A Record Collector's Guide

Velocity Girl - 90's DC indie. Generally a good formula.  Good holy lord, did this band ever end up on a lot of pieces of vinyl in its (roughly) six-year run. I think they must have appeared on 20% of all of the compilations released worldwide in 1992-94. Alright, we have a lot to sort out here, so let's get to it.

What Kind of Heaven Do You Want?

Contains the Velocity Girl track "Clock"

Slumberland DRYL 001 7", released December 1989 (U.S.)

This compilation contains the first ever Velocity Girl recording...which is...underdeveloped. Sorry, folks. There were many good moments in the few years Velocity Girl was together. "Clock" was probably the roughest of them. A very collectible record, though. Also the first ever Slumberland record. It used to go for a fair amount, but after the market for Velocity Girl records cooled, it became pretty affordable.

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I Don't Care If You Go b/w Always

Slumberland DRYL 004 7", released August 1990 (U.S.)

I Don't Care If You Go b/w Not At All

Summershine shine 006 7", released 1990 (Australia)

The first real Velocity Girl single. Bridget Cross on vocals. The mail-order copies of the Slumberland version were on yellow vinyl. Also released with a different b-side on the Australian Summershine label. Both used to go for a lot more money than they do today. There were two versions of the Australian sleeve (see above). The one with the logo in red is much more scarce.

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Left Behind b/w Warm/Crawl

Sub Pop SP137 7", released January 1992 (U.S.)

Sub Pop Singles Club #39

Limited to 4,000 copies, all on pink vinyl. Easy to find.

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Screw

Contains the Velocity Girl track "What You Say"

Simple Machines SMR 04 7", released 1991 (U.S.)

Simple Machines did this series of compilation 7"s named after...well, simple machines...this was the 4th in the series, and contained the Velocity Girl song "What You Say". The first pressing was of 1,500 on what they called see-through maroon vinyl. It looks black unless you hold it up to the light, and then it looks brown...see pics below. It was later re-pressed with a sleeve with a different accent color. I want to say the blue accent sleeve came first and the green accent sleeve came later, but I'm not positive. Both are inexpensive and common.

Green Accent Insert	Blue Accent Insert	2nd Insert

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My Forgotten Favorite b/w Why Should I Be Nice To You?

Slumberland DRYL 010 7", released January 1992 (U.S.)

Sub Pop SUB PROCD#6 (U.S.)

"My Forgotten Favorite" might be the best song Velocity Girl ever did. Truly excellent. Versions of this record varied greatly, though. Four different sleeves, three colors of vinyl...all mixed and matched. There were three sleeves with the same grey base color, with varying accent colors - blue, green, and brown. The other one had a red base color with a fuchsia accent. All vary in scarcity a bit. The blue is definitely the most common, followed by the green one, the brown one, and then the fuchsia one.

The three colors of vinyl were black, red marble, and purple marble. Black is most common, then purple, and the red one is the rarest. I have no pressing numbers, but that's been my experience. I have only ever seen the red vinyl one with the fuchsia sleeve, and I've only seen the purple vinyl version with the blue sleeve, but I've seen the black vinyl with all four sleeve variants. The red vinyl version remains the most expensive.

There were a few copies of this that were released with Velocity Girl promotional pillow cases. Supposedly, they did 50 of these, slik-screened by hand.

One little wrinkle to add to the equation: there was also a Sub Pop promo CD that contained the two tracks from the Slumberland 7", along with the only CD versions of "Warm/Crawl" from the Singles Club split with Tsunami, and "Tales of Brave Aphrodite" from the Fortune Cookie Prize comp. The CD is fairly scarce.

Pillow Case		Promo CD

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WMBR Presents: Clear the Room!

No Life NL01 7", released 1992 (U.S.)

Contains the Velocity Girl track "Not At All"

Live compilation released to benefit WMBR. Good live version of "Not At All". Black vinyl, limited to 2,000 hand-numbered copies.

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Sassy

Codeine - Hard to Find/Velocity Girl - Crawl b/w Beat Happening - Not a Care in the World/Sebadoh - Soulmate

Sub Pop SP171 7", released October 1992 (U.S.)

This 7" was a giveaway, available upon request to Sassy magazine readers. I am still trying to figure out how this one happened. Well, okay, I know how it happened...starting around this point, Sub Pop tried everything around to push their brand to markets that would not normally ever see it. That's how we ended up with Sub Pop meets Sega - "That Virtua Feeling" CD, the Sub Pop/Urban Outfitters collaborative CD, and "Tad Does Disney"...okay, that one I made up, but some part of you wanted to believe me. Anyway, all of these were on green vinyl and came in plain white cardboard sleeves. Easy to acquire.

Test Pressing

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Crazy Town b/w Creepy

Sub Pop SP179 7", released 1992 (U.S.)

Sub Pop SP60/227 7" / SP61/228 12" / SPCD 61/228 CD, released 1992 (Germany)

At this juncture, Sub Pop was mostly pressing single colors of vinyl...except for this one. The initial pressing was on green vinyl. There are LOTS of these out there. It is by far the most common. Then, there are the others...it exists on blue, yellow marble, clear, brown marble (often called "cola", sometimes referred to as purple or pale pink), and white vinyl. The blue, yellow marble, and cola ones show up fairly often. The clear one is a lot rarer. It's not a straight clear color. It is almost a clear gray, and kind of looks like the "clear lilac" mispress of the Jon Spencer single. My clear copy has a little pink in it, which once had me thinking there may be pink copies floating around. I no longer think so. The pink in the clear one may be related to the cola version, which has some pink in it.

