Have Heart | What Counts (Alternative Covers)

I'm glad because I actually got all alternative covers from Have Heart's EP : What Counts. Ok, there is not that much, but hey this was my goal and I completed that, so I'm fuckin' happy.

There is four different alternative cover of this record and one regular (with navy or black ink). The Test Press also have the regular cover. Last months I talked about some of that stuff when they came to my mailbox, but now my collection is complete, this is the time to make a big page with all the five covers.

Like I say each time, I don't collect every colors variations. I'm only interested by alternative covers and my only goal is to collect all this variations.

So let's begin with the regular cover !

There is two variations of the regular cover : one with "Have Heart" navy print (1st and 2nd Press) and one with "Have Heart" black print (3rd to 5th Press). The difference is very small because the navy print is very dark and looks like the black one. The orange of the cover is also a little more dark on the black version.

Check this picture :

The print on labels are also different ! The labels from the two first press comes with navy print (like the cover), the labels from the third and fourth press comes with black print (like the cover) and the labels from the fifth press comes with navy print (unlike the over). Duh...

I have the Black vinyl from the first press out of 200 copies.So, navy print on cover and label.

Then, this is the Winter Tour 2004-2005 Edition with the famous Calvin & Hobbes cover.

This is the first alternative cover made by Think Fast Records but this is the last I got. This edition come from the second press with the classic Clear Green vinyl, who is the only color avalaible from this press.

200 copies were made. It seems that 160 copies were used with the regular cover and only 40 with the Clavin & Hobbes cover. I'm not sure about the number 40, but a lot of people make a mistake when they say that the Winter Tour Edition is out of 200 copies. Think Fast picked some 7" from the 200 and put the alternative homemade cover on the regular cover.

The homemade paper cover is quality shit, but hey, the design is so cool ! Inside, the regular cover came with navy print like the label. Credits and lyrics are on the insert.

Next, this is the Bonds Of Bro-Ship edition of the third press. 300 handnumbered copies : 150 on Black vinyl and 150 on White vinyl.

I got the White one from Pat Flynn. Yes, I'm so a nerd, but I'm really happy to have a copy directly from the singer's collection.

I got the n° 139 of 150. 

Inside, the regular cover came with black print like the label.

The two last alternative covers come from the 2005's Summer Tour.

First, like the Demo 2003 with the Sub Zero cover, Think Fast made a Scorpion alternative cover for the Sink With Cali Fest III edition. 125 copies on classic Black vinyl with black print on the label from the third press.

I love this shit !

The other one is the Positive Numbers Fest 2005 edition on Clear Red out of 125 copies with an alternative cover from the fourth press.

Fun fact, this pressing supposed to be blue, but the plant sent red instead. Blue copies were sent after the fest with normal cover.

This edition is handnumbered on the back cover. I got the n° 82 of 125.

Don't forget to take a look on my website dedicated to all Have Heart's vinyls !

What Feeds The Fire | Set Me Free (Collection)

I already make a post on my What Feeds The Fire collection. This was the first item on this blog early in the year, but this was in french and I don't really was satisfied by the pictures. So, I decided to make a new article on one of my favourite 7" collection with a lot of new pictures.

You probably know What Feeds The Fire ?! This was a amazing band with future members of Verse and Soul Control, including Verse's singer Sean Murphy. As a consequence, they really sounded like Verse's debut album.

WFTF's discography is pretty small : a self released Demo Tape, an EP and a participation to a compilation. The EP was named Set Me Free and this is what we going to talk about right now. Anchor Records released that stuff in 2001.

Anchor was the first label created by Aram of Champion / Betrayed before he started the famous React ! Records. Later, Stillborn Records - label of Jamey Jasta from Hatebreed - re-released Set Me Free on CD with a couple of songs more than the 7".

Okay, so let's go ! Obviously, we start with the Test Press. In fact, there is two different Test Press limited to 8 copies each. The first Test Press was rejected and sold with a special "Pay For Crap" cover.

I got the second version, the good one ! Vinyl is a classic Test Press disc from Erika, so black with yellow label. The cover is the same than the regular edition but the gilt of the title is red.

Then, this is the Regular edition with the classic silver gilt cover. The design is amazing because you can open the cover like a matchbox ! Inside, the insert looks like a couple of match and you can see a scraper on the back cover. "What Feeds The Fire", you know ?!

I got the less rare edition on Black vinyl with big hole out of 700 copies. There also exist two other regular editions : Clear (with printed label) and White.

Next, it's the Preorder edition with an alternative silkscreened cover. Vinyl is Clear with blank and handnumebered label.

