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to the latest episode of Signals from Mars. I'm
your host Victor and for this episode I bring
you a special Vinyl haul episode. We're going
to talk about some of the stuff, not all vinyl,
stuff that I brought back from the States this
summer. And if we have time, we're actually going
to talk about some of the vinyl that I've accumulated
here over the past year that I haven't shown
on previous episodes. So we're going to start
out with some CDs. This is something that I believe
is hard to come by. It is. Halford three winter
songs. This was sent to me years ago by the person
that's in charge of priests and Rob Halford's
PR. This has been sitting there for quite some
time, folks. Before last year, I hadn't been
back to the States in 14 years. And essentially,
there's stuff that we couldn't fit into our luggage
last year, which we brought this year. Brand
new CD. Have not opened this up yet. This is
Prongs, Ruining Lives. This came out back in
2014. There's a lot of good music on this album.
I bought this at the Sound Exchange in Wayne,
New Jersey. By far my favorite record store.
I've been to plenty. I got to hit the stores
in New York, which I haven't been to. If you
know me and you're from that area, if there's
any stores that you can recommend, I would be
more than happy to visit. All right, so these
are sealed. These are sitting in my closet, back
of my folks' house. They've still got the old,
you know, stickers so that you can steal them.
This is the Batman Forever soundtrack. And both
of these CDs, as it says right over here, they
both have CD. containing a FLIR Ultra Batman
Forever trading card, not available anywhere
else. So the big deal behind this was that I
figured, okay, it's going to be a huge movie.
It kind of flopped. I enjoyed it. I still enjoy
it. It's, you know, it's of its time. But there's...
you know, I thought it was going to be huge.
And I said, wow, the trading card inside of this
is going to be worth much more than the 1298
that I paid for at the whiz back in the day.
Nobody beats the whiz, damn it. So who's on this?
You have U2, Withhold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me,
Kill Me, PJ Harvey, One Time Too Many, Brandy
with... Seeing reflections here. Yeah, hard to
read between the stickers and the reflection.
Anyway, there's Brandy, Seal, Massive Attack
with Tracy Thorne, Eddie Reader, Mazzy Star,
The Offspring, Smash It Up. That's probably the
song that I play most often. Nick Cave, Method
Man, Michael Hutchence, The Passenger. Actually,
I haven't played that quite a bit over the years.
That's the... Iggy Pop cover. It actually sounds
pretty cool by him. Devlin's Sunny Day Real Estate
and The Flaming Lips. I've definitely played
the U2, The Seal, and The Offspring quite a bit
over the years. So yeah, so that's the CD portion.
of the episode. Cassettes. This is funny because
I haven't looked to see if the actual cassettes
are in here. But anyway, Joe Satriani, Time Machine.
It is a double cassette. Okay. I probably bought
this on cassette because it was a lot cheaper
than the CD. And I had this on CD later on. So,
I mean, there's really nothing in there. But
it does have liner notes. All right. Believe
it or not. Liner notes for the cassette. You
see Joe here, man. Looks cool. More Joe here.
Joe who? Joe mama. All right. The cassettes themselves
Are the covers the same yeah covers are the same
but the back are different Yeah, different die.
Yes, they leave You can there's Joe there If
you know When these cassettes were printed, they
had, you know, a smell to them with the ink or
the paper itself. So I'm trying to think back
because, I mean, Joe has been hairless for quite
a long time now. It's just weird looking at him
with hair here. And it's funny because, you know,
like everything else, when a person first shaves
their head bald, wow, they look so weird. No
hair. And the reason why I bought this, the biggest
reason, reason is crazy. The first song that
he ever sung on, if I'm not mistaken. So there's
that. Try to give it to you in an angle where
there isn't too much reflection from the ring
light. Okay. These are on relativity. So cool.
What other tracks are on this? Yeah, that's...
Crazy is the one that I've listened to the most.
That's actually probably one of the most listened
to songs by Satriani for me personally. I think
he's a genius. I really love surfing with the
alien, but I can only take dribs and drabs. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Michael Shanker portfolio.
