''Daytrotter''

Sleeve - Front (Generic version)

Sleeve - Back (Generic version)

Vinyl - 'A' & 'B' Sides (All versions)

Insert - Front & Back (All versions)

Stats:

General:
Tracks: Magic Word / David Comes To Life B/W Crooked Head
Released: 2010
Label: Matador Records OLE 931-7
Matrix A: OLE 931-A GOLDEN
Matrix B: OLE 931-B GOLDEN

Pressing Info:
Generic Sleeve: 1000 (TBC)
Mispress: Unkown
Tribute sleeve: 100 of each sleeve (TBC)

Inserts: All versions have 'regular' insert - see above.

Variants:
Generic sleeve

Mispress (as above, but has B-Side labels on both sides of disk)
Tribute sleeves - ten different sleeves, each dedicated to a different a record shop

Sleeve Variants:
Ten tribute sleeves were issued for Record Store Day, the titles and artwork relate to different record stores (see notes below). The generic version has a 'pocket' sleeve, the tribute sleeves are 'fold-out' and most have a picture of the store on the back panel and a 'happening', or detail on the front; the ten sleeves are pictured 'folded out' below:

Notes:

Cropped from ''Couple Tracks inlay / insert:

Magic Word: Daytrotter is a cool little studio in the west part of Illinois...  You get in there for a session and instead of using your own gear, you use these crazy 1950's amps from Sears and mutron pedals. For our session we switched all instruments and changed arrangements on the spot.. This song turned into something you might hear on a steamship in the industrial revolution, if you know what I'm saying...

David Comes To Life: Wow, we did a disco version of David Comes To Life (kind of). Like ''Magic Word'' we basically made this song up on the spot, because we are irreverent when it comes to our non-paying show musical obligations... Damian is using an effects pedal on his voice from the future that hasn't been invented yet.



Record Store Day Announcement on LFG (Feb 07 2010):

Fucked Up's history with vinyl is long and celebrated (by us). Every time we do an interview, one of the first questions (still) is about the amount of 7"'s we've done (more than 35). We created the band out of a devotion to collecting rare punk aesthetics. Damian and Jonah still finesse their record collections like sports cars. While some of us have moved on to an extent (my Sunday so far: Chelsea vs Arsenal, Fiorentina vs Roma, Penguins vs Capitals, Canadiens vs Bruins, Saints vs Colts), Fucked Up and Records will probably also be somewhat entangled.

Record stores are a big part of why we are a band at all. When we were all younger kids, we used to treat the few cool record stores in Toronto like they were libraries. We all started our record collections at Full Blast, started to go to Rotate This when we could tolerate "non-punk" records being in the same room as Assuck 12"'s, all started working at Who's Emma a while later, and finally started going to Ric's Collectibles in the near-suburbs when we got too jaded to deal with the back rooms and behind the counter areas where the rare stuff had started to migrate. We started to make friends and enemies on the scene in attempts to score stuff. You'd call up your friend if you found something they were looking for, and you'd try to fill up your bag if there was stuff you knew someone who had punked you was looking for. On boxing day you'd see everyone you knew on the bus trying to get to every store in the city looking for stuff half off.

Record collecting is already so close to those dismal and dark solitary pleasures, the secret obsession you keep in your basement away from your visitors, if you ever get any. When that documentary "Vinyl" came out, we all got shocked a bit. Collection records can easily turn into a depressing lonely quest. It's record stores that help to legitimize it as somewhat of a social activity. Even though its kind of like having an AA meeting at a liqour store, at least in a store you're out an about, the owner is your friend, you'll maybe get a deal. Better that than going through the 19th page on your "kbd" ebay search at 4 in the morning on a Saturday.

Somehow we've never participated in Record Store Day before. We've done lots of instores all over the world, and have had to stop at stores to shop in probably every record store in the free world. This year we decided to do something special for RSD, because we think it's important. This April you'll be able to leave your house and go to a record store and get this cool record. We decided to use our 7" as a tribute to a bunch of cool stores in the US. Ten stores will each be featured with their own cover artwork, using pictures that they sent in to us. The 7" is just gonna be the two daytrotter songs from couple tracks, plus one that isn't on the CD ("Crooked Head").

