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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Electric Light Orchestra — A New World Record
Hoo boy. How to talk about one of the most important albums in my life? Like I said last time, as a teen in the ’70s, I was aware of ELO, and I liked...
Electric Light Orchestra — Olé ELO
ELO sort of snuck up on me in my teens. I remember hearing “Can’t Get It Out Of My Head” on the radio — it was a pretty big hit in 1975, and I...
The Electric Flag — The Band Kept Playing
Continuing to play catch-up with records I’ve purchased after I covered their section of the alphabet – which is becoming more of a problem as I get deeper into the alphabet. As I’ve written...
The Electric Flag – Live From California 1967-68
So, how does it come to be that I come from the ’70s, and that I come from a love of the blues, and yet, until the last couple of years, never had any...
Various Artists – Eccentric Deep Soul
It’s funny that we commonly look down on collections, compared to works by single artists, and it’s true that they’re often a mess. K-Tel collections are just anything they could get a license to...
Various Artists – Eccentric Northern Soul
Here in the US, we were deprived of the phenomenon known as Northern Soul. It wasn’t even a phrase I was familiar with until I started reading about Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love” as being...
Earth, Wind & Fire — Spirit
As I said last time, I just got these Earth, Wind & Fire records at the close of 2019. We had had what we thought then was a fairly rough year. Well, it still...
Earth, Wind & Fire — Gratitude
I wrote last summer about how there was no Earth, Wind & Fire in my life, and then suddenly there was. At the time these records came out, I was a Top 40 radio...
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