Lake Street Dive / Fun Machine
And so we come to the portion of this project that will go just about like the Funkadelic portion did – where I have a whole bunch of new (to me) records in my...
Category: Pop
The Kinks — Word of Mouth
This project had to take a bit of time off. Such is life, and death. I wasn’t really in the mood to delve into personal memories for a bit. But here we are, back...
The Kinks — State of Confusion
Coming hot on the successes of “Low Budget,” the live “One For The Road” and “Give The People What They Want” (the latter two I don’t have on vinyl – must have been Danny...
The Kinks — Low Budget
I started seriously listening to music and collecting records in 1972. In that year, The Kinks put out Everybody’s in Show-Biz, and got FM play with “Celluloid Heroes.” (But I didn’t have an FM...
The Kinks — Kriminal Kinks
There aren’t many bootlegs in my collection. Being mostly broke in the days when i gathered most of my collection, I simply wasn’t taking chances on unknown quantities. The couple of times I took...
The Kinks — Everybody’s in Show-Biz
I had passed on this for years and years – always saw it in the bins, never picked it up. I didn’t seem to know what it was. I’d look at the track listing and,...
The Kinks — Golden Hour of the Kinks
When I started writing about The Kinks for this project, I was a little bit confused. I looked at The Kinks Greatest Hits and The Live Kinks, and wondered: could those really have been...
The Kinks — The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
As I’ve been saying, part of my failure to fully appreciate The Kinks in my 20s was an allergy to concept albums generally. Because they tended to involve a lot of songs that only...
The Kinks — The Live Kinks
I’ve been so spoiled by a slew of recent live albums, with full, restored sound from well-recorded concerts of the ’60s – particularly those recorded at the Fillmore — that I started to wonder...
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