Carry On

About a year ago I managed to get (back) a copy of A Life Less Plagued on orange vinyl. It's taken me about a year to track down a copy on clear vinyl for a good price. Finding a copy is not that hard, but people selling it for a reasonable price is. But it was well worth the wait. First pressing is complete now. I'm not going to delve into finding that personalized cover that exists since that was only for friends of the band. Chances of picking up a test pressing of this LP are also pretty, pretty slim. To begin with, there are only 8 of them. Presumably all the band members have/had one, Bridge 9 has probably kept one, and I know of three other people who have one. And no one of them would let go off their copy. I know I wouldn't, either, haha. So, I think I'm all set here.

Stabbed In The Face

Carry On is one of those bands that falls into the category modern classic. And rightly so. Their masterpiece is undoubtedly their one and only LP A Life Less Plagued, but they also released a bunch of good 7"s prior to that. The first one - Stabbed In The Face - is quite different from their later material, mainly due to big line-up changes after that, but it's also good. This is the first press on blue vinyl, with some nice white swirling going on here. The records are all marked in gold pen out of 171.

A Life Less Plagued

This is one of my favourite LPs from the early 2000s by one of my favourite bands from that time. Much better than the 7"s imho. A Life Less Plagued is actually one of the few albums I don't want to skip any songs on. Very rare in my book, cause there's usually at least one song on LPs I don't like.  Back then it helped Bridge 9 getting really big and becoming one of the most important hardcore labels of that era. (For an excessive read on Carry On check Kyle Whitlow's blog). This is the first press on orange /150. I had this record before but traded it years ago to make some progress with one of my collections. I didn't really regret making this trade because I probably wouldn't have got the other record at all. I've never seen another copy of the record I got pop up after that. But I knew right away that I needed this specific LP back in my collection at one point. Took me some time, but sometimes patience is the way to go. The orange vinyl, which this picture sadly does not do justice, looks so sick if you hold in your hands. There are some white swirls in this mix, looks great. Matches the artwork really well, too. This one actually doesn't look quite as nice as the one I had before, if I remember correctly, but it's still a sweet piece of vinyl. Really glad to have this one back.

Roll With The Punches

After passing up on this record for many, many times I pulled the trigger and was finally able to cross this off of my want list. Fun fact, my want list somehow never seems to get shorter, no matter how many records I buy. I wonder why that is... Anyway, Carry On's Roll With The Punches is a great 7". A couple of songs ended up on the LP they released a year later, which is even better than this 7", so you definitely need both of these records. One of my favourite bands from that time. 200 copies on stunningly looking baby blue marbled vinyl.

In addition to the Carry On 7" I bought, the seller threw in this Times Together 7" that came out on Just Another Day records a few years ago. If you read this, thanks again, man. I had never heard of the band, but I really like it. Sounds like a mix between Uniform Choice and H20. Since you can't go with neither of these two bands, you know you're getting something good here.