Welcome one and all to episode 398 of Signals for Mars. I'm your host Victor
and this is the first solo show in a very very long time. Yeah I like to be
surrounded by my friends talking about all types of music and different things
but this was an episode in the making for some for quite a while. I'm stumbling
over words here. It is my vinyl hall. Here we go.
I used to do a thing on Patreon where it would be a vinyl album of the week and
it's kind of like this episode but what I would do is just showcase one album. I
would read down all the details where it was recorded, who produced it, singles
off of the album, what it was known for and I'd show off the vinyl. I know that
there's a lot of people out there that prefer the standard black vinyl because
supposedly it sounds better, so on and so forth. Listen I love music, I love vinyl,
I'm not an over-the-top audio file that's gonna sit there and say yeah this
one that's black. Here you can hear these frequencies that you can't on the
colored or pictured disc. Not me guys, sorry. I'm sure that exists, I'm not gonna
doubt people but my hearing is so messed up that it's funny being somebody
that's been using hearing aids now for six months. Hearing stuff in songs I'm
not talking about remastered and remixed things, I'm talking about mixes that
I've heard all my life and hearing things for the first time or the first
time in a long time thinking wow why'd they mix that out of this song and it
turns out no your ears are so messed up that you weren't hearing that. I also
don't have the setup. My hi-fi lovey is not as luxurious as what other people
may have. Yeah my setup isn't all that great. I'm hoping to remedy that soon
but fact of the matter is I don't have a great turntable, I don't have a great
amplifier, I get by with what I have and I'm not at the point where it's
gonna make that much of a difference for me between the standard vinyl
and the color door picture disc. So yeah so essentially what I did here, originally
I was just gonna do the vinyl albums that I picked up in the States. I was
like well can I get an hour out of that? And then I thought okay well I bought a
bunch of stuff before I went to the States okay but as I'm opening that
stuff up for the episode I'm like wait a second but I have this other stuff as
well that I bought a few months back maybe I should show that off as well. So
there are things that I picked up in 2003, things that I picked up this year
as well. I just wanted to share it with you. I know that there are a lot of vinyl
lovers out there, collectionists, people that like picking up all this stuff and
I hope you guys enjoy. This is again the first solo episode that I've done a long
time. It was pre-recorded so I didn't do it on the fly live like I used to
do a lot of these episodes for various reasons but nonetheless again I hope you
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this episode. Enjoy!
Welcome one and all to the first live Signals from Mars episode in a very long
time. I'm your host Victor and most of these episodes I've been pre-recording
since May up until now. I don't know that I have done any live shows since then.
There is another live show scheduled for next week with some of my patrons. We're
gonna be doing a countdown of what you guys have voted as your favorite albums
of 1988. Got the old man hair going here that's slightly better. Alright anyway
yeah so tonight's episode the vinyl hall will be me discussing some vinyl that
I've picked up throughout the year 2024. We're close to the end of October almost
to the end of the year and there are some things that I'm gonna show you guys
that that I picked up throughout this year some from last year perhaps and yeah
there will be there will be a little of everything going on here so hope you
guys enjoy it there's gonna be different styles of music in here stuff that's new
stuff that's old some stuff that surprised me some stuff that I haven't
opened up until today actually and there will be a box set that that I've had for
a few months now but I opened it up today so it's a complete surprise to me
as to what what will be in the actual box set so anyway let's get things
started with I picked this up a little earlier this year I've found a few
different places that I really enjoy going to and this is a shop that I've
been ordering plenty of stuff from it's called long play it's in a town called
barra caldo which is a suburb of Bilbao Spain in the north and this one of the
first things that I picked up there
I picked up two vinyls I'm trying to remember what the other vinyl was it
may be within this here but I'm not sure and since then I've been getting a lot
of mail order stuff from them anyway this isn't exactly metal but I do love
this album it is smash by the offspring this was a reissue from believe a year
ago or so they had it when we showed up so I picked it up there's one of the
things that I hate about the live stream are the lights do kind of kill stuff
with the reflection but I'll do the best that I can it's just 180 gram black
vinyl I won't show all of the albums but some I will hear and yeah this is
what got a lot of people into the band stuff like bad habit got to get away and
and obviously come out and play keep them separated so all right here is one
