That is a tough one... hmmm....

can you whip up an example picture?

Picture discs seem pretty in these days, but I'd personally rather see the regular sleeve, and colored vinyl. It is a tough choice though.

What are the odds of getting both?

I want have cake, and to eat it too.

Either way I'll pick it up. I was just curious.

Heavy black vinyl please. Looks, sounds and feels the best.

Yeah, I'd like heavy vinyl above all too. I lean more towards the colored vinyl and insert. I'd actually want to play it and sometimes picture discs get torn up.

thats why you buy two copies... one to play and one for the vault!

Having wax pressed isn't that cheap... I don't think they'll go for 2 different versions.

thanks for the ideas... i think thick 180gram black vinyl would be classy, i'll see if we could do some of the thick vinyl in color too - may be expensive, we'll see what lovitt says. I want to make the inserts to be all the photos as seperate little postcards with the lyrics on the back. alright... great! woo!

I say #2 with thick black.
If anyone cares... ;)

Yeah - that's what I told Mr. Lowit... that is what will happen.

Yeah, this record deserves the 180 gram vinyl treatment. Picture discs look cool, but sound like ass.

Anything but a picture disc.

Picture discs are so '84. and not in a good way. A bad single from the Pet Shop Boys way.

I can't even begin to tell you guys how pumped I am about this. I have the original Day After pressing, but a heavyweight vinyl pressing will be unfuckwithable.

Also, here's a thread I started over at Vinyl Collective:
http://vinylcollective.proboards79.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=10177

Wow, nice use of unfuckwittable. Nice to know we've got a hip hop head here.

Cool... but Ronnie...

It was originally supposed to be released by T&N, but they got dropped because they knew they were breaking up before the record came out. FBR ended up putting out the CD, and the original vinyl pressing was done by Day After Records in the Czech Republic.

We got off T&N cuz we didn't feel like they were the right fit for us anymore... then we were about to sign to SUB POP and then we broke up. That is how it went down. Then the album was lingering and that oil-tycoon funded label MIA (from NYC) signed us.. then they went under. I went to NYC and took some of their cool 60s office chairs as collateral. And then FBR signed us cuz our friend Tony Weinbender worked there and for some reason they were big enough fans that they didn't care if we were together or not. And then everyone started to care again about Frodus more than ever before as "weapons" comes out 2 years after it is recorded! Bizarroworld.

wow... i didnt know frodus was almost on sub pop. that wouldve been wierd huh?

Any chance of other represses? I'd love to see F-Letter back in print.... or own an original press.

I think if this repress sells well Lovitt may repress some of the older stuff... we'll have to see if the demand is there.

Thanks for setting me straight! I apologize for the spread of any misinformation. But let me take this opportunity to reiterate my excited-ness about this.

As for demand, I know of a lot of people who would buy any represses in a heartbeat.

Also, is there any chance that we would get the original version of "Weapons" on the repress, or would the runtime be too long? Back when the record was "in limbo", I e-mailed Nathan to ask what was up because I was really anxious to hear it, and he sent me a cassette with the whole record on one side, and Cave In - Jupiter on the other. I remember the build-up between "The Earth Isn't Humming" and "There Will Be No More Scum" was a lot longer than what ended up on the final version that was released. Anyway, just curious.

maybe you had the unmastered version, i wouldn't have any idea where to find the DAT tape with the unmastered longer build-up... what will come out is the same verison of the album as it is now with an extra demo track of "there will be no more scum" and a short guitar-only instrumental thing (about 50 seconds long) called Andromeda that never made the cut.

Well I'm happy either way, I was just curious.

Also, if you ever feel like giving the 2" tape away, I'll gladly take it off yr hands :]

picture discs suck!!!

yeah.. we're doing the 180 gram vinyl!

GREAT NEWS

You just saved a bunch of money by switching your car insurance to geico?

Sorry, that was my horrible joke of the day.

frodus picture disk with the geico caveman on it?

I PREFER THE LIZARD!!!

I like the one where he says he's only there because gecko sounds like geico. "If geico sounded like, I dunno, a puma, there'd be an adorable little cat sitting here instead of me."

i like the caveman on the moving walkway at the airport with the royksopp song. he looks so embarrassed.

Didn't they make a spin off show of the cavemen guys? Did anyone ever see it?

Not surprisingly, it did not last. (I never saw it.)

That show was going places.......

....coincidentally it was the toilet.

besides, it was a total rip off of that other show about the intelligent-yet-bourgeois neanderthals... Friends.

oh snap.

nbc just got served

It actually was a good show. Very strong satire on racism and the class structure in places like LA. I find that people over 40 don't get the jokes about ikea or gluten free diets so they bad mouth it.

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/8-barack-obama/

Ooooh, maybe Phoebe and Barack can get together!! It's true love. I hope she likes pork.

I would just like to say that I'm surprised/ecstatic that they are repressing this, and I only hope that it sells like crazy and encourages other repressings :].

...and reunions...

this is great. i started listening to you guys around 2002, never bought this vinyl, or could never afford a copy of it since it has become OOP. I have most of the 7"s, F Letter, and Commemorate International on vinyl, but could never get this one....whats the update? Is this still happening? I know it takes awhile for something like this to come together, but im just curious.

I just have to start/finish the re-layout.. need more time in my days!

awesome news. will buy 2 copies

Yeah... email brian@lovitt.com and tell him you heard that its happening and want to get it.. he's being slow on giving me production dates for it! hahaha.. don't tell him i sent you.. just anonymously get excited. ;)

thanks frodiis!

i think i should just post this again:

my wax copy's so scratched n bent up it sounds like a different rekkerd entirely, a noise fest skipathon.
i will be happy to get this repress oh yes.

is there any chance that an e-mail or anything get sent out to the users at this forum before the records go up for sale? i have a feeling that this will sell out before i even find out it's up, and we wouldn't want that to happen.

Become a friend with FCI on myspace or facebook. You will get mad bulletinz. Shelbot is pretty good about posting things here before they happen anyway.

"weapons" is being delayed because Lovitt is being slow in organizing it into their release schedule... write them an email about hearing about the record coming out and wondering when it is going to be released! info@lovitt.com