The Reverse Collector

  Artist: The Road Title: She's Not There b/w A Bummer Label: Kama Sutra Format: 7" Cat #: KA 258 Year of Release: 1969 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1969 Promo Listed Condition: VG+/Generic Sell Date: 2/21/22 Sell Price: $14.99 Discogs Last Sold: 4/21/21 VG/not graded $13.33 Low: $10.00 Median: $14.16 Average: $16.20 High: $26.65 Current low price: $8.00 VG/generic Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 4 Have/Want: 18/29 Where Sold: Longview, TX   Time it took to sell: 5 years Where and When Bought: consignment collection Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No Buffalo, New York's The Road were a pop-psych group from 1967-70.  This single covers The Zombies' "She's Not There" and backs it with the mostly instrumental "A Bummer".  The Zombies cover kicked off the 1969 debut album. This was given to me to sell on consignment and it has sat about 5 years awaiting that fateful day.  I personal

  Artist: Parliament Title: Greatest Hits  Uncut Funk...The Bomb Label: Polygram/Casablanca Format: CD Cat #: 822 637-2 Year of Release: 1984 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US reissue BMG Club Edition Listed Condition:VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 1/25/22 Sell Price: $3.99 Discogs Last Sold: 9/5/21 $7.00  Low: $1.00 Median: $3.99 Average:$5.89 High: $14.75 Current low price: $1.99 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 15 Have/Want: 74/18 Where Sold: Henrico, VA Time it took to sell: 11 years Where and When Bought: record club 90's Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No It's hard to imagine in this day of reissues upon reissues that this was the only Parliament CD you could get for a stretch of time in the 80's.  A sold 10 tracks, and certainly a good introduction to their peak 70's catalog. The two big US top 20 hits "Tear The Roof Off The Sucker" (#15 in '76) and "Flash Light" (#16 in '78) are here as are all the other standards from the 1974-8

  Artist: The Clash Title: From Here To Eternity (Live) Label: Epic Format: CD Cat #: EK 65747 Year of Release: 1999 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1999 Listed Condition:VG+/VG+ drill cut in back cover upper right corner Sell Date: 1/12/22 Sell Price: $2.99 Discogs Last Sold: 12/12/21$2.50 Low: $1.99 Median: $2.99 Average:$3.62 High: $6.77 Current low price: $1.50 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 9 Have/Want: 368/25 Where Sold: Washington, MO Time it took to sell: 11 years Where and When Bought: internet late aughts used Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No The first official live Clash release came in 1999, well after the band dissolved.  You get a mix of recordings from 1978, 1980 and 1982.  The rise from Punk to Rock to Pop success roughly in order of the materials release. The arena sounding generic crowd noise on the early Clash numbers is a little jarring.  Maybe it was even real!  Pretty much every track on here was a band standard in it's original format,

  Artist: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Title:   Xtra-Acme USA Label: Matador Format: CD Cat #: OLE 376-2 Year of Release: 1999 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1999 Listed Condition:VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 1/12/22 Sell Price: $2.99 Discogs Last Sold: 12/15/21 $2.00 Low: $2.00 Median: $3.00 Average:$4.04 High: $7.43 Current low price: $1.99 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 25 Have/Want: 389/37 Where Sold: Washington, MO Time it took to sell: 11 years Where and When Bought: internet new when released Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B- Sad To See It Go: No Jon Spencer generally puts out an "alternate version" of his records.  Word on the street is this one was better than Acme.  Although I loyally bought titles like Crypt Style, Mo' Width and Experimental Remixes paired with previous albums, they were generally treated as completist play once and file away purchases in their day and this was no different.  There were different, shorter versions all over the world: Extra Acme and

