The Fleshtones — Budget Buster
“Traditionally, all an ‘LP’ really needs is one track by a much more popular band (preferably English), say The Dave Clark 5, to attract the young, undiscriminating buyer. The savvy producer will just ‘pad’...
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Peter Zaremba’s Love Delegation — Spread The Word
I’m not sure what engendered this 1986 side project by The Fleshtones’ Peter Zaremba, a mix of Zaremba-penned originals and covers like “After Midnight” and “Save Me.” When I borrowed my friend Dan’s Fleshtones...
The Fleshtones — Speed Connection Live in Paris ’85
Holy cats. You know how some with some bands, their studio work doesn’t really translate to live performance, and others can’t seem to capture their remarkable live performances in the studio? That is not...
The Fleshtones — Hexbreaker!
The interesting thing about The Fleshtones is that they seem to live in a world of their own making — a world where “The Vindicators” was a TV show with a theme song, for...
The Fleshtones — Roman Gods
This would actually be the most recent of my acquisitions of Fleshtones records (other than their 2017 Budget Buster). Pretty sure I ran across this when we were on vacation in Burlington a few...
The Fleshtones — Up-Front
One of the joys, and one of the challenges, of this project of going through my vinyl collection alphabetically is that I am trying to listen to all of the records as I write...
Fleetwood Mac — The Alternate Rumours
Got this Saturday, yo! It was Record Store Day, version whatever, 2020. While I enjoy and appreciate the purpose of Record Store Day, even in the best of years I have not been willing...
Fleetwood Mac — The Alternate Fleetwood Mac
There’s not much I can say about this that I didn’t already say about the original album. This is a set of alternate versions and takes from the 1975 album that were released previously...
Fleetwood Mac — Mirage
I thought I would have much less to say about this Fleetwood Mac album, which I rarely play. Coming out in 1982, nearly three years after “Tusk,” into a world that had changed quite...
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