Elvis Costello & The Attractions – This Year’s Model
As with “My Aim Is True,” I didn’t really experience this album until years after it came out in 1978. If I wouldn’t have been ready for what I heard on “Aim,” I would...
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Elvis Costello — My Aim Is True
So, here’s the weird thing about Elvis Costello in my collection. I am a very, very big fan of Elvis Costello. I have something in the vicinity of 27 different titles by Elvis Costello...
The Clash — Black Market Clash
I remember getting “Black Market Clash.” It was my third summer in Syracuse, 1981. We were living in a hot apartment, technically a sublet — we were staying in an apartment over a sub...
The Clash — The Clash
Okay, the way I’ve been doing these (alphabetical by group, but then chronological by issue date), The Clash should really have come before London Calling. But there’s a personal level to the order, too,...
The Clash – London Calling
I remember exactly where I was the first time I heard London Calling. Then, as now, I messed around with photography. Sometimes I do all right. There were periods when I was very avid,...
The Church — Starfish
So after their initial attempts at a splash in the early MTV days, The Church’s releases in the US were sporadic and not, it would appear, terribly well supported. Seance and the Remote Luxury...
The Church – Heyday
Late in 1985, The Church put out another splendid album, “Heyday.” The Wikipedia article on this record notes two important changes leading up to its release. First, most of the songs became a group...
The Church — Remote Luxury LP
So — this cover looks familiar, if you saw my last entry about The Church’s “Persia” EP. Clearly same model, same shoot, same feeling — spooky bride of death or something along those lines....
The Church — Persia EP
Next up comes “Persia,” another EP, released in August 1984, just six months after “Remote Luxury.” Very much in the same vein as the tracks on that earlier EP, just sweet dreamy jangle-rock without...
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