Messages scratched on the vinyl between the playing grooves and the label
Inspired by a discussion on the Label Obsession thread about all the things to look at in a vinyl album package, nominations please for the best text captured on vinyl in this way.
Maybe you didn't even know they were there, but every album I've looked at had something.
- The album number is bog standard
- Some also have the name of the person who mastered the album, scratched on the master by hand
- The real gems are the messages to the outside world from the poor soul trapped in a mastering booth, e.g.
- Variations on the "Porky" theme, such as "Porky", "Another Porky Prime Cut" and "Porky" on one side, and "Perko" on the other
- On Madness's One Step Beyond, "The nutty sound" on one side and "All the way from Camden Town" on the other
- "Arcane to fool the magician" on an album I can't remember
- "Enough research" c/w "Tends to prove your theory", again lost in the mists of time.
Dig them out and let's hear them, but hey, remember, kids...
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Morrissey
was the master of this - there's an exhaustive list here
http://www.geocities.com/costelt/Lyrics/etching.htm
God alone only knows what half of them are all about. I'm sure they have his hand in them, as opposed to any production or mastering or pressing types.
Not quite in Morrissey's league,
The Who "Face Dances" - Guarenteed brand spankin' who
The Stranglers "No more Heroes" - hand carved for your listening pleasure
Joy Division "Unknown Pleasures" - This is the way
Buzzcocks "Love Bites" - a spikey spectacular
Wreckless Eric
On Whole Wide World; "Stiff Records - Wreckless Eric We're Not The Same He's Not The Same".
On the flip Semaphore Signals it says: "Semaphorly Yours - Eric".
The sides weren't A & B but This Side and That Side
On Reconnez Cherie; "Every One A Tear Drop" and on the flip Rags and Tatters "Lutonesque".
more Madness
I don't know why I remember this...
The single of (I think) Madness' Wings of a Dove had scratched on side 1 "Look up at the rooftops" and on side 2 "at the arse of a crow".
It's not even as if I have only remembered this, I've never forgotten it!
Live Stiffs Live
Here Today And Tomorrow
and
S-4 More Beer