Vinyl Distractions

Ramblings about My Records

Vinyl Distractions

Baby Pop front cover 1

'60s / French pop / Pop

France Gall – Baby Pop

As is well-acknowledged, Quentin Tarantino (and/or his music director) has a talent for breathing new life into forgotten old songs. He did this in “Death Proof” with the remarkable April March song “Chick Habit,”...

Monster A-Go-Go front cover 0

'80s / Colored Vinyl / Garage

The Fuzztones – Monster A-Go-Go

Really, I should be a big Fuzztones fan. They’re right in my wheelhouse — American garage rock with its tongue in its cheek. A lot like The Cramps, but I think it’s more obvious...

Funkadelic Uncle Jam Wants You front cover 2

'70s / Funk

Funkadelic – Uncle Jam Wants You

This was a 1979 release – there were three other albums between “Let’s Take It to the Stage” and this, but I don’t have any of them, yet. Of all my Funkadelic records, this...

Let's Take It To The Stage front cover 0

'70s / Funk

Funkadelic — Let’s Take It To the Stage

I’ve written before about how, when Funkadelic was creating the world of ’70s funk, I was not the teen who was ready for what they were putting down. I was told to like John...

Cosmic Slop front cover 2

'70s / Funk

Funkadelic — Cosmic Slop

1973’s Cosmic Slop brings us a Funkadelic without Eddie Hazel, but with some more traditional song structures. If my 13-year-old brain had encountered this album when it came out, I would at least have...

Front cover of the Funkadelic album, "Funkadelic." Under the title is a kaleidoscope-inspired photograph of eight identical faces, joined together in a circle, with the faces overlapping so they each share eyes where the faces meet. 5

'70s / Colored Vinyl / Funk / Psychedelic

Funkadelic — Funkadelic

I’m right here admitting that for many years, my record collection was unfunky. Funkless. Free of the funk. An old Ohio Players record and George Clinton’s “R&B Skeletons in the Closet,” and neither one...