Record Store Day 2018: New Songs From U2, The Alarm, Elvis Costello, Killing Joke...

4-21-18
Record Store Day 2018 Will Bring New Songs From U2, The Alarm, Elvis Costello, Killing Joke & More

Pink Floyd
Piper At The Gates of Dawn (Mono)

The psychedelic debut album by Pink Floyd was their sole album completed with original vocalist/guitarist Syd Barrett and featured the early classic "Interstellar Overdrive" plus
Astronomy Domine, Lucifer Sam and Bike.

The Rolling Stones
Their Satanic Majesties Request

Amongst the song highlights are the beautiful She’s A Rainbow, the powerful, riff-driven Citadel, and the imposingly dark, cosmic rocker 2000 Light Years From Home, with its sinister keyboard effects (courtesy of Brian). It also features Bill Wyman’s debut writing and singing credit on a Stones release – In Another Land.
The pioneering packaging – a ‘lenticular’ sleeve with a 3D-style Michael Cooper image of the band- and the album’s title (a mocking adaptation of the wording, ‘Her Britannic Majesty Requests and Requires…’ on British passports), both confirmed the group’s creative intent and also its satirical attitude.
Colored Splattered Vinyl

The Doors
STRANGE DAYS
A special RSD VINYL CLUB edition of The Doors STRANGE DAYS, re-issued on blue/grey swirl vinyl.

Grateful Dead
Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA 2/27/69

Originally released as part of the limited-edition CD boxed, Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings, the Grateful Dead’s Fillmore West, San Francisco 2/27/69 show will be issued on vinyl for the very first time exclusively for Record Store Day 2018. Limited edition 4-LP (8th side etching) set, on 180-gram vinyl.

Jimi Hendrix
"Mannish Boy" b/w "Trash Men"

Recorded at New York City's Record Plant on April 22, 1969, this uptempo reworking of Muddy Waters' "Mannish Boy" marks Jimi Hendrix' first recording session with bassist Billy Cox and drummer Buddy Miles--the trio later became known as Band of Gypsys. First released on Both Sides of the Sky, a new studio album of rare and unissued Hendrix recordings.

Van Morrison
Alternative Moondance

An alternative version of Van Morrison’s landmark studio album Moondance, featuring the alternative versions from the 2013 deluxe edition. Featuring two previously unreleased alternative mixes of “And It Stoned Me” and “Crazy Love”.


The Stooges (Detroit Edition)

previously only available in the USA as a super limited edition release for sale exclusively at the Third Man record stores in Nashville and Detroit.  Includes The Stooges self-titled debut album paired with a bonus LP including material lifted from the deluxe Stooges CD box.

Ramones
Sundragon Sessions

early mixes for the Ramones second album Leave Home, 1976 previously only available on CD in the 40th Anniversary Edition Leave Home Deluxe Box, and are now appearing for the first time on vinyl!

The Police
Roxanne

Reissue of their second single ‘Roxanne’, the first for A&M Records. Released in April 1978, it was the first single from debut album Outlandos d'Amour.  Controversial in some territories, this seminal favourite was written about a man who falls in love with a prostitute. On re-release in 1979, the song peaked at number 12 on the UK Singles Chart.

David Bowie
Aladdin Sane
Vinyl reissue of Aladdin Sane available on April 20th.
The album debuted at the top of the UK charts and reached No. 17 in America, making it Bowie's most successful album commercially in both countries to that date. Features Panic in Detroit, Cracked Actor, The Jean Genie.

David Bowie
Bowie Now
a rare US only promotional-only LP from 1977 for RSD.
Includes V-2 Schneider, Always Crashing In The Same Car, Sons Of The Silent Age
Breaking Glass, Speed Of Life, Joe The Lion,The Secret Life Of Arabia and more

David Bowie
Welcome To The Blackout (Live in London '78)

previously unreleased 3LP was recorded live at Earls Court, London on the 30th June and 1st July, 1978 by Tony Visconti.
Includes tracks Warszawa, “Heroes”, Be My Wife, Blackout, Speed Of Life, Sound And Vision, Breaking Glass,
Fame, Beauty And The Beast, Five Years, Ziggy Stardust, Suffragette City, Station To Station, TVC 15, Stay, Rebel Rebel and more


David Bowie
Let's Dance (Full Length Demo)

12” single features the first appearance of the full length demo of ‘Let’s Dance’, previously released in an edited form through digital download.
mixed by Nile Rodgers (original co-producer of the demo with David) in December of last year. The demo is backed by the live version of ‘Let’s Dance’, which was recorded live at Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum in Vancouver on 12th September 1983 and mixed by Bob Clearmountain.

