Record Store Day 2025

A bit late, but do you guys want a personal opinion on the RSD records I got? Here goes.

MJ Lenderman "And The Wind (Live & Loose)" - this is my favorite RSD purchase. Excellent live show, well recorded and a nice pressing. Not certain where the records were pressed, but they came in a poly-lined sleeve, which I appreciate.

Talking Heads "Live On Tour '78" - another superbly recorded Talking Heads live show. Pressing is from GZ but my copy is excellent. Also came in a poly-lined sleeve. This might sound as a surprise because I'm a big Talking Heads fan, but it may be redundant in my collection, since I already have similarly stellar live recordings from the same era with the 77 box set and The Name Of The Band. Keeping for now, but may sell.

Jean Leloup "Les Fourmis" - late 90's album, first time on vinyl. Pressing is adequate, a bit low volume but good when cranked up.

Jazz Dispensary: Night Lights - this one is completely different for this series, going with a smooth evening jazz instead of the usual soul-jazz-funk. It's nice having something unique like this to play, so it's a keeper. Pressing is good, from GZ. A bit of pops, which you hear because the music is mellow, but nothing bad. Record was in a printed inner.

Hindu Love Gods S/t - completely forgot about this project until this RSD. It was pressed at MRP and is probably as good as it gets from that plant. No big issue, pressing is adequate and it's nice to have these songs on vinyl, but it could be better.

Soul Slabs Vol. 4 - pressed at Gotta Groove and they did a good job as usual. Rice paper inners to protect the vinyl. It had been several years since the last Soul Slabs - I don't collect the Colemine 45's so I always enjoy getting these when they come out. I really like this volume and the sequencing of the comp. Another keeper from Colemine.

Pharaoh Sanders "Izipho Zam" - stellar pressing from RTI and great sounding cut by Kevin Gray, but this one doesn't resonate with me at all. Really dislike the vocals on some of the tracks. I'll give it another shot, but it may end up in the sale pile (or PIF pile if I feel generous).
 
My Plaid Room order was delivered while we were in Atlanta earlier this week. Got the Toad live show and the MOM Mother Ocean comp. Will dig into those this weekend.

So, my complete haul was: Oasis, MJ Lenderman, Eddie Vedder, Scott Weiland, Stone Temple Pilots, Mark Lanegan / Isobel Campbell, Jet, the Post Malone tribute to Nirvana, Toad and MOM comp.
 
threesunrises said:
My Plaid Room order was delivered while we were in Atlanta earlier this week. Got the Toad live show and the MOM Mother Ocean comp. Will dig into those this weekend.

So, my complete haul was: Oasis, MJ Lenderman, Eddie Vedder, Scott Weiland, Stone Temple Pilots, Mark Lanegan / Isobel Campbell, Jet, the Post Malone tribute to Nirvana, Toad and MOM comp.
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Lmk what you think of the Toad album - I really dig it!
 
My final 2 RSD albums arrived today. Figures my biggest RSD list was the year I was trapped at a comic convention booth all weekend in Chicago...it took a lot of mail orders and a few friends helping out, but I got everything I wanted.

Soul Asylum, Belly, Passengers, David Bowie, Stone Temple Pilots, Morphine, The Coral (B-Sides collection from UK), Camper Van Beethoven, Rock-afire Explosion, Prince, Jazz Dispensary, Gorillaz and Toad The Wet Sprocket.

At some point, I'll grab a clearance copy of RATM and Neurotic Outsiders, but no rush. Thanks for the board for the Park Ave CDs heads up -- they came through on that silly Rock-Afire album!!

This is going to be my whole weekend. And then I'm getting in line for Black Friday RSD.

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Just received the last of my RSD orders from Plaid Room, too. Haven't spun any yet, but this year I got Soul Slabs Vol. 4, Jazz Dispensary: Night Lights, Carla Thomas, Thievery Corporation, the Wrecking Crew's Makaha Sessions, and Bill Evans in Finland.

Shout-out to Yellow Dog Discs in NC for shipping my orders so quickly (my orders from 4/13 were delivered on 4/17) and also for automatically combining two separate orders I placed on the same day and refunding the shipping charge for the second order (I didn't even request this because I assumed that it wouldn't be possible and that they'd be too busy to deal with something like that).
 
Turbo said:
Pharaoh Sanders "Izipho Zam" - stellar pressing from RTI and great sounding cut by Kevin Gray, but this one doesn't resonate with me at all. Really dislike the vocals on some of the tracks. I'll give it another shot, but it may end up in the sale pile (or PIF pile if I feel generous).
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Like on "Karma", "Izipho Zam" features plenty of Leon Thomas' "soularphone" vocals, which sound like ritualistic yodeling. Reactions to his vocal style are generally either "cool" or "not for me".
 
Biscuit said:
Like on "Karma", "Izipho Zam" features plenty of Leon Thomas' "soularphone" vocals, which sound like ritualistic yodeling. Reactions to his vocal style are generally either "cool" or "not for me".
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It ain’t really my thing either. Ha I have to really be in the mood for it. I sold my copy of the last Izipho Zam when the prices climbed.
 
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