The Reverse Collector

  Artist: Various Artists ( Poppin' Mommas , Sandy Duncan's Eye , Superchunk , Erectus Monotones ) Title:  Self Mutilation Volume Two Label: Hippy Knight Records Format: 7" Catalog Number: CREEP-007 Year of Release: 1991 Country and Year of Edition: Australia 1991 Sell Price: $4.50 Sell Date: 10/11/26 Condition: VG+/VG+  Discogs Last Sold: 10/6/25 $2.72 Low: $2.00 Median: $5.33 Average: $5.43 High: $10.00 Current low price: $4.34 (UK) Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 3 Have/Want: 89/29 Where Sold: Washington, DC Time It Took To Sell: 11 years Where and When Bought: Newbury Comics Boston $6.99 circa 1991 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No The second installment of the Self Mutilation series from the Aussie label Hippy Knight had a Merge Records side and Flipside's LA band Sandy Duncan's Eye to go with the lone home country band Poppin' Momma from Geelong, Victoria.   Superchunk gave a demo version of one of their best songs, "Cool."  ...

  Artist: Bongwater Title: The Peel Session Label: Strange Fruit Format: CD Catalog Number: DEI8354-2 Year of Release: 1992 Country and Year of Edition: US 1992 Sell Price: $4.50 Sell Date: 9/12/26 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 8/7/26 VG+/NM $5.35  Low: $3.00 Median: $6.33 Average: $7.31 High: $16.00 Current low price: $4.99 VG+/VG+ Curren Number on Sale at Discogs: 14 Have/Want: 192/77 Where Sold: Asheville, NC Time It Took To Sell: 11 years Where and When Bought:  Sounds NYC early 90's $5.99 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No Ann Magnuson monologues and Kramer's psychedelic echo chamber that were Bongwater were close to the end of their run in 1992.  This was recorded in 1991 and issued the following year as part of Strange Fruit's seemingly endless series of BBC recorded 4-song EP's.   The covers were Roky Erickson's " You Don't Love Me Yet " and The Weavers " Kisses Sweeter Than Wine ."   The other two tracks are...

  Artist: Lucinda Williams Title: Car Wheels On A Gravel Road Label: Mercury Format: CD Catalog Number: 314 558 338-2 Year of Release: 1998 Country and Year of Edition: US 1998 BMG Music Club  Sell Price: $3.36 Sell Date: 10/18/26 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 10/1/26 VG/VG+ $2.00 Low: $0.77 Median: $2.98 Average: $2.87 High: $5.50 Current low price: $2.50 NM/VG+ Curren Number on Sale at Discogs: 14 Have/Want: 190/54 Where Sold: San Francisco, CA Time It Took To Sell: 11 years Where and When Bought:  BMG Music Club circa 1998 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A+ Sad To See It Go: No Car Wheels On A Gravel Road has been a "modern" classic for over a quarter-century now.  One forgets that this was long labored and rerecorded for Rick Rubin's American Recordings over 5 years before moving on to Mercury.  Media was primed to love this and the end result was an immediate critic "Album Of The Year" sort of release.  Even though she had been around nearly 20 ye...

  Artist: Ministry Title: Filth Pig Label: Warner Bros. Format: CD Catalog Number: 9 45838-2 Year of Release: 1996 Country and Year of Edition: US 1996 BMG Music Club edition Sell Price: $3.32 Sell Date:  10/3/26 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 9/23/26 NM/M $7.95 Low: $1.00 Median: $3.00 Average: $3.49 High: $9.50 Current low price: $5.99 VG+/VG+ Curren Number on Sale at Discogs: 4 Have/Want: 132/57 Where Sold: Colton, CA Time It Took To Sell: 3 years Where and When Bought: Facebook lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No End-of-peak period Ministry.  Filth Pig wasn't monumental like The Land of Rape And Honey/The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste, and it didn't sell like Psalm 69 but it still rocked hard and peaked at #19 on Billboard bettering Psalm out of the gate although that one was a Platinum tour driven slow burn as were the two 80's Gold records.  The two memorable tracks for me back when it was released were the Bob Dylan cover, "Lay ...

  Artist: Monster Magnet Title:  5 Reasons To Testify Label: A&M Records Format: CD Catalog Number: AMRR 10316-2 Year of Release: 2001 Country and Year of Edition: US  2001 Promo Sell Price: $4.74 Sell Date: 9/13/26 Condition: VG+/VG+  Discogs Last Sold: 8/3/26 NM/VG+ $2.50 Low: $2.00 Median: $3.37 Average: $3.58 High:$7.00 Current low price: $1.94 Curren Number on Sale at Discogs: 11 Have/Want: 73/19 Where Sold: Nashville, TN Time It Took To Sell: 3 years Where and When Bought:  Facebook marketplace lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No As a quick promo overview of Monter Magnet then recent hit tracks, 5 Reasons To Testify does the job pretty admirably in, what? 20 minutes??  It kicks of with the song that broke them from Powertrip, " Space Lord "  then has the title track from that 1998 album.  Then it goes to the more recent God Says No from 2000 for "Silver Future" before wrapping with a couple from 1995's Dopes To Infini...

