The Fugs — The Fugs First Album
You don’t know ’60s protest music if you don’t know The Fugs. This album was originally released in 1965 as “The Village Fugs Sing Ballads of Contemporary Protest, Point of Views, and General Dissatisfaction.”...
Category: ’60s
The Foundations — Build Me Up Buttercup
Oh boy. This one is going to be more about one song (yes, that song) than it is about the album. And it’s going to be perhaps the earliest story from my life that...
Fleetwood Mac in Chicago
Looking through my new acquisitions shelf, I’m realizing that I have bought a lot of blues in the past several years. Hell, I’ve bought a lot of blues in the last several months. These...
Fleetwood Mac — [Peter Green’s] Fleetwood Mac
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...
Fleetwood Mac — Mr. Wonderful
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...
Firesign Theatre – How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You’re Not Anywhere At All
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...
Firesign Theatre — Waiting For The Electrician or Someone Like Him
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...
Marianne Faithfull – Come and Stay With Me
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...
The Electric Prunes — Underground
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...
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