The Jimi Hendrix Experience — Live at Berkeley
Folks, it’s been a long lockdown. I’m writing this in the latter half of December 2020, having endured what most sensible people have endured for the past 10 months. We’ve barely left the house;...
Category: Rock
The Jimi Hendrix Experience — Axis: Bold As Love
As I mentioned last time, I was thinking more and more about my Hendrix-less lifestyle. I watched all of the amazing performance at Monterey, and then listened to an internet bootleg called “The Blues...
The Jimi Hendrix Experience — Are You Experienced
I’ve struggled to write about this one because it requires a painful personal admission: until the beginning of this year, I owned no Jimi Hendrix albums. Not on vinyl, not on digital, not in...
The Guess Who – Road Food
Growing up when I grew up, of course I was exposed to The Guess Who. You didn’t get through the ’70s without knowing Guess Who songs, and probably even liking them. The Canadian band...
The Go-Go’s – Beauty and the Beat
There are truly very few songs for which I can absolutely remember the first time I ever heard them, but “Our Lips Are Sealed” is one. It was released in July 1981, the summer...
Get Yourself A College Girl (Original Soundtrack)
Oh, boy. I may have some explaining to do. I swear I bought this for the kitsch factor, for how stupid and outdated the title seemed. I think I bought this in the fall...
The Bobby Fuller Four — Best of The Bobby Fuller Four
When I bought this album in 1981, the only thing I knew about The Bobby Fuller Four was the same thing anyone knew about them: They were the ones who made a hit of...
The Fugs — Tenderness Junction
If you know anything about The Fugs at all, it’s probable that you know them for one of the greatest anti-war “protests” ever — the time they were part of an effort to levitate...
The Fugs — The Fugs First Album
You don’t know ’60s protest music if you don’t know The Fugs. This album was originally released in 1965 as “The Village Fugs Sing Ballads of Contemporary Protest, Point of Views, and General Dissatisfaction.”...
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