Fake Fruit – Fake Fruit
Remember when Twitter stopped being any kind of fun and became a complete hellscape? Looking to fill a social media void, I decamped to Mastodon, and set about filling up my timeline with posts...
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Faces – The BBC Session Recordings
Listen, one good Faces live album deserves another. Even though this includes four of the exact same performances as were on Had Me A Real Good Time, there’s enough beyond that to make up...
Faces – Had Me A Real Good Time
As I’ve already documented, I’m a huge fan of the Faces, and absolutely the only thing wrong with them is that they made so few records. Official studio albums – there are but four....
The English Beat – Wha’ppen?
So after falling in love with “I Just Can’t Stop It,” I decided to take (not much of) a chance on this re-release of “Wha’ppen?” and truthfully, it’s even more to my taste, the...
The English Beat – I Just Can’t Stop It
How did it come to be that I never really got into much two-tone or ska? I have only a handful of ska records, most acquired within the past few years. There was a...
Various Artists – Eccentric Deep Soul
It’s funny that we commonly look down on collections, compared to works by single artists, and it’s true that they’re often a mess. K-Tel collections are just anything they could get a license to...
Various Artists – Eccentric Northern Soul
Here in the US, we were deprived of the phenomenon known as Northern Soul. It wasn’t even a phrase I was familiar with until I started reading about Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love” as being...
The Robert Cray Band – In My Soul
I wrote a while back about the ubiquity of Robert Cray in the ’80s, and the thought that here was the bright young star who was going to bring the blues back to the...
The Courettes – Hold On, We’re Comin’
Okay, I love The Courettes, but I have to admit – I’m still not quite sure what I’m listening to here. The few promotions or reviews of this 2024 album don’t make it clearer....
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