''Daytrotter Sessions''(Bootleg)

For Borges.
(Note on back of Sleeve)

Sleeve - Front

Sleeve - Back

Vinyl - 'F' Side

Vinyl - 'U' Side

Sleeve (back) & Insert:
Lightweight paper, with photocopied artwork

Stats:

General:
Tracks: Magic Word B/W David Comes To Life
Released: 2010
Label: Not on Label (Bootleg)
Matrix A: 109820 A
Matrix B: 109821 B
Pressing Info: One Time Pressing of 100 - 8 Test pressings
Variants: No variants




Notes:

General:

Bootleg record released just ahead of the official versions. This record has two of the songs that appeared on the official version, but not the third.

Some copies came with a magazine, others were sold via Reckless Records in Chicago.

Mentioned on LFG (Feb 06 2010) the day before announcement of official version.

'For Borges' (Credit on Reverse of Sleeve) - From Wikipedia:

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges (Spanish:  24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. His work embraces the "character of unreality in all literature". His most famous books, Ficciones ("Fictions", 1944) and The Aleph (El Aleph, 1949), are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, infinity, fictional writers, philosophy, religion, and God.

Borges wrote and lectured extensively on the art of translation, holding that a translation may improve upon the original, may even be unfaithful to it, and that alternative and potentially contradictory renderings of the same work can be equally valid. Borges also employed the devices of literary forgery and the review of an imaginary work, both forms of modern pseudo-epigrapha.

Hoaxes and forgeries: Borges's best-known set of literary forgeries date from his early work as a translator and literary critic with a regular column in the Argentine magazine El Hogar. Along with publishing numerous legitimate translations, he also published original works, for example, in the style of Emanuel Swedenborg or One Thousand and One Nights, originally claiming them to be translations of works he had chanced upon. In another case, he added three short, falsely attributed pieces into his otherwise legitimate and carefully researched anthology El matrero.Several of these are gathered in the A Universal History of Infamy.

Borgesian conundrum: The philosophical term "Borgesian conundrum" is named after him and has been defined as the ontological question of "whether the writer writes the story, or it writes him." The original concept put forward by Borges is in Kafka and His Precursors—after reviewing works that were written before Kafka's, Borges wrote:





Sleeve Notes:

Sleeve Image: ''Interior'' by Vilhelm Hammershoi
From Michael Palin Article: Then, three years ago, riffling through a pile of books in a covered arcade in Paris, I found myself staring at the back of a woman in a simple black dress standing in a corner of a room with panelled doors on either side of her and a glow of light on the nape of her neck. It was the cover of a catalogue devoted to "Vilhelm Hammershoi, Danish painter of solitude and light".

Insert Image: Engraving by Walter Crane commemorating those convicted of involvement of the bombing at the  Haymarket Riot. Some of the men pictured were executed shortly after the event, others were later pardoned. 

The Haymarket riot was influential in the establishment of the International Workers Day (May Day) National holidays.

Garland for May Day: This is another Walter Crane engraving. The image was used by Fucked Up on shirts and show posters.

Commodity Fetishism:

Test Press: The TP sleeve also has well observed Fucked-Up-isms: The front is an illustration from ''A Book of Old Rhymes, With New Dresses'' By Walter Crane, making a nice reference to the Daytrotter Sessions:

Test Pressing Sleeve - Front

The back of the sleeve is another Walter Crane illustration, this one titled the 'Fox & the Crane' from an edition of Aesops Fables. The moral of the story: 'There are games that two can play at'

Test Pressing Sleeve - Back

''David Christmas''

Worship the face of David for it's he that gives you life...
(Lyric)

Sleeve - Front

Sleeve - Back

Vinyl:
Self-released, with white labels

Wrapping Paper:

The records came in FU gift-wrapping paper and a bow, some had green ribbon...

