Ramblings about My Records
This one is most notable for the great “Valleri” and the ubiquitous “Daydream Believer,” but the rest of the album really suffers from each member pretty much going it alone – proof that, using studio...
For me, this has always been my second-favorite Monkees record (“Head” being the top, by far). Less cutie-pie pop (with the odd and possibly ironic exception of “Cuddly Toy,” written by Harry Nilsson of...
I didn’t think I owned More of The Monkees, except in a late-purchased digital version. It was released in January 1967, just three months after their debut. It’s an absolute classic with several songs...
I’m not going to get into the all the obvious discussions about The Monkees – if you want to beat on them for being manufactured and not having played their instruments, you’d better toss...
Moby Grape was one of those groups that I just didn’t even give a chance back in the day when I was getting into psychedelic music and the San Francisco sound. I don’t know...
Way back when, The Blues Brothers declared that in the future blues records would only exist in the classical music section of your public library. It seems like they weren’t terribly wrong. The blues...
From 1982, the exact moment that MTV exploded and bands like Missing Persons were able to break through a very tired soundscape. New Wave and synth bands were suddenly everywhere, with bright music, bright...
Missing Persons was one of those bands that suddenly made a splash thanks to MTV – otherwise I likely never would have heard of them. Their video for “Words” was in heavy rotation in...
This is one of those weird acquisitions from the time in my life when my policy was to buy nearly anything from the British Invasion. Being a huge fan of The Animals and pretty...
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