Split Time

Another Boy Sets Fire 7" that I picked up. Boy Sets Fire cover two Coalesce songs and vice versa. It also gave me the chance to check out Coalesce again. Sorry, Marcus, but the voice is still so off-putting to me. Can't get into it at all. So, Boy Sets Fire clearly wins this one for me.

Suckerpunch Training

7" from when Boy Sets Fire were still good and Nathan Gray hadn't discovered social media. I really like the BSF song and the cover of Elton John's Rocket man is great as well. 1000 copies on clear yellow vinyl.

After The Eulogy

After The Eulogy is a very important album to me. Rookie was one of the first songs I got introduced to  when I got into hardcore and subsequently After The Eulogy became an album I listened to frequently. I had a copy which I foolishly traded away a few years ago. Once again I thought it'd be easy to get another copy, which turned out to be completely wrong since the price kind of skyrocketed these last few years and even though I love this LP I wasn't going to pay an arm and a leg. A few months ago I found a relatively cheap copy on discogs, bought it and never received it because it was lost in the mail. The seller refunded me the money, so it wasn't a total loss, but I still didn't have a copy. Fast forward to two weeks ago. Another copy for a fair price popped up on discogs and I snagged it right away. Patience pays. This red copy is part of the first press and is out of 1013.

Boy Sets Fire

I don't care what people say about Boy Sets Fire nowadays, their early releases are fucking killer. This is their first ever release on vinyl, or to be more precise it's the repress of their first release. Originally the Consider 7" was self-released by the band in 1996, and Initial Records rereleased the record a year later. Green Hell Records took over the distribution for Europe.
Now I didn't notice there were several pressings, I just was glad to be able to pick up a copy. Otherwise I'd probably have gone for a first press since that came with a 12-page booklet. The reissue doesn't have any inserts and the lyrics aren't printed on the sleeve either. No lyrics at all is always a bummer. The music is great though.