ back AND make a huge hassle out of it b/c you're apparently not supposed to do internet commerce w/o such policies. It was gratifying to have an American bank actually want to go after my $32 for me! I backed off. My mistake.

I'd have rather spent the $32 on music my way rather than be stuck with their falsely advertised/falsely sold cheap see-through T shirt!

I hope it rains on the RSD parade!

Vent over...thanks for watching! G.

Linda · **Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2012 12:19 am

Excellent vent, sir.

alantig · 20 Sep 2006

There's apparently a two-disc vinyl Ozzy live release coming out for RSD, and a 7" Believer/Goodbye To Romance (2010 guitar/vocal mix).

Also "Quadrophenia Demos 2" from Pete Townshend. And Steven Wilson has "Catalogue / Preserve / Amass" - isn't that the live one that was only available from his web site and tour? Too lazy to look it up...

Alan

WynnWikman · **Joined:** 24 Oct 2006 **Posts:** 207

Jack White to re-release two White Stripes singles for Record Store Day

http://www.mlive.com/music/index.ssf/20 ... two_w.html

Tricky Kid · **Joined:** 23 Sep 2007 **Posts:** 8297

The complete list of RDS 2012 releases is now available.

Direct link:
http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialReleases

Downloadable pdf:
http://download.recordstoreday.com/free ... EBSITE.pdf

Plasquatch · **Joined:** 04 Apr 2009 **Posts:** 315

I noticed something incredibly stupid. Universal is releasing the Motown single by the Mynah Birds, the band with Rick James, Neil Young, and Bruce Palmer. But another band called The Mynabirds, who record for the Saddle Creek label, is also releasing a single.

Who wants to bet that there will be stores that get requests for one but order the other?

Also, because nobody posted it, here's the British list.

Record Store Day 2012

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