With the 2015 installment of Record Store Day just a little more than a month away, the official exclusive-release lists for both the U.S. and U.K. installments have been made public, with sure-to-be-pricey vinyl pressings coming from a host of ’80s college-rock grads.
Depending on what continent you’re on — or regardless, since there is much overlap of the two lists — there are high-profile releases coming from The Replacements, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Tears For Fears, Ministry, The Dead Milkmen, Daniel Ash, Social Distortion, Public Image Ltd., Simple Minds, Killing Joke, Violent Femmes and more.
See the highlights below, plus links to the full lists.
Record Store Day: U.S. highlights (see full list)
The 101ers (featuring Joe Strummer), “Elgin Avenue Breakdown” (2×12-inch vinyl)
a-ha, “Take On Me” (7-inch picture disc)
Adam & The Ants, “Kings of the Wild Frontier”/”Ant Music” (7-inch colored vinyl)
Daniel Ash, Stripped (2×12-inch vinyl)
Syd Barrett/R.E.M., “Dark Globe” (7-inch colored vinyl)
The Baseball Project/Minus 5, “Redeyed in Austin” (12-inch colored vinyl)
David Bowie, “Changes” (7-inch picture disc)
David Bowie/Tom Verlaine, “Kingdom Come” (7-inch colored vinyl)
Buzzcocks, “The Way” (7-inch colored vinyl)
The Dead Milkmen, Beelzebubba (12-inch colored vinyl)
Slim Dunlap, “The Old New”/”Times Like This” (2×12-inch vinyl)
Dwarves, “Fun to Try” (7-inch vinyl)
Brian Eno, My Squelchy Life (2×12-inch vinyl)
Erasure, The Violet Flame Remixes (12-inch colored vinyl)
The Flaming Lips, Bad Days (10-inch colored vinyl)
The Flaming Lips, Brainville (10-inch colored vinyl)
Happy Mondays, Pills Thrills N Bellyaches (12-inch colored vinyl)
Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift, “Follow Your Money”/”Motion Pictures” (7-inch vinyl)
The Lemonheads, Bored on the Fourth of July (12-inch colored vinyl)
Johnny Marr, “I Feel You” (7-inch colored vinyl)
Ministry, Trax Box! (7CD/1LP box set)
Mark Mothersbaugh, The Lego Movie: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2×12-inch vinyl)
Kate Pierson, “Better Not Sting the Bee” (7-inch colored vinyl)
Polaris, Music From the Adventures of Pete and Pete (12-inch vinyl)
The Pop Group, Versions Galore EP (12-inch vinyl)
Pulp, It (12-inch colored vinyl)
The Replacements, The Replacements EP (10-inch vinyl)
Ride, OX4 (2×12-inch colored vinyl)
Social Distortion, Social Distortion (12-inch colored vinyl)
Swans, 12″ EP (12-inch vinyl)
Tears For Fears, “Shout”/”Everybody Wants to Rule the World” (12-inch vinyl)
U2, Songs of Innocence (2×12-inch vinyl)
Violent Femmes, Happy New Year EP (12-inch vinyl)
The Waterboys, Puck’s Blues (10-inch vinyl)
Record Store Day: U.K. highlights (see full list)
a-ha, “Take On Me” (7-inch picture disc)
Adam & The Ants, “Kings of the Wild Frontier”/”Ant Music” (7-inch colored vinyl)
Blancmange, “I Want More” (Extended Version) (12-inch vinyl)
David Bowie, 1966 (12-inch vinyl)
David Bowie, “Changes” (7-inch picture disc)
Camouflage, “Shine + Remixes” (12-inch vinyl)
Creation Records, Creation Artifacts (10×7-inch box set)
Crispy Ambulance, Compulsion (12-inch vinyl)
Dexys Midnight Runners, “Don’t Stand Me Down” (12-inch purple vinyl)
Ian Dury, New Boots and Panties: Expanded Edition (2×12-inch vinyl)
Erasure, The Violet Flame Remixes (12-inch vinyl)
Fields of the Nephilim, Fallen (12-inch vinyl)
The Flaming Lips, Bad Days (10-inch colored vinyl)
The Flaming Lips, Brainville (10-inch colored vinyl)
The Flaming Lips, This Here Giraffee (10-inch colored vinyl)
Flipper, “Love Canal” (7-inch vinyl)
The Germs, “Forming” (7-inch vinyl)
Happy Mondays, Live Brixton Academy 2012 (2×12-inch vinyl)
Happy Mondays, Pills Thrills N Bellyaches (12-inch colored vinyl)
