A Record Store Visit For Metalheads #1 - Princeton Record Exchange
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- For this series I’ll be taking you with me through New York & New Jersey to various Music Stores & Record Shows. Sifting through CD’s, vinyl, and whatever else the stores have to offer. Then at the end I’ll un-bag the loot and discuss why I chose the ones I did. Come on…let’s go to the record store!
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I would like to see another metal shopping adventure
Thanks for the feedback. I’ll keep it in mind.
Tesla have always been just a unbelievable band . Me growing up on the Texas , Louisiana gulf coast we keep that southern rock blues stuff forever in tow . Tesla always had that vibe , even though California boys , they instantly had that Allman vibe . 5 man was a terrific album , the Lodi cover with the acoustic versions of their stuff , classic live album . I still say track on first album , We’re No Good Together is one the best vocals you will hear from the genre .
I hate it when i go to music stores and they dont have a section just for metal.
I hate it when the only section is “Rock” but it has everything under the sun in it so you have to flip through a billion things to find one that you like. 👎
Or they just put it in "Rock."
A top ten of your favorite female lead singers and or all female .bands would be a epic musical education for us all
I did a video called Top 10 Rock Albums Ladies Of The 80’s, see link ua-cam.com/video/muG7DQF7KvE/v-deo.html
I recommend the band Q5- Steel the light 1985, great album with the guitarist Floyd rose. Greetings from Spain.
I’ve got a couple of their albums in my collection
Yes it was great to see just metal releases. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Metal for the masses 👍
@@BrendonSnyder I’m not much into Metal but I do enjoy me some Metallica, Def Leppard, Europe!! Your pal Bill 🥸
fine stuff, well prices 😊👍
The store always seems to do it right
Brendon would love to go there metal my favourite music u showed some amazing albums there 👍
Metal is an underrated genre that is so much more than most people thing. It’s very wide in its style. Good chance even people who don’t think they like Metal have some in their collection but they think it’s “Rock” or something else.
True metal a funny subject to bring up under stand that
I would go bankrupt in that store!
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I ended up buying all of the Burning Starr/Guardians Of The Flame albums, and Jack's first solo album late last year. Highly overlooked guitar player and band! And I get what you mean, it doesn't feel like 20 years ago. To me even the 90s seem recent, but the 80s was long ago...
What kind of stereo do you have for 12000 cds? How much of your collection is vinyl???!
I like Europe Molly hatchet and Rainbow but i can listen to ABBA and Boney M. also
I too like ABBA.
Although the heavier side of the glam metal scene such as QR, TS, Dokken, W.A.S.P., MSG (pre-Robin McAuley) and early Crue are technically heavy metal, I never really considered Bon Jovi, Poison or ANY of the poppy glam metal bands to be genuine metal, imo. Jovi are without question AOR/melodic rock. They were influenced by the likes of Queen, Journey, Styx, Foreigner and Boston. I would NEVER consider Nelson to be metal, either. They also are AOR/melodic rock, imo.
You are 100% on that post, Dave.
Tesla is just rock n roll imo: just because bands came around during the time, doesn't make it a certain genre.
"We are Motorhead and we play rock n roll."-Lemmy
@@briankessler3501 My thoughts exactly.
It frustrates me when bands censor their own album covers like Exodus (Bonded By Blood) & Motley Crue (Shout At The Devil) so they can sell their CD's at walmart or target. They could at least have the "original" art work inside (on the other side of the booklet) so after you buy it you can flip it around.
I agree completely with that.
A brand new record store has just opened up here in Christchurch NZ...and they DON'T have a dedicated metal section..WTF!...Still, I was lucky enough to pick up White Lion "Pride" on record for a great price.
Very good prices on new releases like ENFORCER or JAG PANZER.
I find overall the store has very fair pricing for both used and new.
Oh you did it again….. Princeton Record Exchange!!!!! Meanstreak is an all-female band and I wanna say most of them if not all of them are married to Dream Theater guys! The Acid is pretty decent! Good gets again… I’ll always find something at PREX!
Hey…. Just a little tip- if you are ever hungry. D’Angelo’s Market on the corner is excellent. It’s an Italian deli type place, you can get sandwiches, pastas, full dinner containers. Everything I’ve tried from there is fantastic!
Hey thanks for the tip, I’ve only eaten at Winberries which was good but would like to find some other places.
