Faces – Had Me A Real Good Time
As I’ve already documented, I’m a huge fan of the Faces, and absolutely the only thing wrong with them is that they made so few records. Official studio albums – there are but four....
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Faces — Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners
So, as much as I love Faces’ studio albums, uneven though they may have been, their live work is just amazing. I’m glad that there are a number of bootlegs out there to supplement...
Faces — Ooh La La
I talked last time about how I came very late to Faces, and yet now they are one of my all-time favorite bands. I had “Ooh La La” digitally about 10 years back, but...
Faces: A Nod’s As Good as a Wink … To A Blind Horse
I’ve barely gone anywhere during the pandemic, trying carefully not to get or give, and so far so good. But as I already documented, along about August the need to just do something that...
Faces — A Nod Is As Good As a Wink… to a Blind Horse
Oh, I came to Faces very, very late. I mean, when I was in my teens, radio was all Rod Stewart all the time. “Maggie May” was a huge hit that it seemed never...
Face to Face – Confrontation
Everything I just said about Face to Face’s eponymous debut album? Ditto for 1985’s “Confrontation.” Ditto for fun, ditto for power rock with great female vocals, ditto for “I played this in the ’80s...
Face to Face — Face to Face
I’ll admit I feared that as I got to the start of the F’s, I was going to have to endure something that maybe I wasn’t up for: Face to Face. I honestly didn’t...
Elton John — Caribou
Just to drive home a point about his incredibly prolific early output — Elton John released studio albums in June 1969, April 1970, October 1970, March 1971, November 1971, May 1972, January 1973, October...
Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Sometimes I just have to marvel at the creative pace that was kept by (forced on?) recording artists in the ‘60s and ‘70s. I’ve talked about it before with The Beatles and The Animals...
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