Wow Tim, your videos never fail to entertain or impress me. Yours is definitely a favourite VC channel of mine. I'm all for you showing some CDs. I'm sure there will be something else you can talk about in your videos.
Congratulations you have the world's weirdest record collection! I checked to see if this was posted on April 1st because some of the things are way out there. Great video. Amazing to see.
You mention Perfect Pussy's album is "Say Yes to Love" but the cassette in the picture says "Say Yes to Live" Just a minor note :) This was actually a really cool video - I had no idea there were so many liquid-filled records out there. I was familiar with the flopped Disney album, and I knew Jack White had been successful with one, but that was all I knew.
Great video! That AR-stuff is so sick. Would definitely love to see some AR-stuff on Future Sound Of London and Ozric Tentacles vinyls.. bet that would be some mind blowing shizzle=D
Hi Tim, I just found your channel a few days ago and have watched all of your marvelous presentations. I am also interested in innovative record packaging and design so many items you have shown were a revelation. Thanks so much.
Thank YOU, Ronald. I appreciate the kind words. I will try and keep the videos coming, but I really don't make more than one every month, or two. Share away and thanks for subscribing!
Just found your channel today through Vinyl Eyezz, and I'm marathoning every video you made right now. Fascinating stuff man, thanks so much for sharing these oddities with us. Cheers from Holland!
I have a rare R.E.M. 7" single for the song "Wanderlust" (b-side The Outsider f. Q-Tip) from the album Around The Sun (2004) It's a red vinyl with red & white sparkles inside but during the manufacturing process some copies had "red sparkles" stuck on the outside making it unplayable. Nobody noticed until after it was sent to stores. After hearing complaints from stores those copies were recalled & sent back to Warner Bros. However i managed to get a copy before it was taken off the shelf.
Ooooh wooow...didnt have a clue about some stuff that you showed us...THANK YOU!!!! I AM HAPPY THAT THERE IS MORE PEOPLE WHO LIKES STUFF LIKE YOU AND ME ;-)
Super fantastic Tim. Looks like this vinyl technology is endless. I really love seeing all of these and I thank you very much for showing them all. I loved the hologram on the Rush album. Looked very clear. Happy Easter to you~ Rob/Boston
I except Tim. That would be nice. Have a wonderful day today. I hope the weather is sunny and about 15 degrees warmer than it is here. But I will make the best of it as always and I am sure that you will too. Thanks for the nice words again. ~ Rob
I saw an article about Curtis Godino from Worthless making a limited run of liquid filled vinyl OST for Aliens, sold by MONDO. They are filled with green Xenomorph blood :]
After seeing this video I bought Lazaretto and the Eno Hyde record, and they're wonderful! It was because of this video in fact that I found out that Karl Hyde did a record with Brian Eno - which is amazing considering the first incarnation of Underworld (Freur) seemed to be heavily influenced by Eno both in costume and sound. It's almost as if Karl Hyde has returned to his beginnings. Lazaretto is also a great recording, and the vinyl innovations aren't merely superficial. While listening, the particular things happening physically correspond well with the ideas in the music. It's a win/win situation. Incredibly pleasing!
Kesha, Chris Martin (Coldplay), Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Wayne Coyne, Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl, Brian Chippendale & Brian Gibson (Lightning Bolt), Alan Polomo (Neon Indian), Erykah Badu, Daniel Huffman (New Fumes)
Humming Bird Of Death kick ass!!! Love em'! The band Spazz also came out with a novelty 1" record (unplayable) its still a silly little conversation piece! I believe that The Slight Slappers did the same thing with a 1" record. Also, i saw a post once that was a record that had multiple records within the album, i believe there were 3 separate sets of grooves that could be played,and 3 sets of center holes. But, you would have to have an unconventional turntable to be able to play it, i cannot recall anything about the record other than it containing multiple sets of circular groves within a 12" album.
please note that the Chop Shop split record is an actual split record with two artists - one side is Chop Shop, the other side is Small Cruel Party - the split record is then split in half, making it a split Split record
Neurosis also released a record that also had a dvd that was intended to be played/listened along with the LP. I guess it enhances the audio experience. I've never listened to them together personally. Also, another interactive release is the Noothgrush/Suppression split 5" puzzle edition. The cover is a puzzle that can be assembled! i know of more random releases, i can't think of anymore off the top of my head.
Neurosis also made a companion record for their times of grace record by tribes of neurot called grace. To be played on different stereo sets at the same time. Each record complements the other record musically. Very cool
Have you seen the album cover for The Alan Parsons Project's Stereotomy? It comes with a plastic outer sleeve that's red on one side and blue on the other but otherwise transparent enough to see imagery and text from the cover itself. The interesting thing is the plastic sleeve cancels out some of the imagery and text on the cover. Parts of the central image on the front and back cover disappear along with the lyrics and credits on the back. Most interestingly the band name and album title are clearly readable when the sleeve is on (blue side on front) but when removed those letters are interspersed with other letters turning it into gibberish. But when you turn the sleeve around and put it back on you can read the title and band name again, but they're upside down. And of course the part of the central image on front and back that you couldn't see before is now the only part you can see and you can now read the credits and lyrics on the back. Naturally the two things that are always visible are the Arista Records logo and the barcode.
THIS is where I found that song by NULL. So glad I happened upon it - they have some really awesome songs, and like you mentioned - a really cool website.
