Ramblings about My Records
As a teenager in the years when Fleetwood Mac absolutely ruled the airwaves, when “Fleetwood Mac” and “Rumours” were absolutely inescapable, I was fully aware that there had been earlier records and earlier iterations...
Coming of age at the time when Fleetwood Mac was huge, I of course knew that there was a pre-Buckingham Nicks version of the band. Those earlier albums were all over the used record...
I was a weird kid. One of those weirdness was that, although I loved TV and movies, I had a deep nostalgia for a time I had never lived in. In a sense, I...
It had been my intent to go through my records in pretty much the same order I file them, meaning that some things — most soundtracks, classical, and comedy — would come at the...
This is a new delight. Just got it this winter, courtesy of Phoenixville’s Forever Changes (on Instagram: @foreverchanges), back when going places and seeing people was a normal thing. (Deep sigh for how much...
This is the second album by The Electric Prunes, released in August 1967, just six months after their first album came out. This one is much more the work of the band and is...
The Electric Prunes was a band that, when I first learned they existed, I just thought was a cool dumb joke, a name meant to sound extreme and psychedelic (see also: Ultimate Spinach). I...
So, how does it come to be that I come from the ’70s, and that I come from a love of the blues, and yet, until the last couple of years, never had any...
It’s funny that we commonly look down on collections, compared to works by single artists, and it’s true that they’re often a mess. K-Tel collections are just anything they could get a license to...
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