Oh, marketing departments. Sometimes you simply run out of ideas, don’t you? I’d love to have the strategy meeting notes for this one:
From the Stacks: The Partridge Family – Shopping Bag
From the Stacks: Herb Alpert – Whipped Cream and Other Delights
A classic album with an even more classic album cover, 1965’s Whipped Cream & Other Delights was the biggest album of Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass’s career.
From the Stacks: Al Jolson – Rainbow ‘Round My Shoulder
We’re living in an era of misinformation. Some of this can be blamed on honest stupidity, some on the passage of time, some on information overload. Most of that misinformation, however, is […]
From the Stacks: Adam Stag Party Special Number 3
Oh, the party record. It’s such a foreign idea, inviting over a bunch of guys, busting out the highball glasses and the Vienna sausages stabbed with ornamental toothpics and listening to an […]
From the Stacks: David Bowie – Star (White Vinyl)
Bowie was both busy and not so busy in 1978. In terms of new material it was a dry year separating Heroes (1977) and Lodger (1979), two of the three brilliant Berlin […]
From The Stacks: Herbie Mann – Push Push
Oh, man. We have a new contender for champion of the Bad Album Cover Hall of Fame. If you’ve ever wanted to relive the shame and embarrassment of seeing your dad naked, […]
From The Stacks: Tim Weisberg (Self-Titled)
Tim Weisberg never got much love from The Guys In Black Tee Shirts Who Jam because of his superhero team-up with Dan Fogelberg. Come on! That’s just way too much adult contemporary […]
From The Stacks: The Womenfolk (Self-Titled)
It has been too long since The Bad Album Cover Hall of Fame got some some love, and what better way to remedy that than with The Womenfolk’s eponymous 1964 debut in […]
From The Stacks: Rare Earth – In Concert
I was preschool age when I first encountered Rare Earth. This was back in the days of daytime talk shows that followed the late night format: a monologue followed by chatting up […]
From the Stacks: The Police – Sting the Girls and Make Them Die
The Police were one of nature’s most perfect bands, especially in the early days. This double album bootleg captures two 1979 shows, one at New York’s Palladium Theater and the other at […]
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