Red Rhythm

Back in 2015, I fucked up and without doing any research on pressing information, I bought the common black vinyl version of Rhythm Collision's second album, Now. It was an impulse decision and an amateur move, and Marcus didn't hesitate to call me out on it. At the time, Marcus had never heard Rhythm Collision, and it took him about 8 years to finally check the band out... and then quickly pick up some colored vinyl for cheap. When I was visiting him in the UK earlier this summer, he took the opportunity to finally set me straight with a colored vinyl pressing of my own.

Rhythm Collision are just a fun band. They play an uptempo and melodic brand of punk, but they still have plenty of grit to keep it interesting. Definitely a summertime band, and one of the few Dr. Strange bands that I listen to.

No doubt, the red vinyl is the color of choice for this album. Such a good look, and I'm glad that a great friend helped to correct my previous mistake.

Step To Rhythm

Sometimes I impulse buy. I see a record that I want, and I just buy it. No thought. No research. Sometimes this comes back to bite me, when I discover that if I'd spent a little time looking into the records pressing info, I would have made different choices with my purchase. Such was the case with the latest Rhythm Collision record that recently bought.

It blows my mind to think that the last piece of Rhythm Collision vinyl I bought was the Pressure LP back in 2010. What the fuck? When I started looking through the history of this blog, I was thinking that it was maybe two years ago...not five! Damn. Time flies. In any case, after buying Pressure, it meant that the Now LP was the only album that I didn't own from the band. I did a quick eBay search, and found an auction that was ending soon with zero bids. It was too good to resist, and it was an easy win at $6.00.

Then I started looking at the pressing info for the record, and realized that there were colored vinyl options...and those don't go for much more than what I'd paid for the black vinyl. Damn it. Now I wish that I'd had a bit more patience, and grabbed the colored vinyl instead.

Oh well, this album from 1992 is a great shot of uptempo punk rock. Great melody with a raw end that gets me bouncing whenever I hear it, so I'm just glad to finally have the vinyl in my collection.