Sam Hoffman
“Glencrest Lane” & “All the Places”
scum stats: one sided lathe-cut, limited edition of 40 copies
Are you old enough yet to have had your “Losing My Edge” moment where "the kids are coming up from behind”?
Well, this may be my personal “Losing My Edge” moment.
Sam Hoffman, former Third Man Records employee, best known for being a huge fan of cringe and a quasi-known creator of Instagram memes, has put in his hard work in the Beatles-influenced salt mines and extracted these…chunks of salt?
Just to get it out of the way…Beatles Beatles Beatles Beatles. Yeah, he digs ‘em and could probably beat you and McCartney in a game of Fab Four trivia.
But being a hardcore fan and being able to execute to the level of that which you are a fan are diagrams that very seldom Venn together. Yet Hoffman absolutely the perfect intersection of these two orbs.
I think of Sam as a “kid” but I honestly am not even really sure how old he is. I believe he graduated college, but not TOO long ago. Early twenties maybe? Old enough to function in society, and yet young enough to still make me feel old. That’s gotta be a very specific age.
Crisp production, smart songwriting, skilled instrumentation…I’m really at a loss for anything to criticize here. A bummed feeling I wasn’t part of it? A sadness that I’ve still never properly released a lathe-cut record? A sense of my own impending mortality?
THIS IS THE KIND OF PURE MUSIC THAT IS WORTH YOUR TIME AND MONEY AND SUPPORT.
In my effort to support, I bought two copies of this. I’m giving away the spare to someone here. Post in the comments. Can be anything. A shorty story about when you first felt old, a joke, a Beatles-inspired haiku, math equations, whatever. The comment that sparks the most joy in me wins this record.
And if you don’t win the record, just be a decent human being and buy a copy of this single. It’s probably close to being sold out anyway, so hop to it.
I felt old when one day, while I was in high school. I stood in the classroom and talked with my friends. a young girl came back in the class and she said me “Hello teacher” ….i was just twenty…it’s hard…
I felt old since the day I was born, traversing this world filled with loathing and scorn, trying to spread joy by blowing my horn, just end up sounding forlorn.
rips bong turns up volume
that everyone else went too,I like this a lot, thank you
Cutting the nostalgia is impossible when something sounds like I missed an old party
When I first realized I was getting old!!!!
I can’t sleep so I’m gonna tell another tale of buying a record (s). My mom wanted to return an item she bought from Two Guys, it was after dinner and starting to get dark so she didn’t want to go by herself. My dad was tired from work and didn’t want to go so she looked at me and said " if you go with me I’ll buy you a record " I waited for her in the car for a minute and we were off. My little secret was I had enough money to buy a record so I’m looking at scoring two records. Note there wasn’t a record store close by so I had to wait for a ride. Anyway we get to the store she heads for the returns counter I hunt down the records section mind you this is Two Guys a department store ,I find it. The first record I see is Elton John’s new release "Good Bye Yellow Brick Road " a double album I don’t have enough money for it so I’ll hand this one to my mom, I’m not proud of this. So I start looking for a record I have enough money for. As I said before I was a subscriber of circus magazine and I just read an article not about a new band but a re-emerging band getting help from a raising star on their new album and there it was, and not only could I afford it, it was low priced. I found my mom and handed her the Elton John record she looked puzzled not at the record but the price. She looked over at me holding another record and I quickly said I have money for this one. She held out her hand and I handed her the record again she looked puzzled but this time it wasn’t the price but the cover. She paid for both so I pocketed the school lunch money I had saved up. So I scored 3 records Elton’s new album and Iggy and the Stooges new one Raw Power. A splendid time was had by all.
Ok memory of buying a record 1973 Montgomery-Wards I think. Two friends and I waiting to be picked up by one of our parents from the movie theater checking out the small record section of Wards, just a few bins, I’m 13 their 14. I was a subscriber of Circus magazine and seen and read an article about this new band and surprisingly found their self titled debut album sitting there in the front row for all too see. So I picked it up and my two friends started ragging on me " what are you a faggit, that’s queer music " and so on and so forth. The cashier a woman late 30s early 40s standing just a few feet away leaned over looking over my shoulder at the record I was holding says "I wonder what that sounds like " my sentiment exactly. I bought it and took the ragging on the ride home, got dropped off went to my room put on my headphones and listened to what would become my new favorite record The New York Dolls in utter rock and roll heaven.
my dad purchased the WHITE album on release day at a drugstore in Wickenburg, AZ – copy #100 to be exact……I inherited the album a few years back. the new remastered version of this album is a solid purchase for anyone. Giles Martin really did a fantastic job on it.
I can understand and appreciate the lament for not having a had a proper lathe-cut record. My son’s band, Sam The Astronaut, has their second lp in final mixing stage and they’d love to have a proper vinyl version released. However the sad reality is that the music is bass heavy at times and would require mastering just for vinyl and with the expected demand for what would be a double vinyl with proper mastering of 18 songs would push the cost to produce to $40 per record. They’re just not big enough yet for that type of price tag. Ben, from our family to yours, we feel your pain.