Ramblings about My Records
Holy cats. You know how some with some bands, their studio work doesn’t really translate to live performance, and others can’t seem to capture their remarkable live performances in the studio? That is not...
The interesting thing about The Fleshtones is that they seem to live in a world of their own making — a world where “The Vindicators” was a TV show with a theme song, for...
This would actually be the most recent of my acquisitions of Fleshtones records (other than their 2017 Budget Buster). Pretty sure I ran across this when we were on vacation in Burlington a few...
One of the joys, and one of the challenges, of this project of going through my vinyl collection alphabetically is that I am trying to listen to all of the records as I write...
Got this Saturday, yo! It was Record Store Day, version whatever, 2020. While I enjoy and appreciate the purpose of Record Store Day, even in the best of years I have not been willing...
There’s not much I can say about this that I didn’t already say about the original album. This is a set of alternate versions and takes from the 1975 album that were released previously...
I thought I would have much less to say about this Fleetwood Mac album, which I rarely play. Coming out in 1982, nearly three years after “Tusk,” into a world that had changed quite...
Back in 2003, I wrote on my blog: “Mr. Johnson has never actually listened to all of ‘Tusk,’ but he is thinking of doing so.” It took me another five years before I did,...
What can I possibly say about one of the best, and best-selling, albums of all time? It was remarkable then, it’s remarkable now. Released in February, 1977, the winter of my junior year in...
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