L7 - Bricks are Heavy

I had been chasing down this LP for some time now, and I saw it every now and again, but it was always really expensive, not that I didn't think it was worth it, but factor in postage, and I wasn't really keen.



About 2 1/2 months ago, I saw this copy from a dude in Brazil (yeah, didn't sound like the best idea I know, but it was only $10 BIN), so I snapped it up. Dude said he would send it Regsitered Post from Brazil, so I figured it was safe right? 1 month passes, no record. 6 weeks, no record. 2 months, no record. I am getting a little worried, but I forget to hit up the dude about the LP. It hits 10 weeks, and it is now too late to do anything (it was too late at 2 months anyways), and I was preparing to write an angry email to the dude about how he'd ripped me off, and it turned up in my PO Box. I was stoked!

I love this album so much. It reminds me of when I was 15 or so, and this dude who lived on the same estate as me, had it in his car (he was 21, a deaset loser, but was keen on the 24 year old sister of my best mate at the time, and he defs wanted to get himself into her. I did make out with her once at the park while drunk, but it didn't go down to well with my mate, or Matt to be honest), and he used to play it heaps, along with heaps of Nirvana, but also stuff like Short Dick Man by 20 fingers/Gillette and Rump Shaker by Wreckx-N-Effect, and one of my all time favs, Jump Around by House of Pain! Pure gold!



Anyways, I pinched the tape one night, and I actually still have it somewhere. I also didn't know that Mr Brett of Bad Religion fame contributed to their songs.



This is in pretty good condition, the cover is nice, the vinyl needs a clean, but is pretty good with no real scratches, but this pressing has no insert. Shithouse.

Samhain - III: November Coming Fire

I picked this up at a record store I hadn't been to before, when I went in to buy some larger LP covers (Ones to fit over my big gatefold LP's), and I had a quick scan through what the guy had. It was mostly Pop and 60's & 70's stuff, not a whole heap tp grab my attention, but he had an old Punk section, and I had a squiz and came across this little guy.



I'll be honest, I haven't checked out Samhain before, and after this LP, I am pissed that I haven't. I really don't know why I hadn't before, I guess I just stuck to Danzig era Misfits, and Danzig's first 3 records...



I paid $30 for this, not sure if this was a good price, but I was pissed to find that it didn't have the insert, which I should have checked, as so many records of this era are missing the inserts, and I did my checks on Misfits Central, and it is indeed a first press. It has a version of Halloween on it called "Halloween II", and this is the only song that doesn't do it for me on the LP, probably because I love the OG version that he did with the Misfits so much.



Anyways, I love the cover art on this, and it is in pretty good condition, and I am sure it will get a good workout on my record player in the coming months. Oh, and I loooooove the pic of Danzig on the back cover. So Dark, So Brooding...

Millencolin - Use your nose EP

Another one of those records I grew up with that I didn't know existed on vinyl. Seriously, Discogs is a help and also the bane of my exsistence!



But anyways, I first got into Millencolin when I saw they play with No Fun At All at the Central Club for $8 in the mid 90's, and I got right into them from there! I bought this EP on CD at Missing Link, when it was a tiny store crammed to the walls with records and a few shirts at the front of the store. I fucking loved that old joint.



I bought this of a bloke in Japan. Only cost me $15 plus $6 for postage. Not bad for an old piece of my youth in 7 inches. The cover isn't in too bad condition, not great but not the worst I have seen. It's on shitty cardboard stock, and the colours are really washed out (that's not just a shitty pic) and the vinyl is shitty and thin, but I don't give a fuck. It sounds like it should to me. One thing though, each side has a different speed on it, so I got shitty, because I hate that, especially with my record player, where I have to take off the plate to chance the speed, but it was just a fuck up in the printing of the labels!



This record reminds me of skateboarding, hanging out in the summer sun, wagging school to skate and just having a much simpler life. Sometimes I miss those days, but not too often...



Stoked to have this, and now I want to get the Skauch EP, which will be pretty easy I reckon...