Hi man! Im from Honduras in Central America I subscribed some months ago, maybe a year. Please everytime you visit a store Share on your video the address. Id love to visit those stores if I visit the US. Cheers!
Glad you’re enjoying the episodes. This store is Princeton Record Exchange at 20 South Tulane Street in Princeton New Jersey. It’s about an hour and half from Sound Exchange in Wayne New Jersey if that gives you an idea of proximity.
Not many left.... especially in the Northeast 👍🏻🤘
I hope the ones that are still left, stick around.
Did you know that best of cd from kiss is an us pressing because grazy nights is not on it, the europe one has the track grazy nights on it
Yes because I live in the US and always check if it’s the UK pressing because I’d rather have Crazy Nights on mine.
Some good stuff. especially Hirax, Midnight, Voivod, Wrathchild America and Bitch.
Always nice to see Betsy Bitch being represented!
Another underrated band that deserves a little more due
Our local Record store/Bar Spectrum Record Lounge put Metal on their own on cd & record. Been on a Mordred kick. Are you a fan of Crossover-Funk Metal band Mordred?
Where can I get shelving like that! If you saw all my music and books in boxes... it's just sad.
Sadly you’d have to find a store going out of business and request it or hire someone to design and custom build it for you. But you can find some similar things online at places like IKEA and Wayfair.
@@BrendonSnyder Gotcha, thanks!
Awesome video! You have a lot of CDs no doubt. I recently started collecting and it’s grown. How do you listen to all your music or do ever save some of it for later so to speak?
King’s X and Savatage. Awesome!
Killer underrated bands
@@BrendonSnyder Absolutely. Two of my favourites no doubt.
Up the Irons!! 🤘🏾🤘🏾
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Doing a record store visit just for metal was a great idea Brendon! Perhaps you can do more such vids in the future! 🤘🏻
Ever listen to a glam band called Nitro from the late 80's. very interesting sound.
I’ve tried but could never get into Jim Gillette’s high vocals. The band looked and sounded like a parade to me. But then I found them in the late 90’s after their heyday. Maybe if I had heard them at the time I’d feel different. The guitar player Michael Angelo Batio is phenomenal. I’ve got several of his solo albums.
@@BrendonSnyder right he has a high voice sounds like the tape sped up & with the guitar playing so fast but he really plays that fast, I have his solo cds as well I remember one u could get your name in his credits.
That Probot cd great find... 🤘👌
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I noticed that you picked up a death album (symbolic) would you be a fan of theirs or are they too death metal for you ?
I like some of their work and have a couple albums in my collection. But I have to be in the right mood for it.
I would be exactly the same mindset as yourself.
That is an awersome store Brendan as a metalhead myself that would be the place to go rock on 🤘🤘👍👍
That thrasher cd rocks
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Very cool! Looks like they had a descent selection and good prices.
Great video. We used to have a great record store here in Indy called Vibes that had awesome Import and used metal sections. That was where I got into a lot of my favorites in the last 25 years. Sadly closed down several years ago.
I like Canada's White Wolf. Very heavy 80s traditional metal band.
I used to have the first album by White Wolf. Weird album cover, but some tasty tunes on it.
There’s nothing like looking at the Metal Music genre while listening to Motown in the background. ✌🏻
Yeah doesn’t that drive you nuts in music stores? Where they play music that doesn’t go along with the clientele.
I'm only a casual metalhead. I like most traditional metal, especially Ozzy, Sabbath, Priest, Maiden, Dio and Motorhead, but the heavier/darker stuff (like King Diamond/Mercyful Fate, Overkill, Death, Morbid Angel, or bands that scream or growl all the way through their music) are just not for me. KD/MF's worship of Satanism turns me off completely, being a God-fearing person of Faith. I used to be huge on glam metal, and I still play and listen to it today, but it's no longer a favorite genre, either. I will forever be an AOR/melodic rock, prog, hard rock (Rush, AC/DC, Zeppelin, Purple, Thin Lizzy, UFO, Uriah Heep, Robin Trower, Runaways, Triumph, etc.,) Southern rock, and general classic rock kind of guy. I just like my variety.
