Tuesday, February 05, 2013

Dead Brain Cells

Two things confuse me on eBay. One is sellers that put records up on eBay for ridiculous Buy It Now prices...it mostly happens with Metal records, and I can guarantee you that no one is going to spend $50 for Voivod's Dimension Hatross album, when the auction price usually tops out around $30. The other thing that I don't understand is when sellers don't post a photo of the record they are selling. Honestly, how many people are going to buy an album that they haven't seen, and can't judge the condition for themselves?

Well, I guess that when the Buy It Now price is right, and I want the record bad enough, I'm the one that will take the chance and buy it sight unseen.

I've been on such a late 80's Metal kick lately...listening to albums from 1987 to 1989 almost exclusively...and my recent eBay searches have centered around Sacred Reich, Flotsam & Jetsam, Coroner, Powermad, and Sabbat. It was the music of my late teenage years...those glory days of Metal...and I haven't been able to get enough from that era lately.

Around '89 or '90, I bought a CD from some Canadian thrash band called Dead Brain Cells, or DBC for short. It contained both of their albums, with the tracklist starting with their second LP, Universe. I found it kind of dull, and rarely found the ambition to listen to the entire 22 track CD. This meant that DBC's first album never really got much of a listen. In the midst of my recent late 80's listening spree, I stumbled upon that first album by Dead Brain Cells. Holy shit! This is total thrash/crossover brilliance! I fell in love with it, and found myself queuing it up on my iPod daily.

In my search for late 80's Metal vinyl, I discovered this copy of DBC's first album on eBay. I was sick of seeing album after album with $50 Buy It Now prices, and even though there was no photo on the auction, I took the chance. Thankfully, it all worked out, and I ended up with a great looking copy. Sure, I would have preferred a Combat Records pressing, but fuck it, I've got not problems owning the Rough Justice import instead.

7 comments:

J@screamingforrecords said...

Hah it's funny mike your listening tends to mirror mine alot. I've been all over the metal lately too. Bands like Dio, Megadeth, Anthrax, Maiden for me but metal non the less

Mike said...

I can listen to Dio every day. As far as I'm concerned, he was unfuckwithable.

J@screamingforrecords said...

Well strangely I never really got into Dio back in the day. I'm having something of a rediscovery of his stuff recently as part of my little metal revival

Mike said...

The man was a king. Rainbow, Sabbath, Dio, and the Heaven & Hell stuff. Such a great string of albums.

Unknown said...

thanks for buying our album! wish you liked Universe though, oh well... Eddie DBC

Mike said...

Hey Eddie! Thanks for the comment. Don't get me wrong, while Universe didn't really grab me when I was 19, I do enjoy it today...25 years later. Great stuff...but man, that first album, that thing kicks ass from start to finish!

Phil said...

Phil here, chiming in too. I have to admit I wasn't thrilled with all the songs on Universe in the end. Some of them we were just jerking off trying to do as weird complicated shit as we could do but two or three songs off that album still give me a kick. Do a few shots of tequila, then crank Primordium. It's my favorite off the album followed by Estuary then Threshold.