New Order – 1981-Factus 8-1982
My New Order records were all (as far as I can remember) a gift from my friend, former roommate and companion on our five-year musical journey, after he had moved across the country. I...
Tagged: record collection
Never On Sunday – Original Movie Soundtrack
This is one of those things that has always been around in my life, and yet I had never actually seen the movie. Throughout my youth, the song “Never On Sunday” was ubiquitous –...
Graham Nash/David Crosby – Graham Nash/David Crosby
As I mentioned last time, I picked this 1972 release up at a garage sale in 1979, with a number of albums that completely shaped my musical tastes for decades to come. But, this...
Graham Nash – Songs for Beginners
Once again, I get to relate that I considered myself a real fan of Crosby, Stills, Nash and/or Young, without having hardly any of their records for years. And when it came to the...
David Crosby/Graham Nash — Wind on the Water
I’ve written before on what a bad fan of CSN/CSNY I am – meaning that I considered myself a fan, and yet had hardly any of their records for the longest time. That bad...
Funkadelic — Standing on the Verge of Getting It On
This was the one that started it all for me – in 2019, when Forever Changes was still a weekly pop-up operating alongside a local coffee shop/bakery, I asked Shawn how to best get...
Best Of 2022: As Arbitrary As It Gets
I don’t do Spotify, or stream at all. One year a decade ago I used Pandora. I don’t tend to jump on to whatever’s popular, and I don’t necessarily need to hear something as...
Kurtis Blow — Rappin’ Blow
Let’s face it: I didn’t buy this for whatever music is on it. Nothing against Kurtis Blow, but it’s not my style, and that’s fine. I bought it because of the sleeve – in...
The Music Machine — (Turn On) The Music Machine
The Music Machine appeared in my collection long before I bought this record, represented twice by “Talk Talk.” The first time was on the legendary Nuggets anthology, a garage rock collection that I couldn’t...
Things We Said Today