Pitchfork: Scat Records To Release "Director's Cut" of Guided By Voices Classic on Vinyl

Scat Records To Release "Director's Cut" of Guided By Voices Classic on Vinyl
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Scat Records will offer new vinyl runs of two classic Guided by Voices albums this summer. Propeller and Bee Thousand (originally released in 1992 and 1994, respectively) will be back on shelves again in all of their wax glory as soon as June. And with some stylin' extras to boot, according to the label's website.

The re-release of Bee Thousand celebrates the lo-fi landmark's 10th birthday. Officially titled Bee Thousand: The Director's Cut, the gatefold double album features Bob Pollard's original cover art and offers an entire twelve inches of bonus material. The first record will contain "the existing album, unchanged" while the second disc will consist of album outtakes (all from Box), The Grand Hour and I Am a Scientist EP's, and a previously unreleased, "more straightforward rock version" of "My Valuable Hunting Knife" taken from the I Am A Scientist sessions.

Scat Records main man Robert Griffin told Pitchfork "I've been meaning to get Bee Thousand back in print on vinyl for a while. And it's been ages since either of the EP's were available on vinyl. When I sold the last copies of Bee Thousand a couple years ago, I had it in my mind to include those EP's somehow when it was time to repress." Fans have long bemoaned the ri-gottdamn-diculous prices charged by merchants and eBay hawks for the original GbV albums; all the whining can cease come June. Griffin says he's glad to "[fill] a need and throw a little party for the record in the process."

Scat's re-release of the original Propeller album will drop at around the same time, effectively celebrating its 12th anniversary with a bang. And though the 2004 Propeller boasts no "bonus material or remastering," there is a nice visual incentive to buy the record. The original version of the album was of course released in a limited run of 500, with each record decked out in its own unique, handmade cover art. Scat's upcoming re-releases will reportedly all wear the same jacket, and it will be a handsome one chosen from amongst the several hundred original covers.

The Guided By Voices Database website (linked below) is currently holding an online election to choose the cover for the re-release. Least you'll have one chance to vote for something you believe in this year. "Woman Cleaning the T.V." is reportedly ahead in the balloting. "Of course, we could end up using the runner up if whoever owns the winner doesn't want to loan it out," Griffin admits. Hey, guy with the girl bending over on your Propeller LP: the people have spoken, time to pay the fiddler!

"Propeller is happening just because it's cool," says Griffin. "Stoughton Printing makes these extra-thick old school LP jackets; and being that there are some really cool Propeller LP covers out there, it seems like a winning combination. Otherwise, fans pay $400 and up for an original copy. These will sell for $10 to $12 in most shops."