from last year it is code orange
it is the above yeah that's what I thought couldn't make it out but all
right above a band that I really enjoy band whose guitarist is currently
playing in Marilyn Manson double gatefold
interesting Mark Striegel talked about how some of the albums that he's had
forever the reissues of dollar colors
all right wow this is a pretty cool booklet kind of whenever I see this this
is like a a CD booklet that's been that's had some growth sprinkles put on
it I don't know I don't know how else you would say it Max Portnoy plays on
this Mike Portnoy's son there is a poster that came with this as well
see we can check out the poster right
here's the poster is the poster all right bumping the mic that's never good
is there anything else special about this final let's see
all right so does their classic logo here this is like a cream color
you make it out that's a grasshopper
I really enjoy this album
believe it came out last year did this come out this year I did zero research
on this guy's yeah 2023 says right there all right so we're gonna string a few
together here because they are from similar bands
so this is Allison Chains jar of flies four times platinum the EP have this on
cassette and I believe I still have it on CD when I saw this was being
reissued I had to have it I mean I love this album I can't tell you when this
came out how much I listened to this just straight up black vinyl it is
remastered by Toby right I believe
could be wrong with that why did I think another Toby right has worked
produced by Allison Chains engineered and mixed by Toby Ted Trevor tab Taylor
Tony Todd Trent Timothy Tyler Thomas Tilly Terry Tito right so that's what I
saw there
worldwide management's Susan Silver that is Chris Cornell's ex-wife so there you
go jar of flies now another album that I've always wanted to have on vinyl I'm
glad they just reissued it it's black gives way to blue I love everything that
Allison Chains has put out I don't think that they've released a bad album in my
opinion this was their return after so many years of being away it just goes to
show you what
a brand is all about because this is 180 gram it is just black vinyl there's
really nothing spectacular about it Jerry Cantrell put out some fabulous solo
albums he just released a new one today which I need to check out of course I
will be checking that out for our October albums
so black gives way to blue Allison Chains while we're at it I picked this
up as well while I was in the States it is an exclusive by the company lids has
this cardboard that came on the inside and oh yeah you lift the brim up and
it's got that the original cover so kiss fan blowing it today how about that
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keep things going and and also remind you that the 1988 special is next week
let your voice be heard folks vote make sure to send your votes in by your 10
your 10 favorite albums of 1988 please keep it to hard rock and metal at least
try to do so no live albums no greatest hits and if you're not sure about the
process you send me 10 albums and well if you send me five I'll work with that
if you send me one I'll work with that but if you send me 10 the number one
album gets 10 points number two album gets nine points all the way down to
number 10 which will get one point I'll tally all the points up and then we will
determine who the winner is for the 1988 countdown let your voice be heard make
sure that your favorites make it and join us in the chat if you're not a
patron and at that point you can follow along let us know if we're right if we're
wrong if you like what people voted for if you don't like what people voted for
it's all it's all up to you guys basically all right let's keep things
going here there's gonna be a common thread with the next few vinyls so
category seven just released this album over the summer still got the stickers
on it but let's see so we've got Jack Gibson of Exodus we've got Michael
Orlando who mostly probably know from adrenaline mob John Bush from two bands
we're gonna be talking about in a second Jason Bittner of you just left overkill
shadows fall is probably what he's best known for and then over here we've got
mr. Phil Demel best known for violence and machine head so this is the storm
surge variant of this vinyl it comes with the trusty
insert here
as all the lyrics on the back there all right let's check out this storm surge
all right so here we go this is storm surge or
category seven
cool album check it out has some songs that I've been playing on my constant
rotation have made my 2024 playlist something that will be voting on also
towards the end of the year in December we'll have a special on that again if
you want to appear on those actual shows you need to be a patron so you can do
that for as little as two bucks a month just mentioned John Bush
how about some armored saint this is La Raza when this came out this is the
first album that I interviewed John and Joey for limited edition reissue
remastered for vinyl it is a white black marbled is what it says here covers
completely white so it's hard to see gotta get there we go all right this is
a single vinyl and let's see if we can squeeze all this stuff in in an hour if