Artist: Megadeth Title: Risk Label: Capitol Format: CD Cat #: CDP 7243 4 99134 0 0 Year of Release: 1999 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1999 Listed Condition:VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 1/16/22 Sell Price: $3.99 Discogs Last Sold: 2/19/22 $2.50 Low: $2.00 Median: $3.00 Average:$3.88 High: $12.00 Current low price: $2.69 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 33 Have/Want: 1333/105 Where Sold: Conroe, TX Time it took to sell: 11 years Where and When Bought: internet late aughts used Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C- Sad To See It Go: No Megadeth's foray into Nine Inch Nails-land was kind of boring.  I bought the full Megadeth catalog used en masse toward the end of the aughts, and never realized this was remastered 5 years after it came out with a different cover. Since there was little or no impression on me when I bought it, I've been listening to this like it is a new record.  The first time was a month ago when it sold with Cryptic Writings which came out a couple years before and had the

  Artist: Big Chief Title: Mack Avenue Skullgame Label: Sub Pop Format: CD Cat #:SP218b Year of Release: 1993 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1993 Listed Condition:VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 2/10/22 Sell Price: $2.99 Discogs Last Sold: 2/21/21 $2.55 Low: $1.40 Median: $2.92 Average:$3.12 High: $6.99 Current low price: $0.99 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 21 Have/Want: 108/21 Where Sold: South Glens Falls, NY Time it took to sell: 7 years Where and When Bought: consignment collection Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B- Sad To See It Go: No Detroit's Big Chief made a fake soundtrack for a song cycle Mack Avenue Skullgame.  This was based on the Blacksploitation films of the early 70's.  Think Funkadelic meets Shaft through an early 90's grunge haze. This one I never bought, stopping at the single "One Born Every Minute" that came in the Sub Pop Singles Club mailing, after buying pretty much everything Big Chief put out to date.  I guess I was expecting it to pop up someday

Artist: Guided By Voices Title: Isolation Drills Label: TVT Records Format: CD Cat #: TVT 2160-2 Year of Release: 2001 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 2001 Listed Condition:VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 1/12/22 Sell Price: $3.99 Discogs Last Sold: 1/28/22 NM/NM $9.99 Low: $1.00 Median: $3.75 Average:$5.21 High: $14.46 Current low price: $2.99 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 28 Have/Want: 872/55 Where Sold: Washington, MO Time it took to sell: 11 years Where and When Bought: Sounds St Marks NYC new  Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No This week I'm cat sitting my friend and ABOG co-hort James place in Queens and writing up some titles that were sold on CD that I haven't had a chance to hear yet.  Good timing since my desktop at home died and I can't play rips off my hard drive until I replace it.   One of James biggest influences is Guided By Voices, so lo and behold, this title jumped out at me straight away to write about.  Like Dylan in the Planet Waves Columbia

  Artist: Live Skull Title: Pusherman  Swingtime / Raise The Manifestation / Pusherman Label: Homestead Records Format: 12" EP Cat #: HMS 080 Year of Release: 1986 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1986 Promo Listed Condition:VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 2/14/22 Sell Price: $3.99 Discogs Last Sold: 10/27/21 M/M $3.99 Low: $2.00 Median: $3.41 Average:$3.86 High: $9.00 Current low price: $1.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 24 Have/Want: 331/90 Where Sold: Spokane, WA Time it took to sell: 5 years Where and When Bought: Nuggets Boston late 80's used under $5 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No The EP before my baseline favorite Live Skull album Dusted from the next year.  This is peak period indigenous  downtown NYC next-gen no wave.  I had a subliminal notion that they were second tier from where Sonic Youth were, but I enjoyed Dusted so much that they became a complete discography band.  Leader Mark C. has reformed Live Skull