The Who
The Kids Are Alright

Legendary companion album to the band's classic documentary film of the same name from 1979. Features the extraordinary 1967 Smothers Brothers TV show version of My Generation – including exploding drum-kit finale! Double LP on red and blue heavyweight colored vinyl with original LP packaging including 20-page booklet - long out of print on vinyl! Features one of the most iconic rock images on the front cover – photographer Art Kane’s shot of the band draped in the Union Jack flag at the Carl Shurz Monument in Morningside Heights in New York City on the morning of Friday 5 April 1968, the day of the first of the two concerts at Fillmore East, for a feature on new rock groups for Life Magazine. Includes three performances from Woodstock – Sparks, Pinball Wizard & See Me, Feel Me, classic 1960s TV performances of Magic Bus and Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere, and the definitive performance of A Quick One, While He's Away, the version they played at the Rolling Stones' Rock & Roll Circus -- a performance so good that, according to legend, it's the reason why the Stones shelved the show for 20 years!

Jerry Garcia
Run For The Roses

Originally released in 1982, Run for the Roses is Jerry Garcia’s fourth and final solo studio album. Produced by Garcia and John Kahn, the track list includes several new Garcia/Hunter originals, including the album’s title track, “Midnight Getaway" and “Valerie”, plus choice covers Bob Dylan and The Beatles, among others.  Run for the Roses features the first appearance by organist Melvin Seals. The album’s artwork was created by legendary psychedelic visual artist Victor Moscoso, individually numbered on black/orange marbled vinyl.

Prince
1999

Reissue of the seven track single LP version of 1999, featuring the original alternative front cover and 'eye' picture labels, has been unavailable on LP for 35 years, since its initial pressing in 1983.
Features the massive pop hits "1999", "Little Red Corvette", "Delirious"

Soft Cell
Say Hello Wave Goodbye

Soft Cell’s classic ‘Say Hello Wave Goodbye’ and the fan favorite album track ‘Youth’. Soft Cell were legendary for their well-crafted extended 12” mixes and on these new versions original member Dave Ball uses the original studio parts to create what he and Marc would have wanted fans to hear in 1982.
Not remixes, but exquisite period reimaginings.

Madonna
You Can Dance

Reissue of Madonna’s first remix album, featuring remixes of seven of Madonna’s hit songs; "Spotlight", "Holiday", "Everybody", "Physical Attraction", "Over And Over", "Into The Groove" and "Where’s The Party".  Producers include John “Jellybean” Benitez, and Nile Rodgers.  You Can Dance has not been available on vinyl for over 30 years, since its original release in 1987.  This Limited Edition Record Store Day title will be available on red vinyl.

Iggy Pop
Live At The Ritz, NYC 1986

Recorded live at the Ritz in 1986, pressed on double vinyl.
Real Wild Child, Blah Blah Blah, Five Foot One, China Girl, Cry For Love and more.

Bob Dylan & The Grateful Dead
Dylan & The Dead
in 1987, two legends joined forces for an unforgettable tour. Now, Dylan & The Dead, featuring The Grateful Dead backing up Bob Dylan on seven of his classic songs, including "All Along The Watchtower", "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" and "Gotta Serve Somebody" is available on red and blue tie-dye vinyl.

Eek-A-Mouse
Ganja Smuggling

Green vinyl picture sleeve, printed on hemp paper. Classic ganja anthem backed with super rare and in-demand dub performed by Roots Radics

Eurythmics
1984 (For The Love of Big Brother)
This mostly instrumental sountrack to the British film adapatation of George Orwell's renowned dystopian novel (also released in 1984) is one of the Eurythmics' most experimental works. Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart's diverse electronic stylings accentuate teh dark mood of the film, and "Sexcrime (1984)" became the duo's sixth consecutive UK Top10 hit.

