Debbie Harry — Rockbird
So, after my disappointment in most things Blondie after “Parallel Lines,” and my extreme antipathy toward Deborah Harry’s 1981 solo outing “KooKoo,” I normally would have just been done – I tend to give...
Ramblings about My Records
So, after my disappointment in most things Blondie after “Parallel Lines,” and my extreme antipathy toward Deborah Harry’s 1981 solo outing “KooKoo,” I normally would have just been done – I tend to give...
This is an album. This was released by Deborah Harry (listed as “Debbie” still), a solo album in 1982, a year after Blondie’s “Autoamerican,” a few months before Blondie’s “The Hunter.” By then, Deborah...
Do I have to? Do I have to do this one? Be assured, I own this as something of a joke. A little tongue in cheek. After Donna Summer had a huge, huge hit...
To my taste, this second record from Pearl Harbour (who explains that her British label changed the spelling of her name) is much more enjoyable than her debut, settling much more comfortably into a...
Growing up when I grew up, of course I was exposed to The Guess Who. You didn’t get through the ’70s without knowing Guess Who songs, and probably even liking them. The Canadian band...
When you’re on a record jaunt with some friends at a store that you won’t get to often and you run across an album by an old favorite band that you have never heard...
This release from 1980 features the most perfectly ’80s graphics of any album I own — this is precisely what the ’80s looked like, kids. Retro-futuristic and stylin’. It’s also a return to the...
I have no idea how I found this or knew that the kinda distasteful name of “Buddy Odor” was in fact Hans Vandenburg, aka Jan Van De Fruits, the guy behind Gruppo Sportivo. This...
I have some duplicates in my collection, usually either because my wife also had a copy pre-marriage, or because I found another copy of something in better shape than my original. But in this...
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