Weezer's Green Album LP is actually see through green

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Not sure if this is common knowledge, but I thought it was cool. I bought the album and it is a kinda opaque see-through green. Very clever, if you ask me.

Any other bands try something like this?

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Yes, that’s fairly common. For example, The Smashing Pumpkins went through a colored vinyl period during their Siamese Dream days (1993-1994):

Cherub Rock single: clear
Siamese Dream album: red or pink depending on the pressing
Today single: red
Disarm single: purple
Pisces Iscariot album: amber
Rocket single: peach

3

The 45 for Heart of Glass was pressed on clear vinyl. IIRC, there was an orange vinyl pressing of True Colours. There are others that I can’t recall right now.

4

Um. The WHITE album, maybe?

5

My copy of The White Album is on white vinyl but
I don’t think all pressings of it were white.

6

I think the white vinyl were reissues from the '70’s.

7

You can find tons and tons of colored vinyl on eBay. It’s not a new thing.

8

Oooo! I used to have a couple of 45’s that were colored vinyl:

Prince: Purple Rain
David Bowie: Blue Jeans

I think I sold them in a garage sale or something.

9

I remember Elvis’s Blue Hawaii was on blue vinyl. A particularly pretty shade, too, IIRC.

10

The Misfits and White Zombie both made glow in the dark vinyl. The Misfits were also known for pressing up different colors of the same record but not cleaning the plates between colors, leading to the streaking of the new color with the old.

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I have a Simple Minds LP that is translucent gold shot through with purple streaks… the most beautiful colored vinyl I’ve got. I’ve got records that are clear, translucent red, bubblegum pink, marbled blue/grey, swirled… a lot of it is really nice. I love colored vinyl!

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It happened from time to time in the old days.

Dave Mason’s album “Alone Together” was originally pressed on a multicolored vinyl, with pink and grays predominating. A friend once saw it for the first time and said, “The album is moldy.” Here’s a Link.

http://www.vinylunderground.net has some nice examples.

Colored vinyl wasn’t that difficult to do: you just put the dye into the vinyl and pressed it. The only issue was cleaning the mothers* afterwards.

*No, I’m not being crude. The plates used to press records were called “mothers.”