Elton John — Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player
This is the one that started it all. I’ve written before about my life before I owned any vinyl at all — when in seventh grade I was forced to produce record reports using...
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Elton John – Honky Château
Originally released in May 1972 — I was in the sixth grade, not yet really listening to music, just about to get seriously into AM Top 40 radio. I wasn’t hip to Elton John,...
Elton John — Friends
I can’t say that this record stalked me for decades, exactly. I mean, it stalked everybody. If you ever pawed through a used record store’s bargain bin, you found a copy (or several) of...
Elton John — 17-11-70+
This one’s brand new, or very close to it anyway. Never had this before, never really had any particular interest in it. Being a live performance from 1970, released as his fourth album in...
Elton John — Tumbleweed Connection
I’ve had a beat-up copy of Tumbleweed Connection as long as I can remember — but it hasn’t always been this beat-up copy. My previous one was a garage sale find that was, quite...
The Electric Prunes — Underground
This is the second album by The Electric Prunes, released in August 1967, just six months after their first album came out. This one is much more the work of the band and is...
The Electric Prunes — The Electric Prunes
The Electric Prunes was a band that, when I first learned they existed, I just thought was a cool dumb joke, a name meant to sound extreme and psychedelic (see also: Ultimate Spinach). I...
Electric Light Orchestra — Discovery
I really used to think I was something of a completist about a lot of collections. In particular with records, there are just some artists where I would not say no. I really had...
Electric Light Orchestra — Out of the Blue
Just about a year after “A New World Record,” and really, only months after the singles from the album hit it big, ELO released “Out of the Blue” in October 1977. That was the...
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