Youngblood Showcase Pt. 2

This is Blue Monday's first 7" I believe. The earlier material is by far the best from this band. This and the second 7" I recommend to anyone out there.

This is Mainstrike's s/t 7" put out by Crucial Response. Mainstrike was a band from the Netherlands and is one of the several noted youth crew bands to come out of Europe in the past twenty years or so. Good stuff.

This is the Steel Nation 7" put out by A389. This band has gotten worse since this release, but this and some of the other earlier material are pretty good.

I picked this up along with the Where It Ends zine from Deathwish. This is the 3rd press of Dedicated to Babies... I still need to get a copy on White from the 2nd press. It's amazing how popular this band still is despite not touring at all really. Great band regardless.

I was happy to finally get a copy of the Lights Out LP from Sean Youngblood. I heard one of their songs on the Revelation Generations compilation. I immediately was intrigued, dug a little further and was defiantly in to it. I would describe them as a dirty style of hardcore, taking it's attitude from punk but still a pretty hard band.

This is the record release version of Iron Age's Constant Struggle, limited to 195 copies. I got to see this band finally and I'm kind of indifferent about it. It wasn't bad but it wasn't great either. Apparently that's the way it is usually from what I've been told.

This was the big release for the Showcase, Sacred Love's 12" EP. I haven't listened to this yet, but it looks pretty cool. The screen printed cover came out really well and the artwork is cool. These are numbered out of 100 and there were plenty left so I'm sure Sean will be putting them in the webstore soon.

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I wasn't so sure about this record when I preordered. This is the latest The Effort LP from Panic Records. After I heard the Demo Sessions 7" I was a little hesitant to buy any more The Effort releases. Demo Sessions wasn't bad it just wasn't as good as past releases, and with the member changes it could be a bad sign. Well this is a good LP and I'm glad I preorderd it.

This just delivers what you would hope from this band, pure and honest melodic hardcore with meaning. That's about it, I feel like this band just will be something special for me. A lot of people can't get in to it, but I think its really refreshing. Tony's lyrics are as usual a driving force of the band and I feel like the guy has a great niche, but doesn't repeat himself.

As for the look of the record, it's pretty good. Good cover, layout, vinyl color, etc. The one thing I don't get is the insert, it's too small. I like big full size inserts even if it doesn't fold out. Why have a small folding insert when u have more room to make a simple full size insert? Having a small folding insert just comes off like a CD insert, which is just stupid. The poster up top is nice. O yea and one song has a recording from a Sarah Palin speech.

This is the copy of the bonus 7" that came with SFU's Consider It Done pre-order, only this is with a cover for the last show that Dave never made it to. Glad I was able to get this without being there and not having to pay lots to get it.


Here is another press of the Iconoclasm LP from Seasick Records. Pretty simple re-press. I missed out on getting a black copy, idiot. Vinyl looks good tho. It's funny cuz the matrix has the Words of War etchings on it, interesting.

So I traded a very nice gentleman in Belgium my extra copy of Focus on the Light with the US tour cover for his extra copy of Rush of Hope with the record release cover. Great trade, a win-win. This has a Uniform Choice rip off cover, so I decided to put them side to side to compare.


I believe I won this on eBay from Zak at Words of War. This is the copy of the s/t The Carrier 7" with the Ken Stewart cover art prototype cover. Pretty cool and #'d out of 30. Zak also seriously hooked it up with a Built to Last and Masterpiece 7" and an On My Side and At Half-Mast LP. Seriously awesome dude, I hope he puts out some new stuff sometime.

I've been meaning to complete my Get the Most 7" collection. I picked up all three of these pretty easily and in one offer. I've got all of the versions of the 7"s as far as I know, just missing the tests and a few versions of the new LP. Still on the hunt...

So I wanted to order one of the last show shirts from the True Colors website and to make the postage worth it I also picked up a copy of Rush of Hope Powered press. Pretty basic on blue. Anyone know the pressing info?

Soon I'll be posting some stuff I don't have collections of, don't worry I'll give you something to be in to.

Bringing in Spring

It's such a nice day out that I decided to stay in and get around to updating my blog. The first is an eBay win, On Double Vision on Blue. I was happy to pick up the rarest color finally, with only 150 copies it's not something I can just pick up at my local record store.

So I was up in Pennsylvania visiting the lady and she had mentioned there was a store that would interest me in her town, Pass & Stow. So we finally got the chance to go there last weekend and I saw this and knew it was about time i picked it up.

Even if it's the like 5th pressing or something, still something I needed a copy of. Not much needs to be said about this, just something important to have in the collection. Paolo from the React board was selling a copy of the Get the Most tour 7" combo, so I gladly took it off his hands.

This has both Moment in Time and Common Goals together with a cover made for their 2009 Fall Tour, which i don't think even came to the east coast, so I couldn't pick it up in person. The back of the cover is numbered to make nerds just nerd out more.

I picked a few things up from another gentlemen on the react board that seems to be a big verse fan, Matthew Jordan, good dude. All of them are records from overseas, so it was nice to be able to get them finally. First is True Colors Perspective record release cover.

Once again numbered for the nerds, also has this really cool comic on the back but I have no idea what it says. Anyone out there know?

Another True Colors record, Rush of Hope with the Powered Pre-Order Stamp. Happy to have a copy of this.

Also from Powered and also already mentioned in this post, I got Double Vision with the Powered stamp.

Nice to have some pre-orders that I didn't participate in and a copy from a release show that I couldn't attend. The internet is a wonderful thing. Maybe when I have $150 to waste I place an order with Powered finally.

First Test Press

I posted my DTN collection on the D.C.H.C. board and Alex from Grave Mistake Records asked if I collected test presses. I said of course, and yes I'd be interested in picking one up from you. So once I could afford to do so I sent Alex an e-mail and it was in the mail the next day. So here it is ladies and gentlemen, my first test press:

I'm extremely happy with it. Alex did a really cool touch by putting a plastic clear sleeve with the artwork in black as the cover for it. It came out really cool. It kinda reminds me of the plastic pieces that teachers put on overheads when I was in school back in the day.

It is numbered #15 of 24.

Once again someone contacted me about trading for my Alert tour press. Dudes must really be into them. I like the band and all, and I was happy to pick up the tour press, but there are other records I want more. So I traded away my second copy of the summer tour press to get two Get the Most 7"s.

The copy of Common Goals is from the first press, limited to 300 copies. If you look closely you can see some black streaks on the vinyl, left over from the other 700 copies on black. Makes me think there might be some transition press versions floating around.

The other 7" is my first copy of Moment in Time on black limited to 1,220 copies. Nothing special but the insert is pretty cool.

The record didn't come with a dust sleeve, I'm not sure if this is the way Crucial Response put the record out, or if it was a previous owner who took the dust sleeve out. Either way I'm a little annoyed. It makes no sense to me to not have a record in a dust sleeve.

It's About Time

So I've been listening to Get the Most a lot for the past like 4 months at least I wanna say, so I've been after their vinyl during this process and I finally got my hands on some. I won all 3 copies of the Common Goals 7" on eBay and ended up paying less for them from eBay then I probably would have paid for them had I ordered them from Crucial Response. With a bad exchange rate and shipping costs, ordering records from Europe has not been an easy thing for me to do, despite my desire. So this was a nice convenience. I think this may be my favorite 7" they have put out. All of them are solid. This is actually the second press from Crucial, all 3 colors, the most rare being the blue.

Each came with this fold out insert on thick paper, which is rather cool, almost like a poster. I'll be seeing these guys two times in the next few weeks, should be pretty awesome. Hopefully the GTM collection will continue to grow.