Dead Kennedys — Frankenchrist
So, as I was saying during “Too Drunk To Fuck,” while I loved that single, it didn’t send me off in a punk direction and I didn’t pay much more attention to Dead Kennedys...
Author: cjvinyl
Dead Kennedys — Too Drunk To Fuck
Let’s just look at this one as an anomaly, as this is one of the very few singles I’m going to feature. There’s a good chance I became aware of Dead Kennedys through Trouser...
Betty Davis – Betty Davis
Sorta like Fanny, Betty Davis is one of those legendary artists I had never heard of. A couple of years back, there was suddenly attention to her, with a 2017 documentary, “Betty: They Say...
Betty Davis — Nasty Gal
This is the last of Betty Davis’s three original albums, released in 1975, and the last of the three that I’ve just acquired. Again . . . this is revelatory funk. Why has this...
Betty Davis — They Say I’m Different
Back in November, I raved about our new discovery of Betty Davis, the somehow utterly neglected and nearly forgotten queen of funk. Since then, we’ve picked up two more of her albums, giving us...
Dance Craze — Soundtrack from the Movie “Dance Craze”
This is one of those local punk rock flea market buys, picked up sometime early 2019. Saw it in the bins and realized that although I like ska and two-tone, I own very little...
Dana Louise and the Glorious Birds – Dana Louise and the Glorious Birds
November, 2016: a time when we were going places and doing new things. Only two years in our new life as Phoenixville empty nesters, and we were mostly making friends through the local open...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – So Far
This is the album that was my actual introduction to CSNY. In the ’70s, this album was ubiquitous, required of any teenager with the slightest hippie/folkie/singer-songwriter tendencies — and most of my friends were...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – 4 Way Street
Here’s how much I had back-burnered my interest in Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young since those early days of teen fandom: I forgot that this record even existed. Surely, I saw it dozens of...
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