I put picture just normally on my wall kind of like a poster and then have the CD tell listen to...good finds🤘☕🚬

I know you're right about the "big" Dark Star song being Lady of Mars, but the one that always gets stuck in my head is Captain America. Next time you listen to Born Again, try to put out of your mind that it's "Black Sabbath", and pretend it's a one and done private press from a nobody band. It would be a $300 record if it were, and people like you and me would be telling our audience that it's one of the expensive ones that are actually worth it!

@letstalkmetal

15 күн бұрын

LOL you're probably right, I'll re-christen it as BLUE SATURDAY 'Born Again' featuring Tommy Iommi and Ian Gentsworth :)

@dylanzoller9464

15 күн бұрын

Yes captain America. Great song.

Great Pick Ups Alan , great prices on cds as well , Show no Mercy is my favorite Slayer album Hell of a score there, Enjoy Alan, Take Care

@letstalkmetal

17 күн бұрын

Thanks Overkill! Yeah, couldn't believe the price on the CDs, can't beat that :)

Nice Running Wild and Slayer scores!

@letstalkmetal

13 күн бұрын

Thanks! Those were the two best finds I came across :)

I've always loved Born Again. Headless Cross I had to give that album a second chance recently. The first time I heard it was 1996 and didn't like it then but now I own it. Slayer rules forever!!!

@letstalkmetal

9 күн бұрын

Headless Cross took a few listens for me to fully 'get it' back when I first heard it too.

Nice haul sir! At the moment you can get great deals buying CDs, let´s see if this will change like it did with the vinyl records about 15 years ago. I´m glad I still have my old Viking records, I love their debut. They did a reunion album a couple of years ago but it´s not very good although it has Gene Hoglan and the old Dark Angel bass player... I have a Korean version of Kreator´s "Renewal". The original has "Legalize Mariuhana" written on the back, that´s been removed from the Korean one, hahaha...

Nice haul big Al , Rock Candy have done a shit load of remasters , mainly Hard Rock and AOR ... the ones ive got sound superb . Good to see B.O.C get some love , 'take me away' is a classic . Cheers big Al and heres hoping you get born again . 😉

I've been listening to that Dark Star a lot lately, Lady of Mars was my summer anthem back in 2017, hahaha. I swear, you can play that song at my funeral! The Show No Mercy press is interesting, I have a South Korean press of Soldier of Sunrise, which is also from 1993! I think you see that more often with foreign presses in SK. I have a lot of actual South Korean metal records, they have some fantastic stuff! Have you ever heard of any?

I think you did great and it sounds like you had a blast! Anacrusis to start things off, those Metal Blade reissues are great! Snake Bit Love is weak, but the song Dead and Gone always gives me the chills. Looks like you are one step closer of us doing a Flotz album ranking on HM 🤘

Born Again is my favorite Black Sabbath album.

@letstalkmetal

16 күн бұрын

I've heard a lot of folks pick that as their favorite. 'Disturbing the Priest' is a killer song!

Nice deals on those cds alan! personally I really dig born again sacrifice is a killer motorhead album from the 90s one of my faves from that period I will admit though I don't reach for snakebite love that often still has some great songs on it I really enjoyed the overkill deep dive on hm the weekend that would be a great topic for a stream bands that have made 20+ albums it's no mean feat either thanks as always Alan!

Awesome CD bargain there, Alan, congrats! “Show no Mercy” is definitely the king of your haul. It was only last week I came across and snatched a South Korean pressing of Diamond Head’s “Am I Evil” compilation album. It was a surprising find, and as you said, just too neat an item to leave there, so I acted as I was supposed to :)

@letstalkmetal

17 күн бұрын

Oh that's a super-cool find! I've never even heard of an Asian pressing of a Diamond Head album!

THE RODS - Brotherhood of Metal - their best album of the 2Ks IMO. They've added some keyboard backing giving songs a bit more heft.

Bargain price CDs those. Rock Candy is a Magazine and a reissue label. They have a good website with hundreds of underground reissues you know like Divebomb. They cater for the hard rock and glam metal rare stuff mostly. Suffering Hour is a absolute banger! I recently snagged an OG vinyl press of it.