not we could always hold over and do some more another day but similar to the
category seven I guess it is what metal blade is doing nowadays lyric sheet
here I put everything on an angle interesting does oh yeah the band does
appear I have this on CD as well
I think at this point when hands down is the only album that I don't have on
final this is the white black marble very cool really good album was a return
for them and they've more or less been back since they're working on new
material now
let's see the album before this was also reissued it is revelation man this has
some of the greatest guitar crunch out of any album that's ever been recorded
in my opinion they were using crank amps which dime bag made famous
trying to get you with no glare there
let's see all right so this is a double vinyl
this what does this have it has a download I didn't notice if the other
one had a download have it on CD yeah and have it ripped from the CD so I mean
I could still do the download but anyway so this is what I got here for this I
don't recall the actual name of what this variant is I could probably look it
up on disk odds though let's see
it's like a burgundy color if you can tell let's see I've got this cogs open
but this is me okay where's my collection here we go
okay so armored saint
revelation okay so it's just as red okay
and as I said we will keep the John Bush festival going here
it is stomp 442 by anthrax and this is a limited edition clear with blue and
green splatter this is a nuclear blast reissue so this is really cool love
these splatter albums can't always get them because they're so unique as they
sell out this is limited to 1400 copies I have this on CD the date came out for
as much crap as this album has received over the years I've always enjoyed it
but similar to metal blade here you've got this got the lyrics on the back
this album has a lot of good stuff on it whether it's up your alley or not I
enjoy now there was a band once upon a time
that wanted John Bush to sing for them yeah I've got the poster back here but
came back from the US with a bunch of
different vinyls from this band and everything that I've shown up to now is
purchased in Europe so there's gonna be a few that I've picked up in the States
I've got a bunch of these from Walmart and I don't know if the Walmart vinyls
are better worse so on and so forth but I will say this the price point is where
it's at because these albums are 10 to 20 euros more expensive in Europe so this
is Kill em all okay I picked this up for $22 this is close to 40 euros here so
close to $45
this is on limited edition red vinyl which they're releasing in Europe and
apparently in the States it is only available in Walmart at the moment
there's a few other things that I've ordered from Walmart that here in Europe
for example the somewhere in time reissue by Iron Maiden is 70 euros the
same exact vinyl is $29 so it is more than double here in Europe
once I saw that I ordered it right away I have Kill em all on CD on cassette and
now on vinyl
lyrics
and all these great pictures I have the CD used why because I picked it up at
the sound exchange in Wayne New Jersey I believe it is maybe that's not Wayne
but you got route 23 to go there in Wayne so I think I'm I might be off by
few towns but anyway I can't get the insert back
anyway so I bought that used because it had am I evil and Blitzkrieg I wanted
that copy that's what I have this obviously ends with metal militia
so yeah probably with all this discussion of master puppets versus ride
the lightning I'm a ride the lightning guy I don't have master puppets on
vinyl I could have picked it up maybe next time I just listened to this album
a lot more master puppets for most of you that know and for a lot of people
it's sacrilegious what I'm about to say I understand that for a lot of people
it's the greatest metal album of all time to me I like the album but I've
heard it so much that I'm kind of burned out on it but lyric insert pictures of
the band and listen I'd love to get the box sets for these but I don't want to
spend the grand to catch up and get all of these so this is you would expect if
kilomal is red right the lightning is blue
you
all right as I fumble to putting all this stuff away
it's funny I went from thinking can I fill it our showing off vinyl and
talking about vinyl to maybe I've got too much here I'm gonna go way over an
hour so we'll see we shall play it by ear we're almost at the halfway point
here and there's still a lot to go here
Metallica doesn't stop there because
and justice for all and this is a double vinyl it's interesting that they didn't
do a gatefold with this or it's just
two albums crammed into the one jacket here
so erics with a lot of graphics that we all kind of know pictures that I've seen
quite a few times depending on what stage in life I would have told you that
and justice was was my favorite
there's been times where it's right the lightning times where it's been death
magnetic as sacrilegious as that may sound but a green vinyl
and yeah so
there you go
and justice so you think that the Metallica stops here it does not and
probably the most hated album of of the bunch
all right the the dramatic pause there
Saint anger all right so there are songs off of St.
