David Crosby/Graham Nash — Wind on the Water
I’ve written before on what a bad fan of CSN/CSNY I am – meaning that I considered myself a fan, and yet had hardly any of their records for the longest time. That bad...
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Napoleon Solo – How To Steal The World
A few years back, I wandering around the local “punk rock flea market,” looking through the bins of some vendors I knew, and one of them had an amount of ska. At that moment,...
Sorting my 45s
Why does this project take so long? Because, true to the site’s name, I can be distracted from my distractions. Could be because I have a dozen little projects going at any one time....
Funkadelic — Standing on the Verge of Getting It On
This was the one that started it all for me – in 2019, when Forever Changes was still a weekly pop-up operating alongside a local coffee shop/bakery, I asked Shawn how to best get...
Best Of 2022: As Arbitrary As It Gets
I don’t do Spotify, or stream at all. One year a decade ago I used Pandora. I don’t tend to jump on to whatever’s popular, and I don’t necessarily need to hear something as...
Kurtis Blow — Rappin’ Blow
Let’s face it: I didn’t buy this for whatever music is on it. Nothing against Kurtis Blow, but it’s not my style, and that’s fine. I bought it because of the sleeve – in...
The Music Machine — (Turn On) The Music Machine
The Music Machine appeared in my collection long before I bought this record, represented twice by “Talk Talk.” The first time was on the legendary Nuggets anthology, a garage rock collection that I couldn’t...
The Muppets — The Muppet Show
It’s so weird to think about how very many department stores there used to be that just don’t exist anymore, and in particular how many boomed and busted in the 1970s through the early...
The Moody Blues — Long Distance Voyager
Despite my dedication to The Moody Blues described with the last entry, I was barely aware they had an album in 1978, “Octave.” Their first album since 1972’s “Seventh Sojourn,” it had two singles,...
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