The Dave Clark Five — Having a Wild Weekend
It’s 1965, and you’re a British Invasion band that has ridden the wave across the pond and conquered America with the “(Insert English Region Name Here) Sound.” Just like The […]
It’s 1965, and you’re a British Invasion band that has ridden the wave across the pond and conquered America with the “(Insert English Region Name Here) Sound.” Just like The […]
You have to be careful with ’60s records that try to fool you. You might think that an album titled “American Tour” would be a live album. No. Not in […]
I established last time that I’m really not in a Dave Clark Five headspace right now, and this album, their second American release, isn’t really helping anything. It starts out […]
Part of the problem with doing this tour of my record collection in alphabetical order is that, thematically, there can be some hard turns. We’ve just been through 11 discs […]
I’ve written before about The Flashcubes – for post-punk powerpop fans in Syracuse at the end of the ‘70s, there was no band more energetic or exciting. While we saw them […]
Kids, you may not know there were once dark days when the only Beatles music available were the official releases. All the alternate takes and live radio appearances that are […]
The intensity of my love for The Beatles, starting in that magical fall of 1978, continued for quite a few years. Of course The Beatles weren’t all my roommate and […]
So way back when I wrote a prelude to the Beatles section of this vanity project, I explained that after discovering the Red album and the Blue album in the […]
So here it is — the last Beatles album, except that it wasn’t. I mean, this feels like their last album. This feels like a band coming apart. If you […]
Oh, did I think we were going to roll from “Abbey Road” right into “Let It Be”? No. In a strict chronology, the album that was released after “Abbey Road” […]