Laser-etched vinyl: let's compile a list!

So here are the ones that I can name off the top of my head; please help me by adding to this list, and indicate whether or not a non-etched version was made:

Styx - Paradise Theater (non-etched exists)
Split Enz - True Colors (unknown)
Split Enz - single (as seen in another SH Forums thread)
OST - Superman II (I believe there does exist a non-etched version)
Jack White - Sixteen Saltines (unknown, safe to assume there will be a non-etched version not counting the liquid-filled one)

What other ones exist, popular or otherwise? And if known, were there non-etched copies pressed as well?

 

Dead Weather - Horehound (side 4)
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies/SAP (2nd side of SAP)

I don't know if there are non-etched versions of these as I just have these versions.

 

Mad Season - Above

 

Jenny Lewis Acid Tongue ("don't drop this record"---on side 4)

 

Paul McCartney - Figure of Eight UK 12"

I don't think there is a non-etched version

 

Genesis - Calling All Stations


1997 vinyl side four has an etching of the band

 

Phish - joy

Side 4 has Phish logo.

 

Are we talking about etchings on a playable side, or three-sided records with an etched blank side? (or both?)

For the latter, Robert Wyatt's Comicopera and Robert Plant's Band of Joy are a couple of fairly recent ones.

 

THE BLACK CROWES Remedy 7"

 

Portishead - The Rip 12"
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Side 4 of Mirror Traffic is an etching.

 

There are a TON. These are just the one's that are still active in my company's wholesale catalog and I know we have many others that just never got coded that they are etched that are missing from this list (and again, I don't have old out of print titles included here either):

