Author: cjvinyl

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Fanny – Fanny Hill

I bought this record, Fanny’s third album (1972) at the exact moment I bought their first, so my thoughts are pretty much the same. Their sound is definitely a little more developed since their...

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Fanny – Fanny

I’d love to say that I was one of those people who remembered Fanny from their heyday and had kept their albums all these years, and always wondered why they hadn’t made it bigger....

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Fake Fruit – Fake Fruit

Remember when Twitter stopped being any kind of fun and became a complete hellscape? Looking to fill a social media void, I decamped to Mastodon, and set about filling up my timeline with posts...

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Marianne Faithfull – Come and Stay With Me

This is a new delight. Just got it this winter, courtesy of Phoenixville’s Forever Changes (on Instagram: @foreverchanges), back when going places and seeing people was a normal thing. (Deep sigh for how much...

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Faces – The BBC Session Recordings

Listen, one good Faces live album deserves another. Even though this includes four of the exact same performances as were on Had Me A Real Good Time, there’s enough beyond that to make up...

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Faces — Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners

So, as much as I love Faces’ studio albums, uneven though they may have been, their live work is just amazing. I’m glad that there are a number of bootlegs out there to supplement...

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Faces — Ooh La La

I talked last time about how I came very late to Faces, and yet now they are one of my all-time favorite bands. I had “Ooh La La” digitally about 10 years back, but...