The Reverse Collector

  Artist: Various Artists (Biohazard, White Zombie, Megadeth, 1000 Homo DJ's featuring Al Jorgenson, Ozzy Osbourne with Therapy?, Corrosion of Conformity, Sepultura, Bullring Brummies, Bruce Dickenson with Godspeed, Ugly Kid Joe, Faith No More, Type O Negative) Title:  Nativity In Black: A Tribute To Black Sabbath Label: Columbia Format: CD Cat #:  CK 66335 Year of Release: 1994 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US BMG club edition Listed Condition: M/M sealed Sell Date: 7/25/25 Sell Price: $4.85 Discogs Last Sold: 6/19/25 VG+/VG+ $3.00   Low: $1.00 Median: $3.01 Average: $3.52 High: $6.50 Current low price: $6.50 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 4 Have/Want: 112/34 Where: Fresh Meadows, NY Time it took to sell: 2 years Where and When Bought: Facebook $2 CD lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B+ Sad To See It Go: No Pretty good modern metal overview circa the first half of the 90's on this Black Sabbath tribute.  The stars come out Ozzy joins Therapy? (!) to do ...

  Artist: Ozzy Osbourne Title: Blizzard Of Ozz Label: Epic Format: CD Cat #:  EK 67235 Year of Release: 1980 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1995 Listed Condition: VG+/G some water damage Sell Date: 7/24/25 Sell Price: $3.99 Discogs Last Sold: 7/23/25 VG/VG+ $3.99   Low: $2.99 Median: $3.99 Average: $4.35 High: $7.00 Current low price: $15.99 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 2 Have/Want: 129/110 Where: Lacey, WA Time it took to sell: 2 years Where and When Bought: Facebook $2 CD lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  A Sad To See It Go: No "voyeur straining/in love with his hand/a poison passion/a PULSATING GLAND..."-"No Bone Movies" Ozzy's solo debut was ultimately his best solo album with the crucial help of Bob Daisley and Lee Kerslake who were wiped off the album in the 2002 remastering due to a royalty dispute.  Randy Rhodes of course didn't live long enough to dispute anything.  However, by the 30th Anniversary edition that arrived in 2011, their wiped-o...

  Artist: Black Sabbath Title: Greatest Hits 1970-1978 Label: Warner Bros./Rhino Format: CD Cat #:  R2 73365 Year of Release: 2006 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US BMG Music Club Edition Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 7/23/25 Sell Price: $3.59 Discogs Last Sold: 7/23/25 VG/VG+ $4.00   Low: $1.99 Median: $4.99 Average: $6.31 High: $21.28 Current low price: $1.50 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 33 Have/Want: 1463/60 Where: Geneva, IL Time it took to sell: 9 years Where and When Bought: consignment collection Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B Sad To See It Go: No While all the music on Black Sabbath's Greatest Hits 1970-1978 is A level and beyond, even though this is the only compilation to cover the entire Ozzy years in the 70's in one 75-minute CD, it falls flat in numerous ways.  You get all the obvious hits like "Paranoid," "Iron Man," "War Pigs," "Black Sabbath" hell even "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath," but it tapers off when ...

  Artist: Black Sabbath Title: Dehumanizer Label:  Reprise Format: CD Cat #: 9 26965-2 Year of Release: 1992 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1992 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 6/19/25 Sell Price: $7.42 Discogs Last Sold: 9/24/24 VG+/NM $8.50 Low: $1.50 NM/NM 9/7/22 Median: $6.82 Average: $6.87 High: $11.49 NM/NM 11/14/24 Current low price: $6.63 VG+/VG+ Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 12 Have/Want: 325/87 Where Sold: 325/87 Time it took to sell: 1 year Where and When Bought: facebook marketplace lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C+ Sad To See It Go: No I've had to come to terms with something after a third of a century.  Dehumanizer isn't that good.  I always thought that this might be a buried classic if only I put in the time beyond a spin here and there.  Today I am facing the facts.  The Heaven & Hell album may be up for further review and I'm withholding final judgement on that, but today is the day I formally declare Dehumanizer as middli...