The Cure
Torn Down (Mixed Up Extra)

a new pressing of their 1990 remix album, Mixed Up, and a brand-new album called Torn Down (Mixed Up Extra) that features 16 new remixes by Robert Smith of classic Cure tracks.
The double-LP pic disc includes reworkings of tracks such as “Three Imaginary Boys”, “Just One Kiss”, “Never Enough”, “The Drowning Man”, “Cut Here”, and more.
Torn Down (Mixed Up Extras) career spanning tracklist includes
Three Imaginary Boys, M, The Drowning Man, A Strange Day, Just One Kiss, Shake Dog Shake, A Night Like This,
Like Cockatoos, Plainsong, Never Enough, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Want, The Last Day of Summer, Cut Here, Lost, It’s Over.

Elvis Costello
Someone Else's Heart

More than three decades after producing Squeeze's album East Side Story, Elvis Costello teamed up with ?uestlove, Kirk Douglas, Owen Biddle, Ray Angry, and Frank Knuckles to cover "Someone Else's Heart" from the album for this limited edition 45 single! This version of “Someone Else’s Heart” was recorded in 2011 and marked the first time that Elvis and ?uestlove collaborated, igniting the spark that led to 2013’s Wise Up Ghost.

Killing Joke
Absolute Dissent

First ever US release of Killing Joke's 13th studio album from 2010, featuring the band's original lineup reunited for the 1st time on record in 28 years. Comes on 2LP.

The Alarm
Where The Two Rivers Meet

The first release of new Alarm material since 2013 comes in the form of this Where The Two Rivers Meet EP, which is being released exclusively on RSD 2018. Featuring eight tracks (five exclusive to the EP), almost 40 mins of new music, as a prelude to an album scheduled for May 2018. Also featuring a special guest appearance from The Cult guitarist Billy Duffy.
The EP reflects Alarm tradition with the use of both Electric & Acoustic sides.

U2 is releasing a 12" featuring two versions of “Light Of Home” — a "St. Peter’s String Version" and something called the "Free Yourself/Beck Remix".


Among the other releases to look for: a cassette version of AC/DC's Back in Black, turn of the century live Duran Duran, B-52'S and Lou Reed albums, and a collection of Marvin Gaye "Sexual Healing" remixes.

See all the releases at
recordstoreday.com/SpecialReleases

Top Ten '80s Band Releases for 2017

1. Depeche Mode - Where's the Revolution 17,495,067 views


2. U2 - You’re The Best Thing About Me 12,969,501 (Rel Sep 27)

3. Michael Jackson - Blood on the Dance Floor X Dangerous 5,039,816

4. Depeche Mode - Cover Me 3,636,974 views

5. Morrissey - Spent the Day in Bed 3,081,727 views

6. U2 - The Blackout 2,847,228 views (rel Nov 13)

7. Depeche Mode - Going Backwards 2,666,525

8. U2 - American Soul 1,431,062 views (rel Nov 20)

9. Gary Numan - My Name Is Ruin 1,133,592

10. Blondie - Long Time 1,132,609 views

Top Songs of 2014

Compiled from the number of views received on YouTube as of 12/6/2014, here are the rankings for the best songs released this year. What was your favorite new release this year?

1. U2 - Every Breaking Wave 564,967
2. Billy Idol - Can't Break Me Down 'Kings & Queens of the Underground' 389,041
3. JIMMY SOMERVILLE - Smalltown Boy (Reprise 2014) 295,477
4. Morrissey - World Peace Is None Of Your Business, debuts at #14! 270,950
5. CHRISSIE HYNDE - Dark Sunglasses ‘STOCKHOLM’ 229,859
6. Brian Eno & Karl Hyde - The Satellites 'Someday World' 175,651
7. Thurston Moore - The Best Day 144,377
8. CULTURE CLUB - More Than Silence 87,205
9. ERASURE - Elevation ‘THE VIOLET FLAME’ 63,887
10. ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - Lovers On The Run ‘METEORITES’ 59,651



11. U2 - The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone) 56,343
12. Holly Johnson - In And Out Of Love 'Europa' 38,262
13. HOLLY JOHNSON - Follow Your Heart 'Europa' 29,166
14. ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - Market Town ‘METEORITES’ 25,495
15. CULTURE CLUB - Like I Used To 18,610
16. MARC ALMOND - Worship Me Now 'Tasmanian Tiger' 13,413
17. Peter Buck - Drown With Me (w/Corin Tucker) 'I Am Back To Blow Your Mind Once Again' 3,719
18. BLANCMANGE - Living On The Ceiling (Vince Clarke Mix) ‘Happy Families Too’ RE-RECORDED 3,272
19. PET SHOP BOYS - Part 09 [Sorry] ‘A MAN FROM THE FUTURE’ 2,915

