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(originally published 7 October 2014, updated and re-published 30 August 2015, updated and re-published again 25 August 2016) picked up the new rarities compilation Death Resonance last week. kinda bummed that it makes owning the Beyond the Infinite EP redundant by including all of those tracks, considering I dropped $25 to have it imported from Japan and all, but whatever. from top to bottom: - Steelbath Suicide (Century Media 2000 reissue) - The Chainheart Machine - A Predator's Portrait (2003 German re-press) - Natural Born Chaos - Figure Number Five - Stabbing the Drama (US limited edition) - Sworn to a Great Divide (limited edition, if that wasn't obvious) - The Panic Broadcast - The Living Infinite - Beyond the Infinite (B-sides EP released exclusively in Asia) - The Ride Majestic (limited edition) - Death Resonance still missing the live album they released last year, but then I've never been one for live albums anyway. I'd also like to get the 2011 reissue of A Predator's Portrait at some point, if only for that sweet new artwork and owning the bonus track "Asylum Dance" physically (I bought the MP3 of it off Amazon a couple years back).
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updated with the brand new album The Fall of Hearts, of which I just got my pre-order today. top to bottom: - Dance of December Souls (2007 reissue featuring Jhva Elohim Meth...The Revival EP as bonus tracks) - For Funerals to Come EP (2011 reissue featuring bonus tracks) - Brave Murder Day (2006 reissue featuring Sounds of Decay EP as bonus tracks) - Discouraged Ones (2008 reissue with bonus tracks) - Tonight's Decision (2001 reissue with bonus tracks) - Last Fair Deal Gone Down (2011 tenth anniversary 2CD reissue) - Viva Emptiness (2013 tenth anniversary reissue) - The Great Cold Distance - Night Is the New Day (2011 tour edition reissue) - Dead End Kings - Dethroned & Uncrowned (acoustic reworking of Dead End Kings CD/DVD) - Sanctitude (live acoustic CD/DVD) - The Fall of Hearts (CD/DVD deluxe edition) also owned: - Kocytean (Record Store Day 2014 exclusive limited to 2,000 copies rarities EP on trans-orange 12" vinyl) also owned, not pictured: - Discouraged Ones (original 1998 Century Black US pressing) - Viva Emptiness (original 2003 pressing) - "Displaced" (digital My Twin single B-side) - "Dissolving Bonds" (digital My Twin single B-side) - "The Act of Darkening" (iTunes bonus track for Dead End Kings) - "Wide Awake in Quietus" (iTunes bonus track for The Fall of Hearts)
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in honor of the late Scott Weiland, last week I ordered the remaining albums I needed for my collection by Stone Temple Pilots, the band he was best known for as well as one of my favorite bands of all time. the final album arrived today. from top to bottom: - Core - Purple - Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop - No. 4 - Shangri-La Dee Da - Thank You (CD+DVD limited edition; greatest hits compilation also featuring an exclusive track, of which )- Stone Temple Pilots (Target exclusive limited edition) and that's it. unfortunately in the band's 20 year career they created a fairly small discography, but what a discography it was - yes, some albums were weaker than others (No. 4, Shangri-La, and the 2010 self-titled reunion album are usually thought to not live up to the standards of the first three) but all of them were enjoyable and good in their own way. the band does technically have one other release - an EP recorded with, of all people, Linkin Park's Chester Bennington on vocals following the dismissal of Scott Weiland from the band in 2013. I personally don't consider this a true Stone Temple Pilots release and prefer to pretend it doesn't exist. there's also some side-project stuff (Scott's work with Velvet Revolver, Art of Anarchy, and solo career; the DeLeo brothers' Army of Anyone; and the mediocre STP-minus-Scott project Talk Show) but the only one of those I've bothered with is the first Velvet Revolver album. while all the musicians in Stone Temple Pilots were talented in their own right, when taking on other projects they simply never matched the incredible chemistry that they had with one another.
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okay so it's a few days late but that's the postal service's fault. I almost pre-ordered this from their UK webstore for about $40 USD when it was first announced. thankfully I didn't, because less than a month after it was released, I was able to get it from Amazon for $20. great set. I'm pretty sure the DVD is region-locked so it won't work for me, but I bought it for the CDs anyway. I'm a bit iffy on Judgement's remastering, but it's still great to finally own these albums, especially in a package as nice as this. the case is pretty much a hardcover book, and while I didn't get pictures of them, the actual pages inside are pretty cool. full lyrics, artwork, and credits for each of the albums plus some additional commentary and information. I also own a physical copy of their latest album Distant Satellites which I probably could've shown here, but maybe I'll save that for when I have more of their albums and I can do a collection post.
