Elvis Hitler – Disgraceland
Honestly, I nearly missed this one. I haven’t played it in years and years. That’s not because I don’t like it, but because of its “album cover” format, if you can call it that....
Category: Punk
Dead Kennedys — Bedtime for Democracy
I actually got this one before I got “Frankenchrist,” though probably not by much. It came out in November 1986, and I’m remembering I got it right around when it came out. I was...
Dead Kennedys — Frankenchrist
So, as I was saying during “Too Drunk To Fuck,” while I loved that single, it didn’t send me off in a punk direction and I didn’t pay much more attention to Dead Kennedys...
Dead Kennedys — Too Drunk To Fuck
Let’s just look at this one as an anomaly, as this is one of the very few singles I’m going to feature. There’s a good chance I became aware of Dead Kennedys through Trouser...
The Cramps — Songs The Lord Taught Us
I cannot exactly explain why this is my only album by The Cramps. I have had it forever. I have always loved it. I used songs from it to fill various mix tapes throughout...
The Clash – If Music Could Talk
(Still catching up on relatively recent acquisitions, still struggling with doing anything in alphabetical order) Delighting in this Father’s Day gift from my kid – a Record Store Day release from 2021 of a...
The Clash – Combat Rock, The People’s Hall Special Edition
By the time The Clash actually hit it big, I was completely uninterested. I had listened obsessively to “London Calling”, “Black Market Clash,” and “Sandinista,” but you couldn’t have paid me to listen to...
The Clash – Sandinista!
What do you do when you have just put out a sensational 2-disc set and taken the world by storm? Follow it up with a 3-disc set, obviously. A triple album, with 36 tracks....
The Clash — Black Market Clash
I remember getting “Black Market Clash.” It was my third summer in Syracuse, 1981. We were living in a hot apartment, technically a sublet — we were staying in an apartment over a sub...
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