Florence + The Machine — Dance Fever
I generally don’t get very excited about new releases. Sometimes I’ll check out something new by an artist close to when it’s released, sometimes I won’t – depends on my mood and what I’m...
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Florence + The Machine — Ceremonials
I bought the follow-up to Florence + the Machine’s debut pretty much as soon as it came out in 2011, and listened to it a lot back then. The songs are excellent, and I...
Florence + The Machine — Lungs
There’s plenty of stuff in my iTunes collection from my kids’ teen years that I hadn’t the slightest interest in, and there are huge swaths of my creaky old collection you couldn’t pay them...
A Flock of Seagulls — Listen
Listen is exactly what I haven’t done, with regard to this album, in a very long time. This came out just a year after their first record, in April 1983 . . . the...
A Flock of Seagulls — A Flock of Seagulls
Spring of 1982. Junior year of college. We have an apartment of moderate squalor. We have an heirloom black and white cabinet TV. We have basic cable. We have MTV. So, yes, of course...
Flo & Eddie — Moving Targets
Following an album that was almost entirely a live comedy work, Flo & Eddie returned to more normal pop music with 1976’s “Moving Targets.” It starts with an almost Lennonesque lament about stardom and...
Flo & Eddie — Flo & Eddie
I am a huge fan of The Turtles. If all you know are “Happy Together” and “Elenore” — well then, you probably don’t know that “Elenore” was a tongue-in-cheek fuck-you to the record label...
Bryan Ferry – Bête Noire
Everything I said in my last post about Bryan Ferry’s “Boys and Girls” also applies to “Bête Noire.” Released just two years later, in 1987, I played it a lot in those final years...
Bryan Ferry – Boys and Girls
I came to Roxy Music very late. I knew that they were popular, I knew that they were supposed to be sorta arty, I knew that 1974’s “Country Life” cover made all the boys...
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