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I've run out of larger collections to dedicate whole entries to, so here's a couple smaller ones put together. this one isn't quite complete, unfortunately. I'm missing the first two albums plus the 2014 Last Stardust EP, but that's because those are all difficult to find (and expensive) outside of the band's home of Japan. I'm fine with missing the first two albums since they predate the trance-metal hybrid style the band excels at, but I would like to track down Last Stardust eventually. incidentally, the album Mozaiq is also pretty hard to find. for a while it wasn't available through U.S. or European digital outlets, and all the CD copies ranged from $30-$100. furthermore, if you were lucky enough to find a CD copy for cheap, there was a pretty good chance you would end up with one of Amazon's awful "manufactured on demand" CD-Rs instead of the real thing. and as if this wasn't annoying enough, it would appear that virtually all the copies of the album available outside of Japan, digital or otherwise, have the track listing totally screwed up where the songs are all shuffled around and don't match what's shown on the packaging or listed online - some copies, specifically the Amazon CD-Rs, even mistakenly include a song by a completely different band in place of the track "Neo-Gothic-Romance". I somehow managed to luck out seriously a couple years back and find a promotional European pressing on Amazon for $7. it does have the track order messed up, but at least it's not a CD-R and none of the songs are missing. top to bottom: - Idolator (European pressing, excludes two tracks included on the Japanese version, includes the music video for "Truth") - Mozaiq (European promotional copy, includes the bonus track "Cosmic Highway") - Epsilon (European pressing, includes the bonus track "Royal Sky", an updated re-recording of "Final Sky" from Idolator) this one is a complete collection, albeit with a far less interesting background than the Blood Stain Child one. Days of Nothing is a bit harder to find than the other two, but I did manage to luck out and get one for about $8. all of these are American pressings to my knowledge. top to bottom: - Days of Nothing - Oionos - Second World as a side note, if everything goes as scheduled, I should have an entry up tomorrow about a very cool box set I ordered last week.
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[originally published 5/18/14, updated 11/6/14, bumped 1/29/15 because I frigging love The Cure] with the acquisition of the Join the Dots box set, I've pretty much finished off my collection for my favorite band, The Cure. I've got all the studio albums, all the compilations, the remix album, the 1978-2001 B-sides box set, and a few singles. really all I'm missing now are the live albums and DVDs, which I've never had much of an interest in. all of these are the various US pressings except for Three Imaginary Boys, which is a Fiction European pressing manufactured in France, and Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, which is a Fiction European pressing manufactured in West Germany. left stack, top to bottom: - Three Imaginary Boys - Boys Don't Cry (American version of Three Imaginary Boys with altered tracklist) - Seventeen Seconds - Faith - fourth album idk I can say the name of on this website - Japanese Whispers: The Singles (collection of non-album singles and B-sides) - The Top - The Head on the Door - Staring at the Sea: The Singles 1978-1986 - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me - Disintegration right stack, top to bottom: - Mixed Up - Wish - Wild Mood Swings - Galore: The Singles 1987-1997 - Bloodflowers - Greatest Hits (limited edition with Acoustic Hits bonus disc) - The Cure - 4:13 Dream - The Only One (CD single) - Sleep When I'm Dead (CD single) on the bottom, joining the stacks together: - Join the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities 1978-2001 box set (4 discs, 70 tracks housed in a hardcover 75-page digibook) owned but not pictured: - Disintegration 2010 remaster on double vinyl LP
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upon receiving A Taste of Extreme Divinity in the mail today, I've pretty much completed my Hypocrisy collection. I'm still missing some things - like their first three albums which are different in style and just not as good in my opinion, and both versions of the band's horrible attempt at cashing in on the nu-metal craze with Catch 22 - but all of the core albums in the band's discography that display their unique mix of death metal, melody, spacey atmospherics, and lyrical themes obsessed with the paranormal, extraterrestrial, and horror that make them one of my top 5 favorite bands of all time are represented now. from top to bottom: - The Final Chapter - Hypocrisy (German digipak edition) - Into the Abyss - The Arrival - Virus (CD/DVD limited edition) - A Taste of Extreme Divinity (U.S. limited edition) - End of Disclosure (digipak limited edition) also owned, but not pictured: - Abducted (2003 reissue, owned digitally because the CD is hard to find at a decent price)
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normally I post complete collections, but I'm very quickly running out of those so here's one that's only mostly complete. I'm currently missing the original 2002 version of Nothing, the EP I (which was just reissued last year, but I haven't been able to find it yet), and the Rare Trax compilation. from top to bottom: - Contradictions Collapse (2008 reissue with 4/5 of the None EP as bonus tracks) - Destroy Erase Improve (2008 reissue with the other 1/4 of the None EP as a bonus track, among others) - Chaosphere (2008 reissue with The True Human Design EP as bonus tracks) - Catch Thirtythree - Nothing (2006 remixed/remastered/partly re-recorded reissue) - ObZen - Koloss also owned, but not pictured: - Pitch Black EP (free digital download from Scion A/V, also included as bonus tracks on the 2014 reissue of the I EP)
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got these in the mail today - Beastmilk's Climax LP on 12" candy apple red vinyl and Use Your Deluge EP on 7" clear vinyl. they are beautiful.
