User blog:Timebomb192potato/The Worcester Beacon: Embarrassing Vinyl Misprints


 * Embarrassing Vinyl Misprints
 * - Report by Jon D. Arevalos
 * July 1, 2021

R.E.M. - Green / RBD - Rebelde

Earlier this week, Craft Recordings released a green splatter vinyl re-issue of R.E.M.'s seminal 1988 album Green as a Kmart exclusive. The re-issue was pressed in the Czech Republic at GZ Media, and somewhere along the way a small number of the discs were pressed incorrectly. As a result, fans who opened up their copies were surprised to find that, while the "air side" was R.E.M.'s album, the "metal side" was not. Instead of the "metal side", the B-side of the record was that of Mexican pop group RBD's 2004 debut album Rebelde. How did a Spanish-language pop album end up on a R.E.M. release? Well, Rebelde was being reissued in Mexico as a splatter vinyl. The re-issues of Green and Rebelde were both being produced in the same factory in the Czech Republic, and at some point during that process, the wrong stamping plate was used in the process. A spokesperson for Universal Music Group, who holds the rights to RBD's catalog and is the distributor for Concord, home of R.E.M.'s reissue label Craft Recordings, stated that "human error" at the pressing plant caused the incident, likely due to both artists' names being similar, and neither artist knew of it.

Screaming Yellow Players - "Orange Album" / Hound Dogg - Woof

Fans of Pittsburgh pop rockers the Screaming Yellow Players got a surprise on Record Store Day 2017 when their copies of the picture disc re-issues of their 1999 debut album ended up containing the A and B-sides of hair metal revivalists Hound Dogg's 2014 album Woof. Warner Music Group acknowledged it as a misprint at the record plant.