Ramblings about My Records
I lived long enough to go from thinking that Burt Bacharach’s songs were the squarest songs in the world – probably solely because they were appreciated by the older generation – to thinking they...
As much of a blues fan as I am, I don’t keep up a lot with the contemporary artists. I’m all over every single new old John Lee Hooker release, but when it comes...
By the time The Clash actually hit it big, I was completely uninterested. I had listened obsessively to “London Calling”, “Black Market Clash,” and “Sandinista,” but you couldn’t have paid me to listen to...
Well, I already had Volumes 1 and 2 of this series, so yeah, when I ran across a copy of Volume 3, I was going to grab it – and I was also going...
Once again, I missed one even as I was catching up with my new records starting with ‘B’. Or maybe I wasn’t sure I was going to own up to this one? I actually...
I swear, my ability to lie to myself is just extraordinary. I keep telling myself I’m going to make some headway on this list, catching up with records I’ve bought in the past couple...
Like Bikini Kill, I found out about this by pulling a shift in my local record store and deciding to give it a listen. Unlike Bikini Kill, I had never even heard of Bully...
Immediately after getting the Bikini Kill EP last fall, this collection of singles popped up on Bandcamp and I grabbed it immediately. No overlap with the EP, this is a series of singles released...
Every now and then, I “work” in my friend’s record store. And by “work,” I mean that I am barely capable of guiding people to what they’re looking for and taking their money when...
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