So you’re just a “casual” metalhead…. but in your other posts you definitively said Black Sabbath wasn’t the first Metal band as though your experience with Metal was so deep you could make that claim. Also Mercyful Fate & King Diamond do not worship the devil, it’s just part of an act and lyrically a topic. No more than Slayer are satirists & murderers because of their imagery & lyrics or W.A.S.P. for that matter. Don’t continue with the rumors, facts do matter.
i’ve got nearly all of those Burning Witches cds…good stuff all around
Cool! 👍
I think I'm just going to sit out these Record Store Visit For Metalheads videos by just shutting up and leaving it to the experts (like Brendon) who know WAY more about the genre than I do. The comments I posted about the birth of metal made me look like a fool. I say I am a casual metalhead. I mean I like metal, and I listen to it. I like the iconic traditional classic metal artists (Ozzy, Sabbath, Priest, Maiden, Dio, Motorhead, Queensryche, Saxon, Voivod, Leatherwolf, etc.,) progressive metal, female-fronted metal (including more modern symphonic and melodic metal artists like Nightwish, Lacuna Coil, Within Temptation, Epica and The Dark Element) and of course the Big 6 of thrash (the Big 4 plus Testament and Metal Church.) I'm still even into female-fronted glam metal artists and the heavier side of glam metal (early Crue, QR, GN'R, Dokken, Ratt, TS, W.A.S.P., Y&T, Scorpions, Kix, Skid Row, Bang Tango, Victory and others like them.) But metal is NOT really my main genre, while classic rock is. Metal albums are very collectable and expensive (sometimes unaffordable,) with exception of a few. But that being said, I am an amateur when it comes to metal. In fact, I'm a very opinionated amateur. So I've really NO business being here.
Sounds like you’re a bigger Metalhead than you think you are. But I take your meaning. I’d say my main interest is Rock music as well. I definitely own more Rock than Metal.
Acid are from Belgium, they are not NWOBHM and they are definitely not "thrash". Come on now, this is basic
Yes I said all of that in my video but they’re still considered part of the NWOBHM. Ready any history on the band and that’s what is said. 👍
Great classic metal.🤘
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Do you have something of TSA in your collection? TSA beeing my fave metal band.
Who is TSA? Is that the name or is that initials of the group?
SLAYER!! 🤘🤘
The only way to say the name is to SCREAM it! 🤘
Wrathchild America were a great band that I saw one time open for Metallica at a small club in Newark Delaware. I think it was the And Justice For All tour.
Their 2nd album 3D was also good.
I love metal but boy that Platoon soundtrack in the background is magnificent.
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Cool seeing Acid out in the wild like that! Engine Beast is a good record but Maniac their 2nd record is great! First time I heard them I thought Kate sounded a little like Geddy Lee.
Yeah both their self titled and Maniac are great too.
Being a metalhead this was a great video. There is something I have to ask though. What was Motorhead doing at a jazz festival?
Haha…I have the same question! Makes no sense to me. 😂😂😂
I watch every time because I schooled in rock stuff I never seen
Cool! Glad you’re enjoying them!
That wolf vinyl u pick up is really good
Great band!
Another great idea Brendon.
Thanks Randy! 🙏
Burning Star a really good band great guitar work can't go wrong
I’ve got quite a few of their albums. Even the newer ones with Todd Michael Hall are really good.
Cool video. 🤘😎🤘
Glad you enjoyed it! 🤘
Great segment 😊😊
Thanks Richard!
U talk about metal the lighter side of metal nothing really heavy still a u tube show u have watch it all the time am a big time metal head myself
I’m not a fan of Death, Grindcore, and stuff like that.
