It's that time again, kids - where we list all the neat music crap we added to our collections over the past year so everyone can "ooh" and "ahh" over them.
2020 was an unexpectedly busy collecting year for me. In 2019 I accumulated less than 50 new CDs, this year I nearly doubled that number. The biggest change was that the majority of my purchases were online, since I couldn't go out and scrounge in stores for a good chunk of the year, due to the pandemic.
I seem to have re-discovered classic thrash in 2020 - I am probably listening to more of it now than when it was current. I guess it fit my overall mood since 2020 was so shitty on so many levels
Anyway... I completed my studio discographies for Kix, Judas Priest, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, and Savatage in 2020 and I filled in a lot of gaps in other catalogs. I'm not sure yet which band(s) I want to concentrate on collecting in 2021. I think I only need two or three more Slayer albums to finish them off, I'd like to bulk up my Riot collection, and I'm almost done with Accept as well. I picked up several Rage albums in 2020 and I want to dig deeper into their discog too.
So here be my list, which of course will totally look like small potatoes once Eyesore and/or Manny chime in to this thread (
) but I'm pretty happy with this pile. Onward and upward in 2021 y'all!
Exodus - Bonded By Blood
TNA - s/t
Great White - Once Bitten
Various - Bat Head Soup: A Tribute to Ozzy
Faith No More - Introduce Yourself
Two - Voyeurs
Steve Grimmett's Grim Reaper - Walking in the Shadows
Attic - Sanctimonious
Black N Blue - In Heat
Savatage - Sirens/The Dungeons Are Calling: The Complete Sessions
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Bruce Dickinson - Tattooed Millionaire
Foreigner - Classic Hits Live
Glass Tiger - The Thin Red Line
Lita Ford- The Best of Lita Ford
Nelson - After The Rain
Styx - Return to Paradise
Europe - The Final Countdown
Georgia Satellites - Let It Rock
Refuge - Solitary Men
Crashdiet - Rust
Crashdiet - The Savage Playground
Kix - Cool Kids
Riot - Nightbreaker
Helloween - Straight Out of Hell
Suicidal Tendencies - Join the Army
The Cult - Choice of Weapon
Rich Kid Express - Psychodelic
Jetboy - Off Your Rocker! EP
Angel Witch - s/t
Metal Church- From the Vault
Riot - Restless Breed
Plasmatics - Coup d'Etat
Styx - Brave New World
Styx - Cyclorama
Whitesnake - Slip of the Tongue
Various - Best of '80s Metal Vol. I
Soul Asylum - ...And The Horse They Rode In On
Aerosmith - Get a Grip
Boston - Walk On
Ozzy Osbourne - Ozzmosis
Firehouse - 3
Paradise Lost - One Second
Cheap Trick - Busted
Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks 1964-71
Deliverance - Stay of Execution
KISS - Alive II
Judas Priest - Nostradamus
Various - KISS This: A Main Man Records Tribute to Kiss
Tankard - Best Case Scenario: 25 Years in Beers
Black N Blue - s/t
Rage - Trapped!
Def Leppard - High N Dry
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Accept - Russian Roulette
Black N Blue - Nasty Nasty
Suicidal Tendencies - s/t
Savatage - Fight For the Rock
Suicidal Tendencies - How Will I Laugh Tomorrow...
Jetboy - Born To Fly
Stryper - Even the Devil Believes
Denis Leary - No Cure For Cancer
Raven - Metal City
Exodus - Pleasures of the Flesh
Black Sabbath - Born Again
Black Sabbath - The Eternal Idol
Grave Digger - Heavy Metal Breakdown
Metal Church - The Weight of the World
Various - Numbers From The Beast: An All Star Salute to Iron Maiden
Judas Priest - British Steel/Painkiller (Russian 2-on-1)
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance/Turbo (Russian 2-on-1)
Great White - Extended Versions
Led Zeppelin - IV
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Black Sabbath - 13
Death Angel - The Ultra Violence
Led Zeppelin - BBC Sessions
AC/DC - Power Up
Rush - Hemispheres
Lynch Mob - Wicked Sensation
Britny Fox - Bite Down Hard
Prong - Scorpio Rising
Panzer - Send Them All to Hell
Skid Row - Thickskin
Nightstryke - Power Shall Prevail
The Outer Limits - Apocalypto
Dragonrider - Scepter of Domination
Leadbreaker - s/t
Black N Blue - Hell Yeah!
Slayer - Repentless
Helloween - My God Given Right
Rage - Carved In Stone/Speak of the Dead (2CD)
Forbidden - Forbidden Evil
Forbidden - Twisted Into Form
Lynch Mob - s/t
Gruntruck - Push
Mother Love Bone - s/t
Total: 97