The Church – Remote Luxury EP
This Australian EP from February 1984 is just excellent. Oh, I do love me some Church, and every track on this EP is beautiful. It kicks off with “Maybe These Boys,” a pulsing little...
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The Church – It’s No Reason 12”
Just a simple extended single, with a very nice cover. “It’s No Reason” was a track from Seance, but “Someone Special” and “Autumn Soon” appear to be non-LP tracks. “Someone Special” would have fit...
The Church – Seance
Relistening to this album from 1983 and having the same impression of it that I always have. It’s The Church, and I love The Church. And it has a great atmosphere, and yet –...
The Church – Sing-Songs EP
This 12″ EP came out in 1982, though my version is apparently from the UK in 1983; it only saw release in The Church’s native Australia, and New Zealand and the UK. If there...
The Church – Temperature Drop in Downtown Winterland
The title, which seems to have nothing to do with any Church lyric I’ve ever heard (and yet which sounds just like one) always makes me think that perhaps Winterland was a concert venue....
The Church – The Blurred Crusade
The Church is one of those bands where I feel like I need a prologue, like The Beatles or Marc Almond, because just mentioning that I have a lot of Church albums is not...
The Cars — The Cars
Okay. True confessions time: I never owned this album before. Despite being a freshman in college when this was released, despite being the target audience for anything new wave (or at least I would...
Blotto – Hello! My Name is Blotto. What’s Yours? (2)
So, I’m at our local twice-a-year vintage festival, “A Whole Lot of Lulu,” possibly spring of last year. Sometimes we call it Lulufest, because the store that sponsors it is also called “A Whole...
Blotto – Combo Akimbo
1982’s Combo Akimbo was Blotto’s Big Chance — their opportunity to be recognized on a national scale, to be the Weird Al of their day (which, of course, was exactly the same day). That...
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