The Reverse Collector

  Artist: Nirvana Title:  Bleach Label: Sub Pop Format: LP Catalog Number: SP 34b Year of Release: 1989 Country and Year of Edition: US late 90's Olyphant Sell Price:$7.59 Sell Date: 7/6/26 Condition: VG+/VG+   Discogs Last Sold: 6/8/26 G+/VG+ $3.95 Low: $2.50 Median: $5.56 Average: $6.11 High: $12.25 Current low price: $8.98 VG/VG+ Curren Number on Sale at Discogs: 4 Have/Want: 217/410 Where Sold: Saco, ME Time It Took To Sell:  3 years Where and When Bought: Facebook CD $2 lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A+ Sad To See It Go: No  The run on all things Nirvana continues to the point where I'm starting to run out of releases of theirs to write about.  This is probably the singular greatest Album to come out of "Grunge" (excluding the Mudhoney EP Superfuzz Bigmuff, which is the definitive release of the genre).  Relistening to Bleach, I remember WHY I liked it so much back in 1989. First off this is a guitar record with all the tricks of the nois...

  Artist: Nirvana Title: MTV Unplugged In New York Label: DGC Format: CD Catalog Number: DGCD-24727 Year of Release: 1994 Country and Year of Edition: US 1994 DADC Sell Price: $6.95 Sell Date: 7/6/26 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 6/29/26 VG/NM $4.23 Low: $1.48 Median: $5.00 Average: $4.79 High: $8.25 Current low price: $2.00 VG/NM Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 18 Have/Want: 448/352 Where Sold: Saco, ME 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  Nirvana's live MTV Unplugged record, like Meat Puppets II which has three songs the band covers here in a row, is something I never want to actually listen to compared to the rest of the catalog.  I feel like giving this a B- is a bit of bullshit, it probably is an A record objectively on some standard and Kurt certainly made the Vaseline's "Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam" and Bowie's "The Man Who Sold The World"...

  Artist: Allman Brothers Band Title: Eat A Peach Label: Polydor Format: CD Catalog Number: 823 654-2 Year of Release: 1972 Country and Year  of Edition: US circa 1984-6 Sell Price: $6.99 Sell Date: 1/28/26 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 7/5/24 NM/VG+ $3.98 Low: $3.88 Median: $5.24 Average: $6.47 High: $12.00 Current  low price:  n/a Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 0 Have/Want: 40/60 Where Sold: Wahiawa, HI Time It Took  To Sell:  4  years Where and When  Bought: $2 Facebook marketplace lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  A- Sad To See  It Go: No Eat A Peach is probably the second best Allmans album after Live At The Fillmore East.  I first heard this circa 1980 when one of my Dad's guitar students gave him a double vinyl copy to learn a cut from the record.  I'll have to ask him what it was, I think it was a short instrumental piece which I guess would be "Little Martha."  That same student gave him Led Zep IV aro...

  Artist: Hole Title: Live Through This Label: DGC Format: CD Cat #: DGCD 24631 Year of Release: 1994 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US reissue Pickneyville, IL Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 4/20/25 Sell Price: $7.43 Discogs Last Sold: 12/16/24 NM/VG+ $8.89 Low: $0.39 Median: $6.98 Average: $6.11 High: $9.99 Current low price: $5.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 4 Have/Want: 45/107 Where Sold: Belleville, NJ Time it took to sell: 1 year Where and When Bought:  Facebook Marketplace $2 lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No I always considered Live Through This by Hole the last Nirvana record, even if Nirvana didn't pla y on it or have any sort of official role on the record.  This was recorded in Kurt's lifetime, and it came out right after his death, so it had the feeling of a "voice from the camp" since it was his wife doing the voicing.  It was very different from the other great Hole album, Pretty On The Inside.  That one covered ...

  Artist: The Allman Brothers Band Title: Brothers and Sisters Label: Capricorn Format: 8-Track Catalog Number: M8 0111 Year of Release:  1973 Country and Year  of Edition: US 1973 Sell Price: $11.12 Sell Date: 10/10/24 Condition: VG/VG Discogs Last Sold  5/4/22 VG+/no cover $9.99 Low: $9.99 Median: $10.55 Average: $10.55 High: $11.12 Current  low price:  n/a Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 0 Have/Want: 27/33 Where Sold:  Roanoke, VA Time It Took  To Sell: 2 months Where and When  Bought: ebay 8track lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  A Sad To See  It Go: No Brothers and Sisters was always one of those albums I snobbishly ignored because it didn't have Duane on it.   Irrational in a way, I knew this was their biggest record with their biggest hit.  Not only did it have "Ramblin' Man" but it has the AOR staple "Jessica." "Jessica" on this 8-track is treated with a fade out/fade in over tracks 3 and 4.  It's pret...

