The Reverse Collector

  Artist: Van Halen Title: Pretty Woman b/w Happy Trails   Label: Warner Bros. Format: 7" Cat #: WBS-50003 Year of Release: 1982 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1982 Listed Condition: VG+/G+ Sell Date: 3/24/22 Sell Price: $2.99 Discogs Last Sold: 2/2/22 $3.00 VG+/VG Low: $0.75 Median: $1.86 Average: $2.36 High:$7.95 Current low price: $0.99 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 47 Have/Want: 786/65 Where Sold: Taunton, MA Time it took to sell: 7 years Where and When Bought: Strawberries  Worcester new 1982 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No This #12 Billboard single from 1982 did not top Roy Orbison's 1964 #1 original either aesthetically or commercially.  Who cares when you've got Eddie Van Halen chugging away? Although the album track includes the "(Oh)" from the original title that the single left off, the single is purged of the introduction " Intruder " that rock radio would play with the seg

  Artist: Elvis Costello and the Attractions Title: Imperial Bedroom Label: Columbia Format: LP Cat #: FC 38157 Year of Release:1982 Country and Year of Edition Issue: Listed Condition: US 1982 Pitman Pressing Sell Date: 3/25/22 Sell Price: $5.99 Discogs Last Sold: 3/13/22 $8.99 NM/VG+ Low: $3.00 Median: $6.50 Average: $7.60 High: $28.80 NM/NM  Current low price: Current Number on Sale at Discogs:11/19/21 Have/Want: 567/72 Where Sold: Humble, TX Time it took to sell: 7 years Where and When Bought: abandoned by former roommate Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No Imperial Bedroom is one of those albums that was cited a classic  upon release and maybe wasn't as good as lauded (the 4 1/2 has now been docked to a mere 4-stars) compared to the whole catalog.  In fact, I listened to his new one A Boy Named If start to finish a month or so ago and maybe enjoyed it just as much as this one, if not more I didn't bother to actually bu

  Artist: Dio Title: The Last In Line Label: Warner Bros. Format: CD Cat #: 9 25100-2 Year of Release: 1984 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 80's CD issue Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 3/21/22 Sell Price: $5.99 Discogs Last Sold: 12/30/21 $4.40 Low: $4.00 Median: $5.75 Average: $6.61 High: $14.95 Current low price: $3.99 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 18 Have/Want: 1058/114 Where Sold: Lancaster, OH Time it took to sell: 11 years Where and When Bought: record club? Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No "We're all born upon the cross..."-The Last In Line The final Dio album I liked, The Last In Line capped off a near-flawless run of Rainbow, Sabbath and Holy Diver.  I actually waited for tickets for hours on a freezing cold January morning to get my tickets for this tour when it hit Worcester the summer of '84 with Twisted Sister opening.  One thing I remember was the lights came on after one enco

  Artist: Pelican Title: March Into The Sea March Into The Sea/ / Angel Tears (JK Broaderick Remix) Label: Hydra Head Format: CD EP Cat #: HH-666-84 Year of Release: 2005 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 2005 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 3/21/22 Sell Price: $4.99 Discogs Last Sold: 1/4/22 $3.99 Low: $2.00 Median: $5.24 Average: $5.41 High: $10.00 Current low price: $2.18 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 25 Have/Want: 647/58 Where Sold: Lancaster, OH Time it took to sell:  1 1/2 years Where and When Bought: given from The Fountain Collection Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No Pelican were one of my personal favorite bands from the turn of the aughts.  They followed in the instrumental "post-rock" realm that bands like Don Caballero and The Fucking Champs forged before them. So you get lots of punishment.  Repetition .  Riffing. Changing.  Repeating some more.  I'm amazed I stopped after the first two rele

  Artist: Patti Smith Group Title: Easter Label: Arista Format: CD Cat # ARCD 8166 Year of Release: 1978 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1996 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 3/21/22 Sell Price: $2.99 Discogs Last Sold: 2/11/22 $1.99 Low: $1.12 Median: $2.98 Average: $3.03 High: $6.00 Current low price: $2.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 17 Have/Want: 150/58 Where Sold: Lancaster, OH Time it took to sell: 11 years Where and When Bought: Sounds used late 90's Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No "Outside of society..." Today, March 24th is my late mother's birthday.  She would've been 74 today and she liked this album Easter when the whole family took it out of the library back in 1978.  She had long black hair then and sort've looked like Patti Smith.  I remember distinctly when she first laid eyes on the cover she commented on Patti's unshaven armpits.  I actually took my mom to see Patti

