Manassas — Down the Road
I picked this up at Deep Groove in Phoenixville sometime in 2018 or ’19, after being completely hypnotized by the excellence of the first Manassas album for a year or two, but knowing that...
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Manassas — Manassas
As promised, I’m finally back with more drivel about my record collection. Manassas, the debut by Manassas, is a record and a band I barely knew existed before just a few years ago –...
The Mamas & The Papas — People Like Us
If this retrospective walk through my record collection has taught me anything recently, it’s that I really don’t care that much about The Mamas & The Papas, and yet I hold onto the records...
The Mamas & The Papas — The Papas & The Mamas
I picked up a very beat-up copy of this 1968 release at a garage sale a mere 11 years later, and remain confounded at how other people treat their records. How could you beat...
The Mamas & The Papas — Farewell to the First Golden Era
This 1967 release was another 1979 garage sale find, I feel pretty certain, and another Mamas & Papas record in fairly rough shape that I just never bothered to get a better version of....
The Mamas & The Papas — The Mamas & The Papas
If you didn’t grow up in the ’60s, it may be impossible to relate how huge a phenomenon The Mamas & The Papas were. They crossed over from the counterculture to mainstream in perhaps...
Madonna — Like A Virgin
This one came out in the fall of 1984, right around the time we were transitioning from that first post-college, just-married apartment into the second. (I wrote about that time a little bit when...
Madonna — Madonna
Well, of course I have the first Madonna album. I did live through 1984, after all. It’s currently hard to imagine, but there was a time when Madonna was completely fresh and new, and...
Nick Lowe — The Abominable Showman
The third of the pile of Nick Lowe albums I picked up all at the same time, around 1990 or ’91, for next to nothing at Last Vestige Records in Albany. Last Vestige opened...
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