Many people say Black Sabbath is the band that began metal. However, I had the Hit Parader 20th Anniversary of metal magazine issue from 1988. And there was an interview with Ozzy where he said while Sabbath very well might be the very first traditional metal band, he does NOT credit them for beginning the genre. He mentioned that metal has its roots, as in metal's influences. Sabbath is NOT the very roots of metal, according to Ozzy. Every interview I have heard him speak, especially during his multiple MTV and Rockline appearances, Ozzy said "there would be NO Black Sabbath if there were NO Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple or the Beatles. There was actually heavy rock music before metal (Ozzy made reference to "Helter Skelter," which is his favorite song by his favorite band.)" I couldn't agree more with Ozzy. There would be NO metal if NOT for Hendrix, Zeppelin, Purple, Iron Butterfly, Beatles or ANY of the heavier bands from the British Invasion. Very based comment. There is a lot of truth to that. Even Dee Snider during his House of Hair show includes a "Greasy Roots of Metal" feature. Dee has played NOT only Sabbath, Zeppelin and Purple, but the heavy songs that came (before Sabbath,) including "Helter Skelter." He has also played heavy 60s songs by The Rolling Stones, The Who and Cream. Ozzy and Dee are not alone. Several other metal icons like Bruce Dickinson and Rob Halford have cited heavy non-metal bands that came before metal. They too have said that people don't realize how heavy of a song "Helter Skelter" was back in the day. Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante cites Ringo Starr as one of his Top 5 drummers (like Ozzy and other metal icons mentioned above, he referenced "Helter Skelter.") And Metallica were influenced by Queen, who are NOT typically heavy metal, although they clearly inspired the glam metal movement. Bret Michaels of Poison said his band was influenced by NOT only Slade, Kiss, Alice Cooper, Van Halen and Queen, but also The Beatles and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Yeah I don’t go by that. Also it’s just Ozzy and the band being humble IMO. Yes there are proto-Metal bands that came before Black Sabbath that were heavy, durgy, and played dark music. But none of them did it like Sabbath. They are the FIRST Metal band IMO and most anyone you ask including documentary film maker Sam Dunn. Check out his film Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey and also his VH1 tv series called Metal Evolution. I find the outside interpretation far more reliable due to all the research, interviews, and experience that went into both projects. 👍
Sabbath started metal nothing sounded like that debut album...
@@BrendonSnyder I think I saw that documentary when it first came out back in the days. I get what Sam Dunn, Martin Popoff and all the other metal experts are saying. But, if I recall, Dunn and the others behind the creation of that film make little to no mention of where the genre got its heavy sound, or what inspired or compelled Ozzy and Sabbath to create that sound (and I do hear "Helter Skelter" and Zeppelin in Sabbath's music.) The genre's influences are barely mentioned. So unfortunately, I do go by looking at the roots and influences of the genre. And I agree with Ozzy and other metal icons of what they said. You cannot have metal if you didn't have the proto-metal or heavy rock that preceded it. And, imo, those are what seeded and rooted the genre. You know, one thing leads to another. That's just an opinion.
@@anti7928 Yes. But they are NOT the very roots of metal, imo. Metal was clearly influenced (and seeded) by the heavy rock that preceded the genre. Ozzy credits "Helter Skelter" in almost every interview, especially his ones on Rockline. And you fail to mention the other music that inspired Sabbath to create the heavier music that would become the metal genre. Sabbath may very well be the pioneers and originators of metal, but they're NOT the godfathers of metal. The proto-metal scene preceded Sabbath, most notably Zeppelin, Purple and even King Crimson ("21st Century Schizoid Man," which Ozzy covered 2 decades ago, was pretty heavy for 1968.) It's so unbelievable that most metalheads almost never credit or make ANY mention the band's heavier side of their roots and influences. Metal did NOT just come out of the blue. It had to be influenced by a heavy sound that preceded it.
Raven's new album is killer (as are the last two or three they put out, especially Metal City). Very underrated band that can't seem to get a break. But the Gallagher brothers are in their 70s (!!) and still tearing it up. Also the Enforcer & Metal Church are great!
Cool bit of trivia -- 3 of the 4 ladies from the thrash band Meanstreak married guys from Dream Theater.
Do you only listen to Metal ? Insn't it very tiring ? I think you should listen to others sounds, like post-punk, indie-rock among others styles, it would be good to get to know them better and not get stuck in just one field.
Watch some of the other videos on my channel before assuming I only listen to Metal.
@@BrendonSnyder l watch all your vídeos, and yes, 90% of what you listen to are Glam, trash, prog, grind, speed, AOR..and other styles added to Heavy Metal...but, thats ok man, i like to...take care.
Master of Puppets will undoubtedly always be top 5.
What 4 albums could possibly beat it? I’m curious. IMO I don’t even think Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden can compete with it.
@@BrendonSnyder I agree. Possibly # 1 all time…there a few Black Metal classics I’d have up there & dunno about u but for me personally I’ve always loved Seasons in the Abyss! Great vid ~ enjoyed watching.
Iron Maiden-Piece of Mind
Black Sabbath-Sabotage
Both give Master of Puppets a run for their money.
And not slagging on Metallica cd either.