MUSIC HAUL (CD / VINYL / DVD Purchases) 2013

Some bargain eBay vinyl

Warlock - True as Steel
Rage - Execution Guaranteed
Rage - Perfect Man

All three for less than £7 + postage!  

Wow those are really nice finds. I love Rage and those are great classics especially on vinyl.

Night Birds- Born to Die in Suburbia CD
WW4- demo tape (a doubt many, if any, will care, but this is the new band from a few members, including the singer, of late 90s straight edge hardcore band Floorpunch...it's good stuff)

Today's music haul:

Cathedral - There In The Shadows
Primal Fear - Nuclear Fire (w/Bonus Track)
Starkill - Fires Of Life
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Let Me Up (I've Had Enough)

On vinyl:

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band - Shaved Fish
John Lennon - Rock And Roll
David Bowie - Scary Monsters
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour

Coroner - Death Cult

After saying that I was going to pre order this, I completely forgot and it sold out! Managed to pick it up off of eBay for a good price.

Eyesore wrote:

Today's music haul:

Cathedral - There In The Shadows
Primal Fear - Nuclear Fire (w/Bonus Track)
Starkill - Fires Of Life
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Let Me Up (I've Had Enough)

I prefer Jon Butcher's "Holy War"  

ZZ Top - The Complete Studio Albums 1970-1990 - 10 CD Box Set

Eyesore wrote:

Today's music haul:

Cathedral - There In The Shadows

I like those guys and I have both of their albums. They have a touch of Rush and Nektar in their sound.



The keyboard player formed another band named Ad Infinitum that was really good neo/retro prog with two singers and lots of harmonies that mined the Yes and Genesis vein with a dash of early Ambrosia and a pinch of Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd....... with a Roger Dean cover to boot.

I HIGHLY recommend this album.

Boris2008 wrote:

Coroner - Death Cult

After saying that I was going to pre order this, I completely forgot and it sold out! Managed to pick it up off of eBay for a good price.

Oh bugger! After re reading the thread on the official release (which isn't out until December!) I have realised that I've bought a bootleg!  

So I found this treasure cove of box sets, well collections really, on Amazon known as the Original Album Series, or Original Album Classics, or some variation of that. They're physically truncated discount collections of 3-5 albums from a specific artist. The CD's come in a cardboard sleeve (a replica of the original vinyl jacket) with no protection and no booklets. From reading up on them (very little info on the interwebs), they are not remasters but in fact the original recordings. So I ended up purchasing Sodom's set--Obsessed by Cruelty, Persecution Mania, This Mortal Way of Live, Agent Orange, and Better Off Dead--for 25 bucks. Turns out Steamhammer issued it in this year. I recently purchased the two-disc "special edition jerk-off" of Agent Orange, much to my chagrin (see the thread here regarding CD packaging quality). I decided to compare the title tracks of each. My findings were interesting:



Top is original, bottom is remaster.

Anyone else know of these sets? There's a ton, including some great jazz and pop titles. The Sodom was expensive; I was able to score Pantera (five albums) for 14 bucks. Just search "original albums" in Amazon Music. Yeah, you don't get the swag, but I'm just trying to rebuild my collection without all the crappy remastering shit.

EDIT: that is one shitty screenshot, but you get the idea and I'm too f*cking tired to edit another one.

Interesting, I was tempted to buy this as it's cheap enough but am worried that it will be a crappy remaster thing.



If this original album classics series is the same kind of thing but with a guarantee that they haven't been messed around with then it can only be a good thing.

These Original Album Classics collections are usually released with whatever the most recent mastering is. In a case where the original label hasn't reissued the title since the 80s or 90s there's a good chance it will be the original mastering. If the album has been reissued in the past 5 years it will most likely be that mastering. There are no guarantees, though you can look up the individual titles and see the last time they were reissued.

chewie wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

Today's music haul:

Cathedral - There In The Shadows

I like those guys and I have both of their albums. They have a touch of Rush and Nektar in their sound.



The keyboard player formed another band named Ad Infinitum that was really good neo/retro prog with two singers and lots of harmonies that mined the Yes and Genesis vein with a dash of early Ambrosia and a pinch of Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd....... with a Roger Dean cover to boot.



I HIGHLY recommend this album.

Nice! Pretty surprised someone else has heard of these guys. Until the other day, I wasn't even aware they had released anything but Kingdom Of Ends (a great album), so this was a nice find.

I'll definitely check out that other album. =)

S.D. wrote:

These Original Album Classics collections are usually released with whatever the most recent mastering is.  In a case where the original label hasn't reissued the title since the 80s or 90s there's a good chance it will be the original mastering.  If the album has been reissued in the past 5 years it will most likely be that mastering.  There are no guarantees, though you can look up the individual titles and see the last time they were reissued.

That was the interesting thing, the Sodom disc doesn't represent the latest master, which was released in 2009. I checked out the Scorpions. Checked out the levels on the Pantera set as well; the latest issue of Vulgar Display was brickwalled, but the one in the box set matches the mix of my original pressing. Needless to say, it's confusing.

Boris2008 wrote:

Interesting, I was tempted to buy this as it's cheap enough but am worried that it will be a crappy remaster thing.



If this original album classics series is the same kind of thing but with a guarantee that they haven't been messed around with then it can only be a good thing.

Good news Boris: http://www.dr.loudness-war.info/index.php?search_artist=king+diamond&search_album=complete+roadrunner

Jesus. These Roadrunner sets are all original masters. Here's a list of what's available (none of these run over 25 bucks and are about six CD's apiece):

King Diamond
Sepultura: Max Years
Obituary
Deicide
Fear Factory
Type O Negative
Life of Agony
Coal Chamber

corplhicks wrote:

Jesus. These Roadrunner sets are all original masters. Here's a list of what's available (none of these run over 25 bucks and are about six CD's apiece):

King Diamond
Sepultura: Max Years
Obituary
Deicide
Fear Factory
Type O Negative
Life of Agony
Coal Chamber

Good stuff! (well some of it at least)  

Carcass- Surgical Steel (deluxe)
Gwar- Battle Maximus

Today's music haul:

Haken - The Mountain (w/Bonus Tracks)
Jack Johnson - From Here To Now To You (w/Bonus Tracks)
Prog Collective, The - Epilogue



No one had the Asses of Arse CD or the new Tyr. =(

Eyesore wrote:

Today's music haul:

Haken - The Mountain (w/Bonus Tracks)
Jack Johnson - From Here To Now To You (w/Bonus Tracks)
Prog Collective, The - Epilogue



No one had the Asses of Arse CD or the new Tyr. =(

To me that sounds like a Yes/Asia hybrid; not something I'd turn off but not something I'd seek out either.

tohostudios wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

Today's music haul:

Haken - The Mountain (w/Bonus Tracks)
Jack Johnson - From Here To Now To You (w/Bonus Tracks)
Prog Collective, The - Epilogue



No one had the Asses of Arse CD or the new Tyr. =(

To me that sounds like a Yes/Asia hybrid; not something I'd turn off but not something I'd seek out either.

Well, members of both bands play on the album, so that's not far off the mark. And everything is written by Billy Sherwood, who of course was in Yes for a bit and has ties to various projects featuring Yes members.

Either way, I loved the first album, so I expect to like this one.

Revocation s/t
Pre ordered Dream Theater s/t

corplhicks wrote:

Revocation s/t

I was unable to get into this band. I heard a few songs on Liquid Metal and checked them out on, I think, Spotify...never really clicked for me, though I thought they would.