The Reverse Collector

  Artist: Deep Purple Title: Stormbringer Label: Warner Bros./Purple Format: LP Cat: PR 2832 Year of Release: 1974 Country and Year of Edition: US 1974 Date of Sale: 8/23/23 Sell Price: $9.94 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 7/8/23 NM/NM $23.31 Low:  5/18/21 VG/VG+ $2.56 Median: $9.47 Average: $9.55 High:  $23.31 Current low price: $4.00 G+/G+, $10.00 VG/VG Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 10 Have/Want: 234/108 Where Sold: Matthews, NC Time It Took To Sell:  2  years Where and When Bought: internet lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B+ Sad To See It Go: No Mach 3 for Deep Purple Blackmore/Lord/Paice brought in David Coverdale on vocals and Glenn Hughes from Trapeze on bass and more vocals to replace the Superstar Ian Gillan.   Coincidentally, I witness Mr. Hughes live opening for Yngwie Malmsteen last week at the Times Square Palladium doing an all Deep Purple opening set. I have to admit that I ignored everything after Burn until Perfect Strange...

  Artist: Frank Zappa Title:  Tinseltown Rebellion Label: Barking Pumpkin Records Format: 2LP Cat: PW2 37336 Year of Release: 1981 Country and Year of Edition: US 1981 Date of Sale: 8/26/23 Sell Price: $12.06 Condition: VG+/VG cutout upper left corner Discogs Last Sold: 8/13/23 NM/NM $30.00 Low: $5.38  G+/F Median: $15.00 Average: $16;.36 High:  $30.00 Current low price: $12.91 VG+/VG+ Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 70 Have/Want: 2647/335 Where Sold: Orangeville, PA Time It Took To Sell:  11  years Where and When Bought: new Al Bums Worcester mid 80's around $10 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B Sad To See It Go: No "To get a record deal, he said/ They would have to be more punk/ Forget their chops and play real dumb/ Or else they would be sunk/ So off they go to S.I.R. to learn some stupid riffs"-Zappa, Tinseltown Rebellion Early 80's Zappa albums I liked better than early 70's ones but not as much as 60's or mid 70's.  So many records!  So litt...

Artist: Trans Am Title: TA Label: Thrill Jockey Format: CD Cat: THRILL 109 Year of Release: 2002 Country and Year of Edition: US 2002 Date of Sale: 8/16/23 Sell Price: $3.55 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold:7/16/23 NM/NM $2.75 Low: $1.09 Median: $3.55 Average: $4.09 High:  $8.68 Current low price: $2.68 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 45 Have/Want: 384/42 Where Sold: Iowa City, IA Time It Took To Sell:  11  years Where and When Bought: new upon release, Sounds Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  C- Sad To See It Go: No  I didn't realize it in 2002, but this may very well be the album that made me somewhat lose interest in Trans Am.  I mean, that didn't happen as the last article I wrote about them detailed seeing them 2010 in Berlin.  However, this album seems to have a core influence of Depeche Mode.  Since I just can't get enough of not listening to Depeche, the music here went by the wayside.  Mostly. So what are the good songs on this?  I...

  Artist: The New Bomb Turks Title:  Sharpen-Up Time b/w Laissez Faire Stare Label: Bag O' Hammers Format: 7" Cat: BOH 012 Year of Release: 1993 Country and Year of Edition: US 1993  Date of Sale: 8/17/23 Sell Price: $5.20 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 7/2/23 NM/NM $8.00 Low: $1.99 Median: $5.08 Average: $5.32 High:  $10.37 Current low price: $3.49 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 22 Have/Want: 658/53 Where Sold: Centerville, OH Time It Took To Sell:  8 years Where and When Bought: Kim's Underground new $3.99 in '93  Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B+ Sad To See It Go: No I first discovered New Bomb Turks in the summer of '92 when I briefly had a DJ stint over the summer at Harvard's WHRB after graduating Emerson and before leaving for NYC.  Somebody had requested a track from Datapanik's Bumped By Karaoke compilation and I pulled their single from the same label with my favorite NBT song "Crying In The Beer Of A Drunk Man." When this sing...