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recently bought up the last few albums I needed and finally finished my collection for one of my top 10 favorite bands of all time. left stack, top to bottom: - Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! (1990 pressing which omits "These Boots". might get another copy eventually that includes it.) - Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? - So Far, So Good... So What! - Rust in Peace (one of my favorite albums ever) - Countdown to Extinction - Youthanasia - Hidden Treasures (B-sides/rarities compilation EP) - Cryptic Writings (HDCD pressing) right stack, top to bottom: - Risk (remixed & remastered version. I hate this album, but if I had to choose, I'd say this version is more tolerable because it removes some of the ill-advised synths.) - The World Needs a Hero - The System Has Failed - Greatest Hits: Back to the Start (signed by frontman Dave Mustaine) - United Abominations - Endgame (best album they've done since RiP) - Th1rt3en - Super Collider (Best Buy edition with three bonus tracks and a 3D cover. not a very good album though.) here's hoping that the new album they're recording now will be just as good as Endgame, if not better.
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I got their new album and completed my collection of their only good ones. nope, I'm not missing any albums at all. third and fourth albums? what third and fourth albums? from top to bottom: - Burn My Eyes - The More Things Change... - Through the Ashes of Empires (US edition with bonus track "Seasons Wither") - The Blackening (2-disc special edition with two bonus cover tracks) - Unto the Locust - Bloodstone & Diamonds no, but seriously, this collection is technically incomplete. you couldn't even pay me to buy The Burning Red or Supercharger.
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not to be outdone, from top to bottom: - The Agony Scene - The Darkest Red - Get Darned (European special edition ft. bonus Bad Religion and Dead Kennedys cover tracks) also owned, but not pictured: - "Devilock" (bonus Misfits cover track for The Darkest Red, bought digitally)
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I would've updated this over a month ago when I picked up the new album Siren Charms, but as it turns out, the entire first pressing of the deluxe edition was defective. after a few weeks of waiting, the record label finally offered people corrected replacement discs about a week ago. I received mine in the mail just yesterday. at one point in the past these guys were my favorite band, and this collection is quite possibly the most complete that I own, just slightly ahead of Katatonia - between bonus tracks and B-sides, I've got basically every finished, studio-recorded song the band has released. from top to bottom: - Lunar Strain (2005 Candlelight Records reissue) - Subterranean EP (2005 Candlelight Records reissue) - The Jester Race (2008 Reloaded edition + Black-Ash Inheritance EP) - Whoracle (2008 Reloaded edition) - Colony (2008 Reloaded edition) - Clayman (2008 Reloaded edition) - Reroute to Remain - Trigger EP - Soundtrack to Your Escape - Come Clarity - A Sense of Purpose - The Mirror's Truth EP (German pressing) - Sounds of a Playground Fading - Siren Charms (deluxe edition) also owned but not pictured: - Lunar Strain/Subterranean (single-disc compilation including both the full-length debut and its follow-up EP, sans the bonus tracks available on the individual reissues) - "Discover Me Like Emptiness" (bonus track for Soundtrack to Your Escape, bought separately from AmazonMP3) - "Self vs. Self" (collaboration with Pendulum from that artist's Immersion album, bought separately from AmazonMP3) - "The Chase" (iTunes-exclusive bonus track for Siren Charms) - first press edition of Reroute to Remain featuring variant artwork (black border around the usual image) - a nifty In Flames magnet included with the purchase of Siren Charms through FYE, features the Purpose/Playground-era logo
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band just released a new album (their best in years) so it's time to update this. top CD row, left to right: - Weezer (Blue Album) - Pinkerton - Weezer (Green Album) - Maladroit - Make Believe bottom CD row, left to right: - Weezer (Red Album) - Raditude - Hurley (deluxe edition) - Death to False Metal - Everything Will Be Alright in the End also pictured are my Weezer T-shirt (top) and my blue Weezer Snuggie (in the background). .
