Firesign Theatre — Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers
This was the third album from the Firesign Theatre, released in 1970, and it was probably the fourth of their records that I bought. I remember buying it when I was already at Syracuse...
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Firesign Theatre – How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You’re Not Anywhere At All
I was a weird kid. One of those weirdness was that, although I loved TV and movies, I had a deep nostalgia for a time I had never lived in. In a sense, I...
Firesign Theatre — Waiting For The Electrician or Someone Like Him
It had been my intent to go through my records in pretty much the same order I file them, meaning that some things — most soundtracks, classical, and comedy — would come at the...
Fingerprintz — Beat Noir
This third album from Fingerprintz came out in 1981, just about the time we discovered the band. It’s hard to say how hard it was to get information about non-mainstream music acts at the...
Fingerprintz – Distinguishing Marks
I’m never sure just how to characterize Fingerprintz. They’re somewhere in the post-punk new wave but with a dance beat vein. Dark sounds, screaming guitars, and a very film noir sensibility. Whatever it is...
Fingerprintz — The Very Dab
Oh, man. Is there music that just makes you feel young again? I don’t mean that reminds you of when you were young . . . that’s an almost endless list that doesn’t seem...
Fingerprintz — Dancing With Myself 12”
Admittedly, it’s a little weird to be covering a 12” single before I’ve gotten to a band’s album, but in this case, this single by Fingerprintz was released about nine months before their first...
Fine Young Cannibals — The Raw and The Cooked
It took a bit more than three years for a follow-up to the debut album by Fine Young Cannibals, which had gotten them a huge amount of attention. In the ’80s, that was a...
Fine Young Cannibals – Fine Young Cannibals
I’ve talked with some of my music-minded friends about what a gap there can be between my perception of how popular a song was, based on its video presence back in the days when...
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