Frequent readers of the Dying Scene Record Radar – your home for all things punk rock vinyl – know the column is typically reserved for Sundays. However, on certain occasions, an especially notable release calls for a dedicated Record Radar Alert! An this most certainly is one of such cases.
The fine folks at Enjoy the Ride Records have announced colored vinyl reissues of Reel Big Fish’s 1998 classic Why Do They Rock So Hard? and 2002’s Cheer Up!. These are Double LP Deluxe Editions, with each featuring nearly an album’s worth of previously unreleased bonus tracks. Also noteworthy: this is just the second time Why Do They Rock So Hard? has been released on vinyl (the first pressing was in 2018), and this is the very first time Cheer Up! has ever been released on vinyl(!!!).
Both records have been remastered, come housed in beautiful gatefold jackets, and will be available on a shitload of color variants. Here’s the full list of variants, including links to where you can get them starting at noon eastern this Friday, February 14th (btw some these don’t have official names yet so I’m just making them up 😁):
Why Do They Rock So Hard?
– Red – 300 copies – Le Noise Exclusive
– Yellow – 300 copies – EU Indie Exclusive (misc. stores?)
– Red w/ White Blob & Splatter Kinda Thing – 500 copies – Smartpunk Exclusive
– Blue / Red / Yellow Stripe w/ Black & White Splatter – 650 copies – Enjoy the Ride
– Two Tone Checkerboard Twist – 250 copies – Enjoy the Ride
– Clear(?) w/ Multi-Color Splatter – 1,000 copies – Enjoy the Ride
Cheer Up!
– Red – 300 copies – Le Noise Exclusive
– Yellow – 300 copies – EU Indie Exclusive (misc. stores?)
– Yellow w/ White Blob & Splatter Kinda Thing – 500 copies – Smartpunk Exclusive
– Cigar Smoke – 1,000 copies – Enjoy the Ride
– Two Tone Checkerboard Twist – 250 copies – Enjoy the Ride
– Clown Swirl & Cheer Up Swirl – 650 copies – Enjoy the Ride
Enjoy the Ride will also have test pressings of each record available on their online store. These come in a bundle with the three webstore color variants and are limited to 24 copies.
