MUSIC HAUL (CD / VINYL / DVD Purchases) 2015

Whitesnake - The Purple Album

AC/DC - The Razors Edge

Mr. Big - The Stories We Could Tell
Night Ranger - High Road

These 2 have been on the want list for a while! Woo hoo.

In the mail today:

Nekrogoblikon​ - Heavy Meta

Jon Oliva's Pain - 'Tage Mahal (German Promo)

The wife is on Florida with our baby girl, so I was able to hit up Newbury Comics today, which is MUCH easier with just one kid. Anyway, scored these:

Hit up Newbury Comics earlier today:

Cryptic Vision - In A World
Great Discord, The - Duende
Kiske/Somerville - City Of Heroes
Paradise Lost - The Plague Within (w/Bonus Track)
Texas Is The Reason - Do You Know Who You Are?
U.D.O. - Decadent (w/Bonus Tracks)
Vintage Caravan, The - Arrival (w/Bonus Tracks)

tohostudios wrote:

That looks interesting. A new release or has that been out awhile?

Some recent acquisitions:

Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell - Check Em Before You Wreck Em
Armored Saint - Win Hands Down
Art of Anarchy - Art of Anarchy
Elf - Elf
The Gracious Few - The Gracious Few
Star & Dagger - Tomorrowland Blues
Scott Weiland - 12 Bar Blues
Megadeth - That One Night: Live in Buenos Ares
Stryper - Against the Law
Alex Skolnick Trio - Transformation
Legend - The Legend Anthology

MetalGuy71 wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

That looks interesting. A new release or has that been out awhile?

Apparently it came out in May last year.  I already have all The Angels albums on CD so I mainly got it hoping that some of the earlier stuff had been remastered or remixed or whatever because the early albums sound like crap.  Luckily for me, they've evidently done something to them because everything on here sounds great.

As an Angels aficionado, if you don't have anything by the band I think this is a great,  comprehensive collection and probably all you'll need.

You can get this 3-disc collection from Amazon for about $20 ppd.

Fastway - Trick Or Treat Original Motion Picture Sdtrk.

Anthrax- Anthology: No Hit Wonder (1985-1991)

Fat Freddy wrote:

Fastway - Trick Or Treat Original Motion Picture Sdtrk.

Awesome!!!

Venomous Maximus - Firewalker
Victor Griffin's In Graved - S/T

tohostudios wrote:

As an Angels aficionado, if you don't have anything by the band I think this is a great,  comprehensive collection and probably all you'll need.

You can get this 3-disc collection from Amazon for about $20 ppd.

I'll keep an eye on that one. As far as The Angels go, I'm more familiar with other bands covering their songs than the originals, but I wouldn't mind checking them out.

As an aficionado, would you say all their output over the years has been consistent, specifically on those 3 discs? Did they go through any style changes over the years, especially in the 80's where they were over-produced and maybe keyboard saturated?

I don't like when hard rock 70's bands tried to transition to the 80's and got too slick, know what I mean? I'd hate to buy that set, then say, find out only Disc 1 of early material is worth a darn.

On CD:

Widow - Midnight Strikes
Judas Priest - Angel Of Retribution (CD/DVD)
Penance - Spiritualnatural

MetalGuy71 wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

As an Angels aficionado, if you don't have anything by the band I think this is a great,  comprehensive collection and probably all you'll need.

You can get this 3-disc collection from Amazon for about $20 ppd.

I'll keep an eye on that one. As far as The Angels go, I'm more familiar with other bands covering their songs than the originals, but I wouldn't mind checking them out.

As an aficionado, would you say all their output over the years has been consistent, specifically on those 3 discs? Did they go through any style changes over the years, especially in the 80's where they were over-produced and maybe keyboard saturated?

I don't like when hard rock 70's bands tried to transition to the 80's and got too slick, know what I mean? I'd hate to buy that set, then say, find out only Disc 1 of early material is worth a darn.

The Angels have always been hard to pigeonhole.  Sometimes they sound like AC/DC clones and other times they sound like a heavier version of Springsteen.  They've never been afraid of keyboards but they use piano and organ as opposed to the synth-drenched sound from the 80s.

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other times they sound like a heavier version of Springsteen.

I'm out.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

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other times they sound like a heavier version of Springsteen.