I got the n° 2 of 120.

This cover is also amazing because you can open her in three part. So cool !

I don't know a lot of thing about the next edition. She seems to be out of only 5 copies on White vinyl with the Red cover of the Test Press. It was the rarest edition of this 7" but I don't know what the fuck with that...

Vinyl is the classic White with no particularity.

There is the Hellfest 2002 edition with an alternative cover. It seems to be out of 50 copies on classic White vinyl but with a little funny thing : a price tag with a date "7 6-02" on the label.

This is not the date of the festival, because it was on 12 to 14 jully. It was the date of the Record Release show. In my opinion, the band used some copies left after the show for the Hellfest.

Another specifities is the sticker on the innersleeve.

So, things gonna be a little more complicated with the Record Release edition. We have the White vinyl with price tag "7 6-02" and a sticker on the inner sleeve. The sticker is different than the Hellfest edition but it seems some people got this one with their fest's copie.

This edition haven't cover because the covers isn't ready for the show with the Cro-Mags on 6 jully 2002. I don't know how many exist. Some people says 50 but I'm not sure.

I got my copy from the band drummer.

And we have the Cro-Mags rip off cover ! This cover supposed to be used at the Record Release show with the Cro-Mags, but finaly no. 150 copies are supposed to be pressed and the big part seems to be destroy. Apparently, only 30 or 40 copies left... I don't know !

My copy came with the classic White vinyl, but some other copies comes with the Clear vinyl with blank label but without handnumber.

Those three editions comes with a black insert.

Last but not least : the React ! Showcase edition given for free at the React ! Showcase in september 2011. Yeah, 2011. Fun fact : Aram found 88 copies on Black vinyl with little hole, so he decided to make a new special cover and give them for free.

This edition is handnumbered on the back cover. I got the n° 9 of 88.

And to finish, there is the Demo Tape. The tape is Clear with homemade paper cover and handwritten sticker. She's handnumbered on the edge. This is the number #1 but I don't know if it's like the "Demo #1" or if I got the tape n° 1 out of... Hum, I also don't know how many tape were produced. 

I missed only four editions : the rejected Test Press, the regular editions with White and Clear vinyls, and the Cro-Mags edition with Clear vinyl. If you got those, I'm very interested !

She & Him | A Very She & Him Christmas

Oh oh oh, merry christmas, this a true Hardcore time ! Heavy, intense, tortured with a lot of sing alone and mosh part, this time is A Very She & Him Christmas by She & Him. Yes, so Hardcore.

In this festive period, I decided to talk about this LP that a good friend offered to me for christmas. He knew my huge love of Zoey Deschannel since I saw her in Almost Famous (she's William's sister). This LP has been released by Merge Records last year. I wanted to buy it but I doesn't have enough money.

I don't really like She & Me, this is a fuckin' hipster folk. Despite I love Zooey, I hate when she sing and I doesn't like his TV show New Girl essentially for that reason.

But this album is different, this is a christmas record and he's very cool. I love heard that stuff when I prepare food or presents, it's totally in the mood of christmas. And, oh my god, Zooey in Mother Santa on the back cover !!!

I got the "first press", or maybe the "2011 press" is a better word. Vinyl is Clear Red on the first edition. Merge released a new edition this year with a White vinyl. The snowflake is not on the vinyl, it's just the inner sleeve that appears in transparency.

I really love this back cover. Zooey, Mother Santa !

This stuff is really neat, Merge put a lot of fun things : printed inner sleeve, download card, wish card in envelope with tracklist ...

... And an "handwrited" word.

Champion | Demo 2000

In this christmas period, time is missing for everyone, so just a little word about a Tape. Let's come back in the year 2000, Champion have released one year before his first demo tape - Demo '99 - and changed a little bit his line up.

So, the band put two new songs and an intro on a new demo tape, logically called Demo 2000. There are two different editions of this tape, the first one with only three songs, and the second one with an additionnal "song" called O.M.J. (One Man Jam) and recorded for fun by some band members during the recording sessions. You can hear this incredible hip hop beat on the bonus track of the Time Slip Away's CD released on Bridge Nine.

Concretely, the difference between the two editions are those : the mention of the song on the cover and a clear tape without band name or songs.

Mine is the first one with only three tracks. I don't know how many tapes have been produced, but despite the first demo, this time this was a professional release. A self released, but a professional self released !

The Tape came with an insert with lyrics and credits.

Refuse Records, a polish record label, also released two Champion's tapes : Promises Kept and Time Slip Away.