#21

Disintegration - The Cure
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

May 2nd, 1989. Strong.

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#22

always think this is a weird one as I think of The Cure as very much an 80s band and Stone Roses as a 90s band.

#23

Imagine that! Four excellent albums released on the same day.

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#24

Can’t stand Primal Scream either tbf

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#25

Saw the thread title and came in to post this, bought both on the day on cassette.

I saw Oasis 3 days after the album was released in a tiny venue in North Wales that they must have had booked months before as they were getting massive by the time it came out. Evan Dando was knocking about in the crowd.
I had to take the Manics tape back to HMV three times to get it changed as the sound was warped, they must have had a bad batch. The first time they wanted to check I wasn’t trying it on and went to put it on over the in-store PA. ‘There’s no swearing on the first song is there?’ Me: ‘Errr…no’ . Yes starts up. ‘For sale…’

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#26

The White Album and Village Green Preservation Society we’re both released on the same day in November 1968. Astral Weeks was released the following week.

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#27

Halcyon Digest by Deerhunter and Everything In Between by No Age both came out on the same day in 2010. Was so excited for both, bought each one on vinyl and CD. Still love both albums.

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#28

Fucked if I’ll like this blatant ageism at my expense.

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#29

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and Pink Friday both came out on November 22nd 2010.

Remember being wowed by Nicki’s verse on Monster and buying Pink Friday the next day and being sorely disappointed.

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#30

Oh god, tapes of albums in the mid-90s were just absolutely dreadful. I seem to recall them being half the price of the CD but I recall people needing to get a CD copy to a chrome cassette off a mate to replace their messed tape version more than once and then saying the CD to tape copy was way better than the original cassette.

I actually don’t recall there being too many albums on the same day but this thread is clearly showing my memory is shot to shit. For me I thought it was always just the one big release in any given week.

#31

November 9, 1993 - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) & Midnight Marauders

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#32

The Bluetones - ‘Return To The Last Chance Saloon’
Kula Shaker - ‘Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts’

Both of these came out on 9 March 1998. I remember this because a load of us made a school lunchtime trip to Virgin Megastore to buy the (highly anticipated…by us) second album by The Bluetones. However, there was one contrarian who plumped for the Kula Shaker album.

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#33

September 17 1991

  • Use Your Illusion I
  • Use Your Illusion II

Slightly messing around, but in keeping with the CD taping chat upthread one guy from my school got the first one and another guy got the second one and then set up a nice little cottage industry knocking out copies for everyone :+1:

In similar, artist releasing two albums at the same time, Star Wars day releases from Tom Waits on May 4 2002:

  • Blood Money
  • Alice

Also, on September 18,1978 all four members of Kiss release solo albums, but absolutely fuck that…

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#34

Amazing. :slight_smile:

#35

Superunknown and the Downward Spiral, I think.

#36

…with SAW2 and Hard to earn released a couple of days before apparently.

#37

Really strange one to remember but debut albums by hard fi and the subways came out on the same day, probably the greatest day of my life

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#38

Weezer - Blue
SDRE - Diary

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#39

A big one for me - 18th May 2009

Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers
Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications
Eminem - Relapse

All served to me by Jarvis himself on the tills at HMV Oxford Street.

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#40

In 2007 there was a big thing about Kanye’s Graduation and 50 Cent’s Curtis being released on the same day (9/11 I think). Fiddy said he’d retire if Kanye’s album outsold his - it did, he didn’t

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