The Psychedelic Furs – The Psychedelic Furs
I’d love to say that I jumped on The Psychedelic Furs the first time I saw it on the display at Desert Shore Records back around 1980, one of the […]
I’d love to say that I jumped on The Psychedelic Furs the first time I saw it on the display at Desert Shore Records back around 1980, one of the […]
For those of us who haven’t lived in major cities, it’s pretty uncommon that our local venues get captured on vinyl by way of live albums. We didn’t have Fillmore […]
As I’ve said, I liked Prince, but I was hardly a fanatic. The last album of his I bought was “Lovesexy” in 1988, and I didn’t follow him through his […]
Just a year after “Sign O’ The Times” came “Lovesexy.” It’s not nearly the revelation that the previous album was, at least for me, and while the tracks are strong, […]
For me, this is the Prince album, the one where his inventive dancey funk energy met rock ’n’ roll and he just turned in maybe the best album of the […]
For the first time since . . . well, maybe ever, I have nearly enough new music from the year that is about to end to thinking about doing a […]
It’s hard to believe this was really this long ago, going on 40 years that Prince was on a level where he could put out a new album every year, […]
There’s no denying the incredible talent and lasting impact of Prince. There’s also no denying that in the ‘80s, I picked up a few of his albums, enjoyed them, but […]
Learning To Crawl was Chrissie Hynde with only Martin Chambers remaining from the original Pretenders – and two years later, Get Close was just Chrissie, three new band members and […]
As with most acts, it would seem, I came late to The Pretenders. Not that I didn’t hear their first two records, or at least the singles. I cannot for […]