  Artist: Sugar Shack Title: Fearless Frat Killer b/w I Swear/Worthless Woman Label: Anomie Records Format: 7" Cat: Anomie 011 Year of Release: 1992  Country and Year of Edition: US 1992 Date of Sale: 8/17/23 Sell Price: $3.55 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 11/28/22 NM/VG+ $4.35 Low: $2.00 Median: $3.07 Average: $3.44 High:  $7.99 Current low price: $2.88 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 4 Have/Want: 97/17 Where Sold: Centerville, OH Time It Took To Sell:  8  years Where and When Bought: honestly can't remember, somewhere in Boston Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B Sad To See It Go: No The 4th single from Houston's garage-punk band Sugar Shack was not the first one I bought.  It was, however, the last.  They went on to bigger labels putting out a debut CD on Fist Puppet the same year of this 1992 single called Charmer.  That release contained on of the three tracks here, " Worthless Woman ."  The other two are not streamable. ...

  Artist:  Various Artists (Whistling Bob Howe & Frankie Griggs, Tommie Bradley & James Cole, Buddie Burton, Georgia Tom & Tampa Red, Rufus & Ben Quillian, Hokum Boys, Papa Charlie Jackson,  Butterbeans & Susie,  Robert & Charlie Hicks, Yazoo All Stars, Memphis Minnie, Leola B Wilson & Kid Wesley Wilson, Bo Carter) Title: Please Warm My Weiner: Old Time Hokum Blues Label: Yazoo Format: LP Cat: L 1043 Year of Release: 1974 Country and Year of Edition: US 1974 Date of Sale: 8/18/23 Sell Price: $26.26 Condition: VG+/VG corner clipped sleeve Discogs Last Sold: 8/11/23 VG+/VG+ $20.00 Low: $19.50 2/16/20 VG+/VG+ Median: $30.00 Average: $33.75 High:  $54.35 3/14/21 NM/NM Current low price: $20.00 VG+/G+ Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 21 Have/Want: 307/280 Where Sold: Indianapolis, IN Time It Took To Sell:  8 years Where and When Bought: used $3.99 Worcester Al Bums mid 80's Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  A Sad To See It Go: No Classic...

Artist:  Zebra Title: Zebra Label: Atlantic Format: LP Cat: 7 80054-1 Year of Release: 1983 Country and Year of Edition: US 1983 Specialty Pressing Date of Sale: 8/18/23 Sell Price: $9.49 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 8/15/23 VG+/VG+ $6.52 Low: $1.75 VG/VG 3/2/20 Median: $7.00 Average: $7.77 High:  $24.95 NM/VG+ Current low price: $2.00 G/G+ $12.00 VG+/VG+ Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 47 Have/Want: 2119/127 Where Sold: Colorado Springs, CO Time It Took To Sell:  2 years Where and When Bought: online hard rock $45 9 record lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B+ Sad To See It Go: No Zebra started in New Orleans and migrated to Long Island later in the 70's. Starting as primarily a Led Zeppelin cover band evolving to success out of the gate with their first release around a decade in with a 1983 Gold US record.  They never reached these commercial heights again.  Their current tour setlists feature this album start to finish.  I guess that makes thi...

  Artist:  Trans Am Title:  Thing Label: Thrill Jockey Format: CD Cat:  THRILL236 Year of Release: 2010 Country and Year of Edition: US 2010 card sleeve Date of Sale: 8/16/23 Sell Price: $4.98 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 7/10/23 M/M $3.99 Low: $2.50 M/M 2/5/17 Median: $4.35 Average: $4.69 High:  $10.33 NM/NM 7/14/11 Current low price: $4.02 VG+/VG+ Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 22 Have/Want: 149/36 Where Sold: Iowa City, IA Time It Took To Sell:  3 years Where and When Bought: The Fountain Collection Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B+ Sad To See It Go: No Although I ignored this album completely and inherited it from Fountain's CD moving purge a few years back, it dawned on me that I witnessed this tour in Berlin 2010  when I was wrapping up a half year travel after giving up my East Village apartment and putting everything in storage where it remains in 2023.  I had been following Trans Am and buying their releases religiously through...

Artist:  Various Artists A1 Hullabaloo (3) – Highway Star A2 Hickoids – Green Acres B1 House Of Large Sizes – Half Breed B2 Sloppy Seconds – Candy Man Title:  Noise From Nowhere Volume 2 Label: Toxic Shock Format: 7" Cat:  TOX-011 Year of Release: 1989 Country and Year of Edition: US 1989 Date of Sale: 8/5/23 Sell Price: $4.26 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 6/8/23 VG+/VG+ $16.46 Low: $0.99 Median: $3.85 Average: $3.64 High:  $5.00 Current low price: $5.06 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 7 Have/Want: 92/34 Where Sold: San Marcos, CA   Time It Took To Sell:  8 years Where and When Bought: Boston Newbury Comics new late 80's Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B+ Sad To See It Go: No  Toxic Shock Records from Tucson, AZ where a Hardcore label that put all these bands out in the late 80's.  This one has them each doing a cover. The Boston vs Austin carved in the dead wax begin the side with with a rippin' cover of "Highway Star."  Hullabaloo w...