Refused - Songs to Fan the Flames of Dsicontent (Re-issue)

Early on in the week I got my order from Epitaph of a bunch of re-issues. I'll start with this one, as it is one of my favourite records.





I actually posted about the OG pressing here , So I won't go on about it, but I will mention a couple of things.

It's on Red in this case, and I fucking love Red Vinyl!



The artwork is on better quality stock, and the vinyl is thicker. Epitaph actually rectified something that was my biggest criticism of the OG pressing, to do with the sequencing. They have moved "It's not OK..." to the start of Side B so that it goes with "Crusader of Hopelessness", and I am so stoked they did this, but they forgot to change the labels and the back cover to reflect the change, so the info on all the art is wrong, as it lists the original Track listing. This kinda bums me out, as I would expect an amateur like myself to fuck something like this up, but not Epitaph. Oh well.



Other than that, stoked it is back in print. Now I really want "This just might be the Truth" to be re-issued. I am tempted to try and get the licensing myself for it, as it is a fucking good SXE record.

Baroness - First & Second LP

So many records have come in in the last couple of weeks, but as I said in my last post, I haven't much felt like writing too much.





Here is a record that had long been talked about, but there had been no sign of it for fucking ages. Then old mate from hyperealist starting posting about it on the vinylcollective message board and this motherfucker here started to get just a little bit excited!



Now, I have both the original pressings of these records, but I have to say that it is nice to have them both on one LP. I was also pumped for the updated artwork for the gatefold release. The new artwork has made good use of the original art, but made it look like a good single package. I love to foil printing on both sides of the sleeve, I'm always a sucker for that shit. I bought all 3 colours, but I have decided to just keep the black copy, as I have black copies of first and second. Kind of a nerd like that sometimes.





The songs have been remastered for this re-issue, and they sound rad. A good treatment of what I think are the best work from Baroness.





Stoked.

Nirvana - Blew EP

It has been way too long since I have posted. It's not that I haven't had good stuff coming in, I've just been a bit down lately, and not really feeling like sitting down and writing. I am making an effort to try and get back into routine, but it isn't too easy to be honest.



I got this in the mail not too long ago, from a guy in Seattle (If you're gonna buy a Nirvana record, where else would you buy it from?), and I probably paid a little more that I had too, but I have been chasing this for a while (not a bootleg version either, I really wanted an OG pressing), so I was happy to shell out my $60 for it. I have seen bootlegs at second hand stores before, and they usually go for about the same here in Australia, so I wasn't too worried. As you can see, it still has the price sticker on it, I don't want to try to take it off, incase I ruin the sleeve. It looks awesome for a 21 year old record too!



This is up there with one of my favourite EP's. This was a great band at a great fucking time in their lives, making awesome music.



"Blew" has the "Bleach" album versions of Blew and Love Buzz, Stain was later on Incesticide, and Been A Son is a different version than the one that appears on Incesticide.



Simple artwork, I love the layout, and it just makes me happy to have a copy of this in my collection. Stoked.

N.U.F.A.N.

The second of the 2 Triple posts are from one of my favourite bans growing up, No Use For a Name!

I picked these up from the Fat Wreck store, and they were fucking cheap as shit! I think all up they cost me $15 postage paid. If I were to buy these from a store here, even 10 years ago, it would have cost me at least $20 a piece, so I was super stoked when i hit the cart on the Fat Wreck site.





These are the only 3 records I have from NUFAN, but as far as I am concerned, these are the only 3 records that matter. Anything before doesn't really grab me, asnd anything after Making Friends is soft fucking bullshit, so this is where it's at for me!
I first heard Justified Black Eye on Survival of the Fattest after seeing Lagwagon play in a venue that is now a nightclub. This shit was fast, melodic and had an actual meaning behind what they were saying.





I didn't pick up Leche Con Carne straight away, but I did get The Daily Grind on CD cheap as shit, and I reckon I played that thing at least 2-3 times a day on my walkman. It got me through some fucking shitty bus rides to school.







These records are going to be the basis of my summer listening. I cannot fucking wait to chill in the sun on my back porch with a glass of ice cold Dr Pepper and listen to thems shits!