Sunny day real estate-Friday 7"

This is has been on my wants list for absolutely years. I used to trade with a guy who joined the pushead fan club twice so he could get stuff for himself (a huge collector of septic death/pushead stuff at the time) and for trading purposes. I managed to bag a number of items off him (which I still have) but he’d already shifted this just before I got in touch with him in 1997.

Skip forward to 2013 and Marcus sent me a message informing me one was up on the bay. I decided it was my time and snagged it. I got it for a fairly reasonable price but got stung on the postage costs. Anyway I’m glad to finally have this in my collection.

 SDRE’s ‘Diary’ is still one of my favourite albums ever. Yes I rank it up there with ‘Those who fear tomorrow’ and ‘Reign in blood’ so obviously I like this band just a bit.

 Like all the pushead FC stuff the packaging is mind blowing . These crappy photos really don’t do it justice. A true thing of beauty.

 Thanks for Marcus for the heads up on this one. I may even trade you that boyzone test press you keep pestering me about.

Magic circle-s/t LP

I remember fellow doom freak Mike posting a Magic circle track onto my facebook wall a while ago informing me that it was a project involving members of Rival mob. Apparently some of the doom purists have been put off by this simply because of the hardcore connections (talk about narrow minded) but this album lives up to the hype and is better than a lot of the stuff released by rise above, Southern lord etc.

 Not sure of the pressing info on this but I had to grab copy and this album is constantly on my ipod at the moment. On the Armageddon label. Get, get, get

Black Sabbath-Sabbath bloody sabbath LP Japanese pressing

I popped in my local store last weekend and found this little beauty. A Japanese pressing of my favourite Sabbath album. I remember hearing this when I was 14. My uncle liked some rock and he lent it me along with  a live Ozzy LP. That was 27 years ago and I can still remember listening to it for the first time.
 Jap pressings usually always look awesome and this is no exception, complete with obi strip.

Violent reaction-City streets LP European tour Red vinyl

This is in danger of becoming a Violent reaction only records blog. When I ordered a blue vinyl UK pressing of 'city streets' on Quality control records.I found out that there were another 100 pressed up on red vinyl for the forthcoming European tour. At first I wondered if I really needed it as I had scored a red copy of the US pressing but then the collector geek snapped in me-of course I did so it just made me more determined to catch them with Hounds of hate in the UK. Apart from an amazing gig I also managed to pick one up-double win. It's more of a clear red compared to the solid red vinyl on Painkiller. So you need one basically.
 I picked up a spare copy -figuring one of my overseas comrades would be after one. No this strictly for trade not for flipping on Ebay. If anyone has a copy of the prisoner abuse LP on clear then that would seal the deal.

Violent reaction-s/t 7" US pressing

Yep, I know I’ve been quiet of late on here but I’m going to try and catch up with stuff-it’s not like I’ve done no record shopping lately or anything.

 Sticking with Violent reaction, I noticed their 7” was getting a stateside release thanks to 6131 & Mind rot records.  I couldn’t resist-100 on white, 200 on red and the rest (600) on black. I own 5 copies now-bring on more represses

Violent reaction-City streets LP

Everyone's raving about the violent reaction LP and for good reason too. It's superb!!! Anyway I'm happy as I got two very limited versions. The first photo is of the UK pressing on Quality control on blue vinyl. Just 100 copies pressed and they went quick as you'd expect.
 The second copy is the US release on Painkiller and my copy is on red. If Marcus considers himself lucky to have grabbed one of these then so do I. I've still no idea how many there are on this colour. Not many I bet. As you can see the covers for both records are totally different so for once I don't feel too silly owning more than one copy of a record.
 So onto the music-it's total UK82 style with hateful, angry straight edge lyrics. Seriously it is. This could have come out on riot city or No future back in the 80's.

Quicksand-Divorce 7" Promo

An old friend came round a bit ago and sold me a load of mainly Metal records but amongst them was this, a two track promo 7” for Quicksand’s second album ‘Manic compression’. Must admit that I never rated that album, I don’t even own a copy anymore. I wouldn’t have gone out of my way for this but since it was amongst them and basically free I couldn’t say no.

 What’s interesting is that even though Revelation pressed the vinyl and Island did the CD, this single is a purely major label issue. I remember owning a 4 track 12” promo for their first album ‘slip’, fuck knows whatever happened to that copy