La colección definitiva. All right, so this was
a Spain -only release by Chrysalis, and this
was my intro to Michael Shanker. So I had often
heard about how great Strangers in the Night
is and what a big deal, so on and so forth. Greatest
live album of all time. Okay, but... What was
MSG all about? You know, the Macaulay Shanker
group was making all this, all the press and
whatnot. And inside really isn't anything, really
isn't anything to be honest, but it's kind of
cool the way that, you know, there's two cassettes
in here. It's in like this. You open it. And
the cassettes are like that. So it's funny because,
yeah, this is a Spanish release. This has been
sitting in the States since the early 90s. I
played the shit out of this. Not going to lie
to you. What songs are on this? All right, so
the first cassette is all UFO. So it is I'm a
Loser, Reasons Love, Dr. Doctor, Rock Bottom.
Too Hot to Handle, Ready to Rock. No, so it's
not all UFO on the first. Somehow the track listing,
I don't remember one of those songs I mentioned.
Ready to Rock, Only You Can Rock Me, Lights Out,
Arbor Hill. No, what am I talking about? Yeah,
this is kind of screwy, Armed and Ready, Love
Drive. There's Scorpions on here, Attack of the
Mad Axe Man, Assault Attack, Ulcer. searching
for a reason rock my night away captain nemo
and rock will never die it's the that's the live
version is that how it actually is yeah that's
so weird that There'd go too hot to handle to
ready to rock to only you can rock me to lights
out to Arbery Hill. And I mean, not for nothing,
but there's. I would personally be having included
on and on or let sleeping dogs like arena. I
love those songs I just mentioned, and I think
they're great. I didn't get to hear On and On
until Eddie Trunk played it one night. Now, what
is this? I instantly went out and bought the
cassette. Cassette's in the next room. I got
a bunch of cassettes. These, luckily, they're
the right cassettes. But they're not in the right
cases. So, by the way, I didn't bring this to
the United States, but Iron Maiden Red, I think
it looks great. This is my box. The box I use
to bring stuff back from the States, usually.
I use smaller ones. Like when I went to London,
I used the smaller one. Make sure that I don't
bump my mic. All right. So let's go with a poster.
Mind over four. This is signed. There's a small
rip there, a crease. This is signed from my old
college radio days. Okay. Now, these were some
promos. These are a bit out of whack. Smithereens,
not very metal, but they are from New Jersey.
This is off of a blow up. So featuring anywhere
you are top of the pops and too much passion.
So this is what, for those that don't know, this
is what would be sent to the record stores and
they would flop these on the wall. And there
was a place up in Hackettstown, New Jersey. I
don't remember the name of it, but you could
buy these for like a dollar. So we would drive
up. I got that. I got. Metallica Black Album.
All right. The Rat 8191 compilation. Remember
this thing? It was the original release of Nobody
Rides for Free. Cool song off of the Point Break
soundtrack. The original Body Count album. It
says on the back, Body Count is Ice -T, Ernie
C, Moose Man, D -Rock, and Beatmaster V. I believe
two of those members have passed away. Ernie
C is the only one that's still in the band with
Ice -T. And I got a chance to interview Ernie
C quite a few years ago. Need to find that. Iron
Maiden, Fear of the Dark. So this was all around
that time frame. So includes Be Quick or Be Dead,
From Here to Eternity, and Wasting Love. Those
are the three singles. Yeah, I don't know. That
album is a hard listen for me now. There's a
few cool songs off of it, but there's a lot that...
of its time. Spread Eagle. Open to the Public.
signed by all four members of the band. Only
two of them are still in the band, if I'm not
mistaken. Ray DeLuca, who is down here, and Ray
West. Paul, and I forget what the drummer's name
was. I apologize. But it says on the back, featuring
Devil's Road, Shine, Fade Away, and Revolution
Maker. The worst interview I ever did, Spread
Eagle. And it's not the band's fault. I started
coughing and coughing and coughing. And I could
not stop coughing. And I asked somebody to go
get me something to drink. And I'm coughing my
head off. I'm trying to play songs. And they
end up coming back. They're like, yeah. I didn't
buy you any orange juice or anything. Yeah, here's
your money. Go figure. Go figure. All right.
