Funkadelic – Maggot Brain
As noted in the last few entries, I’ve actually added to my completely unnecessary workload on this blog by writing about records I’d already written about. My flawless system of leaving things on the...
Category: Psychedelic
Funkadelic – Free Your Mind…And Your Ass Will Follow
I was thinking about pop culture and decades a bit last night. It seems odd to me now that wherever I go in public – grocery stores, gas stations, … well, those are the...
The Psychedelic Furs – The Psychedelic Furs
I’d love to say that I jumped on The Psychedelic Furs the first time I saw it on the display at Desert Shore Records back around 1980, one of the very few very recent...
Prince – Sign O’ The Times
For me, this is the Prince album, the one where his inventive dancey funk energy met rock ’n’ roll and he just turned in maybe the best album of the ‘80s, period. There were...
The Moody Blues — Long Distance Voyager
Despite my dedication to The Moody Blues described with the last entry, I was barely aware they had an album in 1978, “Octave.” Their first album since 1972’s “Seventh Sojourn,” it had two singles,...
The Moody Blues — This Is The Moody Blues
Throughout my discussion of the The Moody Blues, I’ve had to put off the deep discussion about what they mean to me for this record – simply because of my decision to cover these...
The Moody Blues — Seventh Sojourn
From 1972, a No. 1 album for The Moody Blues, with two great songs by bassist John Lodge being the most memorable, “Isn’t Life Strange,” “I’m Just a Singer (in a Rock and Roll...
The Moody Blues — Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
1971 – peak year for a concept album, no? It’s pretty remarkable to look back at the output of The Moody Blues (and, indeed, so many artists working at this time) and see just how...
The Moody Blues – A Question of Balance
Weirdly, I was standing around outside an open mic the other night, waiting in line, and in a conversation with another performer about how much he loved the ’70s classics, he said “A Question...
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