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Teen-Beat 552.

Versus

Let's Electrify!

SIDE ONE:

Silver Vein
That Girl's Gone
Noogie

SIDE TWO:

Let's Electrify!
Seaweed Rising
Sea Girl

Vinyl LP (LP) ($17,50)

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DESCRIPTION

A vinyl re-issue of Versus' debut CD originally released in 1993 on singer Richard Baluyut and Jeff Cashvan's Remora label.

LINER NOTES

PLAYERS

Ed Baluyut, drums

Richard Baluyut, vocals, guitar

Fontaine Toups, vocals, bass guitar

RECORDED BY

Adam Lasus,

at Studio Red, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
April, 1993

MUSIC COMPOSITION

Versus

except
"Silver Vein"
lyrics written with Connie Lovatt

and
"Sea Girl"
lyrics written by Jeff Cashvan.

RE-MASTERED BY

Scott Anthony,

at Storybook Sound, Maplewood, New Jersey, USA
January, 2021

DESIGN

Mark Robinson, Teen-Beat Grahpica

NOTES

Richard from Versus and Mark from Teen-Beat started planning this vinyl release in 2009, 12 years before it saw the light of day.

The Teen-Beat catalogue number originally allocated for this project was 452.

This release went through three different cover designs before settling on the final. The first design was a re-working of the original CD cover by Andrew Bordwin. The second was a yellow bolt of lightning against a blue or red background, based on an old Versus t-shirt. The final design was created in November of 2019.

ORIGINAL CD THANK YOU LIST

Jeff Cashvan,
Gerard Cosloy,
Andrew Bordwin,
Gaby,
Connie Lovatt,
Jason,
Rob Hale,
and Kim Arnold.

RELEASE DATE

December 3, 2021

FORMAT

vinyl LP

SPEED

45 rotations-per-minute

LENGTH

24 minutes, 55 seconds

6 tracks

CATALOGUE No.

Teen-Beat 552

DETAILS

197 pressed on black vinyl.

501 pressed on transparent red with opaque blue splatter vinyl.

298 pressed on clear with metallic silver splatter "Silver Vein" vinyl.

JACKET:
Red and cyan blue ink on high gloss stock.

LABELS:
Red and cyan blue ink on white paper

INNER-SLEEVE:
Black paper sleeve with die-cut hole over label diameter.

OUTER-SLEEVES:
Archival safe, polypropylene sleeves.

5 test pressings made running at 33 r.p.m.

5 test pressings made running at 45 r.p.m.

Pressed and printed at Gramofonove Zavody in Lodenice, Czech Republic
via Pirates Press, San Francisco, California.

DISCOGRAPHY

SINGLES

Astronaut
Bright Light
split single with Scrawl
Frog
Big Head On
Glitter of Love
Yeah You
Oriental American/Wallflower
split single with Unwound
Drawn and Quartered
Shangri-La

ALBUMS

Let's Electrify!
The Stars Are Insane
Deep Red
Secret Swingers
Two Cents Plus Tax
Afterglow
Hurrah
On the Ones and Threes No.1
On the Ones and Threes No.2
Ex Nihilo
Ex Voto

COMPILATIONS

Stars Kill Rock
Wakefield: Volume 1
A Day in the Park
Wakefield: Volume 2
Wakefield: Volume 3
Wakefield: The Teen-Beat Boxed Set
A Means to An End, The Music of Joy Division
Venue Compilation '95
Ear of the Dragon
Yoyo a Go-Go
Project Echo
How Low Can a Punk Get?
CMJ New Music Vol.36
1996 Teenbeat Sampler
1997 Teenbeat Sampler
Selector Dub Narcotic
1998 Teenbeat Sampler
More of Our Stupid Noise '98
CMJ New Music Vol.59
1999 Teenbeat Sampler
2000 Teenbeat Sampler
2001 Teenbeat Sampler
2002 Teenbeat Sampler
Old Enough 2 Know Better
Teen-Beat 20th Commemorative
Joy Division
Score! Twenty Years of Merge Records
2010 Teen-Beat / Other Music Sampler

SOUNTRACKS

Half-Cocked

ALSO

Versus tee-shirt
Teen-Beat's 10th Anniversary
Dead Leaves porcelain coffee mug
Teen-Beat's 11th Anniversary
Teen-Beat's 13th Anniversary
Teen-Beat's 15th Anniversary
Teen-Beat's 20th Anniversary Commemorative
Teen-Beat Graphica Exhibition
UNREST: Teen-Beat 26th Anniversary

RELATED

Containe
Flower
The Fontaine Toups (T.F.T.)
The Pacific Ocean
+/- {Plus/Minus}
Whysall Lane

SONGS

A Heart is a Diamond
All In Doubt
Angels Rush In
Another Face
Astronaut
Atmosphere
Atomic Kid
Baby Green
Be-9
Between the Hemispheres
Big Head On
Blade Of Grass
Blue Again (F.T.)
Blue Again (Ricardo)
Bow and Arrow
Bright Light
Cicada
Circle
Crashing the Afterglow
Crazy
Crazy Maker (I'm Still in Love With Your Eyes)
Cross the Street
Dead City
Death Ray
Deep Red
Deseret
Double Suicide (Mercy Killing)
Dumb Fun
Erstwhile
Eskimo
Frederick's of Hollywood
Fallow
Flax
Forest Fire
Frog
Ghost Story
Glitter Of Love
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Gone to Earth
Gravity
Gravity (Version)
Hacienda
I'll Be You
I Love the WB
Insomnia
Into Blue
Invincible Hero
Invisible Love
Jack & Jill
Janet
Jealous
Knead
Know Nothing
Let's Electrify!
Linus
Lose That Dress
Lost Time
Mercury
Mermaid Legs
Merry-Go-Round
Mirror Mirror
Moon Palace
Morning Glory
Mouth of Heaven
Mummified
My Adidas
Neither Nor
Never Be OK
N.I.T.A.
Noogie
Nothing But U
Nu Skin
Off The Hook
Office Rocker
One Million
Oriental American
The Ones and Threes
Out in the Streets
Pink Valhalla
Play Dead
Radar Follows You
Raining
Re-Animator
Reveille
River
Said Too Much
Santa Maria
Saturday Saints
Sayonara
Scientists
Sea Girl
Seaweed Rising
Shangri-La
Shangri-La [E.L.O.]
Shangri-La [Kinks]
She's So Lost
Shooting Star
Shower Song
Silver Vein
Solar Democrat
Spastic Reaction
The Spell You're Under
Sunburned
Sunlight Flier
That Girl's Gone
Thera
Tin Foil Star
True Believer
Twenty Four Hours
Underground
Underground (Gallery Redux)
University
Use As Directed
Venus Victoria
Walkabout
Wallflower
We Got the Missles
White Power Porch
Wind Me Up
Yeah You
You Should Call Me
You'll Be Sorry