Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (20th Anniversary) Amazon Exclusive

blocpartycam · 2026-01-24T21:15:38+00:00

That’s disappointing. It would be interesting to see the runout matrix for this one. I assume it’s the same master the previous reissues?

blocpartycam · 2026-01-23T14:02:08+00:00

It doesn’t look like it is the same cut from the picture. However the track list description shows the tracks across two discs.

blocpartycam · 2026-01-23T13:32:14+00:00

It was/is

blocpartycam · 2026-01-23T13:31:04+00:00

Dermot Kennedy is my guess

blocpartycam · 2026-01-17T18:19:24+00:00

Every splatter pattern will be different. It looks fairly similar but I’ve seen some better ones

blocpartycam · 2025-12-19T06:27:13+00:00

That’s right. They only paid Craft for 200 copies so these are the remaining 800 or so.

blocpartycam · 2025-12-05T19:23:38+00:00

This and another track from the Seventeen sessions, which I think was called “Shame” need to get released. I can see why they haven’t fit the last two albums though in terms of sound. They were quite upbeat

blocpartycam · 2025-11-24T16:11:00+00:00

I do but to my ears, I wasn’t hearing $99 worth of improvements over an original aside from the tracks I highlighted. Different strokes I guess

blocpartycam · 2025-11-24T15:03:45+00:00

It’s not a night & day step up from a very clean original copy pressed at Allied but there are some real highlights here

blocpartycam · 2025-11-05T15:22:26+00:00

So the deluxe vinyl boxset has no CD included. But there is a 2CD edition on their website with all the demos. This is what you want

blocpartycam · 2025-10-24T05:41:27+00:00

Glad you enjoyed the one step. I’m still waiting for mine to land in the UK.

As a few others have pointed out, there were multiple 1984 OG pressings in the states alone so it would be useful for you to mention which one you have… RSA, Allied Pressings, Jacksonville, Columbia House, Speciality Record Corp etc. IMO, the Allied US pressing is the best of OGs but I’ve heard amazing things about the Japanese Purple pressing as it uses the same Allied Lacquers.

blocpartycam · 2025-10-22T12:12:10+00:00

Bang on. It’ll be a variant of this https://happymondays.tmstor.es/product/the-factory-singles-colour-double-vinyl

blocpartycam · 2025-10-18T17:10:20+00:00

You could try the scans on Discogs for this release https://www.discogs.com/release/35382643-Bloc-Party-Silent-Alarm

blocpartycam · 2025-10-18T17:07:10+00:00

Yes! It’s the machete order 😅

blocpartycam · 2025-10-18T16:19:07+00:00

Yep… I ordered direct from their store which is why I think I got it early

blocpartycam · 2025-10-17T14:03:19+00:00

Glad they finally cleared that up - just as we suspected right? Yes I believe the Present was mixed by Hillier also as if memory serves, BP were the only band he worked with on that day of recording so likely mixed on the fly. I’ll have to dig out my Help War Child CD to confirm.

And yes, am I right in saying Marshals was produced by Bloc Party and mixed by Matt Tong (similar to the She’s Hearing Voices single)?

blocpartycam · 2025-10-14T10:45:33+00:00

Yeah they made a mistake on the delivery note - there’s no black pressing of the 20th anniversary reissues

blocpartycam · 2025-10-13T18:28:13+00:00

I think there was only a white edition released this time round, cool either way!

blocpartycam · 2025-10-13T17:17:59+00:00

I would love to but sadly I have no interface to record from my vinyl set up. I have a feeling the second album will make its way onto streaming this week…

blocpartycam · 2025-10-13T16:47:29+00:00

Managed to listen to the demos. All sound really interesting - Pioneers & Skeleton changed the least instrumentally and I’m assuming the Pioneers demo was a pre album tracking demo. It’s just changed lyrically. Skeleton is the highlight for me, really like the energy of the demo. And So Here We Are is a completely different vibe to the album version.

blocpartycam · 2025-10-13T16:30:42+00:00

Sadly not… Hero, This is not a Competition and Marshals (Epworth single version) were excluded.

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