MUSIC HAUL 2021

New year, new thread. You know the drill - tell us what you've added to the music collection lately. CDs, vinyl, cassettes, Mini-Discs, wax cylinders, whatever.

The Many Faces of Iron Maiden

First scores of 2021!

Checked out a new (to me, at least) record store over the border in New York State - they were mostly about vinyl, but they did have a bunch of boxes of CDs stacked in a corner marked at 3 for a buck (!). So it took a bit of scrounging but I came away with these goodies:

Airheads - Original Movie Soundtrack
Van Halen - Best Of Volume I
Black Flag - The First Four Years
Black Flag - Damaged
L7 - Hungry For Stink
Nuno (Extreme guitarist) - Schizophonic
Journey - Arrival
Arcade - Cry No More (promo CD single)
Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage

Fat Freddy wrote:

First scores of 2021!

Checked out a new (to me, at least) record store over the border in New York State - they were mostly about vinyl, but they did have a bunch of boxes of CDs stacked in a corner marked at 3 for a buck (!). So it took a bit of scrounging but I came away with these goodies:

Airheads - Original Movie Soundtrack
Van Halen - Best Of Volume I
Black Flag - The First Four Years
Black Flag - Damaged
L7 - Hungry For Stink
Nuno (Extreme guitarist) - Schizophonic
Journey - Arrival
Arcade - Cry No More (promo CD single)
Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage

Solid score right there! That Journey album has my wedding song on it ("With Your Love").

First haul of 2021...

10,000 Maniacs - Hope Chest (The Fredonia Recordings 1982–1983)
Chimaira - The Age Of Hell
Erotics, The - Born To Destroy
Lincoln Durham - Revelations Of A Mind Unraveling
Pyogenesis - A Kingdom To Disappear
Pyogenesis - A Silent Soul Screams Loud

Pyogenesis is such a bizarre band. Started out in 1992 with Ignis Creatio, a classic doom/death metal EP, and then by 1997 they were a straight up pop punk band. Haha. Never changed their name. So fucking weird.

Anyway, they did that pop punk stuff until 2002, then broke up, returned in 2015...playing a more grandiose kind of metal, once again incorporating death metal vocals. One of the weirdest bands ever. They're literally the real-life version of Cryptic Coroner, the joke death-metal-turned-punk band, Devin Townsend created for his Punky Bruster album.

Can't say I'm a big fan of the pop punk stuff, but they did it well. Everything else is great.

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That Journey album has my wedding song on it ("With Your Love").

Hah, cool. Unfortunately that Journey disc turned out to be a scratched up clusterfuck that skips like crazy so I'm gonna have to shit-can it. Oh well (shrugs). Can't complain too much at 3 for a dollar.

Bride - Here Is Your God
Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin - Mothership

The Poppin' Wheelies - S/T

After listening to Gas Giants today I was researching whether Robin Wilson of Gin Blossoms did anything else before reuniting with his original band. Turns out he did - The Poppin' Wheelies. Still sounds like Gin Blossoms to me:

Bunch of things ordered back in early December rolled in today, mostly NEH Records $5 CDs, plus a couple other things...

10,000 Maniacs - The Wishing Chair
Asphalt Valentine - Twisted Road
BillyBio - Feed The Fire
Elegy Of Madness - Invisible World
My Ruin - The Cathartic Collection (Digital)
New Tomorrow, A - Universe (w/Bonus Track)
Novena - Eleventh Hour
Now Or Never - III
Re-Machined - Wheels Of Time
Return - V (Reissue)
Secret Rule - Against
Semblant - Obscura (w/Bonus Track)
Seven Spires - Emerald Seas
Shaft Of Steel - Steel Heartbeat
Sylosis - Worship Decay (Digital Single)
Tairrie B - Feminenergy (Digital)

Lou Reed/John Cale/Nico- Le Bataclan, Paris Jan. 25, 1972
Jethro Tull- Ten Great Songs ( I did not need a cheap comp from Tull but it was 50 cents )

Accept - Breaker
The Great Kat - Worship Me Or Die
Allen/Lande - The Showdown

Vinyl:

