Weezer, ‘Blue Album (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)’ – Photo: Courtesy of Geffen Records/UMe
Weezer will celebrate three decades of their seminal full-length debut LP, Weezer a.k.a. the Blue Album, with the release of the Blue Album 30th Anniversary Edition on November 1 via Geffen/UMe.
This new edition will be available in multiple configurations, including a massive Super Deluxe Edition 4LP + 10-inch + 7-inch box set as well as a Deluxe 3CD set, and digitally.
The Super Deluxe Edition box set presents the most comprehensive vision of the Blue Album ever created. It includes the classic album newly remastered from the original analog tapes. The edition includes: four 12-inch 180-gram LPs, a 10-inch EP, and 7-inch, consisting of 50 songs in total—with thirty-six previously unreleased tracks. These encompass eight “Kitchen Tape Demos”, twenty-two early practices and live recordings, six BBC radio recordings – two of which have never been heard before – and four tracks from their LMU sessions.
Longtime friend, collaborator, and de facto band historian Karl Koch penned new liner notes in issue #18 of the Weezine and assembled the artwork layout with a bevy of previously unreleased photos.
Additionally, the box set boasts “sweater” embossed graphics complete with a pullable and retractable thread (as a nod to “Undone – The Sweater Song”), four lithographs, a poster, song-themed sticker sheet, a twelve-sided die, and an enamel Bokkus pin.
Meanwhile, the Deluxe 3CD Set also houses four lithographs, the poster, song-themed sticker sheet, twelve-sided die, enamel Bokkus pin, and 28-page issue #18 of the Weezine.
There is also an Ultra Limited Edition box set, with all of the features of the Super Deluxe Edition, but will also come wrapped in an actual knit sweater and a certificate signed by each of the band members. Only 100 of these exist and will be available for purchase on Weezer’s webstore.
Weezer’s celebratory “Voyage to the Blue Planet” North American tour also kicks off today with The Flaming Lips and Dinosaur Jr. as support.
