Nick Lowe — The Abominable Showman
The third of the pile of Nick Lowe albums I picked up all at the same time, around 1990 or ’91, for next to nothing at Last Vestige Records in Albany. Last Vestige opened...
Category: ’80s
Nick Lowe — Nick the Knife
I picked this 1982 album up at the same time as my other two Nick Lowe records, eight or nine years later in the $2 section of Last Vestige Records. A bit more loose...
Nick Lowe — Labour of Lust
As with so many artists, I came late to Nick Lowe. he was right there in my prime record-buying, music-listening years, and yet I paid him very little attention in his early solo years,...
John Lennon and Yoko Ono — Milk and Honey
Well, here’s another one I hadn’t listened to in decades, and didn’t really remember very well. There were a couple of tracks that had made it onto mix tapes at the time, and those...
John Lennon and Yoko Ono — Heart Play: Unfinished Dialogue
After John Lennon was murdered, I put together a tape of Lennon songs (both Beatles and post-Beatles). I had recorded a long-form radio interview he had done to promote Double Fantasy, and copied snippets...
John Lennon and Yoko Ono — Double Fantasy
Okay. It’s the fall of 1980, a time when my Beatlemaniac roommate and I were living in the apartment building we called The Embassy, on the corner of University and Harrison in Syracuse, just...
Christine Lavin — Good Thing He Can’t Read My Mind
How did I discover Christine Lavin, several years before my big neofolk immersion? I think it had to have been through NPR. In the mid-’80s, and especially in my grad school years, NPR was...
Cyndi Lauper — She’s So Unusual
It’s hard to express how big this album was in 1984, how ubiquitous it was, and how long it was on the charts (77 weeks). Released in October 1983, the single “Girls Just Want...
The Laughing Dogs — The Laughing Dogs Meet Their Makers
A silly name and cover concept, though I liked it at the time, which was 1980. This is also a promo and I’m honestly not sure whether I bought it used or got it...
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