Flotsam and Jetsam. Quattro was huge. They just
signed with Napalm. This was huge at the time.
So on the back, gives you the rundown of the
album. Natural Enemy, Swatting at Flies, The
Message, Cradle Me Now. Waiting Through the Darkness,
Double Zero, Never to Reveal, Forget About Heaven,
Secret Square, Hypodermic Midnight Snack, Are
You Willing, Ain't Nothing Gonna, Save This World.
I can honestly say that Swatting It Flies, Cradle
Me Now, Waiting Through the Darkness, and Never
to Reveal got played quite a lot. I had singles
off of this album. where David Allison had co
-written one of the bonus tracks. Interesting
to see. It's signed by the five members of the
band that were in it at the time. Not everyone
is still in the band. AK is, I believe, still.
I could be wrong. All right. me place this so
that it doesn't go flying nice all right so let's
get down to some vinyl so i got back from spain
last year and initially they announced the iron
maiden power slave zeotrope vinyl And they announced
somewhere in time reissue. It was between 60
to 70 euros. So like 65, 75, $80 with the exchange
in currency. I had seen it at Walmart for 20
some odd dollars, okay? 26, 29, something like
that. Walmart exclusive says up here, yellow
vinyl. It's the same damn thing and a 3D poster.
So I just opened this before starting the episode.
So we're going to see this as I'm bumping my
mic for the first time together. I mean, this
was in the old vinyl. yellow yellow vinyl oh
how lovely how rubbery it is how lovely it is
the um all that outside of the vinyl is the same
as what it was way back when but check that out
so it's the future past It is 3D. I don't know
if you can make that out with the lighting and
everything else. Yeah, you can kind of see it
there. So yeah. So I instantly ordered this.
And they were offering free shipping on multiple
items. I'm like, okay. So what do I want that
I do not have? So my album of the year last year,
if I'm not mistaken, or two years ago, was Rival
Sons, Dark Fighter. This album is great. Funny
it's made in Italy. Making its way back to Europe
for the show. Let me see if I can pull this out.
Oh man, this is stuck. Yes, I'm pre -recording
this, but it's still not fun to have stuff not
work properly. What is this? What is this? It
says a new album including... Is this stuck in
there? What exactly is going on? Oh, this is
a gatefold. So that's what is going on. Okay.
So I thought that I had opened all of the gatefolds
up. I did not, apparently. I like to keep the
plastic on. I will be cutting this out and including
it with the album. And I'm sure that there's
someone who is a connoisseur is now freaking
out at the way that I'm taking the plastic off.
Doing my best, folks. Trying to record a show
here at the same time. So I have a bunch of plastic
that I've removed from the covers. So Dark Fighter.
Check out the gatefold. Pretty cool. Okay. So
clear vinyl, folks. In the reflection of my ring
light and my keyboard. So there you go. It's
a cool album if you haven't checked it out. So
shortly thereafter, aha, does this not go in?
So sometimes when you get vinyl, the jacket is
inside the sleeve. They leave it in the gatefold.
I guess that's up to you to put it wherever.
To stick it wherever you want. All right. And
a few months after they released Lightbringer.
Totally different animal. And I don't mean by
what's on the cover. Just the sound is different.
Really different approach. There's stuff off
of both of these albums that I really like. The
jacket is similar, just black paper. And the
vinyl is just your classic black. So awesome.
So these were waiting for me when I got to the
States. Now, showed you some body count before.
