Bar-Kays – Soul Finger
Having grown up in the ’60s, I was certainly familiar with “Soul Finger,” and Bar-Kays (who somehow get away without using a definite article). They were session players at Stax and became Otis Redding’s...
Author: cjvinyl
The Bangles – Different Light
Different Light was one of those albums that, if you were alive when it came out in 1986, you owned. At least that’s how it seemed to me. Everyone owned “Rumours,” everyone owned “Thriller,”...
The Bangles – All Over The Place
Another one being inserted out of alphabetical order because I insist on buying more vinyl. I’ve already written about how much I enjoyed that very first Bangles EP, and that even though like almost...
Bangles – Bangles
This is the 1983 release (on Miles Copeland’s Faulty Records) of The Bangles’ first record, just titled “Bangles.” (No “the” on title or band at that point. In fact, there’s a radio promo that...
Bananarama – The Greatest Hits Collection
This greatest hits collection came out in 1988, and it’s just what it says — the biggest hits from Banarama’s first four albums. They had big US hits with their cover of “Venus” and...
Bananarama – Wow!
I’m not gonna have a lot to say about Bananarama, a British girl group. In those cruel summers of the mid-’80s, they seemed like pure pop perfection, and I enjoyed the heck out of...
Marcia Ball – Gatorhythms
In these crazy times when we can’t really get together with friends or family, when we can’t casually go out and enjoy ourselves at will, and when my wife is subject to some rather...
Dave Ball – In Strict Tempo
Oh, god. Okay. Let’s just say as little as possible about this one and move on. Remember how many, many Marc Almond records I had? Well, Marc first came to the world’s attention as...
Badfinger — Straight Up
Less than two months after I found “Magic Christian Music,” another nice Badfinger record turned up in the Forever Changes bins: 1971’s “Straight Up.” This is a classic, with “Day After Day” and “Baby...
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