  Artist: The Bob Seger System Title:  Ramblin' Gamblin' Man Label: Capitol Format: LP Cat:  SM-172 Year of Release: 1968 Country and Year of Edition: US 1975 yellow capitol Jacksonville Pressing Date of Sale: 7/31/23 Sell Price: $9.94 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 6/8/23 VG+/VG+ $16.46 Low: $7.00 VG+/VG+ Median: $9.97 Average: $11.46 High:  $18.99 NM/VG+ Current low price: $9.00 NM/VG Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 11 Have/Want: 262/61 Where Sold: Salamanca, NY Time It Took To Sell:  8 years Where and When Bought: Worcester That's Entertainment mid 80's $2.99 sticker still on it Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B+ Sad To See It Go: No Bob Seger's "good" era was a pretty long stretch for Capitol some of it disavowed by Bob himself.   The change came around the 1976 double Live Bullet before Night Moves made him BOB SEGER. This is the debut of the 3 albums from 1968-1970 coming out of his band The Last Heard the 2 years prior.  This was a ...

  Artist: Tricky Title: Maxinquaye Label: Island Format: CD Cat:  314 524 089-2 Year of Release: 1995 Country and Year of Edition: US 1995 Date of Sale: 7/31/23 Sell Price: $3.55 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 7/28/23 NM/NM $2.89 Low: $0.89 Median: $3.02 Average: $3.42 High: $9.88 Current low price: $0.99 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 50 Have/Want: 2002/174 Where Sold: Columbus, OH Time It Took To Sell:  11 years Where and When Bought: new record club Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  A- Sad To See It Go: No Generally pleasant "trip-hop" with some excellent material.  Probably up there with the best of what the genre has to offer with Portishead and Bjork. The standout track was the Public Enemy cover of " Black Steel In The Hour of Chaos " called simply "Black Steel" here.  The song right before is where vocalist Martina Topley-Bird, on a hot streak, drinks til she's drunk and smokes til she's senseless.  "Ponderosa" that one is called...

  Artist: God Is My Co-Pilot Title:  S ongs of Praise Label: The Making of Americans Format: 7" Cat:  none Year of Release: 1991 Country and Year of Edition: US 1991 1/500 all copies marked this way Date of Sale: 8/5/23 Sell Price: $4.98 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 6/25/23 NM/VG+ $7.00 Low: $2.00 Median: $5.74 Average: $5.90 High: $10.00 Current low price: $8.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 7 Have/Want: 101/65 Where Sold: San Marcos, CA Time It Took To Sell:  8 years Where and When Bought: Alston, MA In Your Ear $3.99 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B Sad To See It Go: No Jazz-Noise punk God Is My Co-Pilot have been around the block  They cranked out a ton of releases in the 90's then fell off the face of the earth, only to emerge in about 2018.  I know cuz I booked a show with them at Hank's in Brooklyn! Anyway, this very first release of a long journey I picked up around the time it came out.  I liked the caterwaul then a little more tha...

  Artist: Public Enemy Title:  He Got Game Label: Def Jam Format: CD Cat:  314 558 130-2 Year of Release: 1998 Country and Year of Edition: US 1998 Date of Sale: 7/31/23 Sell Price: $3.55 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 6/7/23  VG//VG $4.00 Low: $1.10 Median: $2.89 Average: $3.02 High: $8.00 Current low price: $1.05 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 39 Have/Want: 657/75 Where Sold: Columbus, OH Time It Took To Sell:  11 years Where and When Bought: used Kims Underground around release Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B+ Sad To See It Go: No The trials and tribulations of Jesus Shuttleworth in Spike Lee's flim He Got Game influenced a soundtrack partnership for I believe the first time since "Fight The Power" opened Do The Right Thing.  This time it was a whole standalone PE album.  For me this was their most memorable since the early 90's. I won't call it a comeback but it sure felt like it.  The title track with it's Stephen Stills cameo along...