..others had red, some were tied beautifully, like the green one, others were a bit manky, like this red one...

Stats:

General:
Tracks: David's Plan B/W Stars on 45
Released: 2007
Label: Fucked Up records (Self Release) FUC05
Matrix A: 11139-FUP-7 (A) R-207119
Matrix B: 11139-FUP-7 (B R-20750
Pressing Info: 1000
Inserts: No regular insert


Variants:

• Green ribbon
• Red Ribbon
• Three have Pearl Jam labels

Notes:

David Christmas - LFG Post (Nov 23 2007)


On Saturday December 15th Fucked Up will host a special holiday event at Sonic Boom Records to benefit the Toronto Food Bank and George Herman House, a transitional housing program for women living with mental health issues.

The day will feature a special Fucked Up set featuring the song "David Christmas", the first single from the David Comes to Life LP, as well as Christmas covers, special guests and guest vocals from a very special holiday vocalist. At 3pm you can also come get your picture taken with "Santa". The show will take place downstairs and will be decorated in the style of the season.

Additionally, we will release the 7" version of "David Christmas" on December 15th, the a-side featuring the aforementioned title track, with a bside with holiday wishes from a few of our closest friends. These singles will cost $10 and will be designed and gift-wrapped by our friends at Punch Clock - they will be the perfect gift for you son and/or daughter. 100% of the money from these singles will be donated to George Herman House. The press will be 1000 copies - the copies that aren't sold at the show will be available for mail order - please await details. Studio time was graciously donated by our friend Chris Hegge from Audiolab Toronto, a great studio where we have recorded most of our 7" singles (402 Salem Avenue North. 416-516-5542)




Video filmed on the night:

David Christmas pt 2: The 7"- LFG Post (Nov 26 2007)


Hey New Update - there will be an after party show on the 15th now at ADRIFT and will feature TYVEK among others. Stay FUned.

A lot of people have been wondering if the David Christmas 7" is going to be strictly limited to the Dec 15 show - it isn't. We are still working out the details but the record will be available for online ordering around the time of the show. So don't worry if you are some asshole from Omaha that needs a copy of the 7" so you can sell it on eBay ("this record has never been played), you will be able to obtain one.

I would imagine that a lot of you are also confused regarding what exactly is on the b-side of this record.

'Man' Sleeve

Well, I can tell you that the song is called something like "Stars on 45". We had (have) this to say in an interview published on CMJ.com tommorow (today):

We got the idea to have some friends and luminaries do pieces on the bside of the record at 5pm last tuesday and went into the studio at 7. we were in a time rush because we'd originally planned to have David Eliade read a bit from "A Christmas Story", but Nick Fenstle ended up getting sick that day and needed to be taken to the hospital....anyhow in two hours we managed to get large pieces from all our friends rolodex's and starting making calls from the studio.

'Boy' Sleeve

The roster is such a weird melange of people- from close friends to a lot of people we'd never met, nor assumed even know who we are. Graciously even the latter agreed to help out the project, in the interests of the charity. As always, we tried calling Uffie numerous times but she wouldn't pick up...the most exciting was definetely Nelly Furtado, not only because of the star-power (which is more subtle in Canada), but because of the process - she just happened to be recording something next door and we literally just bumped into her in the hallway. We got our newest member Young Governor psyched up for about an hour before he worked up the courage to barge into the studio to ask her the favour. She was very polite and cool about it!






David Christmas 7" pt 3 - LFG Post (Dec 04 2007)

'Pigs' Sleeve

The David Christmas 7" is now up for pre-order HERE. Please go and grab it.




















Vinyl Collective Forum Posts:

I'll be picking up a couple copies at the show. Does anyone know if the different covers have limited numbers?