  Artist: Sonic Youth Title: Sonic Youth Label: SST Format: CD Cat #: SST CD 097 Year of Release: 1982 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1987 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 3/21/22 Sell Price: $9.99 Discogs Last Sold: 3/1/22 $5.00 Low: $3.95 Median: $8.00 Average: $7.96 High: $10.88 Current low price: $9.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 20 Have/Want: 693/202 Where Sold: Lancaster, OH Time it took to sell: 11 years Where and When Bought: Worcester Al Bums New around $14.99 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No 15 minutes before the midnight hour on a Monday night at the end of February, a screenshot of the Spotify song list to the first Sonic Youth EP was sent to me.  Attached was the comment ""This record is seriously underrated. People would rather listen to "Goo" instead?"  A green vomit emoticon followed.  Then a second text came "David Geffen ruined them!!!!" Neither sender, nor re

  Artist: Skull Snaps Title: Skull Snaps Label:  GSF Records/Get On Down Format: CD Cat #: GET-56001 Year of Release: 1973 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 2011 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 3/21/22 Sell Price: $9.99 Discogs Last Sold: 9/23/21 $8.00 Low: $5.99  Median: $8.44 Average: $9.20 High: $15.44 Current low price: $13.21 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 13 Have/Want: 58/143 Where Sold: Lancaster, OH Time it took to sell: a year and a half Where and When Bought: the Fountain collection Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No "I don't need no dope to get me super high!" proclaim the Skull Snaps in the attention getting opener "My Hang Up Is You."   NYC via DC's The Diplomats, Skull Snaps were a short lived soul outfit with this their only full length.  "It's  A New Day" which closes out the first time became a heavily sampled drum part with over 500 credits to it's name.

Artist: John Lennon/Sean Ono Lennon Title: Every Man Has A Woman Who Loves Him b/w It's Alright Label: Polydor Format: 7" Cat #: POSP-712 Year of Release: 1984 Country and Year of Edition Issue: UK 1984 with insert Listed Condition: VG+/VG Sell Date: 3/12/22 Sell Price: $7.99 Discogs Last Sold: 3/15/22 $13.14 VG+/VG+ with poster Low: $4.99 Median: $8.46 Average: $8.63 High: $13.14 Current low price: $4.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 7 Have/Want: 113/54 Where Sold: Houston, TX Time it took to sell: 7 years Where and When Bought: Worcester MA Al Bums new when it came out Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No Back when every unreleased utterance  of John Lennon was treated like manna from the Gods, I snapped up this seven inch redo of the Yoko Ono Double Fantasy track back with  single-digit Sean doing the title track from his Mom's 1982 album.   Both of these tracks appear on the 1984 tribute compilation which featured Nils

  Artist: The Moody Blues Title: Long Distance Voyager Label: Threshold Format: LP Cat #: TRL-1-2901 Year of Release: 1981 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1981 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 3/16/22 Sell Price: $2.99 Discogs Last Sold: 11/12/21 $1.91 Low:3/18/22 $1.50 Median: $1.00 Average: $2.00 High: $2.32 Current low price: $8.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs:  80 Have/Want: 635/32 Where Sold: New Castle, DE Time it took to sell: 7 yeaars Where and When Bought: Albums Worcester New $7.29 right after it hit #1 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No My friend John was talking disparagingly about an underground  DJ playing later day Moody Blues.  Even though this album is 41 years old, I’m guessing  this is what he was referring to.  In my mind, it is the last good one even though they had massive hits like "Your Wildest Dreams" in the ensuing years.   Shockingly, Long Distance Voyager got up to #1 on Billboar

  Artist: Dymaxion Title:Dymaxion  A: The Critics Darling / Mme Commander B: ???/ I-Man Transport Label: Roomtone Format: 7" Cat #:RM 004 Year of Release:1996 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1996 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 3/14/22 Sell Price: $2.99 Discogs Last Sold: 12/6/21 M/M $6.00 Low:$2.00 Median: $3.00 Average: $3.75 High: $7.22 Current low price: $3.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 3 Have/Want: 131/35 Where Sold: Marietta, GA Time it took to sell: 7 years Where and When Bought: NYC Adult Crash $2.98 sticker still on it Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No Before music got micro-genred up the ass, Dymaxion were one of those "industrial"/"weirdness" bands I enjoyed in my radio years.  I don't think there was any motivation beyond the record looking interesting and unknown as well as an inexpensive $2.98 brand new gamble.  Something to play on my overnight show that WFDU didn'

