Eddie Cochran – The Eddie Cochran Legend
This Charly Records compilation came out in 1979, and I probably picked it up before the summer of 1981. That miserable summer of 1981 that I wrote about? This was one of the handful...
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Eddie Cochran – The Eddie Cochran Singles Album
Boy, there have been a very select number of people who have had an outsized impact on my musical education and tastes. Some have been lifelong friends. One, I knew for a very brief...
The Clash – Combat Rock, The People’s Hall Special Edition
By the time The Clash actually hit it big, I was completely uninterested. I had listened obsessively to “London Calling”, “Black Market Clash,” and “Sandinista,” but you couldn’t have paid me to listen to...
The Dave Clark Five — Glad All Over
Part of the problem with doing this tour of my record collection in alphabetical order is that, thematically, there can be some hard turns. We’ve just been through 11 discs by The Church, one...
The Byrds — Another Dimension
So, fast forward about, say, 39 years, from when I bought my first Byrds vinyl to when I bought my next. The tremendous reissue label Sundazed Records, which I first became familiar with through...
The Byrds — Fifth Dimension
I wrote back in January about how I really came to owning much of The Byrds catalog very late. I had the Greatest Hits collection from 1967. My college roommate had this record, and...
Bully – Sugaregg
I swear, my ability to lie to myself is just extraordinary. I keep telling myself I’m going to make some headway on this list, catching up with records I’ve bought in the past couple...
Buffalo Springfield – Buffalo Springfield Again
As I said last time, Buffalo Springfield was an almost inexcusable oversight in my collection until very recently. I picked up digital versions of their first two albums along about four years ago, and...
Buffalo Springfield – Buffalo Springfield
You know that thing where you’ve known and liked songs by a band for, oh, say, 50 years, and where some members of that band went on to form some of your other favorite...
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