Elton John — 17-11-70+
This one’s brand new, or very close to it anyway. Never had this before, never really had any particular interest in it. Being a live performance from 1970, released as his fourth album in...
Category: Rock
Elton John — Tumbleweed Connection
I’ve had a beat-up copy of Tumbleweed Connection as long as I can remember — but it hasn’t always been this beat-up copy. My previous one was a garage sale find that was, quite...
The Electric Prunes — Underground
This is the second album by The Electric Prunes, released in August 1967, just six months after their first album came out. This one is much more the work of the band and is...
The Electric Prunes — The Electric Prunes
The Electric Prunes was a band that, when I first learned they existed, I just thought was a cool dumb joke, a name meant to sound extreme and psychedelic (see also: Ultimate Spinach). I...
Electric Light Orchestra — Discovery
I really used to think I was something of a completist about a lot of collections. In particular with records, there are just some artists where I would not say no. I really had...
Electric Light Orchestra — Out of the Blue
Just about a year after “A New World Record,” and really, only months after the singles from the album hit it big, ELO released “Out of the Blue” in October 1977. That was the...
Electric Light Orchestra — A New World Record
Hoo boy. How to talk about one of the most important albums in my life? Like I said last time, as a teen in the ’70s, I was aware of ELO, and I liked...
Electric Light Orchestra — Olé ELO
ELO sort of snuck up on me in my teens. I remember hearing “Can’t Get It Out Of My Head” on the radio — it was a pretty big hit in 1975, and I...
The Electric Flag – Live From California 1967-68
So, how does it come to be that I come from the ’70s, and that I come from a love of the blues, and yet, until the last couple of years, never had any...
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