RSD 2024 Black Friday
Just to be clear, I hate the concept of Black Friday so much. Go get manipulated by massive corporations for the benefit of the capitaliz, but think you’ve somehow got one over on them...
Ramblings about My Records
Just to be clear, I hate the concept of Black Friday so much. Go get manipulated by massive corporations for the benefit of the capitaliz, but think you’ve somehow got one over on them...
When the COVID lockdowns finally ended and vaccines made travel less risky, I was anxious to get back to Troy, NY. Yes, I desperately wanted to see my child, whom I hadn’t seen since...
As I mentioned last time, I picked this 1972 release up at a garage sale in 1979, with a number of albums that completely shaped my musical tastes for decades to come. But, this...
Once again, I get to relate that I considered myself a real fan of Crosby, Stills, Nash and/or Young, without having hardly any of their records for years. And when it came to the...
I’ve written before on what a bad fan of CSN/CSNY I am – meaning that I considered myself a fan, and yet had hardly any of their records for the longest time. That bad...
Honestly, I don’t get too excited about Record Store Day – I’m not a fan of created scarcity and the commercial push to go to a certain place on a certain day or completely...
Just another Melanie record, just another mid-pandemic purchase. 1976’s “Photograph” just hits differently than the other Melanie records. It starts with as close to a rocker as she’s gonna get, the second side opens...
This was the one that started it, my first Melanie record. I bought it at some point in 2019, running across it in the bins somewhere, and being in both a ’70s mood and...
As I’ve already said, my experience with Melanie, other than the few hits she had on the radio in the ’70s, is entirely within the context of the pandemic, having picked up nearly all...
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