Dave Alvin — From An Old Guitar
I’ve written before of how I became exposed to The Blasters solely through one of the greatest movies of all time, “Streets of Fire” (contrary opinions shan’t be tolerated). But after finding those initial...
Author: cjvinyl
Dave Alvin – Eleven Eleven
Again, playing catch-up with new purchases that were out of my alphabetical order. When I started this vanity project, I didn’t imagine this would be such a problem, because I was gonna move through...
Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women – Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women
Time for some serious catching up. While I’ve been slowly plowing through descriptions of my record collection in something like alphabetical order (on the last few entries, maybe my ordering wasn’t so perfect), I’ve...
Altered Images – Happy Birthday
This is 1981’s “Happy Birthday,” by Altered Images, now described as a post-punk or new wave band from Scotland. None of their original singles appear to have been released in the US, although their...
Altered Images – Pinky Blue
Next up from Altered Images is “Pinky Blue.” This was their second album, and the second one of theirs I bought, but I didn’t get it in 1982 when it came out; my Altered...
Altered Images – Bite
I’ve been trying to do these the way my records are stored — alphabetically, then chronologically. But my grownkid, a fan of “High Fidelity” and no slouch in the cataloging department, says it only...
Marc Almond – A Lover Spurned
Well, we finally got to the end of my Marc Almond records — at least until we get to Soft Cell. One last single: “A Lover Spurned,” from 1990. This was from the album...
Marc Almond – Jacques
Have you ever had a random phrase, some assemblage of words, just get stuck in your head? Words with no particular meaning to you, that just tumble through your brain over and over? This...
Marc Almond – Something’s Gotten Hold of My Heart
The second single from Marc Almond’s “The Stars We Are” was the sensational “Something’s Gotten Hold of My Heart,” a duet with the amazing Gene Pitney. Pitney had a string of hits in the...
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