The black vinyl shoes album appears in full but the set also includes two little heard albums shoes recorded before that 1975 s un dans versailles first released in an edition of 300 lps and 1976 s bazooka which the band couldn t afford to press at the time.
The shoes black vinyl shoes album.
Shoes then released a single tomorrow night on bomp records in june 1978.
The album was sold at local record stores and by mail order through bomp.
With 15 tunes to record and only four tracks on hand shoes made a record that was about melodies hooks and harmonies and the result was an album that helped kick start the 80s pop revival and still sounds fine almost a quarter of a century later.
In 1977 shoes recorded the album black vinyl shoes in jeff murphy s living room and pressed 1 000 copies on their own label black vinyl records.
Referencing black vinyl shoes lp album re 150 s 51477 njr lp 003 in 2015 a run of these albums were pressed by numero on white vinyl at united.
Black vinyl shoes is an album whose somewhat primitive production actually works in its favor.
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Some of these copies have a pressing flaw on side 2 track 3.
First issued in 1977 on the band s own label but not widely available until it was reissued in 1978 shoes first album proper black vinyl shoes is an.