The Beatles – Long Tall Sally (EP)
Ahh, this one’s easy. I mean, for one thing, it’s just an EP, but it was one that was originally released June 19, 1964 by Parlophone in the UK, the fifth Beatles EP. It...
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The Beatles – All My Loving (EP)
Well, this was bound to happen. Four Beatles records into my collection, and I realize 1) that I’ve missed something, and 2) that I’m very close to having to go out of order. Staring...
The Beatles – Twist and Shout
Well, whaddaya know. Remember how I didn’t think I owned “Please Please Me”? Well, somewhere along the way in the early ’80s, I ran across a 1971 reissue of “Twist and Shout,” the second...
The Beatles – Meet The Beatles!
“Meet The Beatles!” was released Jan. 20, 1964. That was just 20 days before their appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” The Vee-Jay album “Introducing… The Beatles (Vee-Jay’s version of “Please Please Me”)” was...
The Beatles – With The Beatles
Unlike anything that was going on in the record biz in the ’70s, becoming a Beatles fan meant realizing that their albums were released one way in the UK, then (for reasons never revealed)...
The Beatles – Please Please Me
I started working on The Beatles entries thinking that I didn’t own their very first album, “Please Please Me,” released in the UK (not the US) on March 22, 1963. I also don’t own...
Prelude to The Beatles
The Beatles present a particular challenge for presenting in any sort of order. On my shelf, the albums sit chronologically, but that has no relation to how I experienced them, coming to The Beatles...
The Beach Boys – Endless Summer
Sort of like The Beatles (which we’re about to get to, in detail), The Beach Boys’ music was just something that was in the air when I was growing up. I knew all the...
Courtney Barnett — Things Take Time, Take Time
In the natural order of things, parents can have an outsized influence on their kids’ musical tastes, or at least experiences. But it can flow the other way as well. When my kids were...
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