Vinyl Distractions

Ramblings about My Records

Author: cjvinyl

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'80s / Pop

John Lennon and Yoko Ono — Double Fantasy

Okay. It’s the fall of 1980, a time when my Beatlemaniac roommate and I were living in the apartment building we called The Embassy, on the corner of University and Harrison in Syracuse, just...

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'70s / Rock

John Lennon with Plastic Ono Band — Shaved Fish

So here’s my thing with John Lennon – as much as I thought he was the driving force that made The Beatles rock and gave them their edge (controversial take, I know), his solo...

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'70s / Rock

John Lennon — Rock ‘n’ Roll

In the midst of my well-documented Beatlemania, a state that possessed me, and my roommate, from near the middle of my freshman year at college until well into junior year, and given that I...

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'70s / Pop / Rock

Yoko Ono — Feeling the Space

I’ve been trying to listen to each of these records as I write them up for this project, whether I think I know them well or not. In some cases, that has slowed this...

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'60s / Pop / Psychedelic / Rock

The Left Banke — The Left Banke Too

As iconic as their first album was, The Left Banke pretty much split up before “Walk Away Renee” was even a hit, coming back together and then breaking up again. Various iterations of the...

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'20s / Blues / Rock

Larkin Poe — Kindred Spirits

See my last entry on Larkin Poe’s “Self Made Man” for the story of my discovery of Larkin Poe. One of the delights of this pair of sisters is their obvious joy in just...