Celebrating vinyl / CD / cassette / memorabilia releases of musical gems and curiosities from the punk era onwards
Found while rummaging at a record fair in London last year, some nice glossy black and white Dindisc press photos from 1980 of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark… or OMitD – i.e. before they lost ‘it’ and became just OMD…
^ Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark press photo – four piece line up with left to right: Dave Hughes, Paul Humphreys, Malcolm Holmes, Andy McCluskey
^ Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark press photo – Paul Humphreys and Andy McCluskey
If you are not already familiar with it, ‘Textures’ is a CD by Brian Eno that has never been commercially available to the public, instead only a limited, promotional-only release, intended as a stock library music source for licensing by film and television makers, released by Standard Music Library, cat. no. ESL 003.
Despite its limited availability, it appears that it has been issued a few times, so this particular sleeve design is not the only one available. Continue reading “Brian Eno, ‘Textures’ CD (Standard Music Library, ESL 003)”
A four song promo CD dating from 2000, released on V2 records to promote their re-issue programme of the Associates back catalogue (‘Sulk’, ‘Fourth Drawer Down’ and ‘Double Hipness’).
It is curious because a couple of the mixes are not the ones present on the CD albums that this release is promoting. The tracks featured on this release include Continue reading “Associates – ‘Associates’ 4 track promo CD (V2, VVR5011563P)”
An odd little curio this one – I don’t recall it having been available when the single was first released in 1989 and I came across it a couple of years later courtesy of ‘Record Collector’ magazine, where it was advertised as a ‘withdrawn’ release. Given that Wire had already singed their fingers with the ill-fated ‘Outdoor Miner’ white vinyl single (excluded from its rightful chart position due to hyping allegations), perhaps this was culled at birth to avoid any similar troubles… who knows?
It is no different from the regular 7″ release other than the see-through nature of the vinyl, so its one for collectable vinyl junkies only, I dare say. Continue reading “Wire ‘Eardrum Buzz’ clear vinyl 7″ single (Mute, MUTE 87)”
A promo-only 7″ of French origin, peeled from the third album by The Passions pairing the album track ‘Love Is Essential’ along with ‘Jump For Joy’, which had appeared early in 1982 as a single A side in the UK.
I picked it up at a record fair in Dundee in the early 1990s, I’ve no idea how common or rare these are – probably not much due to the lack of a picture sleeve and, as far as I can tell, the versions are the same as per the album mixes. Continue reading “The Passions ‘Love Is Essential’/’Jump For Joy’ French promo-only 7″ (Polydor 2814 357)”
