Tad-Daisy b/w Ritual Device (1988)


 

Artist: Tad

Title: Daisy b/w Ritual Device

Label: Sub Pop

Format: 7"

Catalog Number: SP 19

Year of Release: 1988

Country and Year of Edition: US 1988 promo 200 pressed on black vinyl

Sell Price: $69.87

Sell Date: 4/22/24

Condition: VG+/generic

Discogs Last Sold  1/9/24 VG+/generic $101.00

Low: $69.87

Median: $98.00

Average: $98.97

High: $129.99

Current low price: $94.99

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 2

Have/Want:  29/153

Where Sold: Los Angeles, CA

Time It Took To Sell:  9 years

Where and When Bought: used late 80's, In Your Ear Allston?

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+

Sad To See It Go: No

I let this debut Tad single go well below the median after around a decade of trying to get a hundred bucks plus or minus for  it.  $70 instead ain't gonna kill me, this was just sitting in a storage pile year after year so if someone finally wanted it for a deal so be it.  It's not like I let it go for five bucks.

When I first heard it, I thought it wasn't anything particularly special and compared to the monolith album that came after it, God's Balls. It always sounded a little flat.  Maybe because Tad played everything on this record and became a band after.  This single ended up getting folded into later digital versions of the album that came out the next year.  

The B-side was the more memorable of the two.  He's got a rock in his hand and a pain in his chest.  The A-side I didn't even remember which was shocking since at some point everything Tad did for Sub Pop was worthy of listening and worship.  Hell, I even endured a nasty flu to force myself to the Rat on a cold March night to see him for the first time.  

I was really fuckin' sick!



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