Now, we have to talk about the white one. This version is crazy rare. My white copy has a slight yellowish tint to it...it's more of an off-white or eggshell color. I'd say in total, probably 80-90% of all copies out there are on green, and the rest are on the other colors.

The European version is mostly (but not entirely) on green vinyl. There is also a blue vinyl version out there. It is much rarer. Quite scarce. The 12" also contains the song "My Forgotten Favorite".

Green (U.S.)	Blue (U.S.)	Yellow Marble
Brown Marble/Cola	Clear	White
Green (Europe)	Blue (Europe)	12" (Europe)

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Velocity Girl/Tsunami Split - Season's Greetings

Velocity Girl - Merry Christmas, I Love You / Tsunami - Could Have Been Christmas

Simple Machines SMR 014 7", released December 1992 (U.S.)

Velocity Girl and Tsunami - together again...remember when there were a whole bunch of good bands in DC? I do. Red vinyl. For some reason (possibly the oversized sleeve...), every copy I ever see of this record has had its sleeve beaten to hell. There was also a later pressing of this record: the vinyl was the same, but it had a different screen-printed sleeve. This version is MUCH rarer, and there was some color variation between sleeves (see above).

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Audrey's Eyes b/w Stupid Thing

Sub Pop SP112/288 7", released 1993 (Germany)

Sub Pop SUB PROCD#13 CD (U.S.)

Europe-only single on clear vinyl. The shipping would probably cost you more than the record.

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Sorry Again b/w Marzipan

Sub Pop SP257 7" / SP257b CD, released May 1994 (U.S.)

A solid pop single. This one came out to coincide with the release of Velocity Girl's second album, ¡Simpatico! Black vinyl, custom labels. Easy to find.

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Your Silent Face b/w You're So Good To Me

Merge MRG 061 7", released 1994 (U.S.)

V-Girl & Merge...had to happen eventually. Covers of New Order & the Beach Boys. Translucent black/brown vinyl. Common.

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Magnapop/Velocity Girl Split

Magnapop - Slowly Slowly/Velocity Girl - Marzipan

Giveaway Flexi with Pop Culture Press Magazine #31, released 1994 (U.S.)

One-sided blue flexi. That is all. It's gotten slightly harder to find, but is still not too tough.

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I Can't Stop Smiling b/w Marzipan

Sub Pop SP130/322 7" / SPCD 130/322 CD, released 1994 (Germany)

Sub Pop SUB PROCD#29 CD (U.S.)

Interesting collector's pack assembled in 1994. Limited to 1,000 copies. In Europe, this single was released in retail stores, packaged in the outer gatefold sleeve. The left side of the gatefold sleeve was designed to hold this single, and the right side was designed for the next single (Labrador). It was sold in the States as a double single, pretty much exclusively through the Sub Pop Megamart store in Seattle. The double single set shows up for sale with great frequency. Black vinyl. There was also a CD single.

Sticker Sheet

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Labrador (remix) b/w Diamond Jubilee

Sub Pop SP122/303PRO 7", released 1994 (Germany)

In the UK (and presumably, elsewhere in Europe), this record was a giveaway along with the ¡Simpatico! LP at a handful of independent record stores. The only way it was sold in the U.S. was bundled with the I Can't Stop Smiling single at the Sub Pop Megamart. Black vinyl with a sticker sheet. There are enough of them out there that the 7" is easy to find.

Sticker Sheet

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Club Spangle Number 2

The Spinanes - Sunday / Jale - The Unseen Guest b/w Velocity Girl - The All-Consumer / Pond - Sideroad

Spangle SPANG 002 7", released 1995 (U.S.)

This was a British compilation 7" with a few songs from releases that Sub Pop was promoting in 1995. Nothing particularly unique here. Black vinyl, common.

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Seven Seas b/w Breaking Lines

Heaven HV13 7", released October 1995 (UK)

This was a UK release, bridging the gap between the ¡Simpatico! and Gilded Stars albums. Black vinyl, common.

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Nothing b/w Anatomy of a Gutless Wonder

Sub Pop SP341 7", released 1996 (U.S./UK)

Sub Pop SUB PROCD#45 CD, released 1996 (U.S.)

Released in conjunction with the Gilded Stars & Zealous Hearts album. Exists on red and black vinyl. The red vinyl copies were produced in England, and beyond the vinyl color, were from a completely distinct pressing from the black one. First, the red ones have small holes and the black ones have large holes. The matrix code on side A of the red one reads: SP 341 A -J.T.S.-. One the black one, it is: SP-341-A GOLDEN L-45821. There is also some extra text on the backs of the sleeves for the red version. Both are easy to find.

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Velocity Girl/Chisel Split 7"

Velocity Girl - Breaking Lines b/w Chisel - Morley Timmons

Shute No. 8, released March 1997

The songs on this single were recorded long before the record was released, and the record came out, in Velocity Girl's case, after the band had broken up. Black vinyl, easy to find.

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Live - Pretty Sister b/w Crazy Town

4/13/93 - Slims, San Francisco, CA

Static Discs 7" (U.S.)

Hey, look - someone made a bootleg! Who knew? I don't know much more about it than is listed above. I have seen this on black and light blue marble vinyl. There may be other versions.

This page was last updated on February 25, 2020.