Vanilla 12" Social Evening And French Divorce - TEST PRESS - 90s emo hardcore

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Vanilla 12" Social Evening and French Divorce - TEST pressing. I don't even know where this came from but it was in a box of a bunch of miscellanous stuff. Fans of the label take note this is a TEST press. I know there are Conquer The World Records fanatical collectors out there all over the world. Now whether or not this is from the first cut or the production cut I am not sure. I never wrote all the details of everything down. Probably shouldn't even get rid of it but oh well. I owned it once, it's like I always will own it even if someone else does.

Vanilla 12" Social Evening And French Divorce "is a challenge to mature music goers" - The legendary Vanilla from Paris France graced CTW with thier best material. A friendship through the mail was kindled with the band and I asked them if they would do a record and they did. I can't pick a favorite on the label but I have loved all my children equally and I have cherished this record just the same. This was supposed to come out as a CD at the time as well but financial issues stopping it from getting pressed. The layout was done it just never hit the plant. I think the band did get mad at me because it took forever to get thier band copies to them but eventually they got them through CTW europe if I remember. It's not exactly cheap mailing 100 lps to Europe, I can't imagine doing a label at this point with shipping costs involved. Vanilla would be remembered as one of the key bands of the French Emo core style although to my knowledge the scene was actually not as big as we had the impression of in the states. The layout was modeled after some kind of jazz record with a little alrfred hitchcock thrown in. Talking about the music it was a very honest emo core sound somewhat in the vein of bands like Still Life, however there are moments on the record that remind me of Shoulder actually. Bands like this simply do not exist any longer.This is pure art. Wherever you are and I know you guys are doing some music somewhere thank you for being a part of my family. I sleep so well when I cry. It gives me chills and makes me cry thinking about all these things in my life especially when I listen to it.The first test pressings had a ton of errors in them and the master had to be recut. Mike CTW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vxgk0ld8As From an internet blog where they called it "the best french emo record of all time" this was one of the bands that originated the "french sound" of the mid 90s along with fingerprint, jasmine, peu etre ect....however this record shows a much more dynamic complex side of their music than their other records did........i dare say that this might be the best "french emo" record of all time, despite it not sounding like your typical jaunt through that genere.....this has more in common with US "emo" bands of the mid 90s with its jangling guitar lines and explosions of angsty hardcore......this is a snapshot of the band in 1998, after their early stuff which was harder and faster, but before they ditched the hardcore element completely and tried to be no knife on "plays fantastique" in 2001 (for the record, that album was really good too) this lp came out on the rather controversial (at the time) conquer the world label...an unlikely home for a band like this.....anyways ill cut the chitchat and let you get to the music: social evening, french divorce..... Posted by thuglifebaldwin at 4:42 PM Labels: france, mid 90s., stonehenge records. no knife 5 comments: BatguanoJanuary 9, 2010 at 10:42 AM Hey, you're right... this is excellent! I heard that later record and was entirely UNimpressed and probably skipped this one because of it. A million thanks for posting this one. Actually, I'm a huge fan of their first record and was planning on posting last week. Maybe next week... Reply thuglifebaldwinJanuary 9, 2010 at 2:00 PM they cannibalized parts of songs from this record for "plays fantastique"....i liked all of their records, but this one stands out over the others. Reply mikectwJuly 3, 2010 at 10:42 AM I'm so flattered that this record was mentioned as the best french record of all time. I only regret that financially I was unable to put this out on CD as the dat tape had 2 other songs on it that couldn't make the vinyl because of time constraints. I loved the Vanilla LP on Genet records so I opened communication with them about putting out a record on CTW. I was so elated to get to do that record. Unfortunately we fell out of communication because when I had the band copies sent over to Europe something happened and they had to pay lots of taxs on them or something. The record I loved and many of my friends however CTW europe thought it was a bad idea Burkhard junger wanted me to put out metalcore stuff that would sell but if you look at my labels releases I didn't care what anyone thought. I put out what I liked and did the best at it I could. I never had any kind of substanial amount of money it was all just me working a pizza delivery job and the label itself.