Thank You Zia's!!

[SunCityCarl]

You guys may have noticed in some other threads I like to spend my money in town when possible & have purposely stayed out of Wally World, Best Buy & Home Depot. Well Zia's Record Exchange has been here since I moved here & I'd bet 2/3's of the CD's I own came off of their shelves!! I have a Zia Card so I buy something new or used & I get "points" well long story short I bought 1984's Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers CD new $9.99 & grabbed a used Outfield CD to fill in the collection $4.99 & with some of my points ended up paying $5.99 out the door for both!! BTW - they were out of Broken Romeo's Desperation Daze, sorry James, next time or www.CDBaby.com!!

 

[BigRedRage]

I love Zia, been going there since the early 90s, dont buy music ANYWHERE else.

 

[Bert]

What's a CD?

 

[Divide Et Impera]

I lived in a little house on the corner of 9th St and Ash in Tempe when I was like 9 years old. I used to walk to the original Zia Records (and Eastside Records) to get Kiss, Iron Maiden, and Motley Crue LPs. That was in 86. Maybe I was 10 (87). Either way, I've been going there a LONG time and I still only shop there for CDs. My Zia points get me some really good deals too. Go Zia!!!

 

[ajcardfan]

I lived in a little house on the corner of 9th St and Ash in Tempe when I was like 9 years old. I used to walk to the original Zia Records (and Eastside Records) to get Kiss, Iron Maiden, and Motley Crue LPs. That was in 86. Maybe I was 10 (87). Either way, I've been going there a LONG time and I still only shop there for CDs. My Zia points get me some really good deals too. Go Zia!!!

Yep, I love Zia's too. Don't buy CDs anywhere else now. Of course, it's really hard to find many CDs anywhere else. It's always interesting to find some rare used CD that someone sold. I got Riot "Fire Down Under" a couple of weeks ago which I bet I haven't heard in 25 years. An absolutely fantastic American metal classic. Where else could I find that in a store?

 

[Gaddabout]

Back in the day, Tower Records was actually pretty cool, too. They had in-house buyers who were allowed to make personal choices along with the mandatory fare. Zia's was obviously a very different clientele, but it was an amazing time to be a music fan when all those places were still open.

 

[Jttsaz]

You guys may have noticed in some other threads I like to spend my money in town when possible & have purposely stayed out of Wally World, Best Buy & Home Depot. Well Zia's Record Exchange has been here since I moved here & I'd bet 2/3's of the CD's I own came off of their shelves!! I have a Zia Card so I buy something new or used & I get "points" well long story short I bought 1984's Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers CD new $9.99 & grabbed a used Outfield CD to fill in the collection $4.99 & with some of my points ended up paying $5.99 out the door for both!! BTW - they were out of Broken Romeo's Desperation Daze, sorry James, next time or www.CDBaby.com!!

Your kidding me?! Did you ask? I haven't recieved any notification that they were out..wonder if they ever stocked them

 

[SunCityCarl]

Yep, I love Zia's too. Don't buy CDs anywhere else now. Of course, it's really hard to find many CDs anywhere else. It's always interesting to find some rare used CD that someone sold. I got Riot "Fire Down Under" a couple of weeks ago which I bet I haven't heard in 25 years. An absolutely fantastic American metal classic. Where else could I find that in a store?

ajcardfan, Don't know if you heard the bad news but Mark Reale guitarist & founding member of Riot passed away in San Antonio, Texas due to complications from Crohns disease.. 1955-2012

http://www.markreale.com

 

[Divide Et Impera]

Back in the day, Tower Records was actually pretty cool, too. They had in-house buyers who were allowed to make personal choices along with the mandatory fare. Zia's was obviously a very different clientele, but it was an amazing time to be a music fan when all those places were still open.

Tower on Mill/University was EPIC! Talk about a music SUPERstore! They were competitive with Zia in some of their hard-to-find and vintage stuff, but I personally spent 2/3rds of my music money at Zia with the other third split some way between Eastside and Tower.

 

[BigRedRage]

stopped by ZIa saturday. Got the new lamb of god for 10 bucks. smokin deal.

I remember that tower, always liked zia more but i did buy a few obituary albums there.

 

[SunCityCarl]

Your kidding me?! Did you ask? I haven't recieved any notification that they were out..wonder if they ever stocked them

No man I didn't ask. I looked under "BR" & "RO" and on an "indies" endcap... Hey I'll check again this week if not I gotta get some "gifts" from CD Baby & I'll order it from there!

