# IRC’s Top Vinyls for Record Store Day 2015 – Metallica, The Kinks, Black Keys, REM, The White Stripes, Foo Fighters, Interpol, Bowie

- Link: https://indierockcafe.com/2015/04/ircs-top-vinyls-for-record-store-day-2015-metallica-the-kinks-black-keys-rem-the-white-stripes-foo-fighters-interpol-bowie/
- Published: 2015-04-16T22:43:08-04:00
- Author: indierocker

The news this week that digital downloads surpassed CD sales last year for the first
time ever serves as a reminder to all that digital is the way of the future. Yet,
old skool, vinyl releases pose a challenge to digital. In fact, Nielsen SoundScan
reported that more than 9.2 million vinyl albums were sold in 2014 (up 52% from 
2013), the highest number since NSS started tracking music sales in 1991.

Since its inception in 2007, **Record Store Day**, now a globally successful ‘Christmas’
for music enthusiasts and vinyl collectors, has set out to change the trajectory
of downward trends in the sales of vinyl by encouraging artists and bands to drop
special vinyl releases during the annual April event. And of course labels and bands
are all for the promotion of any sales where fans pay real money for music. The 
main objective of RSD, or so they lead us to believe, is to help promote sales for
participating indie record stores across the U.S. and around the world. Music lovers
also win, especially IF they’re lucky enough to score limited edition vinyls from
their favorite artists and bands.

With that said, vinyl lovers in the U.S. alone have 1,400 participating indie record
shops to choose from which can be searched for on RecordStoreDay.com. Let’s get 
right to it:
 Here are many of our top picks, out of 550+ releases, for Record Store
Day 2015, including exclusive limited edition drops from Metallica, Deep Purple,
The Kinks, The White Stripes, The Black Keys, Built To Spill, Foo Fighters, Bob 
Dylan, Wu-Tang Clan, Death Cab For Cutie, REM, The Violent Femmes, David Bowie, 
The Stooges, Father John Misty, Run The Jewels.

![metallica-no-life-til-leather](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/
04/metallica-no-life-til-leather.jpg "metallica-no-life-til-leather")

#### Metallica – _No Life Til Leather_

**Metallica** – Easily one of the most anticipated vinyl releases on RSD will be**
Metallic**a’s never before officially released 1982 demo bootleg cassette, _[No Life Till Leather](https://youtube.com/watch?v=a2KjOYx8BTs)_.
Many of the songs later ended up on the triple-platinum-selling album, _Kill ‘Em
All_. The original bootleg cassette, that has made the rounds for over 30 years,
was recorded when **Dave Mustaine** was still the lead guitarist, and before he 
was unceremoniously kicked out. Mustaine didn’t suffer; he went on to form **Megadeth**.

![davidbowie-changes](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/davidbowie-
changes-584x584.jpg "davidbowie-changes")

#### David Bowie – _Changes_

 * [ “Changes”](https://youtube.com/watch?v=pl3vxEudif8): The first ever 7″ vinyl
   picture disc of **David Bowie**‘s classic track features a previously unreleased
   AA side recorded in 1971 for a small run of Bowie promo LPs dropped by GEM Records.
   Die-hard Bowie fans worldwide are going to be fiercely gunning for this one –
   just want until the post-RSD eBay listings.

![2015BuiltToSpill_UntetheredMoon](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/
2015/04/2015BuiltToSpill_UntetheredMoon-584x584.jpg "2015BuiltToSpill_UntetheredMoon")

#### Built To Spill – _Untethered Moon_

The **Boise** jangle pop/jam-rock legends of alternative rock deliver their first
full length since 2009’s _There Is No Enemy_. A must-have for serious BTS and vinyl
fans. [“Never Be The Same”](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hLZn0KpHbr4) is a single
from _Untethered Moon_. Every one else can pre-order the CD or digital copy via 
Amazon.

