Elton John – Honky Château
Originally released in May 1972 — I was in the sixth grade, not yet really listening to music, just about to get seriously into AM Top 40 radio. I wasn’t hip to Elton John,...
Category: ’70s
Elton John — Friends
I can’t say that this record stalked me for decades, exactly. I mean, it stalked everybody. If you ever pawed through a used record store’s bargain bin, you found a copy (or several) of...
Elton John — 17-11-70+
This one’s brand new, or very close to it anyway. Never had this before, never really had any particular interest in it. Being a live performance from 1970, released as his fourth album in...
Elton John — Tumbleweed Connection
I’ve had a beat-up copy of Tumbleweed Connection as long as I can remember — but it hasn’t always been this beat-up copy. My previous one was a garage sale find that was, quite...
Electric Light Orchestra — Discovery
I really used to think I was something of a completist about a lot of collections. In particular with records, there are just some artists where I would not say no. I really had...
Electric Light Orchestra — Out of the Blue
Just about a year after “A New World Record,” and really, only months after the singles from the album hit it big, ELO released “Out of the Blue” in October 1977. That was the...
Electric Light Orchestra — A New World Record
Hoo boy. How to talk about one of the most important albums in my life? Like I said last time, as a teen in the ’70s, I was aware of ELO, and I liked...
Electric Light Orchestra — Olé ELO
ELO sort of snuck up on me in my teens. I remember hearing “Can’t Get It Out Of My Head” on the radio — it was a pretty big hit in 1975, and I...
The Electric Flag — The Band Kept Playing
Continuing to play catch-up with records I’ve purchased after I covered their section of the alphabet – which is becoming more of a problem as I get deeper into the alphabet. As I’ve written...
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