Anger that I really like I don't know how much longer this will be available
on vinyl master puppets I'm gonna be able to get at any time because it is
so popular this not so sure because of how much disdain people have for it
so St. Anger is orange to go along with the cover with the cover the covers
orange
so there you go
we have the
inserts that I have the CD I sold the CD because it was limited edition with the
DVD that suppose it was only released for a short amount of time you can still
get it with the DVD so I don't own the
the CD anymore
a band that Metallica has covered and this is a weird one because this one it
took me a while to place it on discogs it is American Psycho by the Misfits it
is the first album with Michael Graves this was released in Poland and it was
hard for me to track down it's on Plan 9 says Maiden Pole in there at the bottom
some people do not acknowledge anything of the band past Glenn Danzig I do love
all errors of the band so there's that
all right this is from last year this is a hundred eighty gram it is Aftermath by
Angela Sepatrida and I hadn't opened this till today so I wanted to throw this
in there hopefully get to see the band in December they'll be playing close to
me hopefully the stars will align the last few times that they've come close
I've been away at tournaments and different things so here we go lyrics
band photo more lyrics and nothing extravagant this time I mean I have
colored vinyl by them just black I have essentially everything that they've
released and with Metallica I actually have everything on vinyl except for no
I don't have everything on vinyl because I don't have loader reload one I really
like one I don't care for I don't have master puppets I don't have garage ink
although I do have the reissue of garage days revisited you get a quick drink of
water here excuse me
all right so let's move on here with some sacred rike and heel this was their
last album until they released awakening in 2019 this was originally released in
96
so this was produced by Bill Mattoyer and sacred rike
recorded between August and October of 95 this was mastered for vinyl by Patrick
Engel at temple of disharmony in March of 2024
very cool so this is copy 285 of 300 worldwide it is translucent blue steel I
have this on CD so once this was reissued on vinyl I had to have it
this was never released on vinyl back in the day so it's pretty cool I guess you
can kind of make it out for me since I'm looking at it through light through that
ring light it's a little clearer all right
two albums by a band that also disappeared for for a while this is 180
gram it is from music on vinyl it is living color and times up man I saw that
they reissued this and I had to jump on it this was something that I purchased
on cassette back in the day still have the cassette still the CD
and I also have the vinyl obviously
so I'm one this was probably released on vinyl back in the day probably wasn't
extensively released
but man I know vivid is the album that most people turn to but times up is just
so great this has so many good songs on it and they're so varied I mean times up
was a video love ears that's ugly head was a video they played new jack theme
on our Seno Hall I've that on vhs somewhere Elvis is dead was a single
type was a single
solace of you I remember on local radio New York WNEW would play that song all
the time it's so different to the rest of the album so that's what I think
makes it so great is that it is different
trying to get this back into the plastic container
all right but not to be outdone I also have stained I had this on CD I like
this I don't love it as much as time's up but again moved to Europe needed
money and I sold it because it came in a red case and it also had a bonus track
a cover them covering Prince a Prince track called 17 days
180 gram as well just black vinyl nothing out of the ordinary there
you take for granted when you have this stuff on CD and I would have to think
that this maybe never came out on vinyl back in the day I could look it up on
this cogs there was a lot of stuff that was just radio station copies as well
was sent to DJ's and it really didn't really wasn't released to the general
public so there's some of that
yeah put this back in the bag as well
all right so this is one that I've had for a few years but it's been behind me
since like the pre-special that we did 180 gram as download as well it is
defenders of the faith it is one of the all-time greatest metal albums it's just
black vinyl I mean nothing out of the ordinary again something that I've had
and I just opened it so need to play more vinyl how about that not to be
outdone invincible shield limited edition red vinyl
this is so cool seeing this so this is split up as just like two to three songs
per side so it has to be like 45 speed disc one side a is panic attack the
serpent and the king side B is invincible shield devil in disguise
gates of hell side C is crown of thorns as God is my witness
trial by fire
side D is escape from reality sons of thunder and giants in the sky now I have
this on CD as well
and it has bonus tracks as fight for your life vicious circle and the lodger
so there's that so let's look at the vinyl itself
all right that's the double gatefold what do we have here cool thing about
newer jackets is that they also take time to add color to the inside back in
the day that was always just white really cool graphics for each song and
man that's red edition red vinyl
priest has done something that no other band has done really this late in their
career putting out the albums that they've released which is red as well I
mean this is funny because I have Judas Priest socks and they have that same
design the priest cross and all that stuff but yeah to release two albums
back-to-back firepower and to release this one it is really cool it is really
cool it's some great music I mean let's let's be honest that's where it's all
at another music on vinyl it is Widowmaker
standby for pain limited to 750 copies individually numbered gold colored
vinyl first time on vinyl includes insert so this is such an awesome album
I would take this
and the last two decider albums which I also have on vinyl and I would measure
them up against almost any big name metal musicians solo project I mean
what's in the same league some of Bruce's stuff some of Bruce Dickinson
stuff some of Rob Halfords stuff there isn't much more out there
so deal was my very first interview wish I could interview him again pretty much
out of my pay grade at the moment someday maybe the gold
the good the gold the great this is so heavy in punishing this album this is
what I love about it when Dee came back and started doing all this other stuff
