Happy new year to all my followers and lurkers of this blog, this was supposed to be posted on the last day of the old year or on the first day of the new year. But I was super busy, so I neglected this blog a bit and didn’t even bother to buy any records recently.
When it comes to records, it has been a modest year, with roughly three quarters of the records of the previous years, but that shows in the amount of post I made that are significantly lower than previous years.
That doesn’t however means that it wasn’t a good year collecting wise, I found some great stuff. In the test press department I managed to cope fourteen this year. This includes some of my biggest wants in a while, an Salad Days test. This Black Flag test press is pretty cool too. I did manage to cope quite a few Scream tests too. Mardi Gras 7″, Walking By Myself 7″ and a Complete Control Sessions 10″
These three regular releases are my favourite: Teen Idles 7″, Government Issue 12″ and The Damned 7″
These are records (or digital stuff) I enjoyed during the year:
- Higher Power – 27 Miles Underwater LP
- Hypocrite – These idiots EP digital
- Sparta – Trust The River LP
- Field Day – Opposite Land 12”
- Fake Names – s/t LP
- Run The Jewels – 4 LP
- Coriky – s/t LP
- HUM – Inlet LP
- Hang Youth – Boel Aan De Hand digital
- Ecostrike – A Truth We Still Believe LP
- Don’t Sleep – Turn The Tide LP
- Soulside – This Ship 7”
- Ceremony – In The Spirit World Now (synth remix) LP
- Rated X – United Front LP
- Taylor Swift – Folklore LP
- Bruce Springsteen – Letter To You LP
- Change – Closer Still LP
- United Mutation – Dark Self Image LP
- Supercrush – SODO pop LP
Show wise it was easy, I just went to one show due to covid, No Warning and Pressure Pact played. Liked Pressure Pact more. So they are the best band of the year for me.
My goals for 2020 are slightly ambitious, but I would like to finally get these records:
- Antidote – Thou Shall Not Kill (1st press) 7″
- Articles Of Faith – Wait 7″
- Black Flag – Nervous Breakdown (1st press) 7″
- Common Cause – s/t (blue vinyl) 7″
- Faith – Subject To Change (clear vinyl) LP
- Faith – Subject To Change (white vinyl) LP
- Faith – Subject To Change (4th press $4.00 NO masterdisk etched, if it exists) LP
- Keep It Clear – A Lesson… (record release edition) LP
- Urban Waste – s/t 7″ (1st or 2nd press)