UP AND COMING REV RE-PRESSES

[Back 2 Square One]

Here are a few releases that will be out in the coming month or so....I'm betting NFAA gets repressed as well as GB 7" for 25th show....

Youth of today "break down the walls" red wax 700 copies

Youth of today "were not in this alone" white wax 700 copies

Kiss it good bye "she lives me..." white wax 500 copies

In my eyes "nothing to hide" green wax 500 copies

In my eyes "the difference between" purple wax 500 copies

[nico]

Thank god I more or less stopped collecting Revelation, I would be so broke.

[geoff]

May 10, 2012 6:25:35 GMT nico said:

Thank god I more or less stopped collecting Revelation, I would be so broke.

im kind of wishing i stopped. theres going so many records to buy in the next couple months.

[geoff]

the questions i have:

what will the supertouch look gatefold look like?

will the nfaa 7" get repressed?

how about the GB 12" or 7"? will those get pressed on color?

with all of these new records being pressed in time for rev 25, are they doing special covers?

[paolo]

Geoff if they reprint NFAA an GB on new colors they better get their server ready or the webstore will crash for days...

[gilm0075]

I have a pretty good hunch that the Inside Out EP is getting re-issued as a 12".

[jordan baker]

interpunk sold out of YOT BDTW on red... any info on where else to get this, other than ebay?

[jeff]

Preorders are up for the YOT on Rev's site.

[Back 2 Square One]

Ive started my distro up again....I'm pretty certain I have some of the rev represses being shipped. What doesn't sell where I live than I will post here.

[chungking48]

Not sure if I'm in the minority here, but I think I'd rather buy new Rev releases (if they actually had any bands on their roster) rather then represses. Don't get me wrong, most of these records are classics in my book, but I used to like that Rev color vinyl was a tough find and felt kinda 'exclusive', and (especially pre internet) finding some things on color felt like some kind of achievement. But with this increased numbers of represses, and the pressing runs of 500+ copies, it suddenly feels like feels like Rev color vinyl is devalued a little. Anyone who wants a Quicksand or Burn 7" on color vinyl can get one in five minutes these days following RSD 2011, whereas a few years back if you had a color pressing of these releases it felt a lot more special.

Like I said, I love a lot of the Rev releases, including all of the records that are getting the 2012 color wax treatment, and I will definitely be buying them all. But as much as its fun to again buy some of my favourite records on a new color vinyl, there is a big part of me that hopes this won't carry on to the point where they repress every single record in the catalog.

[gilm0075]

I second mcs here. The 500 each of the "other" non-RSD color was a bit much. I will buy the Kiss It Goodbye album though since I never owned it on vinyl before. So I guess that's nice.

[Back 2 Square One]

I think we all agree and we all will buy the represses so rev wins a
nd the newer collector loses since older presses gain value newer are like black wax.

[Adam Tanner]

The rev store also has the Can't close my Eyes on color as well as the s/t 7' on color..

when were these done, RSD?

anyone have the numbers on them?

[Clichejon]

For the RSD of the YOT 7" - 1350 were pressed on red vinyl. They were pressed in two batches, therefore half of the records look slightly pink/red and the other half look maroon/red.

[Raven X Army]

May 16, 2012 22:37:19 GMT chungking48 said:

Don't get me wrong, most of these records are classics in my book, but I used to like that Rev color vinyl was a tough find and felt kinda 'exclusive', and (especially pre internet) finding some things on color felt like some kind of achievement.

Below I'm just gonna copy/paste what I wrote you on LWB.
In one way I understand what you are feeling, on another hand I understand that those pre-internet conditions are now impossible to re-create/replicate so what before felt like something hard to find now simply isn't. Whether it is SOIA on red, CHAIN on green or GB on yellow, all of those records are out there for grabs virtually on a weekly basis.
Therefore I am not so much put off by some 700 YOT pressing. If anything I am curious as to what this is gonna look like, seeing it's all been revamped.

Here's the LWB post:

Marcus,
While I understand and to a point agree with some of what you say below, I think you fail to add few elements to the equation.

> YES, Rev used to press 500-1000 copies on color
> vinyl. However, this was in the days when they
> would press 5000 copies straight off the bat, so
> as a % of the total pressing, color copies were
> still the minority.

Yes, that was in the 80s when people didn't own CD players and ipods.
Vinyl (and tapes) were pretty much the only medium available at the time so making a "regular" 5000 black pressing and a "special" colour press made sense. The reason why these were selling out so fast back then was because that music was NOT available on any other medium and every HC kid was buying these records to actually listen to them whereas now most people buy records to "have" them rather than to actually "listen" to them.

Today it is impossible to recreate the conditions that made the 4000 black 1000 colour pressings possible and in turn "cool".
Obviously if REV pressed 4000 copies of YOT LPs to go with those 700 on colour, in 2038 they would still have them in their webstore.
They still sell the 1997 pressing of CCME with shitarse green cover for crying out loud

So in 2012 you have to take it as it is:
The "special" pressing becomes the ONLY pressing. And it is done solely so that people can buy it, talk about it on the internet over the course of few days/weeks and then shelf it along with 14 different versions of the same LP they already have in their possesion.

> So if YOU look at it from this perspective, what
> this means is that the total % of records out
> there on color vs black grows, which ultimately
> means that Rev color vinyl is much more common
> than it used to be, and therefore less special.
> And therefore Paolo was spot on

Does this make the colour pressings vs. black more common and therefore less special?
Maybe in some way it does. However I think you are being a little too vague on your point here because in my honest opinion the new REV colour represses are not even in 3% as cool as the original black versions of these pressings on WW and Caroline (which the REV represses are now mimicking)
If I had no other copy of those records I would much rather own black copies of the original pressings than the colour copies of the 2012 or any other repress than you hope to be "more special" due to being on colour vinyl alone. I think your percentage approach to this issue does not really work because, to me at least, it's more about chronology, so the WW or Carol black vinyl (or any other earlier pressing) will always be much cooler to own than any REV colour one.

On the other hand, you have critiqued what REV is doing right now but what alternative would you propose to the current state of things? I think the only alternative to that (that makes any sense) would be not repress anything at all.
I think in the current climate and how things are with the vinyl these days what REV does is what makes most sense.
It's like going back to the beginning of their label when they pressed one off colour pressings in large quantities with no black pressing at all. Like Chain 1st press on green or GB 2nd press on yellow or SOIA 2nd press on red. I see it as that. One off colour REV pressing. No big deal.

[nico]

Interesting discussion going on here.

Maybe the prices of the Caroline and WW version will drop but as a "collector" I prefer the OG version despite there is a more limited version out.

Also you can pick up Burn on color any day of week now, but it didn't effect the price of the Burn on pink a bit. For me it even boosted the idea that I really wanted to own a pink copy.

[moos]

burn on pink. its all you need.

[goodxthings]

REV just posted this on facebook..

these look really nice

[nico]

1997 mix has been used for this version.

[nico]

May 21, 2012 21:31:24 GMT moos said:

burn on pink. its all you need.

+ a blue Inside Out 7". But I have one now.

[startxtoday]

The white WNITA with OG cover looks sweet!

[Clichejon]

Looking forward for this to turn up on my front door.