Vinyl Noize | top 10

When I was getting seriously into record collecting, it was always with a goal in mind.

At first, I was just collecting LPs. And my major goal was to collect my top 10 favorite LPs. Later, my goals widened to Rev 1-23. But in the beginning, my top 10 LPs was the goal. Here’s the list (as dredged from the recesses of my brain).

1. Gorilla Biscuits – Start Today
2. The Cro Mags – Age Of Quarrel
3. Youth Of Today – Break Down The Walls
4. Killing Time – Brightside
5. Judge – Bringin It Down
6. Madball – Set It Off
7. Sick Of It All – Blood, Sweat And No Tears
8. 7 Seconds – The Crew
9. Slapshot – Back On The Map
10. Black Flag – Damaged

This is from memory, so the the ordering after #4 is probably skewed. You can see how this morphed into Rev 1-23 …

So I spent all my time trying to track down versions of these ten LPs. Didn’t matter if it was colored vinyl, last press, bad press, nasty shape … just as long as I had the vinyl. Over time, I grabbed at least 9 out of 10. The only one I never picked up was the Madball Set It Off LP. That fucker is HARD (to find).

One of the other hard-to-find albums was the Sick Of It All Blood, Sweat and No Tears LP. Perhaps it was the larger label release, but this record seemed to skip most hardcore circles. Or everyone who had one wasn’t letting it go. And I mean the In Effect release, not the Kingfisher re-release on maroon vinyl. At the time, I wasn’t even aware of a repress. I finally tracked it down, and that felt good. Of course, it just lead to the next obsession …