This is Manslaughter by body count. Picked this
up at Factory Records in Dover, New Jersey. It
was 15 bucks. And there was another edition that
I'd picked up. I said, wait a second. It says
$15. Why am I getting charged more? This is cloudy,
bloody red, it says. Let's see. So before I get
to that. Lyrics. Members of the band. Who the
members of the band are, IST, Ernie C, Vincent
Price, Juan of the Dead, Ill Will, and Shawnee
Shawn. Yeah, so it's a different band. And I
believe there's a download card somewhere. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. It's right in there. I have it digitally
already because of the label sending it to me,
if I'm not mistaken. This is what it looks like.
Pretty cool. So the other variation that I picked
up or the other variant was, had three colors.
Instead of being 15, it was like 40. And I said,
well, I said, I'm honestly buying it for the
price because I like the songs I've listened
to. I've listened to quite a bit. And I want
it for the music more so than the aesthetic.
Talk. Beep. Get shot. Pray for death. 99 problems.
Back to rehab. Get a job. Institutionalize. 2014.
Pop bubble. Enter the dark side. Bitch in the
pit. And I will always love you. These are songs
that I've played a lot and I still play from
time to time. I don't know, their last release
kind of left me cold, but I thought that they
were on a really good trajectory. Their catalog
is solid. If you're a fan of some of the earlier
stuff, I would recommend checking this album
out. I've got the album before this on vinyl
behind me as well, Carnivore. Carnivore was either
before or after this. It might have been after
because it's 2014. But both albums are really
solid. I recommend both. I think they both have
a lot of really cool songs on them. All right,
so I'm not a proponent of buying stuff multiple
times. But this is the album that kind of kicked
off me getting back into vinyl. Because it's
my second favorite album of all time. It is my
favorite Black Sabbath album of all time. Came
out at a point in time where it meant a lot to
me. It came out in 92, around the same time as
Kisses Revenge and Iron Maiden's Fear of the
Dark. I played the three of those albums to death
when they came out. This is the only one that's
still regularly in my rotation. But why did I
buy another variation of this? Because when they
first released this on vinyl, they killed the
drum sound. Tony Iommi did not like it, as he
said in his book, so he had it remastered and
turned the drums way down. And the album sounds
like crap like that. I want those big, menacing,
heavy drums as the original mix. I need to compare
this with the other one. The other one is a 2019
release. If I'm not mistaken, the other one was
a 2013 release. You can tell this is 180 gram.
This is some thick vinyl. The back is just the...
album cover. But yeah, so this is a two vinyl
set. If I can get this in there. This is the
exciting part of the show. Seeing me fumble with
Album jackets. All right. So I'll get back to
this later. On vinyl two, we have this picture,
which is, this is the insert on the CD. I played
the CD enough to know that. So many memories
of this album. The reason I love it so much is
the heavy drum sound. It's non -apologetic. It's
in your face. And I love it. As Barney Rubble
would say, love it, love it, love it. This is
not going in. And I don't want to waste any more
time with it. So, yeah. All right, that needs
my attention. Later, folks. All right. One day
I'll do a comparison between both. One of my
favorite albums of the 90s. It is Filter with
title of record. These vinyls that I'm showing
you guys, the... Black Sabbath, The Filter, and
the next few were all purchased at Sound Exchange
in Wayne, New Jersey. Filter back in the day.
This is my favorite album by the band. Like I
said, one of my favorite bands, one of my favorite
albums from the 90s. This is the first time it's
been released on vinyl. The lineup was Richard
Patrick, Gino, Leonardo. steve gillis and frank
cavanaugh picture of richard patrick who is essentially
filter uh the b looks exactly the same oh cool
so it also has girasitol which was on the The
Crow City of Angels soundtrack. 20th anniversary
liner notes by Brian Reisman. We'll have to read
them. There's so much that I love off of this
album. Going from Sand to Welcome to the Fold
to Captain Bly. It's Gonna Kill Me, The Best
Things, Take a Picture, which we used at my wedding,
which I told Richard when I interviewed him.
Um... Jurassital and Can't You Trip Like I Do.
