I've been trying to sort out that busted hard drive, so, in the interim, I just muddle along, posting things that I find for a buck or two that I think are pretty neat.
Speaking of neat (or Neat): I turned this up at one of my go-to thrift stores for a buck. It had the look and name of real trash, a sampler of cruddy hair metal from the late 80s, slopped together from the back catalogs of major labels trolling the Sunset Strip. But I've turned up a lot of black metal from the same shelves in the past few weeks, and looking doesn't cost a thing, so I picked it up and saw some names I recognized as originating from the annals of NWOBHM: Raven, Warrior, Steel, White Spirit. In the pile it went.
What this ended up being is Neat Records' 1982 cassette comp "60 Minute Plus Heavy Metal Compilation", minus a few tracks, along with four tracks from 1985's "Axe Attack" appended at the end. It's 15 tracks' worth of early 80s British heavy metal, Frankenstein'ed together into a single disc and available for sale in what I assume was your finer convenience stores and truck stops. Prism Entertainment, the label of note here, is better known in my house as a purveyor of Z-grade VHS; I guess they put out some music, too, albeit nothing as righteous as this collection of jean vest wearing head bangers from the early 80s.
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