MUSIC HAUL (CD / VINYL / DVD Purchases) 2014

KISS- Creatures of the Night: 20th Anniversary Media Collection (bootleg DVD)

Screw it, my not buying records thing has gone completely out of the window today!

Landskap - One (Blk vinyl)
Night Demon - Night Demon (Blk vinyl euro expanded version)
Hela - Broken Cross (Purple vinyl)
Kuolemanlaakso: Tulijoutsen (Red vinyl)
Heavy Tiger: Saigon Kiss (Red vinyl)

Jason Becker:Not Dead Yet (dvd)

Today:

Babylon A.D. - Lost Sessions: Fresno, CA ‘93 (EP)

Diamond Dogs - That's The Juice I'm On

My quest to round up all the DD albums continues.  I think the only ones I'm missing contain songs I already have on other albums by them so this might be the last one.

Tesla - Mechanical Resonance
Tesla - The Great Radio Controversy
Tesla - Psychotic Supper
Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry - 25th Anniversary Edition
Vicious Rumors - Sadistic Symphony

Today:

Down - IV Part II (EP)
Prong - Ruining Lives (w/Bonus Track)
Sarah McLachlan - Shine On (w/Bonus Tracks)
Tori Amos - Unrepentant Geraldines (CD/DVD w/Bonus Tracks)
Xandria - Sacrificium (2CD w/Bonus Track)

I have no idea if we have a Tori thread on here buried somewhere, but Eyesore, you have to let us know if the new one is any good. She's wandered a bit off the reservation songwriting-wise for the last few albums and they all seem to be about 20-30 minutes too long with far more "pretty" music than interesting music. Just my take. Kind of hoping to hear another interesting album from her on the level of "Choirgirl Hotel."

Runicen wrote:

I have no idea if we have a Tori thread on here buried somewhere, but Eyesore, you have to let us know if the new one is any good.  She's wandered a bit off the reservation songwriting-wise for the last few albums and they all seem to be about 20-30 minutes too long with far more "pretty" music than interesting music.  Just my take.  Kind of hoping to hear another interesting album from her on the level of "Choirgirl Hotel."

You're talking to the wrong guy. Aside from Strange Little Girls, I've pretty much loved all her albums. =)

New jams:

Fireflight - The Healing Of Harms
Jetboy - A Day In The Glamorous Life
Lazarus - Episode One (EP)
Resistance, The - Rise From Treason (EP)
Sister Machine Gun - [R]evolution
Soil Bleeds Black, The - May The Blood Of Many A Valiant Knight Be Avenged
Throw Rag - Desert Shores

Eyesore wrote:

Runicen wrote:

I have no idea if we have a Tori thread on here buried somewhere, but Eyesore, you have to let us know if the new one is any good.  She's wandered a bit off the reservation songwriting-wise for the last few albums and they all seem to be about 20-30 minutes too long with far more "pretty" music than interesting music.  Just my take.  Kind of hoping to hear another interesting album from her on the level of "Choirgirl Hotel."

You're talking to the wrong guy. Aside from Strange Little Girls, I've pretty much loved all her albums. =)

None of her albums have been bad or offensive... Just kind of superficially pretty and forgettable, which isn't true of her older stuff to me. The last one I really liked as a whole was probably The Beekeeper and even that had some heavy touches of it.

Runicen wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

Runicen wrote:

I have no idea if we have a Tori thread on here buried somewhere, but Eyesore, you have to let us know if the new one is any good.  She's wandered a bit off the reservation songwriting-wise for the last few albums and they all seem to be about 20-30 minutes too long with far more "pretty" music than interesting music.  Just my take.  Kind of hoping to hear another interesting album from her on the level of "Choirgirl Hotel."

You're talking to the wrong guy. Aside from Strange Little Girls, I've pretty much loved all her albums. =)

None of her albums have been bad or offensive...  Just kind of superficially pretty and forgettable, which isn't true of her older stuff to me.  The last one I really liked as a whole was probably The Beekeeper and even that had some heavy touches of it.

She older, wiser, happier, man. I'd love for her to go back and do a straight-up piano/vocal-dominant album, like the first two, but with Tori, I think it has more to do with her desire to do something different each time out. Really, aside from the first two albums, every album she's released has had a very distinct sound and style. I do think Night of Hunters had, under all the orchestration, a lot of material that hearkened back to that earlier material. American Doll Posse had some as well. But a number of the "different" songs have become favorites, especially "Big Wheel" and "You Can Bring Your Dog."

