The Clash – If Music Could Talk
(Still catching up on relatively recent acquisitions, still struggling with doing anything in alphabetical order) Delighting in this Father’s Day gift from my kid – a Record Store Day release from 2021 of a...
Category: ’80s
The Clash – Combat Rock, The People’s Hall Special Edition
By the time The Clash actually hit it big, I was completely uninterested. I had listened obsessively to “London Calling”, “Black Market Clash,” and “Sandinista,” but you couldn’t have paid me to listen to...
The Clash – Sandinista!
What do you do when you have just put out a sensational 2-disc set and taken the world by storm? Follow it up with a 3-disc set, obviously. A triple album, with 36 tracks....
The Clash — Black Market Clash
I remember getting “Black Market Clash.” It was my third summer in Syracuse, 1981. We were living in a hot apartment, technically a sublet — we were staying in an apartment over a sub...
The Clash – London Calling
I remember exactly where I was the first time I heard London Calling. Then, as now, I messed around with photography. Sometimes I do all right. There were periods when I was very avid,...
The Church — Starfish
So after their initial attempts at a splash in the early MTV days, The Church’s releases in the US were sporadic and not, it would appear, terribly well supported. Seance and the Remote Luxury...
The Church – Heyday
Late in 1985, The Church put out another splendid album, “Heyday.” The Wikipedia article on this record notes two important changes leading up to its release. First, most of the songs became a group...
The Church — Remote Luxury LP
So — this cover looks familiar, if you saw my last entry about The Church’s “Persia” EP. Clearly same model, same shoot, same feeling — spooky bride of death or something along those lines....
The Church — Persia EP
Next up comes “Persia,” another EP, released in August 1984, just six months after “Remote Luxury.” Very much in the same vein as the tracks on that earlier EP, just sweet dreamy jangle-rock without...
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