I was at the show today, it was great. They had Chris Murphy from Sloan on stage to sign a few tracks. As for the 7', I picked up two, one for me and one for my buddy. They were gift wrapped really nicely, I undid the rapping on mine, I left it on for my friends. I got the cover with the boy in the suit crying. And there no limit to the amount one could buy. It was funny, Pink Eyes said "Hey everyone, buy three; one to keep wrapped, one to open, and one to sell on EBay. I don't care what you do with them, I say buy low, sell high"!

Yeah, the show was fucking great! I was only able to pick up two copies though, so I'm keeping one sealed and I've already opened and played the other one.

Well I know that there were 1000 of the 7" pressed, and I know that they sold out of the limited edition ones last night, I'm going to assume that there were 100 of those. And I'm going to assume that the different covers are for different things. Like the boy crying is probably the release show, and maybe they'll have one other cover for the shipment sent to the UK, and the third is probably for the retail stores that got them. Just a hunch though.

Got mine from insound today. Got the cover with the boy crying. Anyone get a different cover?Mine has the boy bowing his head. Didn't realize there were two with a boy 

Pretty sure that's the same one. He's bowing his head and crying.

got mine today, blank labels says 11/39 written around the label. no clue whats up with that. tedious time untaping the gift wrap.

I got mine from Insound today...Green bow and the usual insert. Cover with the 7" on black and blank labels. I'm excited it finally came!

HEY BY THE WAY (LFG Post Jan 08 2008):
A lot of David Xmas 7"'s are on ebay. Just for the record - if you are selling one of those, we think you are a DOUCHE. We had to spend more than 2 weeks wrapping those things and getting everything together so you assholes could click a button and flip them the next week. Fuck you!

From eBay ad:

F*CKED UP DAVID CHRISTMAS/STARS ON 45

VERY RARE LIMITED EDITION 'GIFT WRAPPED 7" FROM 2007.

David Christmas/ Stars On 45 (for real) 7" - Hidden World Records - 1000 all gift wrapped with red or green bows. 3 have Pearl Jam labels on one side due to a pressing error.

IS THIS ONE OF THE PEARL JAM PRESSING ERRORS?

MOST HAVE BEEN OPENED TO CHECK--THIS ON HASN'T






Pearl Jam Labels:
Allegedly, 3 copies of 'David Christmas' had Pearl Jam labels, due to a pressing error. (Pearl Jam had their 'Santa God' b/w 'Jingle Bells' Christmas single out the same year).

Pearl Jam - 'Santa God'
Pearl Jam have released a Christmas single each year since 1991.

 You could only find out if you'd got one of these, by removing and damaging the wrapping paper.
This looks like a stunt to mess with collectors and people buying the record to flip on eBay. Ceremony did something similar earlier in the year by sticking lottery tickets to the jackets of the record release press of 'Sacred People'.

The 'pressing error' may also have been inspired partly by the previous Generation / Muthafunkaz pressing error and they choose Pearl Jam to make it potentially believable, but as the post below makes clear, it was all another hoax.






GHH (LFG Post Mar 11 2008)


Hi some of you might remember that dumb "David Christmas" record we put out this Christmas. We finally got them all out and the money all back and were pleased to make a donation of$6000 to George Herman House this week. Thanks to everyone who bought one and helped out! Also by the way retards - NONE OF THEM HAVE LABELS AND THE COLOUR OF THE BOW DOESN'T MAKE IT MORE LIMITED.

Commodity Fetishism:

Oh dear

''Since U Been Gone''

Update... 

...and then out of the blue, this skeleton image appears on FU's instagram. So it looks like the above picture shows the front of the sleeve and the ones below show the back. Or vice versa. Probably.

2006- Since You've Been Gone 10" acetate - bootleg

From 'Partial Discography' (Published 2008):

Some 12" FU records and a 10'' FU record:
There are 2 known (to the person writing this) FU 10"s; the Altamont 10" was released after this picture was taken.

