Public Image Ltd – Album
This album is evidence of the unreliability of memory, because in my mind I associate this with an apartment we had moved out of years before this album was even released. That’s probably because...
Category: Rock
The Psychedelic Furs – Mirror Moves
1984, and The Psychedelic Furs are down to a trio. They’ve moved on to a producer, Keith Forsey, who was having a bit of a moment, having just hit big with Billy Idol’s albums,...
The Psychedelic Furs – Forever Now
So even though I was already aware of The Psychedelic Furs as a concept, having seen that first record hanging around at Desert Shore, it wasn’t until “Forever Now” was released in 1982 and...
The Psychedelic Furs – Talk Talk Talk
I’ve been struggling to remember – did I somehow get into Psych Furs before Forever Now, or was I one of those MTV-influenced johnny-come-latelies who first caught on to them when “Love My Way”...
The Psychedelic Furs – The Psychedelic Furs
I’d love to say that I jumped on The Psychedelic Furs the first time I saw it on the display at Desert Shore Records back around 1980, one of the very few very recent...
Prince and the Revolution – Live
For those of us who haven’t lived in major cities, it’s pretty uncommon that our local venues get captured on vinyl by way of live albums. We didn’t have Fillmore East or places like...
Prince & The NPG – One Nite Alone… The Aftershow: It Ain’t Over!
As I’ve said, I liked Prince, but I was hardly a fanatic. The last album of his I bought was “Lovesexy” in 1988, and I didn’t follow him through his independent “artist formerly known...
Prince – Sign O’ The Times
For me, this is the Prince album, the one where his inventive dancey funk energy met rock ’n’ roll and he just turned in maybe the best album of the ‘80s, period. There were...
Best Albums of 2023!!
For the first time since . . . well, maybe ever, I have nearly enough new music from the year that is about to end to thinking about doing a “best of the year”...
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