@letstalkmetal

17 күн бұрын

Thanks for the info Mike! I'm surprised I hadn't heard of that label before. Nice score on the OG vinyl!

More cool finds, as usual. I’ve especially enjoyed seeing your CD pickups. Anybody who shows both Confessor and Anacrusis in the same video is cool with me. Speaking of Anacrusis, what a great, underrated band. But, man, they had some terrible album covers. I don’t think that did them any favors during their career. Anyway, keep up the great work. You’ve been knocking it out of the park every Tuesday morning, now, for awhile. Cheers

@letstalkmetal

17 күн бұрын

Thanks, I appreciate it! And I agree re: Anacrusis; great band with some awful cover art :(

Rock Candy Records is a great label for remastering older obscure albums Alan.

@letstalkmetal

18 күн бұрын

Thanks Chris, I don't think I've heard of it before.

Excellent! I love it when the budget is maintained 😂

@letstalkmetal

18 күн бұрын

Me too!

Just goes to show that you never know what you will find at a record show. Great haul!

@letstalkmetal

18 күн бұрын

Thanks! You're absolutely right. I've been to a lot of shows where I was lucky to find a single record that I wanted.

Haha, I've always loved Born Again. It was kind of the last of the great Sabbath albums for me. That South Korean Slayer is too cool. I've got the brown label Metal Blade version as well. Cut-Out's are represented way too much in my collection. They were very common place in the stores 40-45 years ago, and they were CHEAP!! LOL.

@letstalkmetal

18 күн бұрын

Born Again has been a slow grower with me. I don't mind cut-outs too much IF it's unobtrusive, but when the entire corner is whacked off or the art is affected they do bug me.

@Frank_nwobhm

18 күн бұрын

@letstalkmetal Cut-outs were just a way of life. Half price was a great thing when money was tight. I don't mind seeing them as long as it's a clean cut or drill hole. I'll send you a Pic of my Diamond Head 'Borrowed Time' LP. It's the most bizarre cut-out I've ever seen.

@letstalkmetal

17 күн бұрын

@@Frank_nwobhm Uh-oh, did someone get 'creative' with the cut-out mark? I've heard form dealers that metal collectors are a lot more ani-cutout than collectors of some other genres, which always struck me as funny. We're supposed to be the hell raisers but oh, careful how you handle the cover of my Bathory LP! LOL

@Frank_nwobhm

17 күн бұрын

@letstalkmetal I can understand that. Cover art is important to us!! The Diamond Head cut-out was more of a carve-out. They went below the gold promo stamp and carefully removed a rectangle of the printed surface without actually creating a hole.

@letstalkmetal

17 күн бұрын

@@Frank_nwobhm Weird!

Good deals! Certainly don't trip over South Korean Slayer very often.

looks like a great haul. South Korean press of Show No Mercy is awesome, and it's so nice you got a good mix of CD's for that price.

Born Again is vastly under-rated

@letstalkmetal

18 күн бұрын

Some folks love it and others hate it. I've warmed up to it... there's a 'Keep It Warm' joke there somewhere but I can't spot it right now LOL

Nice haul, Alan! Especially the Running Wild.

@seagullpoet

18 күн бұрын

Running Wild = good German metal !

@letstalkmetal

18 күн бұрын

Thanks Gregg! It played great, just had to tape that seam split.

@letstalkmetal

18 күн бұрын

@@seagullpoet One of the best Metal bands from one of the best Metal countries

I wonder if '93 was the first time Show No Mercy was pressed in South Korea. They were a totalitarian state when it was first released. Wonder if they were strict enough to have banned music like Slayer.

Im not surprised people were buying less and cd sales were up. Vinyl prices have just about hit their ceiling in my opinion. You can almost buy 3 cds to one vinyl now. Depending on the titles. However, cds are going up a lot too. New ones anyway. Im spending on average 20 plus a cd. Keep in mind a lot of these are imports and I’m incorporating shipping costs as well. 5 dollars on average are what people are charging to ship a cd. So I try to buy them in at least 3s or more. Rock Candy is a label that has been around for a while. A great label that has reissued countless amounts of 70s and 80s hard rock, glam, AOR, and metal. A lot of the old Atlantic/Atco titles that were never re released by that big label. That Overkill Under the influence reissue that Darcy was hyping? That’s a Rock Candy reissue.