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after getting a damaged copy, waiting for a refund, ordering another, waiting an unusually long time for it to be shipped, and then finally getting the final piece needed today, I've completed another discography collection. from top to bottom: - Something Wild (2008 deluxe reissue) - Hatebreeder (2008 deluxe reissue) - Follow the Reaper (US edition) - Hate Crew Deathroll (US edition) - Are You Dead Yet? (US edition) - Blooddrunk (US edition) - Halo of Blood also owned, but not pictured: - Relentless Reckless Forever (I own this digitally. I bought it entirely with free credits I saved up over the summer from an AmazonMP3 promotion a couple years back and I still felt ripped off. I even tried, unsuccessfully, to get it refunded by telling them I bought it by mistake. I absolutely hate this album with a passion and have no intention of ever wasting money on a physical copy. it's bad enough that I've wasted hard drive space on the MP3s. I'd rather just pretend the album doesn't even exist.)
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updated with the band's latest release Pale Communion. from the top to the bottom: - The Candlelight Years box set (Japanese version), includes: Orchid Morningrise My Arms, Your Hearse - Still Life (2009 remastered version) - Blackwater Park (2011 Legacy Edition) - Collector's Edition Slipcase box set, includes: Blackwater Park Dangnation * Deliverance Lamentations: Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire 2003 - Ghost Reveries - Watershed - Heritage (special edition) - Pale Communion *censored for BZP, not actual title
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(click for larger image) 180 gram double LP in gatefold packaging, featuring the full 12-track album remastered from the original tapes. only my second vinyl purchase ever, but it was just $25 brand new at FYE. couldn't pass it up.
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since I mentioned the Pumpkins in my last post, I figured why not. top to bottom: - Gish - Lull EP - Siamese Dream - Pisces Iscariot - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - 1979 single (the B-sides on this are fantastic) - Zero EP - Adore - MACHINA/The Machines of God - {Rotten Apples} Greatest Hits (my first Pumpkins album) - Zeitgeist (Best Buy exclusive deluxe edition) - Oceania owned but not pictured: - MACHINA II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music (digital-only release) - Zeitgeist standard edition - all Teargarden by Kaleidyscope tracks so far (digital-only release) - Batman & Robin soundtrack (includes two Pumpkins songs, “The End Is the Beginning Is the End” and “The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning”) - Zero T-shirt - Zeitgeist “Invasion” T-shirt
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picked this up for a mere $4 in excellent condition. best price I've gotten on a double album since I found The Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness for $5 a few years back.
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[originally published 3/14/14, updated 6/25/14] decided to update and republish this, since yesterday I picked up the band's newest album. still missing the Call of the Mastodon compilation of early tracks, but I'll get that eventually. from the top to the bottom: - Remission - Leviathan (Ozzfest Edition, sans slipcase which the used copy I got sadly didn't include) - Blood Mountain - Crack the Skye - The Hunter (unfortunately the version with "Blasteroid" censored, which I was unaware of when I bought it) - Once More 'Round the Sun
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just three days after ordering it, I've got a copy of M83's out-of-print second album Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts. normally this goes for anywhere from $30 for a used copy to $150 for a new one - but I lucked out and got this complete "Used - Good" copy for only $7 plus shipping, likely because of an automated price-matching bot dropping the price to match an incomplete "Used - Acceptable" listing from another seller. I actually feel like the seller underrated it, too, because both discs look as though they've never been played at all. while this isn't the rarest or most valuable album I own, it's definitely one I'm most proud of owning.
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just sort-of completed my Converge collection. top to bottom: - Petitioning the Empty Sky (1998 Equal Vision edition) - When Forever Comes Crashing - Jane Doe - You Fail Me - No Heroes - Axe to Fall - All We Love We Leave Behind I say it's "sort-of" completed because A. Petitioning the Empty Sky is defective and has to be replaced and B. I don't have Halo in a Haystack, their long-out-of-print debut. I'd like to get the two rarities/early material compilations, Caring and Killing and Unloved and Weeded Out, which contain most of the Halo in a Haystack tracks between the two of them, provided I can find them for a decent price. I'll probably also end up getting the 2005 remastered versions of Petitioning the Empty Sky and When Forever Comes Crashing eventually.
