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)...
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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...
Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
After my offspring introduced me to the wonder of Courtney Barnett, through their 2021 “Things Take Time, Take Time,” I spent a lot of time YouTubing Courtney Barnett songs, which led me back to...
Bar-Kays – Soul Finger
Having grown up in the ’60s, I was certainly familiar with “Soul Finger,” and Bar-Kays (who somehow get away without using a definite article). They were session players at Stax and became Otis Redding’s...
The Bangles – Different Light
Different Light was one of those albums that, if you were alive when it came out in 1986, you owned. At least that’s how it seemed to me. Everyone owned “Rumours,” everyone owned “Thriller,”...
The Bangles – All Over The Place
Another one being inserted out of alphabetical order because I insist on buying more vinyl. I’ve already written about how much I enjoyed that very first Bangles EP, and that even though like almost...
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