@letstalkmetal

18 күн бұрын

Thanks for the info on Rock Candy. While I don't like seeing CD prices creep up I can't complain too much- they've been around $15 for decades. But the vinyl price increase has been crazy; I rarely even look at new-release vinyl anymore. Like you said, I can get 2-3 cds for the same price.

In the UK fairs I attend there seems to be a proliferation of bootlegs for all genres - both of live albums and officially released albums - and a lot of cheap (but largely undesirable) vinyls. Typically not much metal. It does appear that the US fairs seem to have more metal - but of course that could be because our community only really visits fairs they know are good for metal !

@letstalkmetal

18 күн бұрын

One dealer told me there's someone in Germany making a lot of nice-sounding boot LPs of more popular, in-demand things lately.

Love that Dark Star! thanks for the reminder, I have honestly forgot about it. Just showed that Flotsam and Jetsam CD, I honestly like it because the of the bad production haha. Never understood why people punches holes in the records or CD covers. Great update Alan.

@letstalkmetal

18 күн бұрын

Thanks Steve! Yeah, I always thought cut-outs were a weird way for a store to mark things in the sale bin. They couldn't just put a different price tag on them? Were they really that afraid of someone peeling a sale price tag off a sale item and putting it onto a regular-priced item?

@stevesekora

18 күн бұрын

@@letstalkmetal I think they are afraid would flip it and make money than them on it 😂. Shame they do that.

@letstalkmetal

18 күн бұрын

@@stevesekora I did that once. A store had cassette copies of the dirty version of SKID ROW 'Slave to the Grind' in the sale bin. I bought all the copies, then sold them to my high school friends at full price :D

@stevesekora

18 күн бұрын

@@letstalkmetal hahaha!! I still have my old cassette copy of that album. Unfortunately my CD version has Beggers Days that replaced Get The F Out. Such a great album.

@letstalkmetal

17 күн бұрын

@@stevesekora That's one of the few times when the replacement song is about as good as the banned song. And I agree, that album actually rocks pretty hard, much more so than ost of SR's colleagues ever did.

Confessor is an all-time favorite band. Would love to have that EP.

@letstalkmetal

18 күн бұрын

The first track didn't play right in my CD player, but when I converted it to an mp3 it played fine, so not sure what's up with that. If you want the CD send me your mailing address and I'll send it to you for free. You can use the Heavy Metallurgy emal to reach me. Just let Marty know why you're emaling.

@zer0ed779

18 күн бұрын

​@@letstalkmetalThank you, Alan! That's amazing of you and I appreciate it.

@letstalkmetal

18 күн бұрын

@@zer0ed779 No problem, hopefully it will play correctly for you :)

@zer0ed779

18 күн бұрын

@@letstalkmetal I will definitely let you know, but means a lot, regardless!

@letstalkmetal

17 күн бұрын

@@zer0ed779 Marty sent me your address; your CD should be in the mail later today. Hope you enjoy it!

You should make a NWOBHM video about Jaguar!

Nice mix of stuff you picked up at the fair. Bargain cd haul🤘I have a few South Korean pressings, only thing with them is sometimes they remove some tracks due to their hard censorship rules, songs with swearing and overtly sexual lyrics.

@letstalkmetal

18 күн бұрын

Interesting, I didn't think about that being an issue but it makes sense. I didn't check closely but I think SNM has the full track list.

Venom disc looks great ! 12:50

@letstalkmetal

18 күн бұрын

Thanks! It's not a good live recording but it is a cool-looking pic disc.

I got a couple of Jingu releases. Not the best, but very collectable

Hey Alan how was the pricing for vinyl and cds? I know vinyl gets ridiculous now just wondering if the vendors are lowering prices on their albums. Thanks! Enjoyed the video! Have a Happy 4th !