 

[Divide Et Impera]

stopped by ZIa saturday. Got the new lamb of god for 10 bucks. smokin deal.

I remember that tower, always liked zia more but i did buy a few obituary albums there.

Didn't know LOG had a new one slated. I haven't like their last two - Sacrament and Wrath. I love, love, LOVE NAG, ATPB, and AOTW (AOTW being an instant all-time classic). How does this new one stack up?

 

[BigRedRage]

My fav by far is ashes of the wake but I love sacrament and Wrath was cool but I havent gotten to listen to it in a long time, its in my broken down hondas disc player.

The new one seems ok, its no aotw..The first song starts out slow for LOG, almost like a LOG ballad which is kinda funny and toward the end it starts speeding up and thrashes into the next song which is fun. From there, its typical LOG I would say.

I bought ashes of the wake 3-4 years ago because they were at a show I was going to and I wanted to know the songs so I could mosh my ass off. I put the cd in and thought it was garbage for the first one or two play throughs. Then, somehow it ended up in my car for a month straight and one of my top 5 cds ever so I always try to listen before I judge.

Same with pantera, I hated reinventing the steel when it came out but over time it became one of my favorites too.

Sadly anything past diabolus in musica for slayer has been garbage even with a few listens. The new LOG almost reminds me of new slayer, too much emphasis on the voice, louder than the music.

I want to listen through it 5 times before I form an opinion and it would be nice to hear it on a good sound system.

LOG is the only "new" metal band I truly love.

 

[Gee!]

I used to work at Wherehouse Records back when I was a teenager.. Man that was a fun job.. Pay sucked though and I had to go find a job that made real money..

Still think the sign looks cool..

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[BigRedRage]

I remember that. One by metro one on like 43rd and indian.

 

[Divide Et Impera]

My fav by far is ashes of the wake but I love sacrament and Wrath was cool but I havent gotten to listen to it in a long time, its in my broken down hondas disc player.

The new one seems ok, its no aotw..The first song starts out slow for LOG, almost like a LOG ballad which is kinda funny and toward the end it starts speeding up and thrashes into the next song which is fun. From there, its typical LOG I would say.

I bought ashes of the wake 3-4 years ago because they were at a show I was going to and I wanted to know the songs so I could mosh my ass off. I put the cd in and thought it was garbage for the first one or two play throughs. Then, somehow it ended up in my car for a month straight and one of my top 5 cds ever so I always try to listen before I judge.

Same with pantera, I hated reinventing the steel when it came out but over time it became one of my favorites too.

Sadly anything past diabolus in musica for slayer has been garbage even with a few listens. The new LOG almost reminds me of new slayer, too much emphasis on the voice, louder than the music.

I want to listen through it 5 times before I form an opinion and it would be nice to hear it on a good sound system.

LOG is the only "new" metal band I truly love.

Ha! I got ya beat on LOG! I bought NAG probably 10 years ago. I think it came out in 2000 or 2001, but I got it a year later than its release. Shadows Fall, on the other hand, I bought on my birthday in 2000 - the same day it was released (Of One Blood). To this day, Crushing Belial is the heaviest riffing song I have heard.

You say that LOG is the only "new" metal band you like, I would encourage you to get EVERY Shadows Fall album and Killswitch Engage is another one that puts out great stuff album after album....

 

[BigRedRage]

I do like killswitch, nothing like I like LOG but I am a fan of some killswitch. There is one specific song on end of heartache that makes me wants to turn into hulk and smash everything, its awesome.

Not huge on shadows, ive tried them, dont remember what i wasnt big on but I wasnt too impressed. Saw them with slipknot at glendale arena shortly after dimebags demise.

Side note - I thought slipknot would be weak live and tons of teenagers everywhere. Was suprised to be moshing with grown men to an amazing show. Then the drummer had a hydraulic floor under him and did a solo upsidedown with a lit up pentagram below his feet. Epic.

I am way into LOG, one of my top 5 bands to put on. Killswitch may be in top 25-top 50.

In no order:
Pantera
Slayer
Lamb Of God
DOWN

 

[SunCityCarl]

I used to work at Wherehouse Records back when I was a teenager.. Man that was a fun job.. Pay sucked though and I had to go find a job that made real money..

