The Reverse Collector

  Artist: Black Sabbath Title: Mob Rules Label: Warner Bros. Format: CD Cat #: 3605-2 Year of Release: 1981 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 80's master Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 5/14/25 Sell Price: $6.56 Discogs Last Sold: 11/4/24 NM/NM $8.00 Low: $4.00 Median: $6.28 Average: $6.28 High: $8.95 Current low price: $6.66 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 5 Have/Want: 88/95 Where Sold: Wood River, IL Time it took to sell: 2 years Where and When Bought:  facebook $2 lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No The second Black Sabbath album with Dio came in 1981.  For many years I liked this one ever so a bit more than Heaven & Hell, but the end of side two tails off for me ever so slightly.  I mean, you can't argue with perfection, and these are two great albums.   Side One of Mob Rules is a thing of beauty.  Harking back to the intros of yore, E5150 meanders in an F/X sort of way with a "modern keyboard" approach that disintegra...

  Artist: Peter Gabriel Title: So Label: Geffen Format: CD Catalog Number: M2G 24088 Year of Release: 1986 Country and Year  of Edition: US 1986 Columbia House Club Edition Sell Price: $3.37 Sell Date: 1/14/25 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 12/27/23 NM/NM  $4.00 Low: $1.50 Median: $3.00 Average: $3.33 High: $6.00 Current  low price:  $2.75 Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 13 Have/Want: 293/211 Where Sold: Annandale, NJ Time It Took  To Sell:  13 years Where and When  Bought: Columbia House Record Club or CDHQ 90's Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  C- Sad To See  It Go: No Peter Gabriel's So is an album I've found generally unlistenable throughout the years.  The exception is the duet with Kate Bush, "Don't Give Up" which has it's melodramatic charms.  Truth be told, I don't like that one that much either. Much like mid-80's Genesis or Steve Winwood, the aspects that were great with their earlier output or tolerable in the ...

Artist: Richard Pryor Title: "That Nigger's Crazy" Label:  Reprise Format: LP Catalog Number: MSK 2287 Year of Release:  1974 Country and Year  of Edition: US 1978 reissue Sell Price: $8.99 Sell Date: 2/20/24 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold  11/7/23 $10.11 Low: $8.99 Median: $9.99 Average: $9.70 High:  $10.11 Current low price:  $14.99 Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 1 Have/Want: 14/8 Where Sold: Denver, CO Time It Took  To Sell:  1 month Where and When  Bought:  internet lot $2 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  A Sad To See  It Go: No Richard Pryor connected with my late Italian grandfather the way that other comedians of the day like Cheech & Chong couldn't.  He loved Pryor except for one thing.  His use of that word he found so disrespectful, it distracted him. That word was Motherfucker. Well, polite society might try to bury evidence of this 1974 Grammy Award winning comedy album but guess what?  It'...

  Artist:  Z Z Top Title:   Afterburner Label:  Warner Bros. Format:  LP Cat #:  9 25342-1E Year of Release:  1985 Country and Year of Edition Issue:  US 1985 Listed Condition:  VG+/VG Sell Date:  2/8/21 Sell Price: $4.99 Discogs Last Sold:  1/14/21 $7.87 VG+/VG+ Low:  $3.00 Median:  $7.91 High:   $15.79 NM/VG+ Current low price:   $2.00 P/G, $3.95 VG/VG Current Number on Sale at Discogs:  88 Have/Want:  7417/297 Where Sold:   Minneapolis, MN Time it took to sell:  6 years Where and When Bought:  Worcester MA used within month of release, That's Entertainment $3.99 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:   C- Sad To See It Go:  No I hated this record when it came out.   Figures this would be the tour I got to see them on, but I did think the show was excellent.  I was so happy to find this in the used bin within a couple weeks of release, clearly by someone who bought it...