The Church – Seance
Relistening to this album from 1983 and having the same impression of it that I always have. It’s The Church, and I love The Church. And it has a great atmosphere, and yet –...
Author: cjvinyl
The Church – Sing-Songs EP
This 12″ EP came out in 1982, though my version is apparently from the UK in 1983; it only saw release in The Church’s native Australia, and New Zealand and the UK. If there...
The Church – Temperature Drop in Downtown Winterland
The title, which seems to have nothing to do with any Church lyric I’ve ever heard (and yet which sounds just like one) always makes me think that perhaps Winterland was a concert venue....
The Church – The Blurred Crusade
The Church is one of those bands where I feel like I need a prologue, like The Beatles or Marc Almond, because just mentioning that I have a lot of Church albums is not...
Chubby Checker — For Teen Twisters Only
I don’t know the genesis of this album. It is in a bag from Peter Dunn’s Vinyl Museum, a spot in Toronto that we visited exactly once, in February of perhaps 1986, but I...
We’re Gonna Change The World: The ’60s Chicago Garage Sound of Quill Records
Another new one. I had never heard of Quill Records, but my history with garage rock compilations thus far has been that I have never found one I didn’t like. A lot. As I...
Chicago / The Blues / Today! Vol. 3
Well, I already had Volumes 1 and 2 of this series, so yeah, when I ran across a copy of Volume 3, I was going to grab it – and I was also going...
Chicago / The Blues / Today! Vol. 2
I have found more better blues records in the last year than I have in my entire life. It must have to do with the quality of the stores I’m getting to go to,...
Chicago / The Blues / Today! Vol. 1
Any hope of ever catching up on this blog is disappearing in the mist. I got to the end of the M section and decided to double back and cover all the records I...
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