Faces: A Nod’s As Good as a Wink … To A Blind Horse
I’ve barely gone anywhere during the pandemic, trying carefully not to get or give, and so far so good. But as I already documented, along about August the need to just do something that...
Author: cjvinyl
Faces — A Nod Is As Good As a Wink… to a Blind Horse
Oh, I came to Faces very, very late. I mean, when I was in my teens, radio was all Rod Stewart all the time. “Maggie May” was a huge hit that it seemed never...
Face to Face – Confrontation
Everything I just said about Face to Face’s eponymous debut album? Ditto for 1985’s “Confrontation.” Ditto for fun, ditto for power rock with great female vocals, ditto for “I played this in the ’80s...
Face to Face — Face to Face
I’ll admit I feared that as I got to the start of the F’s, I was going to have to endure something that maybe I wasn’t up for: Face to Face. I honestly didn’t...
Eurythmics — We Too Are One
Wow, this came out at an interesting time: September, 1989. I am super surprised that I even own this, for a whole bunch of reasons. First, I hadn’t loved the previous record, Savage, even...
Eurythmics — Savage
Just about a year and a half after “Revenge,” Eurythmics came out with “Savage” in November 1987. Counting myself as a Eurythmics fan based on their previous two albums, I must have bought this...
Eurythmics — Revenge
This came out in 1986, just about a year after “Be Yourself Tonight,” and I counted myself such a fan of the previous album that I probably bought this as soon as it came...
Eurythmics — Be Yourself Tonight
I took a pass on the initial excitement around Eurythmics. While I liked the video imagery of “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” and yes of course I thought Annie Lennox had an amazing...
The English Beat – Wha’ppen?
So after falling in love with “I Just Can’t Stop It,” I decided to take (not much of) a chance on this re-release of “Wha’ppen?” and truthfully, it’s even more to my taste, the...
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