  Artist: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Title:  Henry's Dream Label: Mute/Elektra Format: CD Catalog Number: 9 61323-2 Year of Release: 1993 Country and Year of Edition: US  1993 SRC Pressing Sell Price: $4.89 Sell Date: 9/13/26 Condition: VG+/VG+  Discogs Last Sold: 9/13/26 NM/NM $13.99 Low: $1.50 Median: $4.00 Average: $4.80 High:$15.00 Current low price: $4.00 VG+/VG+  Curren Number on Sale at Discogs: 13 Have/Want: 623/159 Where Sold: Nashville, TN Time It Took To Sell: 3  years Where and When Bought:  Facebook marketplace lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No Nick Cave was 7 albums into his first solo decade when Henry's Dream came out in 1992.  The live standard bearer is the opener, "Papa Won't Leave You Henry" above and beyond everything else here.   Nick co-produced this album with Mick Harvey, and it sounds like a Nick Cave record.  Poetic and grumpy .  Established, assured and world weary.  Th...

  Artist: Kudgel Title: Sea Monkee Label: 100% Breakfast Format: 10" Catalog Number: 100 BR 005 Year of Release: 1994 Country and Year of Edition: US 1994 Sell Price: $6.08 Sell Date: 9/21/26 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 9/13/26 VG/VG $3.00 Low: $3.00 Median: $8.98 Average: $8.85 High:$15.00  Current low price: $9.98 Curren Number on Sale at Discogs: 1 Have/Want: 38/47 Where Sold: Santa Rosa, CA Time It Took To Sell: 11 years Where and When Bought: given by band? Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No The Sea Monkee EP of 1994 I never realized got expanded to "Sea Monkey Plus 7" on CD via Midriff Records in 2006.  I had a copy of this probably given to me by Mark Erdody back when it came out.  Maybe he came to NYC to play around that time.   The two standout hits here are "15 Second Crush" and "Jump Ball."  "15 Second Crush" was a live favorite and "Jump Ball" has a nice little guitar melody up against standar...

  Artist: Red House Painters Title:  Songs For A Blue Guitar Label: Supreme Recordings/Island Independent Format: CD Catalog Number: 162 531 061-2 Year of Release: 1996 Country and Year of Edition: US 1996 Sell Price: $5.87 Sell Date: 8/30/26 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 10/30/25 VG/VG+ $5.39 Low: $2.75 Median: $4.00 Average: $4.80 High: $8.62 Current low price: $20.00 Curren Number on Sale at Discogs: 1 Have/Want: 55/50 Where Sold:Austin, TX Time It Took To Sell: 3 years Where and When Bought: Facebook marketplace Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No Uniformly excellent album from Mark Kozelek as Red House Painters. This was still a "band" at this point and kept going until 2001 with one more album recorded in 1998 before Kozelek recorded solo and then started up Sun Kil Moon.  The legend had it that 4AD rejected the record for it's heavier sound and guitar soloing.  Unfortunately, the entity that took over, Supreme Recordings, went belly up...

  Artist: Tulips Title: Jack Mag Label: Sonic Bubblegum Format: CD Catalog Number: GUM012 Year of Release: 1993 Country and Year of Edition: US 1993 hole punch in booklet Sell Price: $5.46 Sell Date: 8/7/26 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 9/24/25 M/M $10.00 Low: $2.00 Median: $8.01 Average: $7.68 High: $11.51 Current low price: $3.19 Curren Number on Sale at Discogs: 13 Have/Want: 26/17 Where Sold: Millbrae, CA Time It Took To Sell: 11 years Where and When Bought: I think I gave Hibarger $5 for this and something else maybe Bulkhead Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No So here is the Tulips "statement" debut full length Jack Mag.  The whole band was overhauled and the mighty Jimmy Fountain is here on guitar, plus Chris Keene on Drums and Trevor Pratt on Bass.  You had hits from the single redone. You had Tim Shea from Green Magnet School guesting on Zinc to join up with Suzette & Hibarger's grunge vision circa 1993, year of release although it se...

  Artist: Crush, Sr. Title:  The Clown Sessions Label: Rockville roFormat: CD Catalog Number: ROCK 6087-2 Year of Release: 1993 Country and Year of Edition: US 1993 Sell Price: $4.20 Sell Date: 8/7/26 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 6/9/27  M/M $6.27 Low: $1.27 Median: $4.50 Average: $4.67 High: $8.14 Current low price: $2.99 M/M Curren Number on Sale at Discogs: 7 Have/Want: 39/40 Where Sold: Millbrae, CA Time It Took To Sell: 11 years Where and When Bought: closeout section at Venus Records St Marks NYC, $3 sticker still on it Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No Heavy promo'd straight to the cutout bin indie label that went down for the count soonafter put out this fine compilation from Crush.  They were rechristianed Crush, Sr. for the mass market so as not to be confused by the band that changed their name from Pleasurehead that EastWest were putting out to also go straight into the CD bargain bin.  An even funnier joke was that that b...