Great Video! On the topic of interactive records, I wonder if you've seen TV on the Radio - Seeds LP. It has a really cool interactive lyric book and cover.
i used to have a single in the eighties that had a game on the b side god knows how it worked. Psychedelic furs had a single with a flexitrack built into the sleeve. dawn released some singles that were really eps and played at 33 and a third, but as some charted the single versions for jukeboxes played at 45 and were on blue pye. .
I bought the Vio-Lence "Eternal Nightmare" sickbag EP when it came out. After a few months the 'vomit' inside the sleeve started to dry up and eventually just turned to a powdery substance. That was back in the 80s. PS Just pray one of my favourite bands don't catch wind of those scratch and sniff sleeves. Their first album was called Reek Of Putrefaction.
There's a release by DOPE LEMON titled "Smooth Big Cat that also has some vinyl animation known as a 'phontronic picture disc' as the discogs page describes it.
Cool video!! here are some of my multi coloured vinyls that I have Dave Mason - Marble headed messenger, Husky - Ruckers Hill, The Residents- Eskimo, Well fargo - Watch out.. Many years ago I was in a psychedelic band and I built a machine to projector liquid colors onto a wall kind of like Joshua light show from the sixties and I always thought they should make vinyl records like this pretty cool that they did!!! Please tell me more about the last one you use an I phone??
wow, that's one hell of a video. so many cool things... could be your best yet, but I guess I say that after every video. I'd love another comedy one too if you run out of things to talk about... I do look forward to the CD one as well. I loved this !
Cool vid, i wish i could afford collecting vinyls like these. Iam also really into these oddities. and who knows regarding the black hole one, mean, theres a few companies who reprint osts now, (thank god) and maybe, just maybe we might get to see that awesome liquid print that failed work. :D
MIC2-MusicImage2Critic By: ZyeZhe - true. It would have been nice had they try to preserve it at least a little. Or mix the blood with something to make sure it stayed liquid
GOZER'S DEN putting oil in it wont dry out the blood... too bad it dries out :( for 2500$ is it worth to have it..maybe its cool at first time u buy it. but after a months is not worh to buy for 2500$. they should have think of preserving the blood to avoid drying. They never thought of that I think? they just want to put something and sell it (even they have purpose).
GOZER'S DEN Old video, old comment; but it would have preserved better if they sterilized the blood after sealing the record, and made sure the record was under a full vacuum inside. You could sterilize it with radiation which I'm sure would add greatly to the terror factor of the disk.
that is some wild stuff I knew theres some cool stuff you can do with vinyl but I did not have a clue you can do half of the stuff that was in this video that's some amazing stuff am about to press some vinyl up I might want to do the hidden track on the label any one know ant one who does that thanks
+st ko just in these videos. I have a lot of pretty basic stuff in my collection, but for this video channel, I thought I would focus on more unusual packaging and releases. Thank you for the kind words
A band called Spectrum (one of the main guys from Spacemen 3 (Sonic Boom)) had a blue liquid-filled sleeve just like that one, back in around 1992. Slayer had a CD they called a "blood pack" which had red fluid with little round clear pieces of plastic that had skulls screened on them. Another band called Jellyfish had a promo-only CD single for "Baby's Comin' Back" that was a "diaper pack"... looked like a diaper and felt like a full one. And of course everyone knows the first liquid-filled LP was done by Jack White on Record Store Day a few years ago.
I have the Spectrum LP and CD and they're nearly dried up now. My friend's did the same thing. Glad I came across your videos... I worked in record / CD stores for 25 years and I love cool packaging. I once took a ton of photos of cool stuff I own and posted them on a message board, but I lost the server space and photos. You've shown me a bunch of stuff I've never seen so thanks for taking the time to make these. Did you not show the inner sleeve of In Through the Out Door with the little dots you paint water on to color them, like those old weird coloring books from back then? Maybe I missed it / haven't come across it yet... doubt you didn't know about it already. :)
Theres also one record by split entz that has an laser etching..what this is basically images like an normal etching but the difference is that the grooves are normal and you can still play it fine.
Some great stuff here Gozer! Much appreciated video! What is the address of the Null website please? I'd like to fiddle with it! Also I would like the get hold of the Eno Hyde LP but not sure what one is the right one...what version of the vinyl has the Iphone hologram effects on it? WARPLP255X or WARPLP255...Also wondering how you get to hear about such releases? I don't know of any wholesalers that catalogue these type of releases all in one place. Thanks again for sharing this lot!
Jon Limbert It's an app you download, so really that is the important part. You could actually aim it at ANY album and it would work. It's just nice to hear the proper music when you play it
GOZER'S DEN [ArtsyFartsyTimo] Oh I see. Unfortunately I don't have an Iphone. Can I ask again how you get to hear about all these amazing releases? I don't know of any wholesalers that catalogue these type of releases all in one place.
GOZER'S DEN [ArtsyFartsyTimo] What sources do you mean? Any help would be appreciated. How do you find out what is being released so you can buy for a normal price? Most of the stuff you show is old & has risen considerably in price. I would like to buy future releases but how do I know what is being released & when? Are you saying you read every record company's website every week? Is there not a website that advertizes new releases available to record shops?
There is no central source. Really. I just am constantly reading websites and visiting blogs and watching the actual labels. I just recently joined a "vinyl collective" blog and am finding more people, which is good, because friends always send me links. Send me a DM. Maybe I can compile a list...
Great video as always, hope you'll talk about the music, cause to hear musicians talking about it is so annoying, just my opinion. Music lovers non musicians opinions are the best.