* Adai - Felo De Se [LP+CD] (one-sided Etched LP in gatefold jacket)
* Alice In Chains - Jar Of Flies / Sap [2 LP] (180 Gram Audiophile Import Vinyl, 3 sides music, 1 side etched with the band's logo, in Gatefold)
* Alkaline Trio - Damnesia [2 LP+CD] (includes etching on 4th side of band's logo)
* Arcade Fire - Neon Bible [2 LP] (180 Gram Vinyl includes one etched side, mp3 download, in gatefold)
* Black Dub (Daniel Lanois) - Black Dub [2 LP] (180 Gram Vinyl, gatefold, download, 4th side is etched)
* Bloodhorse - Horizoner [2 LP] (in gatefold with vinyl etching design on one side of 2nd LP) (Limited to 750)
* Blue Cheer - What Doesn't Kill You [2 LP] (180 Gram Vinyl Import, fourth side is etched, band's final album)
* Buddy Miller - The Majestic Silver Strings [2 LP] (Limited to 400 hand-numbered copies for retail, 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl, 4th-side is etched, in Deluxe Wallet Jacket)
* Bullet For My Valentine - Fever [2 LP] (includes one etched side)
* Carl Sagan - A Glorious Dawn (feat. Stephen Hawking) [7''] (a/k/a 'Cosmos Remixed', the b-side is an etched reproduction of The Voyager Golden Record)
* Cuff The Duke - Morning Comes [2 LP] (Limited Edition, etched side, download, silk-screended jackets, Limited)
* Damned, The - The Black Album [LP+12''] (150 Gram Colored Remastered Vinyl, bonus one-sided 12'' with etched side, Limited)
* Damned, The - The Black Album [LP+12''] (180 Gram Remastered Vinyl, bonus one-sided 12'' with etched side, Limited)
* Dead Skeletons - Dead Mantra [10''] (includes etched side)
* Dead Weather, The - Horehound [2 LP] (180 Gram Vinyl with one Etched side in Gatefold Jacket)
* Death Set, The - Around The World 7'' (feat. etched tiger's head on b-side)
* Deer Tick - War Elephant [LP] (Etched Red Vinyl includes Digital Download)
* Devendra Banhart - Baby [7''] (b-side is an etching of a Devendra Banhart illustration, black vinyl)
* Devo - Now It Can Be Told, Devo At The Palace 12/9/88 [2 LP] (3-sided, 4th side is etched, Live album)
* Doors, The - L.A. Woman: The Workshop Sessions [2 LP] (180 Gram Vinyl, includes etched 4th side)
* Earth - Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light Vol. 1 [2 LP] (etching on 4th side)
* Equilibrium - Turis Fratyr (+ Demos) [2 LP + 12''] (180 Gram, includes one etched side)
* Explosions In The Sky - Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place [2 LP] (4th side is etched)
* Explosions In The Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care [2 LP] (Deluxe 10-panel quadruple gatefold, poster, 4th side is etched, postcard)
* Flaming Lips, The - Telepathic Surgery [2 LP] (Blue Vinyl, three-sided with etching on 4th side)
* Frazey Ford - Obadiah [2 LP] (3 Sided w/ Etching on 4th side includes download, in gatefold)
* fun. - Aim And Ignite [2 LP+CD] (Picture Disc, Etched, Embossed Metallic Gatefold)
* Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact [2 LP] (fourth side is etched, includes download)
* Hail Mary Mallon (Aesop Rock & Rob Sonic) - Are You Gonna Eat That? [2 LP] (Limited Edition, Green Vinyl, etching on 4th side, includes download, gatefold)
* Half-handed Cloud - Dove [LP] (one-sided, included etched side)
* Hayes Carll - Trouble In Mind [2 LP] (deluxe gatefold double 180gram Etched Vinyl / includes free download codes)
* HiM - Lila [12''] (5-track single-sided EP, B-side is etched)
* Holly Miranda - The Magician’s Private Library [1.5 LP] (3 sided double LP with etching & mp3 coupon)
* Howlin Rain - Russian Wilds [2 LP] (etched 4th side, download)
* Integrity - Vve Are The End [7''] (includes Etched B-Side)
* Jack White - Fly Farm Blues [7''] (one-sided; b-side is a laser-etching of the Third Man Records logo)
* Jack White - Sixteen Saltines / Love is Blindness [12''] (Black Vinyl, playable etched b-side)
* Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit [2 LP] (3-sided release includes etched side and vinyl-only bonus track)
* Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue [2 LP] (includes Bonus CD and one-etched sided vinyl)
* Keith Richards - Vintage Vinos [2 LP] (Limited Edition, 180 Gram Red Vinyl, 4th side is Etched, lithos, gatefold
* Kills, The - U.R.A. Fever [7''] (White Label, singled-sided, etched)
* Lee Ranaldo (of Sonic Youth) - Countless Centuries Fled into the Distance Like So Many Storms [EP] (Etched, Limited Edition, Single Sided, Green Vinyl)
* Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights [2 LP] (etching on 4th side)
* Linda Bruner - Songs For A Friend [LP] (150 Gram mini-album with etched B-Side, in textured tip-on jacket)
* Lostprophets - Where We Belong [7''] (b-side is etched, Limited to 1000, import)
* Machine Head - Unto The Locust [2 LP] (180 Gram, one-etched side, gatefold, import)
* Mamiffer, House of Low Culture and Merzbow - Lou Lou... in Tokyo [2 LP] (limited to 330, with etched fourth side, deluxe letter-pressed jackets)
* Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath [2 LP] (each LP is ½ red and ½ black with etching on each side in Gatefold Jacket) (includes custom planchette-shaped 7'' vinyl in clear plastic sleeve)
* Mayer Hawthorne - I Need You [12''] (Limited, one side is etched)
* Megafaun - Gather, Form & Fly [2 LP] (one side is etched; includes download coupon)
* mewithoutYou - It's All Crazy! It's All FalseIt's All A Dream! It's Alright [2 LP] (Mixed Splattered Colored Vinyl with one Etched side)
* Miles Davis - Bitches Brew Live [2 LP] (180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl import, fourth side is etched)
* Moss Icon - Complete Discography [3LP] (Download, Etching on 4th side)
* Neil Young & The International Harvesters - A Treasure [2 LP] (140 Gram Vinyl with etched 4th side, w/Download)
* Neil Young & The International Harvesters - A Treasure [2 LP] (180 Gram Vinyl with etched 4th side, w/Download)
* Nurse With Wound - Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table Of A Sewing Machine And An Umbrella [2 LP] (reissue of regular edition with Bonus Track and etching on 4th side)
* Ocha La Rocha - Stealing Time EP [LP] (B-side contains Etching plus a bonus instrumental track, includes download, Limited Edition to 500)
* of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins [LP+12''] (Clear Vinyl LP plus bonus one-sided Black Vinyl EP with etched side, download)
* Old Baby - Misunderstanding Human Behavior [12''] (5 tracks on A-side, B-side is etched)
* Overkill - !!!**** You!!! [2 LP] (Green Vinylw/ etching on the 4th side)
* Phish - Joy [2 LP] (180 Gram Vinyl and fourth side is etched with artwork)
* Portishead - Magic Doors 12'' (Etched 1-Sided)
* Portishead - The Rip [Etched One-Sided Vinyl in Clear Plastic Sleeve] (U.S. Packaging)
* Portugal. The Man - It's Complicated Being A Wizard EP (etching on one side, includes download)
* Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze [2 LP] (180 Gram Vinyl, 4th side is etched, gatefold, import, un-numbered black vinyl version)
* Rachelle Garniez - My House Of Peace (one-sided) [7''] (produced by Jack White, b-side is a laser-etching of the Third Man Records logo)
* Regurgitate - Effortless Regurgitation Of Bright Red Blood / Concrete Human Torture [2 LP + 7''] (German Import - Side D is etching of the Regurgitate logo - limited to 500 copies)
* Rilo Kiley - Take Offs and Landings [2 LP] (180 Gram Vinyl, etching on 4th side, includes download)
* Robert Earl Keen - The Rose Hotel [2 LP] (one side is Etched Vinyl in Deluxe Gatefold)
* Roots - How I Got Over [12''] (Limited Edition Etched Vinyl)
* Rustie - Ultra Thizz [12''] (etched b-side)
* Sasha - Coma [Limited Edition] [one-side etched vinyl]
* Some Girls - All My Friends Are Going Death [LP] (singled sided, etched, colored vinyl)
* Starflyer 59 - Portuguese Blues [LP] (single-sided, etched)
* Steven R. Smith - Floor of the Sky [LP] (one-sided with etched b-side)
* Sticks And Stones - Nineteen Eighty Seven [12''] (B-side is etched with the band's logo)
* Sweet Cobra - Bottom Feeder [EP] (one-sided EP includes 3 Vinyl-Only tracks and the b-side is a laser etching)
* Swell Season, The - Strict Joy [2 LP] (includes Etched 4th side)
* Testament - Demonic [2 LP] (180 Gram and one side includes etched art)
* Thursday - No Devolucion [2 LP+CD] (etching on 4th side)
* Trap Them - Filth Rations EP (one-side 4-track EP with etching on the flipside)
* TV On The Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes [2 LP] (features an extra track and one etched side)
* Various Artists - Ain't I'm A Dog [2 LP] (180 Gram Vinyl, first 500 on Colored Vinyl, Etched D-Side, gatefold, import)
* Various Artists - Whistle Bait!: 25 Rockabilly Rave Ups [2 LP] (180 Gram Vinyl, etched 4th side, first 500 on colored vinyl, gatefold)
* Weakerthans, The - Left And Leaving [2 LP+CD] (4th side is etched with Buffalo picture)
* Wharf Rats - Wharf Rats [7''] (b-side is etched, includes download)
* Wingless Angels (feat. Keith Richards, Justin Hinds) - Volumes I & II [4 LP] (Red, Gold, Green, Black Vinyl, 8th side is etching of Lion Of Judah, book-bound, limited to 1000)