I mean, I've played the crap out of all those
tracks. All right, another sound exchange. Quiet
Riot's Metal Health. The first metal album to
ever hit number one has come on Feel the Noise
and Metal Health, Bang Your Head. This is a great
album beginning to end. Metal Health, Come On,
Feel the Noise, Don't Wanna Let You Go, Slick
Black Cadillac, Loves a Bitch, Breathless, Run
for Cover, Battle Axe, Let's Get Crazy, and Thunderbird.
Yeah, this is the first album to honestly make
me... realized that there was more music that
I was going to really be into that wasn't Kiss.
I bought this on cassette. I played it so many
times at the cassette that the plastic is broken
on the bottom. I didn't wear it out, but I would
take it around with me all the damn time. Just
love this album. Now this, after picking this
up, because I wanted to get more things while
at the Sound Exchange. It is Motley Crue's Theater
of Pain. Crucial Crew, first ever vinyl pressing
of 40th anniversary remaster. Features Home Sweet
Home and Smoking in the Boys' Room. This is an
album that I played a lot. I remember it coming
to Spain the summer it was released. Somewhere
after it was released and searching for it until
I got it. I still can remember the cassette.
The cassette was white plastic with silver stickers
on it. And they're re -releasing this now. They're
releasing a box set. There are lyrics. Picture
of the band. And it's just black, you know, your
typical. Electro vinyl with the stickers on the
vinyl. I've listened to this album a lot. City
Boy Blues is the first track that got me into
including Cowbell into. me playing as a drummer
uh this is one of these out of sequence so city
boy blues um i'm going by memory here because
it says city boy blues fight for your rights
home sweet home keep your eye on the money louder
than hell raise your hand to rock save our soul
smoking the boys room tonight we need a lover
and use it or lose it so city boy blues smoking
the boys room um Louder than hell. Keep your
eye on the money. Home sweet home. Side two is
tonight. We need a lover. Use it or lose it.
Save our souls. Raise your hand to rock and fight
for your rights. I love city boy blues. Louder
than hell. I think is a really. good song save
our souls i love tonight we need a lover i love
and use it or lose it i love home sweet home
i love as well that's so many great memories
of that track when it first came out um i will
not be picking up the box set just can't afford
it it makes no sense for me to shell out all
that money yeah does it look cool yeah but i
got a body count vinyl for 15 bucks That has
the same effect, all right? So that was my U
.S. haul. I've got some vinyl here that I picked
up this year. Here in Spain, I apologize if I've
shown any of these before. I didn't remember
Brain Fart, Old Man Brain. I forgot which albums
I discussed the last time. But we've got Smashing
Pumpkins here. I believe I picked this up before
I did the last. Vinyl Hall episode, maybe it
was included. If it was included, again, I apologize.
I can't pronounce the name of this album, but
I do love a lot of tracks off of it. Eden, for
example, the first song is really, really cool.
So yeah, I'm not going to go too deep into that
one because as I'm talking about it, I'm thinking,
you talked about this one already. All right,
here's another one from the 90s that I really
love. When people say there's no good music in
the 90s, people are just lazy listeners. They're
neurotic outsiders. Record store day exclusive
on vinyl. So who is in the neurotic outsider?
Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols, Duff McKagan
of Guns N' Roses, Matt Sorum of Guns N' Roses
at that time. and John Taylor of Duran Duran.
The cool thing about this album is that each
member takes turns singing at least one track,
and the backing vocals are really cool. This
has a bunch of B -sides as well that are included
as side four. This is produced by Jerry Harrison.
The former member of Talking Heads, if I'm not
mistaken. I'm not messing my names up there.
Inside sleeve here. I'm guessing these were all
the... I have the CD in the other room. I'm guessing
because these are all CD size. I'm guessing that
those graphics are from the CD. Now this is interesting.
Okay. So yeah, so it's two separate vinyls. They
are black, but there's no gatefold. All right.
It's two, two vinyls. One jacket, one sleeve.
I always mess that up. I forget which is which.
I'm sure some of my vinyl friends are out there
shaking their fists. It's this. It's that. Sorry,
guys. I messed it up. Sorry. Another album that
I think is great from the 90s. A lot of people
are going to freak out when I show it to them.