  Artist: Black Sabbath Title: Heaven & Hell Label: Warner Bros. Format: CD Cat #: 3372-2 Year of Release: 1980 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 80's CD  Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 5/14/25 Sell Price: $9.14 Discogs Last Sold: 5/3/25 NM/NM $11.99 Low: $4.00 Median: $8.00 Average: $8.94 High: $15.00 Current low price: $9.98 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 5 Have/Want: 99/149 Where Sold: Wood River, IL Time it took to sell: 1 year 3 months Where and When Bought:  facebook $2 lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A+ Sad To See It Go: No With Dio's passing 15 years ago on the 16th, somebody wanted to get the original CD masters of Heaven & Hell and Mob Rules together.  Both sounded great cranked up and I had a Rhino remaster laying around that I cranked also and didn't really notice that much difference.  I thought I heard some bothersome synthy chimes in "Children Of The Sea" in the Rhino version but I heard them again in the early master and on the s...

  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: 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: Dio Title: Holy Diver Label: Warner Bros. Format: CD Cat: 9 23836-2 Year of Release: 1983 Country and Year of Edition: US remaster early 90's Sell Price: $4.99 VG+/VG+ 3/14/23 Discogs Last Sold: 1/29/23 NM/NM $4.50 Low:$3.00 Median: $4.85 Average: $5.12 High: $8.28 Current low price: $3.22 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 26 Have/Want: 1159/186 Where Sold: Winchester, KY Time it took to sell: 11 years Where and When  90's record club  Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No Coming off Black Sabbath's two masterpieces: Heaven & Hell and Mob Rules, and all that 70's Rainbow history, there was nothing left for Ronnie James Dio to do but front his own band.  Like Ozzy and his first 2, Dio would come out of the gates with his strongest solo album and have enough in the tank for a just-as-good second before sharp decline.   Dio would remind you, this was a BAND, not a MAN, but we all know different.  It's not like Dio could swap o...

  Artist: Black Sabbath Title: Past Lives Label: Sanctuary Records/Divine Recordings Format: 2CD Cat: SANDP138 Year of Release:2002 Country and Year of Edition: UK 2002 limited edition gatefold digipak with guitar pick Sell Price: $9.99 12/23/22  VG+/VG+ guitar pick still there Discogs Last Sold: 10/22/22 NM/NM $4.30 Low:$3.19 Median: $8.59 Average: $9.20 High: $16.65 Current low price: $5.91 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 34 Have/Want: 1230/100 Where Sold: Johnstown, OH Time it took to sell:  10 years Where and When Purchased:  internet new when it came out Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No "Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home..." -Emily Dickinson Past Lives was a fancy high end version of the NEMS quasi bootleg from 1980, Live At Last with fold out digipak, mini-poster and a guitar pick. Live At Last was in all the cutout bins growing up for nice and cheap.  Apparently the band didn't know it was issued yet it...

  Artist: Dio Title: The Last In Line Label: Warner Bros. Format: CD Cat #: 9 25100-2 Year of Release: 1984 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 80's CD issue Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 3/21/22 Sell Price: $5.99 Discogs Last Sold: 12/30/21 $4.40 Low: $4.00 Median: $5.75 Average: $6.61 High: $14.95 Current low price: $3.99 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 18 Have/Want: 1058/114 Where Sold: Lancaster, OH Time it took to sell: 11 years Where and When Bought: record club? Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No "We're all born upon the cross..."-The Last In Line The final Dio album I liked, The Last In Line capped off a near-flawless run of Rainbow, Sabbath and Holy Diver.  I actually waited for tickets for hours on a freezing cold January morning to get my tickets for this tour when it hit Worcester the summer of '84 with Twisted Sister opening.  One thing I remember was the lights came on after one enco...

  Artist: Ozzy Osbourne Title: Live Mr. Crowley Label: Jet Records Format: 12" Picture Disc EP Cat #: 8Z8 37640 Year of Release:1982 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1982 Picture Disc Listed Condition: VG+/VG taped 1" tear in die cut Sell Date: 6/14/21 Sell Price: $24.99 Discogs Last Sold: 5/11/21 NM/NM $26.19 Low: $12.95 Median: $17.99 Average: $19.97 High: $29.76 Current low price: $27.14 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 9 Have/Want: 112/55 Where Sold: Ridgewood, NY Time it took to sell: 6 years Where and When Bought: Worcester Strawberries new 82 or 3 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No My early teenage self checked the Ozzy section constantly at Strawberries in hopes that this 12" would appear.  With Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman on heavy home rotation and considered "among the greatest albums of all time" to my 12 year old self, I had to have this 3 song live picture disc.  I think my budd...