Record Store Day! Releases From Katy Perry! Ramones! David Bowie! Garbage! The Doors! And More!
Everyone here at MTF are huge supporters of Record Store Day! I miss the old days with signings, and waiting out at midnight for that special extra poster or piece of memorabilia. It’s just gone, and it’s sad.
Collecting and fandom haven’t been the same.
Record Store is awesome because artists create special items only for Record Store Day that encourage people to head out and 1. buy music and 2. buy music from the smaller stores.
There is an amazing crop of stuff this time around, I picked some highlights for me at least below.
But seriously, there’s something for everyone from Garbage, to The Ramones, to Aerosmith, to Nirvana, to The Doors, to One Direction!
April 18th is the day, and you can check out all the items here. And my highlights below!!!!
Bastille
Of The Night Picture Disc
DETAILS
Format: 10″ Vinyl
Label: Virgin
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
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A1: “Of The Night” A2:”Of The Night (MNEK Remix)” B1: “Oblivion (Live From Capitol Studios”) B2: “Of the Night (Icarus remix)”
David Bowie
1984 picture disc
DETAILS
Format: 7″ Vinyl
Label: Rhino
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
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“1984” originally appeared on David Bowie’s “Diamond Dogs” album and draws its inspiration from the George Orwell book of the same name. It was released as a single in 1974. The b-side was recorded live in December 1974 on “The Dick Cavett Show” and has had limited release since then. This is the first time it appears on vinyl.
”1984 (2014 Remaster)”/”1984 (Live on the Dick Cavett Show)”
Devo/The Flaming Lips
Side By Side Series
DETAILS
Format: 7″ Vinyl
Label: Rhino
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
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Single-pocket jacket, regular-weight silver vinyl 7″ – Limited to 7,500 copies. Part of the WMG’s Side By Side series. Includes Devo’s “Gates of Steel” from the original DEV-O Live EP and a previously unreleased cover by The Flaming Lips all on gorgeous silver vinyl! R.I.P. Bob 2. This is for you, wherever you are.
”Gates of Steel (Live)”/Gates of Steel (Live)”
Fleetwood Mac
Dragonfly/The Purple Dancer
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Format: 7″ Vinyl
Label: Rhino
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
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Recorded in 1970 “Dragonfly” was the first UK single released by the band after the departure of their frontman Peter Green and their first single with Christine McVie as a full member. It has never before been released on 7″ vinyl. “The Purple Dancer” features vocals by Kirwan and Jeremy Spencer and has never before been commercially released in the US.
”Dragonfly (Single Version)”/”The Purple Dancer”
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Glorious Results of a Misspent Youth
DETAILS
Format: 12″ Vinyl
Label: Blackheart Records
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
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Limited, numbered, PINK vinyl
”Cherry Bomb”, “I Love You Love Me Love”, “Frustrated”, “Hold Me”, “Long Time”, “Talkin’ ‘Bout My Baby”, “I Need Someone”, “Love Like Mine”, “New Orleans”, “Someday”, “Push and Stomp”, “I Got No Answers”
Nirvana
Pennyroyal Tea/I Hate Myself and Want To Die
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Format: 7″ Vinyl
Label: Geffen
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
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Original plans for the single in 1994 were cancelled due to Kurt Cobain’s death
”Pennyroyal Tea”/”I Hate Myself and Want To Die”
Katy Perry
Prism Picture Disc
DETAILS
Format: 12″ PIcture Disc
Label: Capitol
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
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Picture disc version of Katy Perry’s Prism album
Dolly Parton
Blue Smoke
DETAILS
Format: 7″ Vinyl
Label: Masterworks
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
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Tracks from the forthcoming Dolly Parton record
”Blue Smoke”/”Home”
Sky Ferreira
Night Time, My Time Picture Disc
DETAILS
Format: 12″ PIcture Disc
Label: Capitol
Release type: RSD Limited Run / Regional Focus Release
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Picture disc version of Sky Ferreira’s Night Time, My Time album
Harry Dean Stanton
Partly Fiction
DETAILS
Format: 7″ Vinyl
Label: Omnivore Recordings
Release type: RSD Limited Run / Regional Focus Release
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Never before released tracks in a two-sided picture disc collector’s pack, with a fold-out poster and heavy sleeve. From the film Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
”Tennessee Whiskey”/”Cancion Mixteca”
Garbage
Girls Talk
DETAILS
Format: 10″ Vinyl
Label: STUNvolume
Release type: ‘RSD First’ Release
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First new music from the band since the critically acclaimed Not Your Kind of People. A-Side features a duet with Brody Dalle
”Girls Talk Shit (featuring Brody Dalle)”/”Time Will Tell”
Ray Parker, Jr.
Ghostbusters
DETAILS
Format: 10″ Vinyl
Release type: ‘RSD First’ Release
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10″ glow in the dark single. Who you gonna call?
SIDE ONE: 1. Original single version 2. Instrumental SIDE TWO: 1. 12″ dance remix 2. Dub version