Artist: Fenton Robinson Title: I Hear Some Blues Downstairs Label: Alligator Format: LP Cat #: AAL 4710 Year of Release: 1977 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1977 white label Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 3/16/22 Sell Price: $5.99 Discogs Last Sold: 1/15/22 NM/VG+ $9.99 Low: $5.00 Median: $10.00 Average: $10.66 High: $19.99 Current low price: $7.00 VG+/VG+ Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 7 Have/Want: 173/36 Where Sold: New Castle, DE Time it took to sell: 7 years Where and When Bought: Worcester Al Bums mid 80's $3.99 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No 20 years into his career, Chicago via Memphis and Houston guitarist Fenton Robinson has a sound that gets around.  More than any one song, it is the GUITAR that explodes out at you on this recording, his 4th full length  I'm not a "tone" guy, but damn this tone is good.  Ice on glass good.  Just round and full bodied as all hell.  With that guitar, you can

  Artist: Dif Juz Title: Soundpool  Label: 4AD Format: CD Cat #: GAD 109/116 CD Year of Release: 1999 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1999 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 3/9/22 Sell Price: $19.99 Discogs Last Sold: 2/21/22 $18.99 Low: $10.91 Median: $17.53 Average: $18.79 High: $32.73 Current low price: $21.82 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 5 Have/Want: 399/148  Where Sold: Tulsa, OK Time it took to sell: 7 years Where and When Bought: consignment collection Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No With 4AD, outside of the Birthday Party, Throwing Muses and the occasional Cocteau Twins, I sort've lost the plot on their goth-art catalog.  At one point, I actively didn't really like it, so I missed out of Dif Juz in their day for no good reason. However Dif Juz were devoid of an effete male vocalist dressing in black and slathered in reverb.  In fact, they were devoid of any vocals at all.  This gives a feel of earl

Artist: Melody Dog Title: Futuristic Lover b/w Tomorrow's World /Sun Drenched Beach In Acapulco Label: K Format: 7" Cat #: IPU 23 Year of Release: 1991 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1991 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 3/7/22 Sell Price:$7.99 Discogs Last Sold:2/15/22 $6.09 Low: $2.99 Median: $7.99 Average: $8.18 High: $26.09 Current low price:$8.18 Current Number on Sale at Discogs:5 Have/Want: 256/84 Where Sold: San Francisco, CA Time it took to sell: 7 years Where and When Bought: Boston Newbury Comics early 90's $3.99 sticker still on it Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: D- Sad To See It Go: No I have nothing against a slop-fest, but listening to this I felt Melody Dog put a slop fest in my twee-pop.  Normally I'm of the mind a little 4-track banging around never hurt anybody and bought plenty of that type of stuff in the era. I really don't remember buying this, maybe because it was on K or maybe because it looked

Artist: Ry Cooder Title: Paradise and Lunch Label: Reprise Format: LP Cat #: MS 2179 Year of Release: 1974 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1974 Listed Condition:VG+/VG deleted radio copy Sell Date: 3/7'22 Sell Price: $9.99 Discogs Last Sold: 2/22/22 $12.00 VG+/VG+ Low:$9.99 Median: $13.33 Average: $14.99 High: $15.00 Current low price: $7.17  Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 33 Have/Want: 1793/205 Where Sold: Wenatchee, WA Time it took to sell: 7 years Where and When Bought: Worcester Al Bums mid 80's used $3.99 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No Ry Cooder is one of those quality artists with a vast discography that has somehow been on my "for further listening" recess of my brain.  This one I found used in my teen years when it was out of print before the CD reissue era.  This was the lone "5 Star" Cooder album in the Rolling Stone Record Guide, so it seemed a mandatory  pick-up in my early teens.  Unfort

  Artist: Carbonas Title: Blackout / (Your Love Is) Inside Out b/w Nostalgia Buff Label: Shattered Records Format: 7" Cat #: SR008 Year of Release: 2005 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 2005 white vinyl 16/100 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 3/8/22 Sell Price: $14.99 Discogs Last Sold: 11/9/15 $9.99 NM/NM Low: $9.99 Median: $14.99 Average: $13.33 High: $15.00 Current low price: none Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 0 Have/Want: 17/43 Where Sold: Eatonville, WA Time it took to sell: 7 years Where and When Bought: consignment collection Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No Carbonas had a 3 album 6 single career in the first decade of the aughts and I managed not to hear a note of this specific band.  OK genre band if a bit clean despite dirty attire. Mid-aughts distorto-punk from Atlanta on Jay Reatards label.  Sounds about what you think it would sound like if you are familiar with that sort of thing.  I was thinking