Fleetwood Mac – Rumours Live
Here we are in 2024, and Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours” remains one of the top-selling albums of all time, still sitting high up on the weekly indie store charts. Any store owner will tell you...
Author: cjvinyl
Lol Creme and Kevin Godley – L
My note for this one on Discogs reads “Weird pickup for nostalgic reasons.” Correct. Secondhand nostalgia, at that. I’ve written before about the influence of Cocaine Kurtz on our secondhand listening habits back in...
Bikini Kill – Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
I’ve got a serious problem – my “new acquisitions” shelf is overflowing. In the old days, it was a selection of maybe 30 records that I had recently acquired and was listening to in...
Country Joe McDonald – Paris Sessions
When the COVID lockdowns finally ended and vaccines made travel less risky, I was anxious to get back to Troy, NY. Yes, I desperately wanted to see my child, whom I hadn’t seen since...
Various – Believe In Music
Once again, I missed one even as I was catching up with my new records starting with ‘B’. Or maybe I wasn’t sure I was going to own up to this one? I actually...
Parliament – Mothership Connection
What can I say about “Mothership Connection” that I didn’t just say about “Up For The Down Stroke?” This was one of the first records I bought this year – since 1975, my record...
Parliament – Up For the Down Stroke
Well, back in the F’s, I wrote a whole bunch about Funkadelic. Then I got into the P’s (to show how slowly this project is going, that was last August!), but the only Parliament...
Various Artists – Psyché France Vol. 8
I admit I usually struggle to find a lot to get excited about with Record Store Day releases – sometimes there are three or four things I want, maybe one that I desperately want,...
Louise Post – Sleepwalker
Sure, I can alphabetize. Zoiks. Well, sometimes I just miss a record – in this case, literally because it was right next to the turntable and not on the shelf, because I play it...
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