Manassas — Down the Road
I picked this up at Deep Groove in Phoenixville sometime in 2018 or ’19, after being completely hypnotized by the excellence of the first Manassas album for a year or two, but knowing that...
Ramblings about My Records
I picked this up at Deep Groove in Phoenixville sometime in 2018 or ’19, after being completely hypnotized by the excellence of the first Manassas album for a year or two, but knowing that...
As promised, I’m finally back with more drivel about my record collection. Manassas, the debut by Manassas, is a record and a band I barely knew existed before just a few years ago –...
If this retrospective walk through my record collection has taught me anything recently, it’s that I really don’t care that much about The Mamas & The Papas, and yet I hold onto the records...
So here’s my thing with John Lennon – as much as I thought he was the driving force that made The Beatles rock and gave them their edge (controversial take, I know), his solo...
In the midst of my well-documented Beatlemania, a state that possessed me, and my roommate, from near the middle of my freshman year at college until well into junior year, and given that I...
I’ve been trying to listen to each of these records as I write them up for this project, whether I think I know them well or not. In some cases, that has slowed this...
I’ve written before about the handful of albums I got as a result of working for The Daily Orange, Syracuse University’s independent daily newspaper. it always amazed me that record companies routinely sent free...
I started seriously listening to music and collecting records in 1972. In that year, The Kinks put out Everybody’s in Show-Biz, and got FM play with “Celluloid Heroes.” (But I didn’t have an FM...
This is the only record I ever stole from anyone. In 1980, in our last semester living in university housing, we had a bad suitemate. I’ve written several times before about that apartment, in...
Things We Said Today