  Artist: The Godz Title: Nothing Is Sacred Label: Casablanca Format: LP Cat #: NBLP 7134 Year of Release: 1978 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1978 Listed Condition: VG+/G water stain right corner Sell Date: 2/14/22 Sell Price: $5.99 Discogs Last Sold: 1/2/22 VG/VG $3.94 Low: $3.94 Median: $6.50 Average: $7.10 High: $13.64 Current low price: $3.94 G+/G+  Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 25 Have/Want: 495/63 Where Sold: TIpp City, OH Time it took to sell: 7 years Where and When Bought: NYC record fair $2 mid 90's Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C- Sad To See It Go: No Columbus, OH's The Godz (not to be confused with the NYC ESP-Disk Godz) were a hard rock biker band.  This second album was their big shot to be on the Casablanca roster with Kiss, Lenny & The Squigtones and Robin Williams not to mention Donna Summer.  This one performed similar to the first on Millennium  Records scraping the bottom of the Billboard 200 at #189 for a

  Artist: Ignatius Title:  Sweetfish b/w Mr. Gauge Label: Silence Format: 7" Cat #: none Year of Release: 1991 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1991 fold out sleeve Listed Condition: VG+/VG+  Sell Date: 2/14/22 Sell Price: $3.99 Discogs Last Sold: 12/5/21 $3.00 Low: $3.00 Median: $3.99 Average: $3.68 High: $3.99 Current low price: $3.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 6 Have/Want: 20/2 Where Sold: Spokane, WA Time it took to sell: 7 years Where and When Bought: guessing In Your Ear Allston MA early 90's Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No I completely forgot about this single, but both side were memorable airplay favorites back in the early 90's.  Ignatius is a band I know very little about.  The label was from Pullman, WA and it sold in nearby Spokane so I guess the band was from that neck of the woods. The sound is a punkier, reved-up Dinosaur Jr. without the top line soloing. The two songs were memorable era

  Artist: Lyres Title: Nobody But Lyres Label: Taang!   Format: CD EP Cat #: TAANG! 58 Year of Release: 1992 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1992 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 2/10/22 Sell Price: $2.99 Discogs Last Sold: 11/10/21 $2.00 Low: $1.25 Median: $2.00 Average: $2.85 High: $5.68 Current low price: $2.99 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 25 Have/Want: 112/9 Where Sold: South Glens Falls, NY Time it took to sell: 11 years Where and When Bought: online late 90's used Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No 6-song covers EP that advanced the full length Happy Now in 1992.  The opener, the 1962 Isley Brothers cover "Nobody But Me" made a #8 Billboard hit by the Human Beinz in 1968, also made the Happy Now album.   The song I most associate as a great Lyres cover is " We Sell Soul "  by  the 13th Floor Elevators which closes the EP..  This also appeared on the 1986 A Promise Is A Promise album. 

  Artist: UFO Title: The Early Years Label: Dojo Format: CD Cat #: EARL D 9 Year of Release: 1992 Country and Year of Edition Issue: UK 1992 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 2/10/22 Sell Price: $3.99 Low: $1.12 Median: $3.50 Average: $3.54 High: $5.11 Current low price: $3.57 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 16 Have/Want: 41/10 Where Sold: South Glens Falls, NY  Time it took to sell: 11 years Where and When Bought: Rocket Science NYC on St. Marks mid 90s $1.00 bin Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No Funny this should sell with Nektar, who my friend Kenny also got me into.  While I had this compilation before I met him, I had ignored the "prime" 70's years because I erroneously assumed they were slick AOR.  Maybe in this case I was a little out of time age wise for proper UFO reverence, although I had picked up a retrospective Essential compilation as well before Kenny implored me to own all studio albums that culmi

  Artist: Various Artists (Elephant, Bigdamncrazyweight , Slag, Daisycutter) Title: Fuck You In The Eye, Vol. 1 Label: Resin Records/Heat Blast Records Format: 7" Cat #: HB 015 Year of Release: 1993 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1993 clear vinyl Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 2/10/22 Sell Price: $2.99 Discogs Last Sold: 10/10/20 $3.00 Low: $1.00 Median: $2.50 Average: $2.40 High: $3.38 Current low price: $2.99 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 5 Have/Want: 40/11 Where Sold: South Glens Falls, NY Time it took to sell: 7 years Where and When Bought: Kims NYC mid 90's Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B- Sad To See It Go: No Quartet of early mid 90's noise rock bands.  The best of these, Bigdamncrazyweight are the one that can be streamed.  They remind me of Green Magnet School when Tim sings.  Figures they made it to Sub Pop for at least a single I think from Albuquerque.  Since the single splits label sides, Elephant is from Alb