Bewitcher - Bewitcher - red vinyl, limited edition of 300
Bewitcher - Under The Witching Cross - transparent blue with orange smoke vinyl, limited edition of 600

Bloodlust - Guilty As Sin

Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations 2020 - digipak
Iced Earth - Iced Earth - 30th Anniversary Edition, digipak, remastered

Mad Max - Thunder, Storm & Passion
Mad Max - 35
Lords Of Black - Alchemy Of Souls Pt.1
Led Zeppelin - I
Led Zeppelin - Coda

manny wrote:

Lou Reed/John Cale/Nico- Le Bataclan, Paris Jan. 25, 1972
Jethro Tull- Ten Great Songs ( I did not need a cheap comp from Tull but it was 50 cents )

I'm curious about what ten songs are on that Tull disc.  I most likely have them but I'd like to know what some record company considered ten "great" songs from Jethro Tull.  Personally I'd have a really hard time whittling the Tull catalog down to only ten great songs.  I can find ten between Aqualung, Songs From The Wood and Heavy Horses alone.

I looked it up on Amazon and they don't have a track listing.

Militia - Released

New stuff...

BellRays, The - Punk Funk Rock Soul, Vol. 1 (EP)
BellRays, The - Punk Funk Rock Soul, Vol. 2
Iron Savior - Skycrest (w/Bonus Track)
Kansas - The Absence Of Presence
Lincoln Durham - And Into Heaven Came The Night
Raging Slab - A Taste O' Slab: Six Pieces (EP)
Schaffer/Barlow Project - Winter Nights (EP)

S.A. Slayer - Prepare To Die/Go For The Throat
Hawk - S/T
Hawk - Let The Metal Live
Countless Skies - Glow

tohostudios wrote:

manny wrote:

Lou Reed/John Cale/Nico- Le Bataclan, Paris Jan. 25, 1972
Jethro Tull- Ten Great Songs ( I did not need a cheap comp from Tull but it was 50 cents )

I'm curious about what ten songs are on that Tull disc.  I most likely have them but I'd like to know what some record company considered ten "great" songs from Jethro Tull.  Personally I'd have a really hard time whittling the Tull catalog down to only ten great songs.  I can find ten between Aqualung, Songs From The Wood and Heavy Horses alone.

I looked it up on Amazon and they don't have a track listing.

According to Discogs :

https://www.discogs.com/Jethro-Tull-10-Great-Songs/release/8407531

Lynyrd Skynyrd- The Definitive Collection (box set)
Chuck Berry -After School Session
Miles Davis- Live Evil
Duran Duran- Arena
Glenn Hughes- Different Stages
Jimmy Page- Outrider at the Forum 1988 (bootleg CD)
Elvis Presley- Blue Hawaii
The Romantics- What I like About You and Other Romantic Hits
Sex Pistols-Live at Chelmsford Top Security Prison
Frank Sinatra- Sinatra at the Sands w/ Count Basie and the Orchestra
T. Rex- The Millennium Collection
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble- Soul to Soul
White Zombie- The KMFDM Remixes
Yes-The Millennium Collection

Latest...

Incubus - The Essential Incubus (2CD)
Lefay - The Seventh Seal
Magnum - Dance Of The Black Tattoo
Magnum - Lost On The Road To Eternity (2CD)
Magnum - The Serpent Rings
Think I Care - Mongrel (EP)
Wu-Tang Clan - The W
Young M.C. - Stone Cold Rhymin'

Lita Ford- Time Capsule

New arrivals from Stormspell.

These were actually supposed to be my last pickups of 2020.

I placed the order during Stormy's Black Friday sale back in late November (!) so they spent just over month trapped in the U.S. Postal Service system.

According to the tracking info, which I have been following the entire time with no small amount of amusement, they were shipped from California on Dec. 12th, and made it to New Jersey on the 26th. Then for some reason they took a side trip to Massachusetts (?) for four or five days before being sent back to New Jersey this past weekend, and they finally arrived at my house today.

Better late than never, right?

The Outer Limits - World Metal Domination
Moshpit Justice - Justice Is Served
Mortyr - Rise of the Tyrant
Horror Piknik - Speed Metal Is Alive