Gruppo Sportivo — 10 Mistakes
I should really hold my Gruppo Sportivo discovery story for “Mistakes,” a similarly titled album that was released with some different songs two years after this one. But the albums are similar, so perhaps...
Vinyl Distractions
Great Time — Great Album
The vast, vast majority of my music is not only from the often distant past. After my first few years of record collecting, in junior high and high school, I rarely focused on new...
Graham Central Station — Mirror
I don’t think I knew hardly a thing about Larry Graham until I tripped on a video a couple of years ago where this key former member of Sly and the Family Stone explained...
The Go-Go’s – Talk Show
The first two Go-Go’s albums fell right at the end of my college years, 1981 and 1982. Then they took a little break (by ’70s and ’80s standards), and their next album, “Talk Show,”...
The Go-Go’s — Vacation
As with “Beauty and the Beat,” while I’ve had this album since it came out in 1982, I haven’t really listened to it in many, many years. Again, several of the songs were on...
The Go-Go’s – Beauty and the Beat
There are truly very few songs for which I can absolutely remember the first time I ever heard them, but “Our Lips Are Sealed” is one. It was released in July 1981, the summer...
Nikki Giovanni – Truth Is On Its Way
I grew up in the ’60s and ’70s, at what we then thought was the dawn of civil rights, the beginning of a new era in race relations that would eventually make those problems...
Get Yourself A College Girl (Original Soundtrack)
Oh, boy. I may have some explaining to do. I swear I bought this for the kitsch factor, for how stupid and outdated the title seemed. I think I bought this in the fall...
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown – San Antonio Ballbuster
Moving into the G section – even though this weekend I bought 14 new records with hardly any regard for where they fell in the alphabet! I’ll get to the earlier entries when I...
Things We Said Today