Some large names in music have particular album releases tied to right now, File Retailer Day. We spotlight a number of – and take a pay attention.
SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
File Retailer Day is right now. How can we observe it? What sort of card do you ship? Stephen Thompson from NPR Music is right here as our information. Stephen, thanks a lot for being with us.
STEPHEN THOMPSON, BYLINE: It’s a pleasure to be right here, Scott.
SIMON: I am afraid I do not know what File Retailer Day actually is.
THOMPSON: Properly, File Retailer Day began in 2008 as a approach of attracting prospects again to brick-and-mortar report shops – encouraging folks to stand up off their couches, cease simply listening to music by means of their computer systems, go to an precise report retailer and purchase some music. And at the side of that, File Retailer Day has a complete bunch of form of sponsored, unique releases.
SIMON: Properly, what sort of music are you wanting ahead to?
THOMPSON: For me, there are a pair that stand out. , one among my favourite bands from the ’90s, Harvey Hazard, put out a report referred to as “King James Model…”
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MEN (SHOW ME THE HERO)”)
HARVEY DANGER: (Singing) I bowed earlier than the avatar. He mentioned, the issue’s clear to me. You by no means acquired over Morrissey. Yeah. I mentioned, nicely, proper you might be. It is a lot more durable to be underfed than under-understood, he mentioned. Yeah.
THOMPSON: …Twenty-five years in the past, which makes me really feel very previous. It is a great report. It did not do very nicely, and now it is getting a deluxe reissue on vinyl with bonus tracks. That is one which I am going to definitely be on the lookout for. Followers of the French band Air – they’ve a basic album referred to as “Moon Safari” from 1998. It is getting a deluxe reissue with dwell tracks and demos and stuff like that. And it will get extra esoteric from there. There are some actually obscure titles, a few of which I am fairly enthusiastic about.
SIMON: Is that what the day’s for – in some ways, to have fun music that possibly has been missed?
THOMPSON: Properly, I feel they definitely attempt to have it each methods. You may have a mixture of titles which might be fairly esoteric to deliver out the music nerds, however they’re going to additionally usually have titles by greater artists. And annually, File Retailer Day appoints a special ambassador – a form of large, A-list pop, rock, hip-hop star who will launch an unique title that may deliver out extra informal followers. This 12 months, that artist is Put up Malone. And Put up Malone is dropping an album referred to as “Put up Malone Tribute To Nirvana,” which is the first-ever vinyl urgent of a livestream Put up Malone did in the course of the pandemic, the place he carried out a bunch of Nirvana songs.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “COME AS YOU ARE”)
POST MALONE: (Singing) Come as you might be, as you had been, as I would like you to be, as a good friend, as a good friend, as a identified enemy.
THOMPSON: And that is being pressed as a File Retailer Day unique – 17,000 copies. And so followers of Put up Malone will go to their native report shops and choose that up. There’s additionally a 7-inch single of “Fortnight,” which is the track he did with Taylor Swift. That is definitely been on vinyl for a very long time. However for collectors who need this particular urgent of it, they will solely get it through File Retailer Day.
SIMON: Stephen, I wish to ask you rigorously a couple of responsible pleasure.
THOMPSON: (Laughter).
SIMON: Perhaps one thing you may purchase and play only for your self over some headphones so nobody can hear it.
THOMPSON: (Laughter) , now that you just point out it, there’s a title that I am very enthusiastic about. And I really feel like solely a small handful of individuals will probably be as excited as I’m, however there’s a urgent of an album by a bunch referred to as The Rock-afire Explosion.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “WILL YOU MARRY ME”)
THE ROCK-AFIRE EXPLOSION: (Singing) And if solely it was mine to decide on, I would by no means ever wish to lose my Lucy.
THOMPSON: Scott, have you ever ever heard of the Rock-afire Explosion?
SIMON: Positive. No, by no means.
THOMPSON: (Laughter) The Rock-afire Explosion was the animatronic band that performed in ShowBiz Pizza eating places within the Nineteen Eighties. Chuck E. Cheese additionally has had…
SIMON: (Laughter).
THOMPSON: …These form of animatronic, you recognize, robotic bands.
SIMON: Yeah.
THOMPSON: However ShowBiz Pizza had a bunch referred to as The Rock-afire Explosion, they usually performed authentic compositions unique to The Rock-afire Explosion. And I will probably be in search of out an album referred to as “Unique Desires: Songs From Showbiz” by The Rock-afire Explosion.
SIMON: This can most likely not shock you. I have been advised that my tastes, just about in all the things…
THOMPSON: (Laughter).
SIMON: …Are what they name fundamental.
THOMPSON: (Laughter) Put on it with pleasure.
SIMON: So – nicely, I wish to open up to you. What I would like to purchase and hearken to are songs from the film model of “Cats.”
THOMPSON: (Laughter). Properly, that may deliver out Taylor Swift followers, ‘trigger she is within the…
SIMON: What does she sing from “Cats”? How do I not know this?
THOMPSON: She sings an unique track. It isn’t from the unique “Cats” manufacturing, the place the entire film grinds to much more of a halt than it had already floor to deliver out Taylor Swift to carry out a track that didn’t get nominated for an Academy Award.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “BEAUTIFUL GHOSTS”)
TAYLOR SWIFT: (Singing) All that I needed was to be needed.
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