![laundryroom-foo-fighters](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/
laundryroom-foo-fighters.jpeg "laundryroom-foo-fighters")

#### Foo Fighters – _Songs From The Laundry Room_

The **Foo Fighters**, led by RSD 2015 ‘ambassador’ **Dave Grohl**, will drop _Songs
From The Laundry Room_, a recording studio in Seattle. During the sessions the band
knocked out a cover of **Kim Wilde**‘s 1981 hit [“Kids In America,”](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SB-Gterk2JI)
as well as early versions of songs like “Alone + Easy Target” and “Big Me” and a
previously unreleased track, “Empty Handed” on a limited edition 10-inch vinyl.

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No Bunny, Blitzen Trapper, Arctic Monkeys, Obits, Xiu Xiu

![2015WhiteStripes_GetBehindMeSatan](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/
2015/04/2015WhiteStripes_GetBehindMeSatan-584x584.jpg "2015WhiteStripes_GetBehindMeSatan")

#### The White Stripes – _Get Behind Me Satan_

It’s almost hard to believe that this Record Store Day marks the first time ever
that **The White Stripes**‘ double-album, _Get Behind Me Satan_, will be available
on vinyl. The set features one disc in white vinyl and the other in red. (In case
you didn’t hear, White will be performing a number of $3 spontaneous acoustic solo
shows in five states in the coming weeks before he goes on a break from touring 
for a ‘long hiatus.’) Check out the [freaky teaser video](https://youtube.com/watch?v=P8lago09ago)
for the wax release.

![thekinkscolor](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/thekinkscolor.
jpg "thekinkscolor")

#### The Kinks – Three EPs

The legendary band, **The Kinks**, now 50 years strong, continue to gather more 
fans every year, even though the band hasn’t released a new album in 20 years. In
some ways, The Kinks are more popular now than ever before. That belief is given
further validity by the very fact that, just in the past decade, artists and bands
like Mumford & Sons, Bruce Springsteen, The Black Keys, Aerosmith, Jackson Browne,
Of Montreal, OK Go, Yo La Tengo, Lampchop, Pearl Jam, Colin Meloy, Elvis Costello,
Elliott Smith, and many, many others, have released Kinks’ cover songs.

⌊thekinks-youreallygotme⌉⌊thekinks-youreallygotme⌉There are three previously out-
of-print compilation collector 7-inch vinyls celebrating The Kinks’ 50th anniversary
that are dropping on RSD: _Kinksize Hits_, a long out of circulation second EP dropped
in 1965, containing the massive hits like [“You Really Got Me”](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Eq_KQYVPadQ)(
complete with the screaming teenage girls) and [“All Day and All of the Night”](https://youtube.com/watch?v=F4DV-5d6a5g).

Those two hit songs are considered by some music critics as the first real hard 
rock songs ever, and went on to influence trends like heavy metal and punk in the
ensuing years. In 1964 and 1965, no one else had busted out riffs that aggressive
and chunky before The Kinks did. At that same time, The Beatles were singing “I 
Wanna Hold Your Hand,” while The Kinks were singing about doing it all day and all
night.

The other two EPs being reissued include the 1964 original release of the band’s
first EP, _Kinksize Sessions_, featuring songs like “I Gotta Go Now” and “I’ve Got
That Feeling.” The final 7-inch reissue on vinyl is the band’s single version of“
You Really Got Me” with the B-side “Milk Cow Blues.” For good measure, check out
The Kinks’ live performance of [“Apeman”](https://youtube.com/watch?v=eEep67akIn4)
in 1970. Geniuses!!!

![deeppurple](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/deeppurple.jpeg"
deeppurple")

#### Deep Purple – _“Black Night”/”Speed King”_ and _Montreux_

The British hard rock band, **Deep Purple**, will drop two releases – a blue 7″ 
vinyl of their classic song, [“Black Night,”](https://youtube.com/watch?v=j7nDjPMDOng)
featuring a previously unavailable single edit of **Roger Glover**‘s 2005 remix,
along with the B-side piano version of [“Speed King,”](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JFwsRM_x7g0)
which was released in 1970 in Holland as an A-side, as well as a 3-LP colored vinyl
box set of _Montreux_ (2011).

