The Reverse Collector

  Artist: The Verve Title: Urban Hymns Label: Virgin/Hut Recordings Format: CD Catalog Number: 7243 8 44913 2 1 Year of Release: 1997 Country and Year of Edition: US 1997 Sell Price:$2.94 Sell Date: 7/5/26 Condition: VG+/VG+  drill cut in spine Discogs Last Sold: 6/16/26 VG/VG $1.98 Low: $1.00 Median: $2.95 Average: $3.26 High: $8.49 Current low price: $0.89  Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 71 Have/Want: 3314/256 Where Sold: Robertsdale, AL Time It Took To Sell:  11 years Where and When Bought: used NYC Year of release Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No  One of the rare Brit-pop records I bought without some critics list pointing me there.  It might be my favorite of the genre or at least tied with Pulp's Different Class.  The hit "Bitter Sweet Symphony" I still enjoy, multiple times even.  I always thought "The Drugs Don't Work" was a non-hit deep cut that I liked as a standout, but there is a video clip for it, although I ...

  Artist: Yes Title: Close To The Edge Label: Atlantic Format: CD Catalog Number: A2 19133 Year of Release: 1972 Country and Year  of Edition: US 1987  Columbia House edition Sell Price: $6.95 Sell Date: 3/3/26 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 2/16/26 VG/VG+ $1.88 Low: $1.88 Median: $6.95 Average: $6.87 High: $11.99 Current  low price:  $2.00 NM/VG+ Current Number on  Sale at Discogs:8 Have/Want:118/191 Where Sold: Burnsville, MN Time It Took  To Sell:  3 years Where and When  Bought: Facebook $2 CD lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See  It Go: No Close To The Edge is one of those titles that I have on vinyl, 8-track and CD, sometimes multiples in those formats.  This is to the point that I almost pulled the wrong one that was ordered, which was an 80's mastered record club version instead of a later remaster I also had.  This was in part because the buyer also got a more recent remastering of Floyd's Wish You Were Here....

  Artist: Pearl Jam Title:  Yield Label: Epic Format: CD Cat #: EK 68164 Year of Release: 1998 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1998 tri-fold digipak Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 5/3/25 Sell Price: $2.98 Discogs Last Sold: 5/2/25 VG+/VG+  $2.00 Low: $0.38 Median: $2.99 Average: $3.61 High: $10.33 Current low price: $1.02 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 101 Have/Want: 4346/243 Where Sold: Maple Park, IL Time it took to sell: 14 years Where and When Bought:  record club late 90's/early aughts Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C+ Sad To See It Go: No I spent many years ignoring Pearl Jam after deciding early on they were not for me, being on the wrong side of the Green River/Mudhoney dividing line.    I saw Pearl Jam on a five-band bill very early on before "Alive" rescued 10 from the clearout bins everywhere.  The rest is history, written by someone not me. Yield, their 5th album, was the only one I ever bought.  Maybe it was a record club curi...

  Artist: Jane's Addiction Title: Nothing's Shocking Label: Warner Bros. Format: CD Cat #: 9 25727-2 Year of Release: 1988 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1988 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 5/3/25 Sell Price: $4.34 Discogs Last Sold: 4/22/25 VG+/VG+ $5.00 Low: $0.99 Median: $4.44 Average: $4.75 High: $16.00 Current low price: $2.25 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 47 Have/Want: 3705/286 Where Sold: Maple Park, IL Time it took to sell: 1 year Where and When Bought:  Facebook CD lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No Nothing's Shocking, the only Jane's Addiction album I really ever really liked, was one of the rare instances where a band improved after their independent record when they moved on to a major.  To me, their debut seemed thin and a little boring.  Although I haven't heard this album much beyond the late 80's, I still know every and like single song coming back to it after all these years with a couple exceptions toward the en...

Artist: Hole Title:  C elebrity Skin Label: DGC Format: CD Cat #: DGCD 25164 Year of Release: 1998 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1998 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 4/20/25 Sell Price: $3.33 Discogs Last Sold: 4/18/25 VG+/VG+ $3.00 Low: $1.49 Median: $3.00 Average: $3.87 High: $11.49 Current low price: $2.27 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 41 Have/Want: 36980/457 Where Sold: Belleville, NJ Time it took to sell: 12 years Where and When Bought:  new NYC either Tower or Sounds Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No The 3rd Hole full length album Celebrity Skin was a mainstream "outsider" artist turning toward the mainstream.  Gone was the cute nose and baby fat.  Instead we got Billy Corgan, blocky late 90's mastering and a concept album "dedicated to all the stolen water of Los Angeles.   In hindsight, Courtney achieved greater success getting away from "punk rock" or "indie rock" or whathaveyou than say, Liz Phair around th...

  Artist: Green Day Title: Nimrod. Label:  Reprise Format: CD Catalog Number: 9 46794-2 Year of Release: 1997 Country and Year  of Edition: US 1997 Sell Price: $3.52 Sell Date: 1/18/25 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 1/17/25 VG+/NM  $4.99 Low: $0.99 Median: $3.45 Average: $3.57 High: $8.05 Current  low price:  $1.17 Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 40  Have/Want: 3491/481 Where Sold: Quincy, MA  Time It Took  To Sell:  7 years Where and When  Bought: record club late 90's Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B Sad To See  It Go: No Green Day is a weird band for me.  I instinctively like them and am bored by them simultaneously.  Oddly enough I got the first 7" through Maximum Rock 'n' Roll mail order in the summer of '89 (sold long ago) and thought it sounded like a young Hüsker Dü.  Weird, right?  They sure didn't evolve that way. One surprise about the 5th Green Day album, besides the fact that ...

  Artist: Jay-Z Title: Vol. 2...Hard Knock Life Label:  Roc-A-Fella Records Format: CD Cat:  314 558 902-2 Year of Release: 1998 Country and Year of Edition: US 1998 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ drill cut in barcode Sell Date: 7/15/22 Sell Price: $3.99 Discogs Last Sold: 7/18/22 VG+/G $2.00 Low: $1.00 Median: $3.97 Average: $3.90 High: $8.42 Current low price:$0.41 F/no cover, $2.00 VG/VG Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 57 Have/Want: 1137/138 Where Sold:  Cincinnati, OH Time it took to sell: 11 years Where and When Bought: used internet mail order 98 or 99 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No I bought this album on the strength  of "Can I Get A... WHAT WHAT ," but imagine my disappointment when the song was merely "Can I Get A FUCK YOU"  The 'You' part of that was so weak, I forgot about it.   It really is the difference of being one of the greatest hit songs of the 90's in any genre and being a forgettable also-ran. Normally, you want to...

  Artist: Yes Title: Fragile Label: Atlantic Format: LP Cat #: SD 7211 Year of Release: 1972 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1972 Columbia Record Club edition Sold Price: $5.99 Listed Condition: VG/VG+ Sell Date: 11/5/20 Discogs Last Sold:  8/31/20 $15.79 Sticker on sleeve Low: $3.00 Median: $6.00 High: $95.23 M/M 6/1/20 with original inner sleeve and booklet Current low price: VG/G+ $3.00,  V+/VG+ $20.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 9 Have/Want: 1785/249 Where Sold: Willowick, OH Time it took to sell: 5 years Where and When Bought: Al Bums Worcester early 80's Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go?: no Fragile make up the "big 3" of the Yes catalog with The Yes Album and Close To The Edge.  Although "Round-about" (I forgot about the dash!) and "Long Distance Runaround" could not be avoided on any baseline AOR Rock Radio playlist, no matter how cut down, the album as a whole still sounds fresh to me in headphones start to finish.  I thi...