U2: Unleashed a Brilliant Surprise

From Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums of 2014

There was no bigger album of 2014 – in terms of surprise, generosity and controversy. Songs of Innocence is also the rebirth of the year. Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. put their lives on the line: giving away 11 songs of guitar rapture and frank, emotional tales of how they became a band out of the rough streets and spiritual ferment of Seventies Dublin. This is personal history with details. In the furiously brooding "Cedarwood Road," named after Bono's home address as a boy, he recalls the fear and rage that drove him to punk rock. "The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)" is a glam-stomp homage to the misfit voice that inspired Bono to sing. And that's his mother, who died when Bono was 14, still guiding and comforting him in the chorus of "Iris (Hold Me Close)."

This is a record full of the band's stories and triumph, memory and confession detonated with adventure and poise. In its range of sounds, there may be no more complete U2 album: The band bonded its founding post-punk values with dance momentum in "Volcano" and the raw, jagged "Raised by Wolves," and humanized the digital pathos of "Every Breaking Wave" and the harrowing "Sleep Like a Baby Tonight" with the vocal folk-soul warmth of The Joshua Tree. "I have a will for survival," Bono sings in the closing track, "The Troubles." Songs of Innocence is the proof – and the emotionally raw rock album of the year, at any price.

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ROLLING STONE: Best Albums of the Eighties

This has been the first rock & roll decade without revolution, or true revolutionaries, to call its own.

The Fifties witnessed nothing less than the birth of the music.

The Sixties were rocked by Beatlemania, Motown, Phil Spector, psychedelia and Bob Dylan. The Seventies gave rise to David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, heavy metal, punk and New Wave.

In comparison, the Eighties have been the decade of, among other things, synth pop, Michael Jackson, the compact disc, Sixties reunion tours, the Beastie Boys and a lot more heavy metal. But if the past ten years haven't exactly been the stuff of revolution, they have been a critical time of re-assessment and reconstruction. Musicians and audiences alike have struggled to come to terms with rock's parameters and possibilities, its emotional resonance and often dormant social consciousness.

The following survey of the 100 best albums of the Eighties, as selected by the editors of Rolling Stone, shows that the music and the values it stands for have been richer for the struggle.

10 Tracy Chapman, 'Tracy Chapman'
"There was a set of ideas that we wanted to communicate, and we felt if we were truthful and loyal to those ideas, then people would pick up on the emotion and the lyrical content that was there." The stark realism of Chapman's songwriting, combined with her warm, richly textured vocals, brought a refreshing integrity to the airwaves.

9 Richard and Linda Thompson, 'Shoot Out the Lights'

"Even in the best days of our marriage, Richard and I didn't communicate with each other fabulously well," says Linda Thompson. "I think that the reason the music was good was that we tended to save it for work." Perhaps that explains why Shoot Out the Lights is both the best and last album Richard and Linda Thompson made together.

8 R.E.M., 'Murmur'
"We were conscious that we were making a record that really wasn't in step with the times," says R.E.M.'s Peter Buck of Murmur, the group's enchanting first album. "It was an old-fashioned record that didn't sound too much like what you heard on the radio. We were expecting the record company to say, 'Sorry, this isn't even a record, it's a demo tape. Go back and do it again.'"
For the most part, I.R.S. Records liked Murmur a great deal, and so did an audience that embraced R.E.M. as one of the most significant new bands of the Eighties. From the mysterious photograph of a kudzu-covered train station on the jacket to the intriguingly off-kilter music within, Murmur quietly broke with the status quo and mapped out an enigmatic but rewarding new agenda.