  Artist: Mazzy Star Title: So Tonight That I Might See Label: Capitol Format: CD Cat:  CDP 0777 7 98253 2 5 Year of Release: 1993 Country and Year of Edition: US 1993 Sell Price: $6.62 VG+/VG+ 8/9/24 Discogs Last Sold: 8/5/24 VG+/VG+ $4.99 Low: $2.99 Median: $5.56 Average: $7.13 High: $20.41 Current low price: $6.98 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 14 Have/Want: 2517/954 Where Sold: Albany, NY Time it took to sell:  2 months Where and When Purchased: facebook marketplace used lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No Mazzy Star, late guitarist Dave Roback's group with vocalist Hope Sandoval was non-stop quality evolving from the band Opal.  Roback had been active before that with The Rain Parade but each band had a slightly different take on the Paisley Underground beginnings.  Commercial-wise this was the bands lone Platinum seller, a slow burn that went Gold over a year after release in October '94, then the million US sales mark certification in A...

  Artist: Rush Title: Archives Rush / Fly By Night / Caress Of Steel Label: Mercury Format: 3XLP Catalog Number: SRM-3-9200 Year of Release:  1978 Country and Year  of Edition: US 1978 Sell Price: $13.42 Sell Date: 3/22/24 Condition: VG/G+ Discogs Last Sold  2/18/24 VG+/VG+ $25.00 Low: $4.87 Median: $17.50 Average: $18.93 High: $45.00 Current low price:  not available Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 0 Have/Want:  182/40 Where Sold: Charleston, SC Time It Took  To Sell:  9 years Where and When  Bought: Worcester, MA Al Bums used early 80's ca 1983 or 4 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  C+ Sad To See  It Go: No Archives was released in early '78 after the exponential increase in popularity for 1977's A Farewell To Kings and 1976's 2112.  This triple album 2 pocket job houses the first three: Rush from the Pertless 1974 debut with drummer John Rutsey.  Then the 1975 pair,  Fly By Night and Caress of Steel.  All of th...

  Artist: Radiohead Title: Pablo Honey Label: Capitol Format: CD Cat:  CDP 0777 7 81409 2 4 Year of Release: 1993 Country and Year of Edition: US reissue Sell Price: $2.99 VG+/VG+ 3/14/23 Discogs Last Sold: 2/20/23 VG+/VG+ $3.00 Low:$1.22 Median: $2.96 Average: $2.88 High: $5.50 Current low price: $2.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 17 Have/Want: 1083/201 Where Sold: Winchester, KY Time it took to sell: 11 years Where and When  either given in discarded cd pile or discount from a record club sometime in the aughts  Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No Radiohead were one of those bands that I thought were crappy mainstream "major label grunge" when Pablo Honey came out.  When OK Computer became the 90's Alt-Rock version of Dire Straits "Brother In Arms" or Steely Dan's Aja you hear in local hi fi shops record and recording engineers pinnacle of modern music I started to reconsider.  Personally, I thought that one was a bit overrated. Heari...

  Artist: Ozzy Osbourne Title:  Ozzmosis Label: Epic Format: CD Cat: EK 67091 Year of Release: 1995 Country and Year of Edition: US 1995 Sell Price: $2.99 VG+/VG+ 3/14/23 Discogs Last Sold: 2/25/23 NM/VG+ $4.99 Low:$0.99 Median: $3.00 Average: $7.53 High: $69.00 autographed Current low price: $1.64 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 56 Have/Want: 1462/92 Where Sold: Winchester, KY Time it took to sell: 11 years Where and When  used mid 90's Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No Ozzmosis was the first Ozzy record I bought since Bark At The Moon more than a decade before and it held up pretty well coming off  the heels of grunge.  The production was by Michael Beinhorn of Bill Laswell's Material. He plays keyboards on here and Rick Wakeman plays Mellotron on the opening "Perry Mason" and "I Still Want You. The bass playing was Geezer Butler, so perhaps more Black Sabbath than Black Sabbath in 2002, unless, like me, you think Tony Iommi is the most im...

  Artist: The Beatles Title: Live At The BBC Label: Apple/Capitol Format: 2XCD Cat #: CDP 7243 8 31796 2 6 Year of Release: 1993 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1993 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 10/21/21 Sell Price: $3.99 Discogs Last Sold: 7/30/21 $4.00 VG+/VG+ Low: $2.99 Median: $3.81 Average: $4.01 High: $6.99 Current low price: $3.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 63 Have/Want: 1265/41 Where Sold: Brooklyn, NY Time it took to sell: 10 years Where and When Bought: Tower NYC new upon release Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A+ Sad To See It Go: No The first "official" stab at making the Beatles 1963-1965 BBC recordings for the general consumer instead of a multiple bootleg volumes that had been circulating for years.  Of course, when it is official, it is never "complete."  Just a reworking of the approved tapes.  It took until 2013 for another set to come out officially, but there have been a myriad of box sets f...