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  • The Who, Quadrophenia, 1973 on MCA

    The Who, Quadrophenia, 1973 on MCA

    Not to be confused with the Quadrophenia soundtrack, which followed the 1979 film, this is the sixth studio album from The Who, a 2xLP release from 1973 on Track Records in the UK. It followed Tommy and Who’s Next.

    Like Tommy, it’s a rock opera telling the story of a mod named Jimmy, who says in the liner notes:

    Schizophrenic? I’m Bleeding Quadrophenic

    I love the iconic mod parka on a vespa scooter with the faces of the band in the mirrors: photo by Graham Hughes from an idea by Roger Daltry.

    My copy—via Electric Fetus in Minneapolis MN—is a 1980 or later Pickneyville Pressing with the rainbow MCA labels and “©”1980 MCA Records Inc.” in the rim text. The fourth side does not include “Record 1 Side 4” notation – not sure if that’s a misprint or manufacturing error.

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  • The Replacements, Not Ready for Prime Time, 2024 on Sire/Rhino

    The Replacements, Not Ready for Prime Time, 2024 on Sire/Rhino

    Full title is “Not Ready for Prime Time: Live at the Cabaret Metro, 1986.” This was previously available as part of the Tim (Let It Bleed Edition) CD set that came out in 2023, but was reissued on vinyl as a limited edition for Record Store Day 2024.

    Recorded live at the Cabaret Metro (now just called Metro) in Chicago on January 11th, 1986. That’s just a week before they appeared on SNL—a performance that got them the lifetime ban.

    Great live set going back to classics like “Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out” but also Tim songs like “Kiss Me On The Bus.” Liner notes by Bob Mehr, the author of Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements.

    My copy via Down In The Valley in Golden Valley MN, pressed at GZ Media.

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  • Bill Evans, Return Engagement, 1974 on Verve

    Bill Evans, Return Engagement, 1974 on Verve

    Title sometimes listed as Verve Return Engagement – part of a series of basically compilations of Jazz greats published in the 1970s by Verve. (I have the Oscar Peterson one as well). Nice way to get a bunch of Bill Evans tracks from across 8 albums in a new package.

    My copy—via Down in the Valley in Golden Valley MN—is a MGM manufactured pressing from the 70s, and the only version of this record listed in discogs (so likely never re-pressed).

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  • Bruce Springsteen, Greetings From Asbury Park N.J., 1973 on Columbia

    Bruce Springsteen, Greetings From Asbury Park N.J., 1973 on Columbia

    This was Springsteen’s debut album, out in January 1973, produced by Mike Appel and Jim Cretecos. Redportedly “Blinded By The Light” and “Spirit in the Night” were cut after Clive Davis rejected the original album tracklist.

    Personnel include Clarence Clemons, Vincent Lopez, David Sancious and Garry Tallent – aka the E-Street Band.

    My copy—via Electric Fetus in Minneapolis MN—is an early 80s Terre Haute pressing with the JC prefixed catalog number and a barcode. The postcard on the front cover folds over the lyrics / credits visible below it.

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  • The Runaways, The Runaways, 1976 on Mercury

    The Runaways, The Runaways, 1976 on Mercury

    Debut album from Joan Jett, Lita Ford, Cherie Currie, Jackie Fox, and Sandy West, aka The Runaways – though apparently Nigel Harrison actually plays the bass on the album.

    Currie published a memoir (Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway) on which the 2010 biopic The Runaways was based, with Kristen Stewart playing Joan Jett, Dakota Fanning as Curriue, and Michael Shannon playing manager Kim Fowley.

    My copy is the Vinyl Me Please reissue from 2023, a numbered limited edition on blue vinyl pressed at Citizen Vinyl.

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  • May The Circle Remain Unbroken: A Stribute to Roky Erickson, 2021 on LIght In The Attic

    May The Circle Remain Unbroken: A Stribute to Roky Erickson, 2021 on LIght In The Attic

    Posthumous tribute album for Roky Erickson by the same producer who assembled Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye, which was a 1990 tribute album that introduced my to many of his songs (though I also knew the 13th Floor Elevators LPs).

    Tracklist and participants:

    • Billy F. Gibbons – “(I’ve Got) Levitation”
    • Mosshart Sexton – “Starry Eyes”
    • Jeff Tweedy – “For You (I’d Do Anything)”
    • Lynn Castle & Mark Lanegan – “Clear Night For Love”
    • The Black Angels – “Don’t Fall Down”
    • Neko Case – “Be and Bring Me Home”
    • Margo Price – “Red Temple Prayer (Two-Headed Dog)”
    • Gary Clark Jr. & Eve Monsees – “Roller Coaster”
    • Ty Segall – “Night of the Vampire”
    • Lucinda Williams – “You’re Gonna Miss Me”
    • Chelsea Wolfe – “If You Have Ghosts”
    • Brogan Bentley – “May The Circle Remain Unbroken”

    Plus a “Record Store Day only” 7″ flexi-disc single with Erickson himself doing “Love Hieroglyphics” from “the early ’70s.”

    My copy—via Down in the Valley in Golden Valley, MN—included the 7″ flexi-disk. as well as a 16 page book.

