Thursday, July 31, 2014

Baby Jane's in Acapulco, We are Flying Down to Rio/Dan Flavin and Stairway to Heaven/The Pensioner [repost from May 2010]

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For the past several decades, I keep coming back to the first five Roxy Music lps as a highwater mark of seventies popular music. Can you ...
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

The Middle Class "Out of Vogue" Advertisement May 1979

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I don't think I have seen this full color print ad reproduced since 1979 so a great excuse to revisit this seminal record from 1978. Th...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

Kim Fowley Reviews Alice Cooper's "Musle of Love"/The Hollywood Stars "Shine Like a Radio: The Great Lost 1974 Album"/Richard Creamer Shoots Alice

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So did Kiss decide to enlist Bob Ezrin for Destroyer after Fowley’s mash note or prodding? I dunno. The review is spot on nevertheless and...
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Sunday, July 20, 2014

"If Alice Cooper Had Remained A Midwestern phenomenon": Alan Betrock Reviews the Pink Fairies' "Kings of Oblivion" PRM, January 1974/The Third Wave of British Heavy Metal

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Hand it to Alan Betrock to review all time classic "Kings of Oblivion" and clearly articulate why it stands far above their first ...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar/Peter Laughner and Lou Reed December 1973/"I don't know, man, I mean you're the guy who played the lead on 'I Heard Her Call My Name . . .'"

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Back in action and a nugget for ya from Laughner's December 1973 interview of Reed in Zeppelin at the time of Berlin's release. Ap...
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Friday, June 6, 2014

Rockcritocracy 1970-1971/Ben Edmond's Hair/Jonathan Richman on Schmucky Stage Performers/The Great 1970 Fusion Funhouse Debate [Repost from December 2010]

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The socratic method of teaching was in full force when I was in law school last century. In rock criticism, not so much, eh? However, we do...
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Monday, April 7, 2014

Twist & Shout '77/Legs & Co./Northern Dreamin'/Before You Were New Wave (repost from August 2011 with video links up again)

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I can thank Ricky for originally introducing me to the Holyground staple of records by dropping A-Austr on me several years ago. Next, I...