Wednesday 12 August 2009

Uniform Choice - Screaming for Change

Here’s this week’s instalment of Cliché Vinyl. I couldn’t put up an update last week, so I hope this post will make up for the delay. I’ve tried to collate all the information on the classic release; Uniform choice’s - Screaming for change. Screaming for change without fail will always be on my top 10 hardcore LP’s of all time.
This was the 3rd release put out by Wishingwell Records in 1986 and in my view this is a pretty much the prefect release. Uniform choice is well known for being one of the main iconic straight edge bands and for their iconic t-shirts . What is less well know is that some of their songs where going to be released as a split 12” with the rap group N.W.A. sadly the split release never came out :(



From what I can see there are 4 presses of this record.

1s press – This press has a yellow sleeve and yellow labels, unlike the other press’s which have a green sleeve and green labels. I believe most of the 1st press came with a sticker and a large fold out poster. Around 1000 of these were pressed.

2nd press – This press had a green sleeve and green labels. An unknown amount were pressed on black vinyl – maybe around 2,000 plus? As well as the black vinyl version, they made a few colour versions. A lot of these colour versions were sold on tour. A cool thing about the record was that they sealed all the records, so lucky people have picked up the colour version of the press thinking that they were just opening a black version of the record.
From I can see there are 4 main colours pressed. And a couple of “transition version”
The main versions are the:
Green vinyl
Red Vinyl
Purple Vinyl
Grey Vinyl
I believe that pressing plant must have pressed the colours one after another. As some of the Red vinyl versions have some purple streaks in them when you hold them to the light. Also there is a “Pink” version. This Pink version might have been created from a mix of the grey colour and the purple mixing together, or maybe the purple colour wasn’t 100% mixed before the pressing started. I’ve heard that there might like 10 – 20 of the pink versions. The Pink version looks similar to the purple version, but has no streaks in the mix and looks like a very faint purple vinyl aka a pinkish colour. As far the number of numbers that were pressed, I’m guessing they made a same amount of the colour versions as the other wishingwell colour releases. Therefore you could be looking at 250 made per colour? Either way, it’s still a cool record to look out for.



3rd press – This was just pressed on black vinyl. The way to tell difference between the 2nd press on black vinyl and the 3rd press is from the lyric sheet. The 3rd has a smaller more condensed vinyl sheet.

4th press – I’ve heard that this press might actually be a bootleg done in Europe. It looks just like the 2nd press and 3rd press on black vinyl, but has no lyric sheet. A lot of them have surfaced in the last couple of years. All of them seem to sealed, these can be found in some distros at the moment..Odd?



Thanks for reading, sorry about the bad grammar. I’m going to blame it on lack of sleep and jetlag!

5 comments:

  1. Hi Jon
    The drawing on the cover of the first pressing and the others is different too. I think the first one was painted on leather and the rest on canvas or something. Done by Gavin of NO FOR AN ANSWER.

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  2. Thanks Mel, i never knew that. I'll update the blog with your info :)
    I'll post up couple of pic of the covers too later.

    Thanks again

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  3. I've always loved the labels on Wishingwell records, real clean looking Helvetica font, simple and clean. No 80's looking pixilated computer graphics. Always stood out to me. I think Conversion records kind of stole their schtick.....I like your blog a lot, great records and stories!

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  4. I have a red version, 2nd press for sale, if interested?

    jsferris@hotmail.com

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