Kristin Hersh, “Sundrops”/”The Cuckoo” (7-inch vinyl)
The Inca Babies, “Panthers” (7-inch vinyl)
James, “Curse Curse” Remixes (12-inch vinyl)
The Jesus and Mary Chain, Psychocandy. Live. Barrowlands (12-inch vinyl)
Killing Joke, Live at the Hammersmith Apollo 16.10.10 Part 1 (12-inch vinyl)
The Lemonheads, Bored on the Fourth of July (12-inch vinyl)
Madness, “Lovestruck” (7-inch vinyl)
Johnny Marr, “I Feel You” (7-inch colored vinyl)
Ministry, Trax Box! (7CD/1LP box set)
Mission of Burma, Signals, Calls and Marches + “Academy Fight Song” (12-inch + 7-inch)
The Neon Judgement, Time Capsule 1980-2015 (Box set)
The Pop Group, Versions Galore EP (12-inch vinyl)
The Psychedelic Furs, Mirror Moves (12-inch vinyl)
Public Image Ltd., Alfie 2009 Part 1 (2×12-inch vinyl)
Public Image Ltd., Alfie 2009 Part 2 (2×12-inch vinyl)
Public Image Ltd., Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 2011 (2×12-inch vinyl)
Pulp, Freaks (12-inch vinyl)
Pulp, Separations (12-inch vinyl)
Pulp, “Little Girl (With Blue Eyes” (12-inch vinyl)
Pulp, It (12-inch vinyl)
Pulp, “They Suffocate at Night” (12-inch vinyl)
Pulp, “Dogs are Everywhere” (12-inch vinyl)
The Replacements, “Alex Chilton” (10-inch vinyl)
Roxy Music, “Ladytron”/”The Numberer” (10-inch vinyl)
Sex Pistols, Spunk (12-inch vinyl)
Sex Pistol, Never Mind the Bollocks (12-inch vinyl)
Simple Minds, Celebrate: Live from the SSE Hydro Glasgow (2×12-inch vinyl)
Simple Minds, “Waterfront” (7-inch picture disc)
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Join Hands (12-inch vinyl)
Jimmy Somerville, 12 Inches of Homage (2×12-inch vinyl)
The Sound, Propaganda (2×10-inch vinyl)
Tears For Fears, “Shout” (12-inch vinyl)
U2, Songs of Innocence (2×10-inch vinyl)
The Waterboys, Puck’s Blues (10-inch vinyl)
The Wedding Present, Plugged In (12-inch vinyl)
The Wedding Present, The Hit Parade (2×12-inch vinyl)
The Wedding Present, Take Fountain (2×12-inch vinyl)
X, “Adult Books” (7-inch vinyl)
Annnnnnnnnnnnd available at ri-DIC-ulously inflated prices on eBay later that afternoon.
Wish Record Store Day would take a cue from Michael Eavis and just take a year off. Maybe by then the speculators would have moved on to something else to suck dry of its life force.
Ah… “Dark Globe.” I think I still have my Sassy flexidisc someplace…
I live in the USA, but all the records I want are in the UK.
Sure hope you’ve a relative to sell into the Bangkok sex trade to afford the jacked up prices on eBay then.
Definitely looking forward to the Ministry Trax Box.
More gimmicks. More digitally-sourced butcherings of classic recordings. None of this stuff is truly “vinyl”.
I don’t have a problem with the price of these records but record companies need to be much more transparent about the quality of mastering and sources used.
I am well sick of spending big bucks on records only to be confronted with unlistenable junk sourced directly from CD. They must think we’re saps. And perhaps we are.
Unless it’s from a quality company like Sundazed or Medical Records, from now on it’s vintage vinyl all the way for me.
Urgh. As always, the UK list is a bit more tantalizing than what will be offered here in the States (though there still are some choice releases available here). Madness and Simple Minds were big in America back in the day…why no US RSD love?
Last year I did the whole RSD at my local shop. I had a list of 14 items. I left with one. Two months later I was in the same record store and – BOOM!, right there in front of me were three lovingly remastered Gun Club LPs, Fire of Love, Miami and The Las Vegas Story. I’m done with Record Store Day. I much prefer the random surprises that await me during Record Store Year.