Nick Lowe — Nick the Knife
I picked this 1982 album up at the same time as my other two Nick Lowe records, eight or nine years later in the $2 section of Last Vestige Records. A bit more loose...
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Love — Forever Changes
Despite being pretty new to me, this one is special to my heart because it’s special to a friend’s heart – so special that he named his record store after it! Recorded and released in...
Claudine Longet — Colours
I bought this in the dollar bin at Forever Changes, same as “Claudine,” earlier this year. It’s from 1968, a somewhat better album than the other, including some very nice versions of “Scarborough Fair,”...
Claudine Longet — Claudine
Earlier this year, when things were opening up again and Forever Changes was getting back to normal (¯_(ツ)_/¯ emoji) with a monthly pop-up at Steel City Coffeehouse here in Phoenixville, I was digging through...
George Liberace — Hi-Fi Fun
Okay, I bought this at a yard sale over on Prospect Street a couple of years back, 100% for the FABULOUS cover photo. It’s a beauty. But am I actually going to play a...
John Lennon and Yoko Ono — Milk and Honey
Well, here’s another one I hadn’t listened to in decades, and didn’t really remember very well. There were a couple of tracks that had made it onto mix tapes at the time, and those...
John Lennon and Yoko Ono — Double Fantasy
Okay. It’s the fall of 1980, a time when my Beatlemaniac roommate and I were living in the apartment building we called The Embassy, on the corner of University and Harrison in Syracuse, just...
Yoko Ono — Feeling the Space
I’ve been trying to listen to each of these records as I write them up for this project, whether I think I know them well or not. In some cases, that has slowed this...
The Left Banke — The Left Banke Too
As iconic as their first album was, The Left Banke pretty much split up before “Walk Away Renee” was even a hit, coming back together and then breaking up again. Various iterations of the...
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