Chocolate Milk is one of those sad victims of time. They were a really cool funk band from New Orleans that made eight albums between 1975 and 1982 and then they were […]
From the Stacks: Chocolate Milk
From the Stacks: Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart
Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart is a 1976 album from two of The Monkees and the writing partners who for all intents and purposes were The Monkees, at least at first.
From the Stacks: Hot Damn! – Big Fat Lover
There are album covers that are so bad that they are good, and then there are those that are so good that they are bad. And then there are those that try […]
From the Stacks: Jose Feliciano – Of Muse and Man
The cover of Jose Feliciano’s 1971 album Of Muse and Man nearly makes me want to start a “Batshit Crazy Album Covers Gallery.” I don’t know if this cover is brilliant or […]
From the Stacks: Fear: The Handbill
Have you ever reached into the pocket of an old coat and found a piece of garbage that has matured into a treasure?
From the Stacks: The Rolling Stones – Burning at the Hollywood Palladium
“Trademark Of Quality” bootlegs were like the lost ark of the covenant to me as a kid. That little underground comix-style pig logo meant that this was a “real” bootleg, which was […]
From the Stacks: Wet Willie – The Wetter the Better
Wet Willie was a Southern rock band who had their biggest success on the Capricorn Records label, home of the Allman Brothers Band. They never hit it really big, but they managed […]
From the Stacks: Dynamite Doo Wopps, Vol. 6
Green Beret and national treasure John Rambo was all about two things: kicking ass, and sweet a cappella harmonies. Please welcome this fine, fine album to the Bad Album Cover Hall Of […]
From the Stacks: Moog Machine – Switched-On Rock
Moog’s synthesizer was a truly revolutionary machine though finicky. Early adopters had to deal with the fact that the beast would go out of tune as the temperature changed, repeating a given […]
From the Stacks: UFO – Force It
1975’s Force It has pretty much everything I want in a hard rock album from that era: lots of guitar, boogie rhythms, harmonies, horny lyrics, blah blah blah. You’re not here for […]
