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...
Category: ’70s
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...
The Beatles – Let It Be
So here it is — the last Beatles album, except that it wasn’t. I mean, this feels like their last album. This feels like a band coming apart. If you get to see any...
Badfinger — Straight Up
Less than two months after I found “Magic Christian Music,” another nice Badfinger record turned up in the Forever Changes bins: 1971’s “Straight Up.” This is a classic, with “Day After Day” and “Baby...
Badfinger — Magic Christian Music
For the longest time, there has been a Badfinger-sized hole in my record collection. Back when we were initially collecting records, in the early ’80s, my roommate Danny had several Badfinger albums, including this...
Argent — Encore: Live In Concert
This one is being written after I’ve already finished with the A’s in my collection; I just picked it up in February. I cannot overstate my love of The Zombies, and of course Rod...
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