I'm out.

I mean music-wise, not vocally. 

Here's the tracklist.  I don't see any of the "storyteller" songs that remind me of Springsteen on this one.  Look some of them up on YouTube and see what you think.

Track Listing: Disc 1: 1. Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again 2. Round We Go 3. Shelter From The Rain 4. Whitest Lady 5. After The Rain 6. Take A Long Line 7. Marseilles 8. Be With You 9. I Ain't The One 10. Comin' Down 11. Who Rings The Bell 12. Save Me 13. Shadow Boxer 14. Can't Shake It Disc 2: 1. No Exit 2. Out Of The Blue 3. Mr Damage 4. Ivory Stairs 5. No Secrets 6. Poor Baby 7. Wasted Sleepless Nights / Dark Room 8. Face The Day 9. Devil's Gate 10. Fashion & Fame 11. Night Attack 12. Eat City 13. Watch The Red 14. Stand Up Disc 3: 1. Small Price 2. We Gotta Get Out Of This Place 3. Don't Waste My Time 4. Let The Night Roll On 5. Back Street Pick Up 6. Dogs Are Talking 7. Turn It On 8. Call That Living 9. My Light Will Shine 10. Waiting For The Sun 11. Talk The Talk 12. Broken Windows

New jams.

Grip Inc. - Hostage To Heaven (EP) (Digital)
Symphony X - Iconoclast (2CD)

Tanagra - None Of This Is Real
Ultra-Violence - Deflect The Flow
Ranger - Where Evil Dwells
E-Force - Demonikhol
The Temperance Movement - S/T

Metalwargod

tohostudios wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Quote :

other times they sound like a heavier version of Springsteen.

I'm out.

I mean music-wise, not vocally. 

Here's the tracklist.  I don't see any of the "storyteller" songs that remind me of Springsteen on this one.  Look some of them up on YouTube and see what you think.

Track Listing: Disc 1: 1. Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again 2. Round We Go 3. Shelter From The Rain 4. Whitest Lady 5. After The Rain 6. Take A Long Line 7. Marseilles 8. Be With You 9. I Ain't The One 10. Comin' Down 11. Who Rings The Bell 12. Save Me 13. Shadow Boxer 14. Can't Shake It Disc 2: 1. No Exit 2. Out Of The Blue 3. Mr Damage 4. Ivory Stairs 5. No Secrets 6. Poor Baby 7. Wasted Sleepless Nights / Dark Room 8. Face The Day 9. Devil's Gate 10. Fashion & Fame 11. Night Attack 12. Eat City 13. Watch The Red 14. Stand Up Disc 3: 1. Small Price 2. We Gotta Get Out Of This Place 3. Don't Waste My Time 4. Let The Night Roll On 5. Back Street Pick Up 6. Dogs Are Talking 7. Turn It On 8. Call That Living 9. My Light Will Shine 10. Waiting For The Sun 11. Talk The Talk 12. Broken Windows

I've been listening to a playlist that someone assembled on YouTube. There's some good tunes in there, but I'm not sure I dig them enough to justify the purchase. Some of it sounds a little "80's new wavey" for my tastes. I dunno. I'm not completely turned off that hits collection, but I'm not completely sold on it either. It'll go in the "maybe" category for now.

Today:

Axel Rudi Pell -  Into The Storm (w/Bonus Tracks)
Gypsyhawk - Patience And  Perseverance
Thrust -  First Held High/Reincarnation (Reissue w/Bonus Tracks)

Armored Saint - Win Hands Down

Today I got to do something that I haven't been able to do in a couple of years (yes, I said YEARS!)... visit a real, live, honest to frickin-Gawd RECORD STORE (remember those?)!!

... I had to visit my company's main office for my annual review today. I don't get out that way very often anymore so when I passed a hole-in-the-wall mom & pop record shop (which I last visited in probably 2012 or so) naturally I had to stop in for a peek... and I am glad I did. A few minutes of scrounging and I came up with these:

Tora Tora - Surprise Attack
Helloween - I Want Out! Live (I haven't seen this on CD in... well, ever!)
Whitesnake - Good To Be Bad

I'm planning to hit Rockaway Records in Silver Lake this weekend, haven't been there for over a year. I also need to go back to Record Surplus in Santa Monica.