 

Sixteen Saltines 12" will only be black vinyl with playable etched side, the liquid record, and the regular black vinyl 7" with no etching. No standard black vinyl non-etched 12".

 

Seems most folks are interpreting it as the latter. The OP is referring to just records with the laser-etchings that overlay the grooves on the playable side. I'm really not sure that there are more than those he's listed though...

 

OP does not indicate either way

 

You can skim through Discogs for some:
http://www.discogs.com/search?q=laser-etched&type=releases

 

No, but he only listed playable ones though, and in light of Third Man Records' erronous statements about the upcoming Jack W. being the first one it seemd a fair assumption.

 

Jack White's comment today on the etching:
http://www.facebook.com/jackwhite/posts/267461106677156

There is a difference in the "etched" records that were laser-cut (Split Enz, Styx, etc) and the all-vinyl lacquer image referred to as "etched" that Jack (and many others are using these days). The "etching" that most pressing plants do today which is an image pressed into the lacquer itself has never had (supposedly) had a playable groove. George Ingram discovered how to do this recently. So Jack/Third Man is partly correct in that they have the first playable "etched" record using the current process used today, but not the first playable etched record when the laser-etched process was used.

 

WOW! That's one hell of a list, thanks for that, Spyder. Yeah, when I posted, I originally meant playable laser etching a la Styx and Split Enz, but that list is phenomenal.

But since the scope of the thread has de facto expanded to include non-playable etching, I want to include a Poi Dog Pondering etched promo 12" for u-li-la-lu (on Columbia / Texas Hotel, 1990).

 

Side 4 of the Heaven and Hell's 'The Devil You Know' Lp is etched. There is no music on that side but it does have a nice picture from the etching.

 

Simple Minds "See the lights" 12" VSTE1343
Depeche Mode "Enjoy the silence" 12" XL 12 BONG 18

 

Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero (Side 4)

 

My copy 5 mins ago (bought for 50p about 16 years ago):

 

Split Enz - True Colors

Bought it new in the day. They also made a non-etched version.

 

That is not laser etched.