2024's Record Store Day action continues with RSD Black Friday, offering a new range exclusive titles available in participating RSD shops, including Townsend Records. RSD Black Friday 2024 releases are be available in-store at Townsend Records on Friday 29th November and will be online on Townsend Music Store at 8 AM on Saturday 30th November. We've put together a list of our favourite releases from the drop and added links directly to the Product Pages, ready for you to bookmark for the big moment.
Ultravox
2024 is the 40th Anniversary of Ultravox's fourth album Lament, which followed three successful albums with Midge Ure on vocals, along with two world tours. This new stereo mix created by Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree) breathes new life into the album.
Taken from the recent Lament [Deluxe Edition] CD box set, this mix of the album makes its vinyl debut for RSD BF. As an added bonus, the previously unreleased full instrumental version of the album is also included, exclusive to this release.
Lament [Steven Wilson Stereo Mix] is available on Limited Edition Clear Double Vinyl and Limited Edition 2-Disc CD.
Echo & The Bunnymen
Two Echo & The Bunnymen singles will be reissued for Black Friday. Their second single 'Silver' is from their timeless fourth studio album Ocean Rain which celebrates 40 years this year. Issued on 12" for the first time since original release, it includes the epic 'Tidal Wave' version of the track.
Arguably Echo & The Bunnymen's biggest track, and Ian McCulloch's self-proclaimed "greatest song ever written", 'The Killing Moon' is one of the 80s and alternative rock's biggest songs of all time. The epic, ethereal track is available on 12" alongside the amazing 'All Night Version'.
Both 'Silver' and 'The Killing Moon' are available on Limited Edition 12 Inch Vinyl.
Olivia Rodrigo
Olivia Rodrigo reissues GUTS (spilled). Housed in a gatefold jacket and exclusive purple sleeve, featuring GUTS (spilled) artwork, this special edition red and purple marble vinyl encompasses the full collection of GUTS songs.
Guts is the second studio album by the American singer-songwriter, released on September 8, 2023. It was written and recorded with Rodrigo working closely alongside Dan Nigro, the producer and multi-instrumentalist of her debut album Sour.
GUTS Spilled is available on Limited Edition Red & Purple Marbled Double Vinyl.
U2
How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb is a collection of 10 songs taken from the original recording sessions for How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, U2’s 2004 critically acclaimed, eight-time Grammy-winning album.
Recently discovered in the band’s archive and now released for the first time as a standalone record, this shadow album features new, previously unreleased songs, including 'Luckiest Man In The World,' 'Happiness' and 'Country Mile,' as well as newly remastered songs, including 'Picture Of You (X + W),' all collected together for the first time to mark the 20th anniversary of How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.
Available on Limited Edition Black and Red Marble Vinyl, exclusively for Black Friday Record Store Day.
Dead Or Alive
November 2024 is the 40th Anniversary of the release of 'You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)', which was the lead single on Dead Or Alive's 1985 CBS Records album, Youthquake.
Released as a single in November 1984, 'You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)' reached No. 1 on the UK singles chart in March 1985, taking 17 weeks to get there. It was the first UK No. 1 hit by the Stock Aitken Waterman production trio. In 2003, Q ranked the song at number 981 in their list of the '1001 Best Songs Ever', Blender listed it at number 289 on its ranking of 'Greatest Songs Since You Were Born' in 2005, and in 2015 it was voted by the British public as the nation's 17th-favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV.
Backed with B-side 'Misty Circles', 'You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)' is available now on RSD Black Friday-exclusive Picture Disc 7 Inch Vinyl.
Many more RSD Black Friday 2024 titles are set to be available from Townsend Music Store including The Beatles: I Want To Hold Your Hand / I Saw Her Standing There 7-inch Vinyl, T. Rex - Tanx RSD BF 2024 Picture Disc and Nas Illmatic: Remixes & Rarities Vinyl.
RSD Black Friday 2024 releases will be available in-store at Townsend Records on Friday 29th November and will be online on Townsend Music Store at 8 AM on Saturday 30th November.
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