7 Michael Jackson, 'Thriller'
"It felt like entering hyperspace at one point," says Quincy Jones about the phenomenal success of Thriller. "It almost scared me. I thought, 'Maybe this is going too far.'"
With Thriller, Jackson and Jones were aiming for a dynamic, balanced collection of potential hits. Jackson supplied many of the best songs on the album, writing "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'," "Beat It" and "Billie Jean" (as well as the slight number "The Girl Is Mine," a duet with Paul McCartney). Jones went through over 300 songs in search of additional material. "I was trying to find a group of songs that complemented each other in their diversity," says Jones. "Give me a ride, give me some goose bumps. If 'Billie Jean' sounds good, it sounds even better followed by 'Human Nature.' 'Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' ' into 'Baby Be Mine.' I look at an album as a total piece."

6 Bruce Springsteen, 'Born in the U.S.A.'

Springsteen and the E Street Band had recorded seven of the songs on Born in the U.S.A. prior to the release of Nebraska in a three-week blitz in May 1982: "Glory Days," "I'm Goin' Down," "I'm on Fire," "Darlington County," "Working on the Highway," "Downbound Train" and — most crucial of all — "Born in the U.S.A."
Springsteen originally recorded the last of these on the acoustic demo tape that became Nebraska, but he quickly abandoned that version, feeling it didn't really work in that format. At the start of the May sessions with the full band, Springsteen revived the song in a new, electric arrangement. "Bruce started playing this droning guitar sound," says drummer Max Weinberg. "He threw that lick out to [keyboardists] Roy [Bittan] and Danny [Federici], and the thing just fell together.

5 Paul Simon, 'Graceland'

Released in 1986, Graceland matched Simon with a host of African artists — including guitarist Ray Phiri and his band, Stimela, and the vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. The album's scintillating blend of lively beats and thoughtful lyrics, as well as its seamless fusion of the familiar and the exotic, restored Simon's career and brought African music, and particularly South African music, to a broader international audience.

4 Talking Heads, 'Remain in Light'

"A lot of people don't realize this, but Remain in Light was the worst-selling Talking Heads record ever," says drummer Chris Frantz.
"Financially, we took a beating on that one," says David Byrne. "At the time, it was a really hard sell. The reaction that we heard was that it sounded too black for white radio and too white for black radio."
Remain in Light may have been a commercial disappointment, but musically, the band's 1980 album — which combines funk, disco and African rhythms — was years ahead of its time. "It got great critical acclaim, and we felt that it kind of took popular music to the next phase," says Frantz, "which is what we always wanted to do."

3 U2, 'The Joshua Tree'

Bono wanted to explore rock & roll's American roots; the Edge wanted to continue the expressionistic experimentalism of The Unforgettable Fire. The creative tensions between them resulted in U2's best record, a multifaceted, musically mature work. "Two ideas were followed simultaneously," says the Edge. "They collided, and this record was born."

2 Prince and the Revolution, 'Purple Rain'

"Prince knew this was going to be it," says Susan Rogers, who engineered the 14 million seller Purple Rain. "He was ecstatic when he finished it."
Over five years later, the influence of Prince and Purple Rain is incontestable. He is one of just two artists (along with Bruce Springsteen) to have four albums among Rolling Stone's 100 Best Albums of the Eighties. And perhaps more than any other artist, Prince called the tune for pop music in the Eighties, imprinting his Minneapolis sound on an entire generation of musicians, both black and white.
Released in tandem with the film of the same name, Purple Rain was more than simply a soundtrack, and it stands as Prince's most cohesive and accessible album. "He envisioned the film as he made the album," says Alan Leeds, vice-president of Paisley Park Records, Prince's label. 

1 The Clash, 'London Calling'
London Calling was an emergency broadcast from rock's Last Angry Band, serving notice that Armageddon was nigh, Western society was rotten at the core, and rock & roll needed a good boot in the rear. Kicking and screaming across a nineteen-song double album, skidding between ska, reggae, R&B, third-world music, power pop and full-tilt punk, the Clash stormed the gates of rock convention and single-handedly set the agenda — musically, politically and emotionally — for the decade to come.

11 Elvis Costello and the Attractions, 'Get Happy!'
13 Midnight Oil, 'Diesel and Dust'
14 Peter Gabriel, 'So'
16 Prince, '1999'
17 The Police, 'Synchronicity'
19 Lou Reed, 'New York'
20 Pretenders, 'Pretenders'

Top Songs of 2013

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U2: The RITZ, New York 80-03-17

U2 played The RITZ in New York  during their first US tour on March 17th & 18th.