![brian-eno](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/brian-eno1.jpeg"
brian-eno")

#### Brian Eno – _My Squelchy Life_

The legendary ‘lost’ **Brian Eno** album, _[My Squelchy Life](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/4N2cle9WP7W4ofXDHPBJlw)_,
will drop on vinyl for the first time this Saturday. This is a big deal. While the
album was slated for release on Warner Bros in September 1991, it was pulled at 
the last minute, not to see daylight until now. Last year, the album was dropped
as a bonus disc of the expanded **All Saints** edition of the follow up album, _Nerve
Net_. Now the RSD edition is presented in a deluxe gatefold vinyl edition, including
an additional track, “Rapid Eye”, that has never been heard before.

Related Post:  Top 2013 Record Store Day Releases, Vol. I - The White Stripes, The
Black Keys, Best Coast, Phoenix, MGMT, Dan Deacon

![blackkeyschu](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/blackkeyschu.
jpg "blackkeyschu")

#### The Black Keys- _Meet Me In The City _7″

Long before they became the reigning kings of commercial arena rock, **The Black
Keys** were students of bluesman **Junior Kimbrough** and his hypnotic _Hill Country_
compositions. The Keys RSD 7-inch vinyl release features Kimbrough’s original, [“Meet Me In The City,”](https://youtube.com/watch?v=iAU7KEskmyU)
and [The Keys’ cover](https://youtube.com/watch?v=b592P-KU9X0) from their 2006 EP,
_Chulahoma_.

![dylan-basementtapes](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/dylan-
basementtapes.jpg "dylan-basementtapes")

#### Bob Dylan – _The Basement Tapes_

Dylan’s legendary bootleg, _The Basement Tapes_, has become a classic over the years.
For fans around the world, there are two limited edition vinyl versions set to drop
on RSD, a regular vinyl version and a 180 gram black vinyl mono master, each numbered
and autographed by **Garth Hudson**.

![](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/wutang-protectyaneckrsd.
jpg "wutang-protectyaneckrsd")

#### Wu-Tang Clan – “Protect Ya Neck”

For the first time ever, a 12-Inch split yellow and black vinyl of [“Protect Ya Neck”](https://youtube.com/watch?v=R0IUR4gkPIE),
the 1993 hit song that changed everything for the eight-member band and for hip 
hop. The limited edition of 3,000 vinyl includes the original cover art and a plastic
Get On Down-branded outer sleeve.

![thestooges](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/thestooges-584x584.
jpg "thestooges")

#### The Stooges – _Have Some Fun Live at Ungano’s_

While the sound quality lacks some luster, **Iggy Pop** and **The Stooges**‘ limited
edition live vinyl album, _[Have Some Fun Live at Ungano’s](https://youtube.com/watch?v=My5kmLncYzo&list=PLN5_30IiLIAZwxC99y206ddcrzffHUq2D)_,
complete with a sax coda on “Fun House.” This is definitely a must-have for die-
hard Stooges and Iggy fans.

![violentfemmesnewsongs](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/violent-
femmes-578x584.jpg "violentfemmesnewsongs")

#### The Violent Femmes – _Happy New Year_

**The Violent Femmes** drop a 12″ vinyl EP featuring four totally new songs that
the 80’s alternative rockers recorded in Hobart, Tasmania in 2014. The EP marks 
the first new material from the band in 17 years. The songs on the EP include “Happy
New Year Next Year,” “Love Love Love Love Love,” “Good At/For Nothing,” and “Fast
Horses.”

![RunTheJewels-RSD](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/RunTheJewels-
RSD-624x416.jpg "RunTheJewels-RSD")

#### Run The Jewels – _RTJ2_

Fresh from dropping one of the most thunderous albums of 2014, **Killer Mike** and**
El-P** of **Run The Jewels** are back with a limited edition 12″ _RTJ2_ with “Bust
No Moves,” along with [“Love Again”](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xv_xmULQWVU) and
two other tracks.

