Ramblings about My Records
There is, of course, one more Kinks album that I have just procured from Forever Changes, one that I embarrassingly didn’t own until last month. Given all that has gone on in that month,...
This project had to take a bit of time off. Such is life, and death. I wasn’t really in the mood to delve into personal memories for a bit. But here we are, back...
Coming hot on the successes of “Low Budget,” the live “One For The Road” and “Give The People What They Want” (the latter two I don’t have on vinyl – must have been Danny...
I started seriously listening to music and collecting records in 1972. In that year, The Kinks put out Everybody’s in Show-Biz, and got FM play with “Celluloid Heroes.” (But I didn’t have an FM...
This is the only record I ever stole from anyone. In 1980, in our last semester living in university housing, we had a bad suitemate. I’ve written several times before about that apartment, in...
There aren’t many bootlegs in my collection. Being mostly broke in the days when i gathered most of my collection, I simply wasn’t taking chances on unknown quantities. The couple of times I took...
I had passed on this for years and years – always saw it in the bins, never picked it up. I didn’t seem to know what it was. I’d look at the track listing and,...
When I started writing about The Kinks for this project, I was a little bit confused. I looked at The Kinks Greatest Hits and The Live Kinks, and wondered: could those really have been...
As I’ve been saying, part of my failure to fully appreciate The Kinks in my 20s was an allergy to concept albums generally. Because they tended to involve a lot of songs that only...
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