This 2006 Rhino 4-CD box set is in my heavy rotation right now. The label hit it out of the park with this collection of 91 tasty funk and soul cuts dating […]
From the Stacks: What It Is!
From the Stacks: Lady Pank – Drop Everything
Here’s another record that I picked up a million years ago as a promo. From the cover the guys looked a little punky and they had funny names, so what the hell. […]
From the Stacks: Kick Axe – Vices
I picked this up at a promo party the year it came out (1984), and when I say “I picked this up” I mean “this was left at my house.”
From the Stacks: David Lee Roth – Sonrisa Salvaje
Hola! Here we have Sonrisa Salvaje, or “Wild Smile,” David Lee Roth’s Spanish language version of Eat ’em and Smile.
From the Stacks: John Stewart – Bombs Away Dream Babies
If you are over forty you know this album, you just don’t know it. Thanks to assists from Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks this album went top ten in the […]
From the Stacks: U2 – Boy
Once upon a time there was a great band composed of four friends who could barely play their instruments but wrote great songs about growing up. In 1980 they compiled these songs […]
From the Stacks: Bodies in the Basement (self titled)
This is a cool album that I picked up on a whim. Yeah, you got me: It was the cover.
From the Stacks: Samson – Head Tactics
Samson was a very cool New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) band that was active from 1977 to 1984, though there were several reunions after that. Iron Maiden rendered Samson a […]
From the Stacks: Chuck E. Weiss – The Other Side of Town
Chuck E. Weiss was part of Los Angeles’s Tropicana Hotel scene in the seventies, if it can be called that. A friend to both Tom Waits and Rickie Lee Jones (yes, he’s […]
From the Stacks: Bow Wow Wow – See Jungle! See Jungle!
Bow Wow Wow’s second full length album immediately sparked controversy due to Annabella Lwin’s lack of appropriate picnic attire. Mom made a fuss, and who can blame her: the singer was only […]
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