The Kinks — Misfits
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...
Category: ’70s
The Kinks — Kriminal Kinks
There aren’t many bootlegs in my collection. Being mostly broke in the days when i gathered most of my collection, I simply wasn’t taking chances on unknown quantities. The couple of times I took...
The Kinks — Everybody’s in Show-Biz
I had passed on this for years and years – always saw it in the bins, never picked it up. I didn’t seem to know what it was. I’d look at the track listing and,...
The Kinks — Golden Hour of the Kinks
When I started writing about The Kinks for this project, I was a little bit confused. I looked at The Kinks Greatest Hits and The Live Kinks, and wondered: could those really have been...
Carole King — Music
I belong to a lovely little Facebook group of mostly local music aficionados, who actually get together in person from time to time. (It’s kinda like back when we had a society.) We throw...
Carole King — Tapestry
I don’t know how, and I’m not sure I should admit this, but I made it through the ’70s without ever procuring a copy of Tapestry. It came out in February 1971, a year...
Albert King — Truckload of Lovin’
As I said last time, I only had a handful of Albert King songs until pretty recently. I picked this one up on my first trip to Siren Records back in February 2020, just...
Jefferson Airplane — Long John Silver
From 1972, this is the final Jefferson Airplane album (if you consider them the same band without Marty Balin, and if you discount the 1989 reunion album which I’ve never heard). Similar to Bark,...
Jefferson Airplane – Bark
“Bark” came from 1971. Marty Balin had left the band, so the band went on to create this record showing how important he was. Let’s be clear: this isn’t exactly terrible. It’s just the...
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