The Moody Blues — In Search of The Lost Chord
So, true confessions. I loved The Moody Blues in my college years – but despite that, I didn’t grab up everything they ever issued. Hardly anything, in fact. I had the incredibly well-done compilation...
Category: British Invasion
The Moody Blues – Go Now (The Moody Blues #1)
Well, I was bound to mess up the alphabet eventually – yeah, I posted something I decided to attribute to Muddy Waters (under M) before I did The Moody Blues. So it goes. The...
Mickie Most Presents English In-Groups
This is one of those weird acquisitions from the time in my life when my policy was to buy nearly anything from the British Invasion. Being a huge fan of The Animals and pretty...
Manfred Mann — The Best of Manfred Mann
Sometime after I acquired that previous Manfred Mann record, I got this more modern release, a “best of” collection that was released in 1977. Looking at its condition, I may have even bought it...
Manfred Mann — The Manfred Mann Album
I didn’t go into this expecting to defend Manfred Mann. I really thought I was going to be in another Dave Clark Five situation, a band that I once really appreciated that now I...
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...
The Kinks — The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
As I’ve been saying, part of my failure to fully appreciate The Kinks in my 20s was an allergy to concept albums generally. Because they tended to involve a lot of songs that only...
The Kinks — The Live Kinks
I’ve been so spoiled by a slew of recent live albums, with full, restored sound from well-recorded concerts of the ’60s – particularly those recorded at the Fillmore — that I started to wonder...
The Kinks — Face to Face
So here’s where we move into the 2020s with me making up for lost time on bands that I love, would consider myself a deeply devoted fan of, and yet have only a limited...
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