'Record Store Day' 2024 Includes Talking Heads, Daft Punk, Cheech & Chong, Beatles (recordstoreday.com) 20
Today is Record Store Day, which according to Wikipedia is happening in the U.S., the UK, Ireland, Mexico, Europe, Japan and Australia.
An anonymous reader shared this report from The Los Angeles Times: 420 isn't just for stoners. This year, Record Store Day — the worldwide celebration for independent record shops that typically happens every third Saturday of April — falls on the storied day... [A]udiophiles and vinyl collectors will converge at participating stores to search for one-of-a-kind wax and CD releases by artists new and old, along with other one-of-a-kind items....
This year's event brings in roughly 400 anticipated titles including a live recording of Talking Heads from a 1977 performance (featuring seven previously unheard songs), a 12-inch vinyl release of Daft Punk's "Something About Us (Love Theme From Interstella 5555)", an unreleased live solo recording of "The Godmother of Rock n' Roll" by Sister Rosetta Tharpe (from 1966) and a 10-year anniversary edition of Freddie Gibbs & Madlib's "Piñata." Also, this year's Record Store Day ambassador, Paramore, will release a remix version of its 2023 album, "This Is Why" and Cheech and Chong will reissue the soundtrack for their 1978 film, "Up in Smoke," on smoky green vinyl just in time for 4/20...
[E]ven if you're not interested in copping a special release, it's still worth checking out what your favorite record store has to offer on April 20. You'll find events like in-store DJ sets, pop-up shopping experiences and in-store performances.
The event features Record Store Day exclusives (not otherwise available), as well as specially-pressed commemorative editions (which will see a later release on plain black vinyl). American Songwriter lists some of the highlights:
An anonymous reader shared this report from The Los Angeles Times: 420 isn't just for stoners. This year, Record Store Day — the worldwide celebration for independent record shops that typically happens every third Saturday of April — falls on the storied day... [A]udiophiles and vinyl collectors will converge at participating stores to search for one-of-a-kind wax and CD releases by artists new and old, along with other one-of-a-kind items....
This year's event brings in roughly 400 anticipated titles including a live recording of Talking Heads from a 1977 performance (featuring seven previously unheard songs), a 12-inch vinyl release of Daft Punk's "Something About Us (Love Theme From Interstella 5555)", an unreleased live solo recording of "The Godmother of Rock n' Roll" by Sister Rosetta Tharpe (from 1966) and a 10-year anniversary edition of Freddie Gibbs & Madlib's "Piñata." Also, this year's Record Store Day ambassador, Paramore, will release a remix version of its 2023 album, "This Is Why" and Cheech and Chong will reissue the soundtrack for their 1978 film, "Up in Smoke," on smoky green vinyl just in time for 4/20...
[E]ven if you're not interested in copping a special release, it's still worth checking out what your favorite record store has to offer on April 20. You'll find events like in-store DJ sets, pop-up shopping experiences and in-store performances.
The event features Record Store Day exclusives (not otherwise available), as well as specially-pressed commemorative editions (which will see a later release on plain black vinyl). American Songwriter lists some of the highlights:
- A special limited edition "miniature turntable" and four 3-inch singles of the Beatles' songs played 60 years ago on the Ed Sullivan show.
- A four-LP set of a 1989 Grateful Dead concert
- A limited edition "expanded" edition of Elton John's album Caribou with a disc of bonus tracks.
- A 12-inch EP previewing the upcoming box set edition of John Lennon's Mind Games album, including a song Lennon wrote for a 1973 Ringo Starr album which also featured George Harrison.
- A white-vinyl pressing of seven Rolling Stones tracks recorded last October — including the live debut of four songs later released on their new album Hackney Diamonds. (One track is a duet with Lady Gaga)
You can see the full list here.
Cheech & Chong (Score:2)
" [A]udiophiles and vinyl collectors" (Score:2)
Thanks for the warning.
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People who have an affection for the technology or who collect original records are fine... it's the people who INSIST that you can hear differences that are simply impossible to hear with human ears that drive me to strong opinions about them.
