Rev 200

It became apparent a couple of years ago that Revelation had reached the 'Rev200' catalogue number, although we quickly saw this number surpassed. New Found Glory 'Make The Most Of It' was Rev199, but then Planet On A Chain's 'Boxed In' appeared as Rev201... and then came releases from Morning Again, Big Laugh, more Planet On A Chain, Calling Hours, Spaced and Paint It Black took us to Rev215. It felt that whatever was allocated the 'Rev200' catalogue number was somehow stuck in the system somewhere, and I pretty much forgot all about it.

And then almost without warning Rev200 appeared at the back end of November last year. It was announced that the label had decided to reissue Judge's infamous 'Chung King Can Suck It' LP. There was a lot of online chat about this, and I wasn't sure what my thoughts were, but a few months later and I'm a little clearer where I sit with this. Overall, I still find it a slightly odd decision, given that this isn't a real record (i.e. it's essentially a rejected version of 'Bringin' It Down' LP) but I don't have any issue with it. And I really like how they inverted the artwork so that this one could never be confused with the original, making this reissue a kind of different record entirely.

I also like how the inner dust sleeves are covered in the Judge hammers logo. It shows that they were ok with spending a little bit more to make this a bit more special.

The only thing that I was surprised about was the number of versions pressed. The first pressing was 4 different colours, and then we got a second press colour, and then a third press colour too. And here they all are:

Shown above are:

Clear w/ black marble (Rev exclusive /250)
Pineapple (Generation & Coretex exclusive /300)
Bone & Purple (Retail exclusive /700)
Clear blue (/1000)
Black & White split (2nd press /1000)
Olive Green (3rd press /1000)

I'm not sure why, but it feels that it would have been more appropriate to press this on only one colour. Maybe two. Sure, make like 5,000 copies, but ending up with 6 different versions (so far!) slightly detracts from this being a cool reissue. But I'm sure a lot of people would disagree.

Also, for anyone who is curious, despite this having been remastered, it still doesn't sound anywhere near as good as 'Bringin' It Down'.