#### Father John Misty – “I Love You, Honeybee”

**Father John Misty**’s [“I Love You, Honeybear,”](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QtCTtSe0ahE)
alternative version, titled (although many sites are not reporting this change) “
I Love You, Honeybee,” will be available on a limited edition (5,000 copies) red
heart-shaped 7-inch, with an exclusive B-side, “I’ve Never Been A Woman.”

![rem-syd-barrett-dark-globe](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/
04/rem-syd-barrett-dark-globe-584x584.jpg "rem-syd-barrett-dark-globe")

#### Various Artists – _Rhino Records Side-by-Side_

The Rhino Records 7-inch colored vinyl series for RSD continues this year with a
compilation that includes **REM**‘s cover of **Syd Barrett** (Pink Floyd, 1965-1968)’
s song, “Dark Globe.” **Michael Stipe** and REM’s masterful and touching cover of
Barrett’s [“Dark Globe”](https://youtube.com/watch?v=O_pY0wUjDi0) will be available
on a 7″ colored vinyl.

![darjeelinglimited](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/darjeelingunlimited-
584x584.jpg "darjeelinglimited")

#### Various Artists – _The Darjeeling Limited_

Director **Wes Anderson**‘s terrific soundtrack to 2007’s _The Darjeeling Limited_
film will receive the limited vinyl release featuring classics from **The Kinks**(“
Powerman,” and [“This Time Tomorrow”](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qwVJ7FWc4rQ)) 
and **The Rolling Stones** (“Play With Fire”), with the film score by Bengali filmmaker**
Satyajit Ray**. RSD exclusive version is a 12-inch 180 gram transparent green vinyl
in a gatefold jacket featuring stills from the film.

![bowie-verlaine](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/bowie-verlaine-
584x584.jpg "bowie-verlaine")

#### Bowie, Death Cab For Cutie, Lemonheads, Stiff Little Fingers, The Stranglers

Other 7 inch drops include **David Bowie** and **Tom Verlaine** versions of Verlaine’s
song, “Kingdom Come,” plus **Death Cab For Cutie** and **Freedy Johnston** recording
of [“Bad Reputation,”](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4wv68Zc_0Ps); **Gram Parson**
and the **Lemonheads** versions of Parson’s track, [“Brass Buttons,”](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9L4qeYPdWF4)
plus **Stiff Little Fingers** cover (and the original) of **Grandmaster Flash**‘
s “The Message,” and the unlikely pairing of **Dionne Warwick **and **The Stranglers**
[“Walk On By”](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jqfqVDHNW6c) versions.

Related Post:  IRC's Record Store Day Music Guide, Vol. II - Covers from LCD Soundsystem,
Foo Fighters, Deerhoof, Decemberists, Fu*ked Up

![excults-midnight-passenger](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/
04/excults-midnight-passenger.jpg "excults-midnight-passenger")

#### Grizzly Bear, The Decemberists, Blitzen Trapper, Ex-Cult

**Grizzly Bear** is offering up their spectacular debut, _[Horn Of Plenty](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/3AT0fidFk2zfzxxw2khclq)_
on vinyl. **The Decemberists** will drop _Picaresque_ and **Blitzen Trapper** _Harvest_,
on 12-inch red vinyl . One of the best riff-rockers of the past decade, **Ty Segall**,
teamed up with **Ex-Cult** to record the 7-inch vinyl drop of the songs, “Ties You
Up” (with **Zumi Rosow** of the **K-Holes** on saxophone) and “New Virtues” from
the upcoming re-release of the album _Midnight Passenger_.

![2015Slowdive_BlueDay](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/2015Slowdive_BlueDay-
584x584.jpg "2015Slowdive_BlueDay")

#### Vinyls From The Doors, Slowdive, Adam & The Ants

**The Doors**‘ _[Strange Days](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/6v5IVMmY1IvWtbfnQoiFSf)_(
Spotify stream) LP, mono version on 180 gram vinyl, **Slowdive**‘s 1992 first album–
_Blue Day_ – on the Creation Records label. Far from the best album cover, the tunes
are legendary (rumors a new album is forthcoming abound). **Adam & The Ants** – 
[“Kings of the Wild Frontier”](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5M2gtZPvzWg) on 7-inch
gold vinyl.