Still think the sign looks cool..

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The remnants of Wherehouse I believe are fye...

 

[Jttsaz]

I used to work at Wherehouse Records back when I was a teenager.. Man that was a fun job.. Pay sucked though and I had to go find a job that made real money..

Still think the sign looks cool..

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I worked at the Wherehouse for 6 years! My ex co-workers are still some of my best friends!Met my wife and my bass player there..

 

[Divide Et Impera]

stopped by ZIa saturday. Got the new lamb of god for 10 bucks. smokin deal.

I remember that tower, always liked zia more but i did buy a few obituary albums there.

I just happened across the new LOG album while grocery shopping at Fry's. I dropped $15 on it. This album is MUCH better than the last two (Sacrament and Wrath). There are sound elements of BTP/NAG, ATPB, and AOTW as well as touches of Slayer and Pantera. They have some experimental stuff in here, which is usually a bad thing (see Megadeth's 'Risk'). In LOG's case, I'm indifferent. I could have done without the experimental stuff, but it doesn't hurt the album. Randy's voice is as good as it was prior to the vocalization changes in the last two albums and they hit it hard on a lot of their riffs.

I still like AOTW best followed by NAG, but this album competes with ATPB for 3rd....

 

[mojorizen7]

Tower on Mill/University was EPIC! Talk about a music SUPERstore! They were competitive with Zia in some of their hard-to-find and vintage stuff, but I personally spent 2/3rds of my music money at Zia with the other third split some way between Eastside and Tower.

I actually worked there for a little while in the early 90's. I bought most of my stuff at Zia's though. I was into the old bootleg Floyd,Led Zep etc... vinyl that you could find there.

These days i get everything(CD's,DVD's,BRD's and vid games) at FYE.

 

[BigRedRage]

I just happened across the new LOG album while grocery shopping at Fry's. I dropped $15 on it. This album is MUCH better than the last two (Sacrament and Wrath). There are sound elements of BTP/NAG, ATPB, and AOTW as well as touches of Slayer and Pantera. They have some experimental stuff in here, which is usually a bad thing (see Megadeth's 'Risk'). In LOG's case, I'm indifferent. I could have done without the experimental stuff, but it doesn't hurt the album. Randy's voice is as good as it was prior to the vocalization changes in the last two albums and they hit it hard on a lot of their riffs.

I still like AOTW best followed by NAG, but this album competes with ATPB for 3rd....

havent listened enough to form my opinion yet. Seems like the vocals are too loud ala newer slayer albums but ive only listened on crappy PC speakers so far. I did notice a "ballad" type song, obviousluy nowhere near a balad but slow and soft for LOG. LOG has always reminded me of pantera with how in sync the drum and guitar are. Main reason why they are a fav band of mine.

No sleep till brooklyn was on the other day, asked my daughter who she thinks is playing the solo - she said Slayer. Proud moment!

 

[Divide Et Impera]

Yeah, the ballad is one of the experimental things I was referring to. I also noticed some shuffle beats similar to what you would find on a Meshuggah album (e.g., math metal). I don't know if they are called shuffle beats, but they are two time signatures syncopated with one another. I don't even know if that makes sense. I need someone like Matt Self in here to try to divine what I mean. Oh well. The shuffle beats are cool because they are backed by nasty breakdown riffs.

Put your ears to this one. It's good.

 

[BigRedRage]

Yeah, the ballad is one of the experimental things I was referring to. I also noticed some shuffle beats similar to what you would find on a Meshuggah album (e.g., math metal). I don't know if they are called shuffle beats, but they are two time signatures syncopated with one another. I don't even know if that makes sense. I need someone like Matt Self in here to try to divine what I mean. Oh well. The shuffle beats are cool because they are backed by nasty breakdown riffs.

Put your ears to this one. It's good.

No too familiar with meshuggah but will comment within a week with my thoughts

 

[Divide Et Impera]

No too familiar with meshuggah but will comment within a week with my thoughts

Don't confuse me with someone who endorses Meshuggah. I don't like them. I am only mentioning their math metal style showing up in spots on the new LOG album. Meshuggah takes a potentially complex timing style to their music and uses it in a formulaic manner. I think they overthink their metal. They are trying so hard to be complex that it becomes repetitive. Also, the singer is terrible. But, check them out and make up your own mind....