Country Joe & The Fish – Here We Are Again
An apt title for a fourth album, no? As I mentioned, this was one of the first two Country Joe & The Fish records I got (as far as I can remember — it’s...
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Country Joe McDonald — Hold On It’s Coming
Going through the bins at the Forever Changes pop-up, and what the hell is this? A Country Joe record I’ve never seen before? Indeed. At first I thought it was a movie soundtrack –...
Country Joe & The Fish – Together
Their third album, released in 1968, is apparently somewhat ironically titled. It was begun as a Country Joe-less effort by just The Fish, but then Joe McDonald rejoined the band. Still, most of the...
Country Joe & the Fish — I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die
My kid can tell this story better than I can, but my short version of it is: they were taking AP US History. In the course of covering the Vietnam War, their teacher played...
Country Joe & The Fish – Electric Music for the Mind and Body
Country Joe & the Fish are a tangled chronology for me. I know pretty much exactly when I first started buying their records, but I don’t quite know why. I know roughly when I...
The Church — Untitled #23
“Starfish” from 1988 was my last bit of Church vinyl for a long time, but it wasn’t the end of my love of The Church. But by 1989, 1990, everything I bought was on...
The Church — Starfish
So after their initial attempts at a splash in the early MTV days, The Church’s releases in the US were sporadic and not, it would appear, terribly well supported. Seance and the Remote Luxury...
The Church – Heyday
Late in 1985, The Church put out another splendid album, “Heyday.” The Wikipedia article on this record notes two important changes leading up to its release. First, most of the songs became a group...
The Church — Remote Luxury LP
So — this cover looks familiar, if you saw my last entry about The Church’s “Persia” EP. Clearly same model, same shoot, same feeling — spooky bride of death or something along those lines....
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