I hear ya, though. I tend to feel the same way about Sarah McLachlan. I wish she would revisit that darker material she had on Fumbling Toward Ecstasy. These days, her stuff is very upbeat, poppy, and..."nice." I don't mind it, of course, but I do wish she'd write something with a lot less sugar.

CDs:

Down - Down IV - Part II

Vinyl:

Onslaught - Shellshock - 12" EP - 4 tracks, gold stamp promo, still sealed
Diamond Head - Four Cuts - 12" EP - includes photo insert
Wolf - Head Contact - 12" single - This is the NWOBHM band Wolf that was previously known as Black Axe
Various - Metal For Muthas: Volume II Cut Loud

A.C.T. - Circus Pandemonium
Quantum Fantay - Terragaia
Dead Heroes Club - Everything is connected
Pretty Maids - Motherland
Dawn - Darker
Myrath - Hope
Tusmorke - Riset Bak Speilet

exact33 wrote:

Tusmorke - Riset Bak Speilet

I got that one too, good (albeit insane) band

Pre orders

Blues Pills - Blues Pills (Purple vinyl)
Wytches - Anabel Dream Reader (Blk vinyl)

Coming now

Witch Mountain - South of Salem (green vinyl)
Cauchemar - Tenebrario (Die Hard Clear)

and this heap of weirdness











Yeah, all one record! It's a white label of an early attempt at a repress of these two classics on one disc by Warmaster Records.

I know what you're thinking and yes, collector scum!!   

Boris2008 wrote:

exact33 wrote:

Tusmorke - Riset Bak Speilet

I got that one too, good (albeit insane) band

I thoroughly enjoyed their first and i am excited to listen to the new one.

Boris2008 wrote:

Screw it, my not buying records thing has gone completely out of the window today!

Landskap - One (Blk vinyl)
Night Demon - Night Demon (Blk vinyl euro expanded version)
Hela - Broken Cross (Purple vinyl)
Kuolemanlaakso: Tulijoutsen (Red vinyl)
Heavy Tiger: Saigon Kiss (Red vinyl)

I actually thought Kuolemanlaakso was too marginal for most foreigners, but the new one seems to have totally strange songs. I can't get into it, but I applaud you for your musical taste.

Lari wrote:

Boris2008 wrote:

Screw it, my not buying records thing has gone completely out of the window today!

Landskap - One (Blk vinyl)
Night Demon - Night Demon (Blk vinyl euro expanded version)
Hela - Broken Cross (Purple vinyl)
Kuolemanlaakso: Tulijoutsen (Red vinyl)
Heavy Tiger: Saigon Kiss (Red vinyl)

I actually thought Kuolemanlaakso was too marginal for most foreigners, but the new one seems to have totally strange songs. I can't get into it, but I applaud you for your musical taste.

I also have Uljas uusi maailma which I prefer but I think that both albums are great.

For those who haven't a clue what we are talking about



  

Absu- Absu
D.R.I.- Full Speed Ahead
Ulysses Siren- Above the Ashes

Master Of Reality [Deluxe Edition] - Black Sabbath

From a library sale:

Enya: Watermark
Van Halen: 3
Van Morrison: Moondance

The Beatles - 1 (SACD)

On vinyl:

Wings - Greatest
Wings - London Town
Wings - Band On The Run
Phil Collins - Hello, I Must Be Going
Van Halen - 5150
The Power Station - s/t

I ordered these CDs this afternoon:
Brutality - Ruins of Humans
Despair - History of Hate
Heathen - The Evolution of Chaos
W.A.S.P. - The Headless Children

The Brutality and Heathen albums are gifts for a friend of mine.

CDs:

Anthrax - Aftershock - The Island Years 1985-1990 - this is a 4 cd box set with Spreading The Disease, Among The Living, State of Euphoria, and Persistence of Time - all are remastered and the last three have many bonus tracks.

Vinyl:

Heavy Load - Take Me Away - 7" red vinyl - this is an oddball that I scored cheap on ebay.  I think this is actually the bonus 7" that came with the limited edition of the Death Or Glory album.  Somehow this one got separated from that LP.  I don't think this 7" was ever issued by itself.