Where in North Carolina is this place? I'm in Western NC in Hickory. I was wondering how far a drive it'd be. About the best I can find around is the very occasional thrift shop CD, and it's usual just old glam and thrash metal. I've been looking to bulk up my old-school power metal collection.

@letstalkmetal

18 күн бұрын

It's in Clemmons, right off I-40, about 20 minutes west of Winston. Shouldn't be that far for you to drive from Hickory. They have a show there about every 3-4 months.

My show no mercy play copy is a South Korean press as well but strangely enough a different one

@seagullpoet

18 күн бұрын

South Korea ? Jesus !

@letstalkmetal

18 күн бұрын

Wow that is weird, what's your pressing like?

@vuzkoth

16 күн бұрын

@@letstalkmetal sounds good to my ears. Center labels are different than your copy. I was under the impression it was pressed in the 80s but I have no idea why I thought that.

@letstalkmetal

16 күн бұрын

@@vuzkoth I haven't seen any 80s South Korean pressings listed online, and it sees unlikely Metal blade would have licensed it to S Korea in 83. But a later 80s version is possible I suppose

@vuzkoth

16 күн бұрын

@@letstalkmetal ok my bad it looks to match yours. The other green center label s Korea press is labeled an unauthorized release in Discogs but not blocked for sale. This video and convo helped me correct my collection. So cheers !!

Nice episode, Alan. I completely agree with you on "Born Again", which I still think is all in all a mediocre album with simply aweful production and with Ian Gillan as a singer who A) I was never a big fan of and B) I never liked to hear in Black Sabbath. I recently read a review of "Under Jolly Roger" by Running Wild though in the German Metal Hammer from 1987, in which it received such a bad rating that they basically declared the band's career to be over and literally said that they had shot their bolt with it. Absolutely cringeworthy how the German Metal press at the time was sometimes wrong, because just one or two albums later, the same people suddenly started celebrating the band as if they were the greatest thing that had ever come out of this country.

@seagullpoet

18 күн бұрын

BORN AGAIN - the double cd - red hot. You need to listen to it - at a perfect time - not arguing with wife !

@letstalkmetal

18 күн бұрын

LOL that's interesting about the UJR review. TO this day some people refuse to play that album b/c of the pirate costumes :( I can deal with the production on BA but it is weird. I like GIllan in Deep Purple but less so in 'Sabbath. The thing that throws me off the most about BA are the lyrics- they're downright dumb on many songs.

Man you have good luck finding weird presses of thrash records. First kreator then Slayer. Watch you find a Indonesian pressing of a Sodom record haha.

@letstalkmetal

16 күн бұрын

LOL that would be cool. I was hoping the guy that sold me the Kreator would be set up again and have some more stuff like that but he wasn't there this time :(

Great video, as always, Doc. Born Again ...sigh... I've tried and tried. I can't get past Gillan's dumb lyrics and his caterwauling.

@seagullpoet

18 күн бұрын

Black Sabbath never partied so hard - as during that. Perfect gem ! Unless you drink Bud Lite - nothing wrong with that - or the 🌈

ive also got an Italian pressing of Venom Black MetaL

@letstalkmetal

16 күн бұрын

Very cool! Some titles fro Neat Records got Italian pressings, though I don't know the full list. I think my copy of the 'All Hell Let Loose' comp is Italian.

@corvettemustang1

16 күн бұрын

@@letstalkmetal Ya mine is on Neat

@corvettemustang1

16 күн бұрын

all my korean and the italian venom came all the way to me in Vancouver BC Canada

@letstalkmetal

16 күн бұрын

@@corvettemustang1 It's always crazy how some records end up on the other side of the planet. How did this Korean Slayer end up in Tennessee? How did your records get to Vancouver? Crazy stuff :)

ive got 3 korean pressings Anthrax Perstince of Time // Testament Souls of black // and a real unusual Metallice Garage days Revisited on Mercury label ( not Elecra ) and instead of 5 songs it has 4 songe Last Caress Green Hell is not on it the sound quality on all 3 is great

@letstalkmetal

16 күн бұрын

Cool! Someone else mentioned that Korean pressings are sometimes missing a song due to censorship issues. I can definitely see Last Caress getting flagged by the censors.