Berlin – Pleasure Victim
As we stroll through the ‘B’ section of my record collection, we have hit on a little stretch that has chronology and MTV in common. The Belle Stars, Pat Benatar, and now Berlin –...
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The Belle Stars – The Belle Stars
Oh boy, was I highly susceptible to some of those early MTV hits. We had cable (run through a fuzzy black and white console TV) in our final college apartment starting I think in...
The Bee Gees – Bee Gees Gold Vol. 1
So this is the story of how the Bee Gees Gold kept me from stabbing people. It would be hard to overstate how much the Bee Gees were all over 1977 and 1978. They...
The Beau Brummels – The Best of the Beau Brummels 1964-1968
In general, I’m surprised when anyone else is interested in the music I’m interested in. Okay, not The Beatles. But the Beau Brummels? Who else, in 1981, wanted to hear “Laugh Laugh” or “Don’t...
The Beau Brummels – Volume 2
This is a very 1965 strong follow-up to their debut, with the great “You Tell Me Why,” and the dirgelike “Sad Little Girl,” along with “Don’t Talk To Strangers.” It ends on the rhythmic...
The Beau Brummels – Introducing The Beau Brummels
As my collection must have made obvious by now, there was a period of time when I was into just about anything to do with the ‘60s, particularly the British Invasion of ’64-’65-’66, and...
The Beatles – The Beatles Broadcasts (bootleg)
I’ve written before about The Flashcubes – for post-punk powerpop fans in Syracuse at the end of the ‘70s, there was no band more energetic or exciting. While we saw them in a lot of...
The Beatles – Yellow Matter Custard (bootleg)
Kids, you may not know there were once dark days when the only Beatles music available were the official releases. All the alternate takes and live radio appearances that are now on collections like...
The Beatles – The Beatles Collection
The intensity of my love for The Beatles, starting in that magical fall of 1978, continued for quite a few years. Of course The Beatles weren’t all my roommate and I listened to, but...
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