Tag: Elektra
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Phil Ochs, I Ain’t Marching Anymore, 1965 on Elektra
Phil Ochs, I Ain’t Marching Anymore, 1965 on Elektra I first got familiar with Phil Ochs via Billy Bragg back in the early 80s. Great classic lefty (progressive) folk. My copy is pretty messy on the back jacket – bloodied from fighting cops at a protest?
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Simply Red, A New Flame, 1989 on Elektra.
Simply Red, A New Flame, 1989 on Elektra. Their third LP, with “If You Don’t Know Me By Now” (originally recorded by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes in 1982) which I think totally stands up today.
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They Might Be Giants, Flood, 1990 on Elektra.
They Might Be Giants, Flood, 1990 on Elektra. Mine’s the 2014 reissue on 180g vinyl by Music on Vinyl pressed by Record Industry. I’ve found Music on Vinyl pressings to be very good quality reissues. One of my all time favorites – Birdhouse in Your Soul, Istanbul (Not Constantinople), Particle Man, Road Movie To Berlin.,…
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Simply Red, Men and Women, 1987 on Elektra.
Simply Red, Men and Women, 1987 on Elektra. Follow up to Picture Book, with “Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye,” “I Won’t Feel Bad,” and “The Right Thing,.” Didn’t get as much airplay and promotion as their debut but really a solid second album.
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The Highwomen, self-titled, 2019 on Elektra.
The Highwomen, self-titled, 2019 on Elektra. Supergroup bringing together the talents of Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris, Natalie Hemby, & Amanda Shires One of the last shows I saw before the pandemic was Carlile at Madison Square Garden with Mavis Staples which included a mini Highwomen reunion (without Morris but with Staples).
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The Stooges, Self-Titled, 1969 on Elektra.
The Stooges, Self-Titled, 1969 on Elektra. My copy is the 2020 Vinyl Me, Please reissue of the John Cale Mix. I’ve really taken to these mixes and this sequence (different tack order than I was used to).
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Guadalcanal Diary, Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man, 1984 on DB Records
Guadalcanal Diary, Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man, 1984 on DB records. My copy is the 1985 repressing on Elektra. Murray Attaway, Jeff Wallls (who passed in 2019), Rhett Crowe, and John Poe. Another Georgia indie band from the early 80s, though they were from Marietta not Athens. Originally signed to DB records…
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Koerner, Ray & Glover; Blues, Rags and Hollees, 1963 on Elektra.
Koerner, Ray & Glover; Blues, Rags and Hollees, 1963 on Elektra. My copy is a 1969/1970 repressing, and the outer sleeve has seen better days but the record’s in good shape. Three Minneapolis boys made good as part of the blues/folk revival of the early 60s. Ray died in 2002, and Glover in 2019, but…
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Screaming Blue Messiahs, Gun Shy, 1986 on Elektra.
Screaming Blue Messiahs, Gun Shy, 1986 on Elektra. “I wonder just how long we’ll be / out in the wild blue yonder” Excellent first full-length of rockabilly-punk-Americana craziness Via Vintage Vinyl in St. Louis MO
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Simply Red, Picture Book, 1985 on Elektra.
Simply Red, Picture Book, 1985 on Elektra. This is such a solidly great debut album – Mick Hucknall, Toney Bowers, Chris Joyce, Tim Kellett, Sylvan Richardson, and Fritz McIntyre. If you only know them via “If You Don’t Know Me By Now” you should go back to this record.
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The Cars, Heartbeat City, 1984 and The Cars, Shake It Up, 1981.
RiP Ric Ocasek Both from record fair at Mill No. 5 in Lowell MA