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...
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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...
Nick Lowe — Nick the Knife
I picked this 1982 album up at the same time as my other two Nick Lowe records, eight or nine years later in the $2 section of Last Vestige Records. A bit more loose...
Nick Lowe — Labour of Lust
As with so many artists, I came late to Nick Lowe. he was right there in my prime record-buying, music-listening years, and yet I paid him very little attention in his early solo years,...
Love — Forever Changes
Despite being pretty new to me, this one is special to my heart because it’s special to a friend’s heart – so special that he named his record store after it! Recorded and released in...
Love — Da Capo
My interest in Love piqued by my friend Shawn at Forever Changes records, and having picked up their first album from Sundazed, I went back to him for more. He gave me this, but...
Love — Love
Love is one of those bands that I should have been into decades earlier. This release from 1966 fits squarely with the other garage rock psychedelia that I was snapping up in the early...
The Loons — Inside Out Your Mind
When I first moved to the great little city of Phoenixville, and started going into the little record shop down on the main drag, I didn’t know that I was going to reignite my...
Claudine Longet — Colours
I bought this in the dollar bin at Forever Changes, same as “Claudine,” earlier this year. It’s from 1968, a somewhat better album than the other, including some very nice versions of “Scarborough Fair,”...
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