The Clash – If Music Could Talk
(Still catching up on relatively recent acquisitions, still struggling with doing anything in alphabetical order) Delighting in this Father’s Day gift from my kid – a Record Store Day release from 2021 of a...
Author: cjvinyl
The Clash – Combat Rock, The People’s Hall Special Edition
By the time The Clash actually hit it big, I was completely uninterested. I had listened obsessively to “London Calling”, “Black Market Clash,” and “Sandinista,” but you couldn’t have paid me to listen to...
The Clash – Sandinista!
What do you do when you have just put out a sensational 2-disc set and taken the world by storm? Follow it up with a 3-disc set, obviously. A triple album, with 36 tracks....
The Clash — Black Market Clash
I remember getting “Black Market Clash.” It was my third summer in Syracuse, 1981. We were living in a hot apartment, technically a sublet — we were staying in an apartment over a sub...
The Clash — The Clash
Okay, the way I’ve been doing these (alphabetical by group, but then chronological by issue date), The Clash should really have come before London Calling. But there’s a personal level to the order, too,...
The Clash – London Calling
I remember exactly where I was the first time I heard London Calling. Then, as now, I messed around with photography. Sometimes I do all right. There were periods when I was very avid,...
The Dave Clark Five — Try Too Hard
So I’ve been dumping on the DC5 a little bit, despite owning quite a number of their records. Part of that is just time . . . over the decades, I’ve become less enamored...
The Dave Clark Five — Having a Wild Weekend
It’s 1965, and you’re a British Invasion band that has ridden the wave across the pond and conquered America with the “(Insert English Region Name Here) Sound.” Just like The Beatles. So naturally, you’re...
The Dave Clark Five — American Tour
You have to be careful with ’60s records that try to fool you. You might think that an album titled “American Tour” would be a live album. No. Not in any way. There isn’t...
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