  Artist: 3 Swimmers Title: The Worker Works To Live b/w Take Me Back / Behind The Door Label: Engram Records Format: 12" Cat #: ENG 009 Year of Release: 1982 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1982 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 2/14/22 Sell Price: $14.99 Discogs Last Sold: 1/10/22 M/NM $5.00 Low: $3.98 Median: $5.47 Average: $6.48 High: $14.99 Current low price: $3.40 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 7 Have/Want:  73/48 Where Sold: Spokane, WA Time it took to sell: 6 months Where and When Bought: Ebay vinyl lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No Last summer I went trolling on Ebay for record lots.  Sometimes overall sales are beefed up when I add new titles on Discogs.  I got a few decent looking 10-15 album prog lots for around a hundred bucks.  Until today, not one has sold.  This is the first.    The record came in a generic red sleeve that apparently was issued with the release.  Somehow I had never heard 3 Swi

  Artist: Kudgel Title: Chicken Pump b/w Now Label: Waikiki Records Format: 7" Cat #: WK-00 Year of Release: 1993 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1993 Orange cover 97/1000 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 2/10/22 Sell Price:$2.99 Discogs Last Sold: 1/24/22 NM/NM $7.14 Low: $0.67 Median: $2.99 Average: $.3.14 High: $7.14 Current low price: $1.89 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 21 Have/Want: 52/14 Where Sold: South Glens Falls, NY Time it took to sell: 7 years Where and When Bought: given by band? Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A+ Sad To See It Go: Yes Mark Erdody's Kudgel reformatted with Zack Lazar & Matt Nicholas both now of Black Helicopter to tour and make the pilgrimage from Boston to Electrical Audio in Chicago.  I believe they worked with Weston, not Albini.  The result was some of the finest noise rock of the era.    I actually recently pre-ordered the new Black Helicopter on WMBR with a shirt, a rare Reverse Collector

  Artist: Nektar Title: "thru The Ears" Label: Import Records Format: 2LP Cat #: IMP 9001 Year of Release: 1978 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1978 Promo Listed Condition: VG+/VG Sell Date: 2/10/22 Sell Price: $12.99 Discogs Last Sold: 5/24/21 $7.99 Low:  $7.49 Median: $10.49 Average: $10.49 High: $12.99 Current low price: $18.98 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 1 Have/Want: 13/5 Where Sold: South Glens Falls, NY Time it took to sell: 7 years Where and When Bought: Nuggets Boston early aughts used $4.99 sticker on it Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No Nice compilation of 70's British prog stalwarts Nektar.  My buddy Kenny got me into themaround the time we did Rubric and I picked this up on a trip to Boston in the early aughts.  I believe there was a half off sale and the $4.99 price tag was reduced to $2.50..  Prog fans wanted CD remasters in the aughts, not vinyl.  So did I, but I was in pile and deal mode

  Artist: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Title: Acme Label: Matador/Capitol Format: CD Cat #: OLE 322-2 Year of Release: 1998 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1998 digipak Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 1/12/22 Sell Price: $2.99 Discogs Last Sold: 1/20/22 $1.98 Low: $1.00 Median: $1.98 Average: $2.24 High: $4.99 Current low price: $0.99 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 35 Have/Want: 541/35 Where Sold: Washington, MO Time it took to sell: 10 years Where and When Bought: internet mail order when released Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C Sad To See It Go: No One of the least memorable Blues Explosion records I purchased when every release they did was mandatory for me. That took me to 2004's Damage before they went on 8 year hiatus.  I saw them sometime after at Hank's and would step out for a gig of theirs anytime.   The only cut I really remember was toward the end, "Torture." The riff in "Magical Colors" rings