![2015MumfordAndSons](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/2015MumfordAndSons_Press_JamesMinchin-
624x416.jpg "2015MumfordAndSons_Press_JamesMinchin")

#### Wax Drops from Mumford & Sons, Buzzcocks, Dandy Warhols, and Suede

**Mumford and Sons** put away their banjos to go electric on two previously unreleased
tracks “Believe” and [“The Wolf,”](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BsP-MjIueL4) tracks
from the much-anticipated new album, _Wilder Mind_. **Buzzcocks** drop a colored
7-inch vinyl of “The Way”/”Generation Suicide”; **Dandy Warhols** release a double
colored vinyl LP set of _Dandys Rule OK_. **Suede**‘s best-ever album, _Dog Man 
Star (Live At The Royal Albert Hall)_, recorded live in London to a hometown crowd,
is a limited double vinyl treat.

![2015JohnnyMarr_IFeelYou-DepecheMode-Cover](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/
uploads/2015/04/2015JohnnyMarr_IFeelYou-DepecheMode-Cover-584x584.jpg "2015JohnnyMarr_IFeelYou-
DepecheMode-Cover")

#### Sly and The Family Stone, Johnny Mar, D’Angelo

Purveyors of funk, **Sly and The Family Stone**, drop _Live at The Fillmore East_,
recorded in October 1968 at New York rock temple Fillmore East. **The Roots** guitarist**
Kirk Douglas** put the release together of previously unreleased live tracks. Comes
in one red and one blue vinyl set. **The Strokes** guitarist **Johnny Mar** will
officially drop [“I Feel You,”](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3h_w-O9CkKA) a cover
of **Depeche Mode**. **D’Angelo**‘s “The Cherade” and [“1000 Deaths”](https://youtube.com/watch?v=t2r5yqjlVrI)
from the new album, _Black Messiah_, drops on a 12 inch black vinyl.

![baddays-flaminglips](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/baddays-
flaminglips-584x584.jpg "baddays-flaminglips")

#### Releases from The Flaming Lips, Warpaint on Daughter and Neko Case

**The Flaming Lips** celebrate the 20 anniversary of the ground-breaking, _Clouds
Taste Metallic_, with the _[Bad Days](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0TDzTxH_2D0)_ 
EP limited edition on solid white and transparent green wax and transparent yellow
mixed vinyl. The Oklahoma band also drops the _This Here Giraffe_ EP, another spin-
off of _Clouds_, featuring songs like the title track and “Life on Mars” (Live Peel
Session version). **Warpaint** remixes **Daughter** member **Elena Tonra**‘s haunting
vocals on a 12″ inch vinyl release of “Feelin Alright.” **Neko Case** drops a red
vinyl reissue of the 2006 album _Fox Confessor Brings The Flood_, which had gone
out of print for years.

![interpol-everything-is-changed-record-store-day](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-
content/uploads/2015/04/interpol-everything-is-changed.jpeg "interpol-everything-
is-changed-record-store-day")

#### Interpol’s RSD VInyl and Grouplove’s Covers

**Interpol** drops a 7-inch vinyl limited edition of the _‘Everything Is Wrong’_
release featuring the previously unreleased track, [“What is What?”](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EMdkkw6_4o0)**
Grouplove** drops _Under The Covers_ with two unreleased covers, one of **The Who**‘
s “Baba O’Riley” (with **Portugal The Man**) and **The Beach Boys**‘ [“Don’t Worry Baby.”](https://youtube.com/watch?v=eZBR-UYnDwA)
Yet Grouplove’s cover of **Cage The Elephant**‘s [“Spiderhead”](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DOYyMoHDR3Y)
has racked up more than 370,000 streams on YouTube.