and I get it he was trying to sow his oats per se but the heaviness on this
album is where it's at in my opinion so
oops another my kid never good folks never good
all right
another music on vinyl these are all reissues this is an album that's going to
be celebrated live in its entirety which one I spoke to Joey Z for the first time
I asked about that since you're doing River Runs Red how about ugly so this is
a rerelease when I saw this was coming out I had to get it and yeah this is
similar to what Mark Striegel said this isn't like a black black this is like
recycled cardboard so it doesn't have gloss it's kind of a matte finish I
don't know if that was done on purpose or not
I'm sure it was because they're trying to be conscious of the environment as a
result this doesn't you know the ring light doesn't do anything to it but
black vinyl
so pretty cool pretty cool great album though
I know for a lot of people the big thing is their simple minds cover don't you
forget about me but there's just so much good stuff off of here seasons I regret
lost at 22 the other side of the river let's pretend ugly drained how it would
be unstable damned if I do fears and don't you forget about me a lot of this
was played on WSOU back in the day local Jersey station which
did a lot to break a lot of bands especially from the area break a lot of
different metal bands in general so we'll always be grateful to them for
that okay so here is something kind of special because I got to meet up with
Mike Jones while I was in the States one of my patrons good friend and we
discussed about how I had to sell off all this vinyl before moving to Spain
back in the early 2000s because I didn't know what space I was gonna have I
needed the money as well and I thought that the next two albums were lost for
good as a kid my brother bought the Rolling Stone still life on cassette I
played it so much that I broke the cassette so for Christmas one year I
bought him this album for years for the last 20 plus years I thought that I had
put this in a box with the other vinyls that I had sold off without realizing it
I found it and I also found out that when I entered it into this cogs that a
whole lot of people own this and you're thinking okay what's the big deal just
the Rolling Stones live album but it was the first picture disc that I had ever
seen that we had ever owned
so it was awesome and it was funny because I told my brother I found it I
found that I found still life it was in my closet it was under a bunch of kiss
action figures and he says to me oh I thought that was in Spain already
nope but it will be in a few weeks the other thing that I have I completely
forgot about this this is a radio station promo at least that's how I got
it it is the surfers but whole surfers that is hope that YouTube doesn't knock
the algorithm down for that but this is a 10 inch single and the color is
fittingly brown it has this distinct smell that it's always had just the
paper nothing nefarious about it
but just so cool all right but there's two more items that I picked up actually
everything that I showed you guys after the Metallica the Metallica was
purchased in the States except for st. anger I picked that up here this I
bought at the
Princeton record exchange no I'm not getting paid to promote this at all but
nine-inch nails the fragile
it is halo 14 for those keeping score
this is
on 180 gram I have this on CD was one of the only things that I kept that I was
given around the time of my first marriage I really love this album again
booklet with all lyrics it is a king-size version of what I have on CD
so this one side a and B
this is three discs by the way three discs for 40 bucks
it's hard to open okay so that doesn't open anymore
oh wow this was produced by Bob Ezra by the way
if I'm not mistaken yeah I believe it was he's writing about it
but anyway at the corner of nothing and nowhere sequencing the fragile by Bob
Ezra
okay so he says to be clear I played only the smallest part in the creation of the
fragile here's after the project was started and only weeks before it ended I
was invited in as an objective voice to help create the running order for the
album here's the story
Wow this is really cool
all right so this is the
he recorded this in New Orleans I've got the same headphones there's jay-z
interesting
so I guess the original reissue this was 2016 because that's the date of when
that was written either way this is this two and this three so again I got a
triple vinyl here the $39.99 plus tax at the Princeton Sound Exchange seems like
a good deal to me
all right so one more thing I didn't put the protector sleeve on the plastic
sleeve here
got a few more minutes here about eight minutes to go
and if this takes me way too long then I will just do it after because I want to
show this last item off shit I broke it
and I keep breaking it ok
all right so the last item if you've seen the last few shows that I've
recorded with Jeremy you'll have seen this behind me
the Anno Domini box set it is the Tony Martin years 89 through 95
all right so let's see what is in here we have this booklet this giant booklet
while detailing a lot of different things
it's missing eternal idol but I get it because that was a Warner Brothers
release and these are all IRS releases
would have been need if they would have included cross purposes live also but
they didn't
looks like a huge headless cross poster
some of these albums vinyl for the very first time you do have headless cross
you have to hear you have cross purposes
and you have forbidden I have all of these on CD it's funny because I've
listened to forbidden quite a bit I do like what they've done with it
I do think certain things are missing like with illusion of power
if I could get the current mix with the original intro I would be good with that
I can't wait to listen to this stuff on vinyl on a proper turntable where it
will all sound great but I have a lot of vinyl behind me which I can't wait to do
so turntable I have is not the greatest but it's serviceable and I'm hoping to
some somewhere down the road pick up something that's a little better than
that but anyway guys I hope you enjoyed this episode I hope you enjoyed the
vinyl hall episode here I may do this in the future I may do it with some other
guests where we kind of share some of the stuff from our collection and yeah so
some new things here with the live show we have the different streaming stuff or
we have the ticker tape across the bottom ticker tape how do you say it
sorry don't know if I'm without my words here but getting you guys to social
media and the website also posted something about voting for 1988 don't
forget please send your votes in your lists in by Wednesday the 23rd hit me up
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