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 […]
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 […]
Once again, I get to relate that I considered myself a real fan of Crosby, Stills, Nash and/or Young, without having hardly any of their records for years. And when […]
Honestly, I don’t get too excited about Record Store Day – I’m not a fan of created scarcity and the commercial push to go to a certain place on a […]
Just another Melanie record, just another mid-pandemic purchase. 1976’s “Photograph” just hits differently than the other Melanie records. It starts with as close to a rocker as she’s gonna get, […]
This was the one that started it, my first Melanie record. I bought it at some point in 2019, running across it in the bins somewhere, and being in both […]
As I’ve already said, my experience with Melanie, other than the few hits she had on the radio in the ’70s, is entirely within the context of the pandemic, having […]
Another of my numerous Melanie acquisitions from the MaTones $5 bins during the depths of the pandemic. By that point in 2020, afraid to go anywhere and seeing worse times […]
Looking back at my abandonment of the Woodstock Two album, which I talked about last time, I really wondered why the Melanie tracks that were on that collection hadn’t resonated […]
A long, long time ago, I had the much-less-sought-after Woodstock Two soundtrack album. I’m pretty sure I got it at what was, for me, a life-changing garage sale. For whatever […]
As established, I love Aimee Mann. Nobody does what she does better. I’d say nobody does what she does. Her songs resonate with me in a way hardly anyone else’s […]