Category: ’70s

Funkadelic front cover 2

Funkadelic – Funkadelic

My loving wife gave me a great biography for my birthday – “George Clinton and the Cosmic Odyssey of the P-Funk Empire,” by Kris Needs. Great because it answers the question Shawn (owner of...

Fleetwood Mac – Rumours Live 3

Fleetwood Mac – Rumours Live

Here we are in 2024, and Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours” remains one of the top-selling albums of all time, still sitting high up on the weekly indie store charts. Any store owner will tell you...

L front cover 6

Lol Creme and Kevin Godley – L

My note for this one on Discogs reads “Weird pickup for nostalgic reasons.” Correct. Secondhand nostalgia, at that. I’ve written before about the influence of Cocaine Kurtz on our secondhand listening habits back in...

K-Tel Believe in Music front cover 2

Various – Believe In Music

Once again, I missed one even as I was catching up with my new records starting with ‘B’. Or maybe I wasn’t sure I was going to own up to this one? I actually...

Mothership Connection front cover 2

Parliament – Mothership Connection

What can I say about “Mothership Connection” that I didn’t just say about “Up For The Down Stroke?” This was one of the first records I bought this year – since 1975, my record...

Up For The Down Stroke – front cover 2

Parliament – Up For the Down Stroke

Well, back in the F’s, I wrote a whole bunch about Funkadelic. Then I got into the P’s (to show how slowly this project is going, that was last August!), but the only Parliament...

Ca Plane Pour Moi front cover 0

Plastic Bertrand – Ça Plane Pour Moi

In my personal opinion, “The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson” was the greatest late night talk show of all time – and I’m including the very first years of David Letterman’s show, which...

Victim of Romance front cover 0

Michelle Phillips – Victim of Romance

Okay, yes, Michelle Phillips is a very famous, very talented singer in one of the most iconic groups of the ’60s, The Mamas and The Papas. She was also, for more than a few...