Calica Wall: Stupid ass Q about stuff I already should know

The "repro" is red, but there is a blue label too.
What's up with that?

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Lee de Parade said:
Was it ever released as anything more than an acetate? I've seen one greenish label with numbers on it..

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Mark T. has one of two known acetate / reference copies. He got a real bonafide bargain when he bought it from Patrice, I believe, several years ago. The only boot 45 pressing I know of is the red label version done by Get Hip back in the 90s.
 
Wait a minute- this was never released officially? I can't believe it. What an amazing record!
Whose copy was it then that appeared on all the comps back in the 80s?
The scan looks awesome.
 
Edited, as I missed two acetates in the original list, which is now updated:

Here are the Top Unreleased (acetate/unissued vinyl demo only) tunes that made the Top 1000 in TBM:

1 - "I'm Movin' On" - Evil
2 - Title Unknown (dubbed as "Alright" for release on BFTG) - The Groop
3 - "I'm a Living Sickness" - Calico Wall
4 - "Doin' Me In" - Gonn
5 - "Want Me" - Night Crawlers
6 - "Love Times Eight" - Jackals
7 - "It's Your Choice" - Briks
8 - "Let Me Tell You Girl" - Juveniles
9 - "I'm Blue" - Rising Suns
10- "She's So Satisfyin'" - Apparitions
11 - "I" - Knight Riders
12 - "I'm Losin' - Briks
13 - "I Want You" - Thorns
14 - "I Know Why" - Hallmarks
15 - "Readin' Your Will" - Human Expression
16- "Get Out Of My Eye" - Soul Vendors
17 - "Life Of My Own" - Loved Ones
18 - "Get Off My Back" - Henchmen
19 - "Don't Be Late" - Modds
20- Title Unknown ("He's In Love With Himself") - Unknown Group Name
21 - "Why" - Scotlind Yarde
22 - "I Don't Want To See You" - Blue Embers
23 - ""Gonna Find My Way" - Jagged Edge
24 - "Fun And Games" - Six Minus One
25 - "Cheatin' On Me" - Sir Laurence & The Crescents
26 - "Again And Again" - Iguanas
27 - "Take The World As It Comes" - Rising Tides"
28 - "Shadows In The Dark" - Scotlind Yarde
29 - "Baby I" - Castiles
 
axel said:
Wait a minute- this was never released officially? I can't believe it. What an amazing record!
Whose copy was it then that appeared on all the comps back in the 80s?
The scan looks awesome.
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It was never released because their manager/ producer got drafted or something which ended the band - a studio-only project. Read about them in an issue of "Lost & Found" zine, I forget which volume # - might be #3?
 
So when a record like this Calico Wall was made,is this a 45 single in it's true sense or is it an acetate? I always thought most acetates were an aluminum disc with a recordable surface added/bonded to it,and the record was actually recorded on a record lathe.Possibly later made acetates were a plastic material but still recorded with a recording lathe?
Can you imagine this record actually being released? It definetly would have blown some minds in the day!
 
Darren J Wallace said:
So when a record like this Calico Wall was made,is this a 45 single in it's true sense or is it an acetate? I always thought most acetates were an aluminum disc with a recordable surface added/bonded to it,and the record was actually recorded on a record lathe.Possibly later made acetates were a plastic material but still recorded with a recording lathe?
Can you imagine this record actually being released? It definetly would have blown some minds in the day!
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I don't know the right answer Darren but it may be a test pressing like you get 5 pressed up in vinyl to see if the quality is right then you can order your run of discs 100-599 what ever. But an acetate is just about what you described. edit - OK thee bosshoss says it's an acetate... durrr!!!

I'm sure this fucked up piece of garbage would have received zero airplay it is just too freaking out there a masterpiece in derangement.
 
MopTopMike said:
Edited, as I missed two acetates in the original list, which is now updated:

Here are the Top Unreleased (acetate/unissued vinyl demo only) tunes that made the Top 1000 in TBM:

1 - "I'm Movin' On" - Evil
2 - Title Unknown (dubbed as "Alright" for release on BFTG) - The Groop
3 - "I'm a Living Sickness" - Calico Wall
4 - "Doin' Me In" - Gonn
5 - "Want Me" - Night Crawlers
6 - "Love Times Eight" - Jackals
7 - "It's Your Choice" - Briks
8 - "Let Me Tell You Girl" - Juveniles
9 - "I'm Blue" - Rising Suns
10- "She's So Satisfyin'" - Apparitions
11 - "I" - Knight Riders
12 - "I'm Losin' - Briks
13 - "I Want You" - Thorns
14 - "I Know Why" - Hallmarks
15 - "Readin' Your Will" - Human Expression
16- "Get Out Of My Eye" - Soul Vendors
17 - "Life Of My Own" - Loved Ones
18 - "Get Off My Back" - Henchmen
19 - "Don't Be Late" - Modds
20- Title Unknown ("He's In Love With Himself") - Unknown Group Name
21 - "Why" - Scotlind Yarde
22 - "I Don't Want To See You" - Blue Embers
23 - ""Gonna Find My Way" - Jagged Edge
24 - "Fun And Games" - Six Minus One
25 - "Cheatin' On Me" - Sir Laurence & The Crescents
26 - "Again And Again" - Iguanas
27 - "Take The World As It Comes" - Rising Tides"
28 - "Shadows In The Dark" - Scotlind Yarde
29 - "Baby I" - Castiles
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Killer list, baby!

And yeah, Sickness must be thee craziest most fucked up track, and it still got a pretty stiff competition!
Too bad so few took the Weird Road with the emerging of psych - the post-punk of teen beat.
Bees Voices win the sleeve contest though!

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