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...
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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...
Delaney & Bonnie & Friends — On Tour with Eric Clapton
In my early years, I paid no attention to Delaney & Bonnie — they weren’t really a singles act in the days when Top 40 radio had all my attention; in my college years,...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – So Far
This is the album that was my actual introduction to CSNY. In the ’70s, this album was ubiquitous, required of any teenager with the slightest hippie/folkie/singer-songwriter tendencies — and most of my friends were...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – 4 Way Street
Here’s how much I had back-burnered my interest in Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young since those early days of teen fandom: I forgot that this record even existed. Surely, I saw it dozens of...
The Creeps — Enjoy The Creeps
This was actually the first record by the Creeps, from 1986. After discovering “Now Dig This!” back in February, I knew I had seen another Creeps record in that magical bin of ’80s wonders...
The Creeps — Now Dig This!
A rare case where I’m going to take a pair of records out of chronological order because this is the one that first caught my eye and turned me on to the wonderful oddness...
Cream – Heavy Cream
Okay, until I ran across this record at a vinyl market earlier this year, I don’t believe I had ever seen it. Issued in October 1972, now well more than three years since Cream’s...
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