Close-up of the 10" record:
Appears to be hand-numbered 1/25

FU Since u Been Gone 78rpm #
The image shows Damian in a stripey top

Stats:

General:
Tracks: Since U Been Gone (cover of song originally by Kelly Clarkson)
Year: 2006
Label: (Probably) not on label
Matrix A:
Matrix B:

Pressing Info: According to rumours in 2013, there are 2 acetate copies. Apparently there used to be 3, but one got lost...
Inserts: 

Variants:



Notes:


From LFG Comments on post (April 11 2011):

 Anonymous said...

Ayo, so does the Since U Been Gone 10" actually exist? I got word that Damian had the acetate and that it was never pressed.

11:17 AM

 Anonymous said...

SINCE U BEEN GONE 10"

Check out the 10" in the lowest row way to the right... looks like the real deal to me ...

http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/FUCKED-UP-Wall-2.jpg

6:21 AM

 HiddenWorld said...

it exists. there are 3.

Acetate (master disk) - Text copied from from Misfits Central:

The first step in the record pressing process is the creation of the master disk, or acetate, which is cut directly from the master tape of the recording. An acetate is a piece of aluminum coated with a layer of vinyl, into which grooves are cut, like a record. Unlike records, however, acetates are usually (see below) one sided, and come in pairs, one for each side of the album. They also often have two center holes; one hole is the standard center hole which acts as the axis for rotation, and the other hole is used by the guiding arm to turn the acetate while the writing stylus cuts the grooves. Some plants now use single-holed acetates which are held in place by suction.

One or, at most, two acetate sets are typically made for an album. Due to their composition, acetates begin to lose their sound quality within a matter of days. If an acetate is not used within three days, another set needs to be cut, or the sound quality of the finished product will suffer. For this reason, the acetate pair is sent immediately (via express mail) to the plater.

''Mixtape 1'':
18) "Since U Been Gone" - snippet






Official Video #1:
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Official Video #2:
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Bernardino Genga's Anatomia per Uso et Intelligenza del Disegno

''David's Plan''

Another devious scheme to plan for my escape...

Sleeve - Front

Sleeve - Back

Vinyl  - 'A' Side

Vinyl  - 'B' Side

Stats:

General:
Tracks: David's Plan B/W Do They Know it's Christmas?
Released: 2010
Label: Fucked Up records (Self Release) FU:009
Matrix A: LEUKEMIAN TICKS FAST
Matrix B: MILLSTONE ROCK RUTH
Pressing Info: 2500 Black vinyl, 'around 50' Green
Inserts: No regular insert

Variants: 

Black vinyl

Green 'camo' vinyl

Green Camo Vinyl:

From eBay: ''Hey, this is Josh aka Gulag from Fucked Up selling this record on behalf of the band. It is the "David's Plan" b/w "Do They Know It's Christmas?" 7" we released in February 2010. We pressed 2500 of these records, BUT THIS COPY IS ON CAMO GREEN COLOURED VINYL and there are only around 50 of these in existence. As far as I know a copy has never been sold before. You probably didn't even know this existed.''
All of the proceeds from this auction will go to the 3 groups based in Canada working to end the epidemic of missing and murdered aboriginal women that this record is a benefit for. 

Notes:

FU Webstore:

Second single released specifically for charities (First was David's Christmas) -- this one towards helping missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada -- has an original on the A-side and a star studded cover of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" on the flip. Guest appearances by: Ezra Koenig, Bob Mould, David Cross, Tegan and Sara, GZA, Andrew WK, Kevin Drew, Kyp Malone, Yo La Tengo. Recording and production was facilitated entirely by our winnings at the Polaris Prize. 100% of the proceeds from the sale of this record go to the group Missing Justice in Montreal and the Power of Women group in Vancouver.

LFG Post (Dec 14 2009)

IN OTHER NEWS
Do They Know It's Christmas, our cover version was voted single of the week over at The Guardian, because our friend writes the column and there isn't actually any voting. Since we've been monitoring it's progress on iTunes, I can tell you for sure that if it was a vote, single of the week would be some Lady GaGa song, followed closely by like 10 Taylor Swift songs. Anyhow, maybe you could buy our song. It's for charity.

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