Some huge names in music have particular album releases tied to at the moment, File Retailer Day. We spotlight a couple of – and take a hear.
SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
File Retailer Day is at the moment. How will 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: Effectively, File Retailer Day began in 2008 as a manner of attracting prospects again to brick-and-mortar file shops – encouraging individuals to stand up off their couches, cease simply listening to music by means of their computer systems, go to an precise file retailer and purchase some music. And along with that, File Retailer Day has a complete bunch of sort of sponsored, unique releases.
SIMON: Effectively, what sort of music are you trying ahead to?
THOMPSON: For me, there are a pair that stand out. You recognize, considered one of my favourite bands from the ’90s, Harvey Hazard, put out a file 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 stated, the issue’s clear to me. You by no means acquired over Morrissey. Yeah. I stated, nicely, proper you’re. It is a lot tougher to be underfed than under-understood, he stated. Yeah.
THOMPSON: …Twenty-five years in the past, which makes me really feel very previous. It is a great file. 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 searching 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 neglected?
THOMPSON: Effectively, I feel they definitely attempt to have it each methods. You might have a mixture of titles which can be fairly esoteric to carry out the music nerds, however they will additionally typically have titles by larger artists. And every year, File Retailer Day appoints a special ambassador – a sort of huge, A-list pop, rock, hip-hop star who will launch an unique title that may carry out extra informal followers. This 12 months, that artist is Submit Malone. And Submit Malone is dropping an album referred to as “Submit Malone Tribute To Nirvana,” which is the first-ever vinyl urgent of a livestream Submit Malone did through 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’re, as you had been, as I need you to be, as a buddy, as a buddy, as a recognized enemy.
THOMPSON: And that is being pressed as a File Retailer Day unique – 17,000 copies. And so followers of Submit Malone will go to their native file shops and choose that up. There’s additionally a 7-inch single of “Fortnight,” which is the music 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 few responsible pleasure.
THOMPSON: (Laughter).
SIMON: Possibly one thing you may purchase and play only for your self over some headphones so nobody can hear it.
THOMPSON: (Laughter) You recognize, 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 likely be as excited as I’m, however there’s a urgent of an album by a gaggle 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 might 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 Eighties. Chuck E. Cheese additionally has had…
SIMON: (Laughter).
THOMPSON: …These sort of animatronic, you recognize, robotic bands.
SIMON: Yeah.
THOMPSON: However ShowBiz Pizza had a gaggle referred to as The Rock-afire Explosion, they usually performed unique compositions unique to The Rock-afire Explosion. And I will likely be searching for out an album referred to as “Authentic Desires: Songs From Showbiz” by The Rock-afire Explosion.
SIMON: This may most likely not shock you. I have been advised that my tastes, just about in all the pieces…
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 might like to purchase and hearken to are songs from the film model of “Cats.”
THOMPSON: (Laughter). Effectively, that may carry 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 music. It’s not from the unique “Cats” manufacturing, the place the entire film grinds to much more of a halt than it had already floor to carry out Taylor Swift to carry out a music that didn’t get nominated for an Academy Award.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “BEAUTIFUL GHOSTS”)
TAYLOR SWIFT: (Singing) All that I wished was to be wished.
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