From a technology standpoint, I think I'd kind of like a recording scratched into a blackened steel disk and read with a laser. A mix of primitive and high tech, something resilient that will last for hundreds of years and can be played back with a needle and a cone
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There's a recording that actually approaches or approximates that sound, Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Machine_Music
I used to have a vinyl copy of that, now long gone (sold to a music store for credit on used CD's), and now have it on CD. The surprising thing is that I managed to buy that on vinyl, as Wikipedia states "It was released as a double album in July 1975
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There's a recording that actually approaches or approximates that sound, Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music.
"Not totally unlistenable" - Robert Christgau, The Village Voice.
Personally, I think it's the closest thing to sound that will make you drive cutlery into your ears to make it stop.
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I've found that "Metal Machine Music" becomes more listenable if you pitch-shift it down by an octave or so. Once I did that, I found that I sort of enjoyed it as a piece of weird ambient music.
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>There's a recording that actually approaches or approximates that sound, Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music.
I was talking about transferring a normal recording to a more stable medium, not the sound of doing so.
Re: " [A]udiophiles and vinyl collectors" (Score:1)
So you mean like a pressed CD? The encoding of the wave form is relatively simple, even if you totally forgot how it worked, a laser, a simple stepper motor and a DAC is no longer that technologically advanced.
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No, I meant like a pressed record. A visible audio waveform etched into a surface that can be turned into a sound with a simple mechanical apparatus.
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You confused me with your statement about hearing a distinct difference. There are laser pickups today, there are pressed records that are metal such as gold, platinum etc.
There is a distinct difference in the audio because despite all the engineering that goes into it, large things that spin around are going to be wobbly.
Re: " [A]udiophiles and vinyl collectors" (Score:2)
Thought I'd list a few things that are simply entirely audible to human ears:
1) The natural and deliberate transitions between tracks.
2) Rhythmic static after 4-6 songs, rather than an algorithm's selection of what you obviously wanted to hear next.
3) Music, potentially accompanied by some sort of external alert on an electronic device, instead of music literally interrupted by such an alert.
4) Song
So I don't think it's a good sign (Score:1)
Then again with how rapacious the music industry is it's a wonder anyone can make any money in it
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Then again with how rapacious the music industry is it's a wonder anyone can make any money in it
Ask Taylor Swift...
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The ambassador for RSD 2024 is Paramore. If you're older than dirt then they were not around when you're a little kid. Don't get confused with what the media is running stories about and what actually happens. There's nothing about this that is a bad sign for the industry, but plenty to show you a reading biased material that is giving you a view that isn't a reflection of reality. There are literally hundreds of record store day releases, many of which from new bands you've never heard of.
Heck one of the h
I think I'll stay... (Score:2)
...with Bandcamp fridays and digital distribution in general; WAV or FLAC files needs less plastic, less shipping, waste less energy and resources and still sound the same (or at least better that vinyl)...
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There are at least two big things you're missing out on: album artwork, and liner notes. (Did you know that there is a Grammy award for "best liner notes"?)
I've never understood why the streaming services never include the liner notes. Half the time, you can't find the liner notes anywhere, even if you look online (I know there are a couple of sites that archive this stuff, but they're very far from comprehensive).
Re: I think I'll stay... (Score:1)
There is some really good music art out there still, even if it is all digital these days. The majority of the generic mainstream music isnâ(TM)t worth that investment though.
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*looks at boxes full of CDs that are gathering dust*
Thanks, I think I'm good - liner notes and album artwork are nice and all, but at the end of the day it's the music I'm more interested in, and I don't want to allocate any more space needlessly to those...
np: Vladislav Delay - Kohde (Entain [2023 Remaster]) (with the original from March 2000 gathering dust in one of said boxes...)
Time-zones, everybody (Score:2)
This story was posted after that day ended in northern Australia.
EditorDavid might want to set a reminder for Friday April 18, 2025 @02:30PM GMT, so it reaches Japan and Australia in time.
"one-of-a-kind wax and CD releases"? (Score:2)