If you’ve ever wanted to own the Paw Patrol theme on “bone color vinyl”, now’s your chance.
The song is one of more than 550 rare and exclusive records released to celebrate record store day on April 18.
Pressings by David Bowie, So Solid Crew, Destiny’s Child, Neil Young and Primal Scream will also hit the shelves of independent stores across the UK.
The independent group Big Moon also cut three songs directly to vinyl in front of a live audience.
The group, whose second album Walking Like We Do recently reached the top 20, performed the songs in one take at Metropolis Studios in London on Thursday.
The London quartet has recorded three tracks – Your Light, Waves and a cover of Fatboy Slim’s Praise You – which will premiere on Jo Whiley’s BBC Radio 2 on Thursday, just hours after being captured in the studio.
The lacquered main disc will then be quickly dispatched to the pressing factories so that the single can be available in more than 200 participating stores on the same day of the Record Store.
“I want to record the whole of our next album with people watching,” decided singer Juliette Jackson at the end of the session. “It would be much faster.”
The group was chosen to be Record Store Day ambassadors after an invitation to rapper Slowthai was “removed” from his behavior at last month’s NME Awards.
Record Store Day, which aims to encourage expired music buyers to return to stores, is now in its 13th year.
The event was partly responsible for the resurgence in popularity of vinyl records – which now represent one in eight albums purchased in the UK.
Last year, music fans picked up 102,000 albums and 33,000 singles on record store day, up 50% from 2018.
With so many versions arriving in a single day, we scoured the full list to find 14 gold nuggets.
1. Neil Young – Homegrown
Neil Young is finally giving fans the chance to hear his famous unpublished 1975 album Homegrown, which was released at the last minute and replaced by The Night by Tonight. Writing when his first marriage failed, Young said the album was “too personal” to be released.
Although some of the songs have made it to their last albums, Homegrown has never been published in full before. Writing on his website last year, Young described the disc as “the incredible bridge between Harvest and Comes a Time”.
2. So Solid Crew – 21 seconds
Released in 2001, 21 Seconds propelled the grime scene to the surface, each of the group’s eight singers having exactly 21 seconds to show off their talents. He became number one and earned the collective a Brit Award for best group.
It is re-released for Record Store Day on 12 “clear vinyl, supported by mixes and unpublished live versions from the BBC archives.
3. Robyn – Robyn
Hailed by NME as “the most inventive pop album” of 2007, Robyn’s fourth self-titled album was the sound of an artist taking control of her career. Released independently, he presented his brilliant but painful vision of synth-pop, illustrated by the British number one With Every Heartbeat.
It was released on vinyl for the first time for Record Store Day, with the bonus titles Jack You Off (a cover of Prince) and Dream On.
4. Manic Street Preachers – Done and Dusted
One for ravers – this 12-inch limited edition showcases the highly sought-after acid house blends of La Tristesse Durera’s Chemical Brothers, as well as redesign of dance icon Ashley Beedle’s Roses In The Hospital.
5. Minnie Ripperton – The Flowers
Before Mariah Carey, there was Minnie Ripperton – the soul star endorsed by Stevie Wonder whose vocal register rose as high as a hiss. One of his flagship songs, sampled by everyone, from Cut Chemist to Jurassic 5 – Flare-up of Flowers – and gained new popularity after appearing in the closing credits for the horror film by Jordan Peele, Us .
Original copies of the single go up to £ 60 on the second hand market – making this remastered edition of the 50th anniversary a bargain.
6) David Bowie – I’m Only Dancing (The Soul Tour ’74)
Record store day wouldn’t be complete without a rarity in David Bowie’s seemingly endless archives. This year’s treat is an unreleased live album, documenting the star’s “Soul Tour” – a stripped-down reinvention of his legendary Diamond Dogs shows, which incorporated elements from the upcoming Young Americans album.
Separately, Parlophone released CHANGESNOWBOWIE, with a radio session recorded by the BBC on the occasion of Bowie’s 50th anniversary in 1997.
7) Declan McKenna – Beautiful faces / The key to life on Earth
“A brave new hymn for sentenced youth”, Declan McKenna’s new single was recorded in Nashville and discusses “bullying the world” for young people in the age of social media.
The song is taken from the rising star’s second album, Zeros, which was “overwhelmingly inspired by Bowie” and will be released in May.
8) Dinosaur Jr – Swedish fist
The Swedish fist captured Dinosaur Jr in the form of an ear bleed at the Stockholm Water Festival, a few months before they dissolved and began an eight-year hiatus. It includes fan favorites like Freakscene and Sludgefeast, and is delivered on chocolate-colored vinyl.
9. Roxy Music – Roxy Music (Steven Wilson stereo mix)
This remastered version of Roxy Music’s stunning and fascinating debut album was completed in 2012, but has languished in safes ever since. He obtained a late reissue on clear vinyl just before his 50th birthday, with the “full blessing of the group”.
10. The Galaxy Hitchhiker’s Guide
Based on the scripts from Douglas Adams’ revolutionary BBC radio series, this is actually a completely different recording – although it retains most of the original cast.
It was produced in 1979, after the BBC missed the chance to release the science fiction classic on its own label, which means there are small changes in the script and new music for Paddy Kingsland . Originally sold by correspondence, an observer described it as “the best-selling record for never appearing in the charts”.
This reissue will be released on “Vogon Translucent Green Vinyl 180g, Magrathean Blue and Pangalactic Violet” to mark the 42nd anniversary of the original series (do you see what they did with it?)
11. The child of destiny – Say my name
One of Beyonce’s best songs, Say My Name presented the second and penultimate formation of Destiny’s Child – with Michelle Williams and Farrah Franklin replacing LaTavia Roberson and LeToya Luckett (who has always received writing credit for this single ).
Marking 20 years since it reached number one on the Billboard charts, the song has been reissued as a collectible disc with classic remixes by Timbaland and Maurice Joshua.
12) Black lips and Kesha – he is a person of the world
Garage rock band Black Lips teams up with pop superstar Kesha for this “lush country ballad”, described as a “tribute to Nashville traditions”. Exclusive to Record Store Day, the 7 “single in limited edition will not be available anywhere else.
13) Mansun – The rejection of dead flowers
An album that has never been that of the independent heroes of the 90s, Mansun. The Dead Flowers Reject was recorded at the same time as the group’s second album, Six, as a more commercial “insurance policy” in case the label rejected the main project.
If it had been released, “it probably would have been my favorite Mansun album,” said singer Paul Draper. “It’s the closest to how we played live.”
Most of the songs ended up as extra songs on Six’s EPs, but Draper had bigger plans for the recordings.
“I always planned to release these songs as the album they should be at some point in the future, but the group collapsed before we got there,” he said in 2008.
His ambition finally materializes with this exclusive LP on white vinyl.
14) Primal cry – charged
In an appropriate tribute to producer / remixer Andrew Weatherall, who died last month, Primal Scream’s Loaded is re-released in all its splendor for seven minutes.
This 30th anniversary release also includes I’m Losing More Than I Ever Had, the Weatherall song torn apart to create Loaded in 1992.
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