Ramblings about My Records
Well, alphabetically, we moved from one very personally connected album to another with at least a little bit of a personal connection. I don’t think it’s this way anymore, not in an age when...
This is one of those things that has always been around in my life, and yet I had never actually seen the movie. Throughout my youth, the song “Never On Sunday” was ubiquitous –...
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...
If you’ve been following along, you’ve found that while I count myself quite the fan of The Moody Blues, I originally owned none of the original albums after Go Now! up to this one....
Here’s another Moody Blues album, from 1969, the key tracks of which were so well represented on the “This Is The Moody Blues” compilation that, back in my early collecting days, I didn’t feel...
So, true confessions. I loved The Moody Blues in my college years – but despite that, I didn’t grab up everything they ever issued. Hardly anything, in fact. I had the incredibly well-done compilation...
Well, I was bound to mess up the alphabet eventually – yeah, I posted something I decided to attribute to Muddy Waters (under M) before I did The Moody Blues. So it goes. The...
I think I’ve said before, my first visit to Siren Records in Doylestown, PA, yielded a treasure trove of blues. HIstorically, used record stores have not done well with the blues, offering battered B.B....
In 1968, with their TV show cancelled or about to be, The Monkees made a movie with Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson called “Head,” and put out a soundtrack by the same name. I...
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