Load by Metallica. I always swore that I was
going to get the box set for this because I've
listened to this so much. And for as much as
other people who poo this on other podcasts listen,
does it compare to Ride the Lightning or any
of those albums? I get it. It's a whole different
beast. It's a different type of Metallica. Okay.
I like a lot of this album. Ain't My Bitch, I
really like. 2x4, I think is all right. The House
That Jack Built, I think is really cool. Until
It Sleeps is all right. King Nothing is pretty
cool. Hero of the Day is okay. Bleeding Me, I
love. Cure, I love. Poor Twisted Me is okay.
Wasting My Hate is all right. Mama Said is eh.
Thorn Inside or Thorn Within is okay. Ronnie
is eh. The Outlaw Torn I love as well. Bleeding
Me is really cool. Probably my favorite song
off of it. So yeah, this is the inside of the
CD. They had Anton Corbin work on this, if I
remember correctly. I mean, that's Total Depeche
Mode, the way that's laid out. Now the pictures
are in the colors and everything. Oh, wow. Uh
-huh. Oh -ho. This looks like an Octoon Baby
from U2, folks. An album that I will not be getting
on reissue on vinyl as much as I love U2. I'm
not paying like 60 bucks for that album. Sorry.
So I just picked up the black vinyl. For some
reason, I thought I had the swirl. But oh well.
Not going to lose too much sleep over it. I appreciate
just having it. And there are some people that
I know that prefer to have the black variant
anyway. Because they say that sonically, it's
better. All right. Let's check out... Okay, so...
The other side has... Similar. The whole Rorschach
thing and black vinyl. And I have, I actually,
I think I have every single one of the Metallica
reissues. All right, so the last vinyl of the
night. If you know me, you know that this is
one of my all -time favorite albums. I love a
lot of this band's catalog, and they've formed
a huge part of the soundtrack of my life. There
are other albums that people profess to love,
like Love Electric, Sonic Temple. But for me,
Beyond Good and Evil is the best album by the
cult front to back. I love those three albums
I just mentioned, by the way. And I love a lot
of their catalog. I think that they really didn't
start to lose me until maybe their last album.
I think that there's really good stuff on. every
album, but this album, there's the gatefold was
waiting for this to be reissued for ever for
ever. I mean, it's ridiculous how much I waited
for this and how I thought it would never come
out. So this is reissued by Atlantic Rhino. This
was released on a road runner when it came out.
So the big single off of this was Rise. But War
of the Process, love that track. The Saint. The
Saint is one of my all -time favorite songs by
any band. Rise, which I mentioned. Take the Power
is a cool track. Breathe is a really cool track.
Nico is a really cool track. American Gothic,
love it. Ashes and Ghosts are all around me.
Man, I love that song. Shape the Sky. Such an
awesome track. Speed of Light. It's really cool.
True Believers is really cool. And My Bridges
Burn. Awesome. Produced by Bob Rock. Hey, didn't
do it on purpose, but two Bob Rock albums back
to back. Black Jacket, once again. But Red Vinyl,
Red Translucent. To go along with the color scheme.
And this is green. Wow, look at that, though.
That's etched. Or at least you can see it. Yeah.
This is like a green bottle. It's easier to see.
I guess it's easier to see there. Is it just
three sides and an etch? Yeah, so it's three
sides and then the etching of the cover. So glad
I have this album. It's one of my favorites.
There will be more Vinyl Hall episodes in the
future. And hopefully you guys enjoyed this.
Want to remind you guys, I'm recording this on
October 9th, 2025. This will probably come out
or not probably, it will come out tomorrow, October
10th, 2025. So if you're watching this live per
se, Friday the 10th, I'm pre -recording this
because of other obligations. Just remind you
guys, we've got the Halloween special coming
up. So send me 10 bands that you most associate
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But it's all up to you. Whatever you deem, whatever
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episode. I enjoyed showing off some vinyl. And
let me know in the comments which vinyls you
liked, which ones you own, which bands you love.
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