The Fugs – Greatest Hits Volume 1 Proto Punk
I messed up the alphabetization again – and that by doing that, I ended learning something. In his book on George Clinton, mentioned last time I posted, Kris Needs finds some common ground between...
Category: Punk
Bikini Kill – Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
I’ve got a serious problem – my “new acquisitions” shelf is overflowing. In the old days, it was a selection of maybe 30 records that I had recently acquired and was listening to in...
Public Image Ltd – Album
This album is evidence of the unreliability of memory, because in my mind I associate this with an apartment we had moved out of years before this album was even released. That’s probably because...
The Psychedelic Furs – Talk Talk Talk
I’ve been struggling to remember – did I somehow get into Psych Furs before Forever Now, or was I one of those MTV-influenced johnny-come-latelies who first caught on to them when “Love My Way”...
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...
Billy Karloff & the Extremes — Let Your Fingers Do The Talking
This is one of those absolute gems that I would never ever have heard of had roommate Danny not spent a summer in Boston, soaking up culture that wasn’t available to us in the...
Iggy Pop – Iggy Pop
Ya know, I never got into Iggy Pop in my earlier years. When I was young, his harder edged sound just wouldn’t have been my thing. And when I became more aware of his...
Frontier Records — Diamonds at a Discount
This was an odd decision made at a house concert, where the host had brought in not only a an artist to play but a few small vendors, all of whom are friends or...
The Enemies — Products of the Street
You always remember the band you saw the night your friend set his pants on fire. The summer of 1980 was one of extreme decadence for me. I worked on the summer weekly edition...
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