This album cover has everything: cigarettes, an accordion, stockings, a checked table cloth, and a boob. All that and it’s “a study in HIGH FIDELITY sound.” What’s not to love?
From the Stacks: Jo Basile – Accordion de Paris
From the Stacks: Big Daddy – What Really Happened to the Band of ’59?
This is typical of the kind of album that Rhino Records was known for in their early years. Big Daddy’s gimmick was to reset modern songs as fifties tunes, like this:
From the Stacks: Pamela Jean – A New Star in the Western Sky
Few things make me sadder than an autographed album discarded at a yard sale or charity shop. I imagine the moment that the ambitious artist proudly whipped out his or her Sharpie, […]
From the Stacks: Green Bullfrog
This is a cool little oddity for the Rainbow/Deep Purple fans. Basically it’s a 1970 supergroup album with all of the artists performing under pseudonyms. Here’s the roster:
From the Stacks: Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited
I bought this album at a friends of the library book sale for one reason: To impress the super hot hippie chick, Tuesday. It didn’t work, but nothing did.
From the Stacks: Graham Central Station – Ain’t No ‘Bout-A-Doubt It
Let’s talk about the legendary Larry Graham, the inventor of the “thump and pluck” style of bass playing without which we’d have no funk. We can stop right there, can’t we? That’s […]
From the Stacks: Peter Hammill – The Future Now
I bought this album out of the cutout bin when I was a kid because I thought it must be some kind of Mick Fleetwood rarity. Man, was I wrong, thank goodness.
From Robbo’s Stacks: Alice Cooper — Pretties for You
I hope that this becomes becomes a regular WIM feature. Robbo is a good friend from my art school and record store days, and he has a killer record collection. He’s also […]
From the Stacks: The Godz – Nothing is Sacred
Casablanca was a seriously weird record label. Neil Bogart’s brainchild was primarily a disco label (it was the home of Donna Summer, after all), yet it made its fortune on the backs […]
From the Stacks: The Cure – The Love Cats (12″ single)
Come on, who doesn’t love “The Love Cats”? Nothing’s more fun than when the king of the shoegazers cuts loose.
Why It Matters 