Category: ’70s

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Nikki Giovanni – The Way I Feel

I already wrote about my early experience with Nikki Giovanni, and my wife’s complete fascination with her, back in 2020. So here’s another incredible re-release by Modern Harmonic of a work from 1975. Could...

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Funkadelic – Maggot Brain

As noted in the last few entries, I’ve actually added to my completely unnecessary workload on this blog by writing about records I’d already written about. My flawless system of leaving things on the...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...