Vinyl Distractions

Ramblings about My Records

Author: cjvinyl

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'70s / Rock

Fleetwood Mac — Fleetwood Mac

This self-titled release from 1975 wasn’t their only self-titled release: their first album, from 1968, also carried only the band’s name. It’s a bit of a surprising decision — while they had been plodding...

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'70s / Rock

Fleetwood Mac — Kiln House

I don’t know how it is that we have to keep reminding people that there was a Fleetwood Mac before Steve Nicks, before Lindsey Buckingham, even before Christine McVie. But apparently we do. So,...

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'60s / Blues / Live Album

Fleetwood Mac in Chicago

Looking through my new acquisitions shelf, I’m realizing that I have bought a lot of blues in the past several years. Hell, I’ve bought a lot of blues in the last several months. These...

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'60s / Blues

Fleetwood Mac — [Peter Green’s] Fleetwood Mac

As a teenager in the years when Fleetwood Mac absolutely ruled the airwaves, when “Fleetwood Mac” and “Rumours” were absolutely inescapable, I was fully aware that there had been earlier records and earlier iterations...

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'60s / Blues

Fleetwood Mac — Mr. Wonderful

Coming of age at the time when Fleetwood Mac was huge, I of course knew that there was a pre-Buckingham Nicks version of the band. Those earlier albums were all over the used record...

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'80s / Comedy

Firesign Theatre — The Three Faces of Al

From 1984, my final vinyl for The Firesign Theatre. Their next release, the rather excellent “Eat or Be Eaten,” came out in 1985 on CD, and that’s how I got it. This one and...

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'80s / Comedy

Firesign Theatre — Shakespeare’s Lost Comedie

They hinted at an attempt at Shakespeare spoof on the back side of “Not Insane,” with the piece titled “Anything You Want To.” That is the name of the play captured here and presented...