Blondie – Parallel Lines
Of course, this was the breakout album for Blondie, the one that made them international superstars, the one that made millions of people explain “Debbie Harry isn’t Blondie, that’s the name of the band.”...
Category: ’70s
Blondie – Plastic Letters
So, as I said last time, I picked up both “Blondie” and “Plastic Letters” after I’d already learned every note of “Parallel Lines.” In fact, “Plastic Letters,” which like their debut was produced by...
Rory Block — Intoxication
I haven’t had the chance to write about Rory Block before, even though she takes up an amount of space in my CD collection. In the early ’90s we had a strong Rory Block...
Blondie – Blondie
I came a tiny bit late to the Blondie party — or rather, I came to it exactly the same time almost everybody else did, with 1978’s Parallel Lines. I believe that I really...
Black Merda — The Psych Funk of Black Merda
I ran across this at Forever Changes, Phoenixville’s weekly pop-up record store, where I have taken advantage of an eclecticism wildly out of proportion to what you would expect from a pop-up to venture...
Marc Benno — Ambush
Honestly, I had never heard of Marc Benno until I happened to take a chance on an odd Leon Russell album I found at Forever Changes just about a year ago, when it was...
Pat Benatar – In The Heat Of The Night
I don’t know what we think of Pat Benatar these days. I don’t know what I think of Pat Benatar. Do we think of Pat Benatar? She seemed to splash on the scene with...
The Bee Gees – Bee Gees Gold Vol. 1
So this is the story of how the Bee Gees Gold kept me from stabbing people. It would be hard to overstate how much the Bee Gees were all over 1977 and 1978. They...
The Beatles – Rock ‘n’ Roll Music
So way back when I wrote a prelude to the Beatles section of this vanity project, I explained that after discovering the Red album and the Blue album in the autumn of our freshman...
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