The Go-Go’s – Beauty and the Beat
There are truly very few songs for which I can absolutely remember the first time I ever heard them, but “Our Lips Are Sealed” is one. It was released in July 1981, the summer...
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Nikki Giovanni – Truth Is On Its Way
I grew up in the ’60s and ’70s, at what we then thought was the dawn of civil rights, the beginning of a new era in race relations that would eventually make those problems...
Get Yourself A College Girl (Original Soundtrack)
Oh, boy. I may have some explaining to do. I swear I bought this for the kitsch factor, for how stupid and outdated the title seemed. I think I bought this in the fall...
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown – San Antonio Ballbuster
Moving into the G section – even though this weekend I bought 14 new records with hardly any regard for where they fell in the alphabet! I’ll get to the earlier entries when I...
France Gall – Baby Pop
As is well-acknowledged, Quentin Tarantino (and/or his music director) has a talent for breathing new life into forgotten old songs. He did this in “Death Proof” with the remarkable April March song “Chick Habit,”...
The Fuzztones – Monster A-Go-Go
Really, I should be a big Fuzztones fan. They’re right in my wheelhouse — American garage rock with its tongue in its cheek. A lot like The Cramps, but I think it’s more obvious...
Funkadelic – Uncle Jam Wants You
This was a 1979 release – there were three other albums between “Let’s Take It to the Stage” and this, but I don’t have any of them, yet. Of all my Funkadelic records, this...
Funkadelic — Let’s Take It To the Stage
I’ve written before about how, when Funkadelic was creating the world of ’70s funk, I was not the teen who was ready for what they were putting down. I was told to like John...
Funkadelic – Standing on the Verge of Getting It On
Back in April, when I was in the C’s and it looked like we were going to be in quarantine for a while (hoo boy), I was forced to admit that I was a...
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