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...
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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....
The Church — Persia EP
Next up comes “Persia,” another EP, released in August 1984, just six months after “Remote Luxury.” Very much in the same vein as the tracks on that earlier EP, just sweet dreamy jangle-rock without...
The Church – Remote Luxury EP
This Australian EP from February 1984 is just excellent. Oh, I do love me some Church, and every track on this EP is beautiful. It kicks off with “Maybe These Boys,” a pulsing little...
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