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  • Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson, Poncho & Lefty, 1983 on Epic

    Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson, Poncho & Lefty, 1983 on Epic

    Another Willie Nelson duet album, this one from 1983 with fellow “outlaw” Merle Haggard with title track from Townes Van Zandt.

    Great collection of songs, including Nelson’s own “Opportunity to Cry,” the title track, and the pairing of “Reasons to Quit” with “No Reason to Quit.”

    My copy—via Electric Fetus in Minneapolis MN—is a Columbia Carrollton pressing with “Poncho” on the jackets and labels (as opposed to “Pancho” which later releases were updated to).

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  • Junior Wells, Southside Blues Jam, 1970 on Delmark Records

    Junior Wells, Southside Blues Jam, 1970 on Delmark Records

    Junior Wells with Otis Spann, Buddy Guy (on sixe tracks), and Louis Myers (on 2 tracks), recorded Dec 30th, 1969 and Jan 8th, 1970.

    This was Spann’s last session before he died in 1970.

    We have tried to capture on this album what a listener would hear any Monday night at Theresa’s blues bar at 48th and Indiana o Chicago’s South Side. The Blue Monday regulars, including Buddy Guy . . . are joined by the late Otis Spann, the greatest blues pianist of his generation, making his last studio appearance and to whom this album is respectfully dedicated by Junior, the musicians, and – The Delmark Staff”

    My copy, via Electric Fetus in Minneapolis MN, is a 1990 reissue on blue Delmark labels with an insert advertising “best selling CD titles” with barcodes.

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  • Bob Dylan, Planet Waves, 1974 on Asylum

    Bob Dylan, Planet Waves, 1974 on Asylum

    Dylan’s first album after leaving Columbia for Asylum Records, with The Band as the backing group, and his fourteenth overall. (The only other was Before the Flood – both were later reissued by Columbia).

    Includes not one but two version of “Forever Young” – fast and slow – along with “Going, Going, Gone” and “On a Night Like This.” Recorded in LA at Village Recorder and produced by Rob Fraboni.

    My copy—via Electric Fetus in Minneapolis MN—is a Speciality Records pressing with the textured sleeve on Asylum labels.

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  • Fleetwood Mac, Jumping At Shadows, 1985 on Varrick

    Fleetwood Mac, Jumping At Shadows, 1985 on Varrick

    This release is also known as Live in Boston, and first surfaced in the mid-80s. It is labelled as “Live in Boston 1969” but it was actually recorded at The Boston Tea Party (which used to be at 15 Lansdowne Street, where the House of Blues Boston now sits) in February 1970.

    It was professionally recorded for a proposed live album and features Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer, Danny Kirwan, John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood.

    My copy via Electric Fetus in Minneapolis MN, though Varrick is a sublabel of Rounder Records and thus based here in Cambridge / greater Boston.

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  • John Mayall, Lots of People, 1977 on ABC Records

    John Mayall, Lots of People, 1977 on ABC Records

    Mayall live from The Roxy in LA, recorded November 24th, 1976. This was Mayall’s eighth live album, with supporting band including a horn section with Red Holloway, Ann Patterson, David Li, Jimmy Roberts, Bill Lamb, and Nolan Smith. That’s lots of people on stage.

    I’m something of a Mayall completist – this mid-seventies California Jazz fusion exploring Mayall is maybe my least favorite, but I’m still along for the ride.

    My copy via Joe’s Albums in Worcester MA.

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  • The Housemartins, Me and the Farmer, 1987 on Go! Discs

    The Housemartins, Me and the Farmer, 1987 on Go! Discs

    Released as a 12″ single from The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death, including the b-side of the 7″ single “I Bit My Lip” but also “He Will Find You Out” and “Step Outside.”

    Norman Cook (who later became Fatboy Slim among many aliases), Dave Hemingway (also later in The Beautiful South), Stan Cullimore, and Paul Heaton were The Housemartins, a Christian Socialist band out of Hull. I was (and still am) a huge fan and pick up their singles/EPs whenever I find them, which is not often.

    My copy, via Joe’s Albums in Worcester MA, is a UK Aston Clinton pressing.

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  • The Smiths, Meat is Murder, 1985 on Rough Trade / Sire

    The Smiths, Meat is Murder, 1985 on Rough Trade / Sire

    Released on Rough Trade in the UK and Sire in the US, this was the second studio album from the Smiths. The US version of the LP included “How Soon is Now?” which did not appear on the UK edition. but was issued as a single.

    The version I knew growing up was the US version with “How Soon is Now?” on the b-side as the first track.

    I was not vegan back when I first heard this LP but loved it from the get go – too me a good 20 years to come around to Morrissey’s POV on eating animals, and while I can’t say I agree with his politics these days this LP is still perfect.

    My copy—via Joe’s Albums in Worcester MA—is a 2012 reissue pressed at Optimal which restores the UK tracklist and omits “How Soon is Now?”

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  • Everything But The Girl, Night and Day, 1982 on Cherry Red

    Everything But The Girl, Night and Day, 1982 on Cherry Red

    Another one that originally came out as a single in the early eighties (1982) but was reissued in 2022 on Record Store Day, in this case with the same three tracks (“Feeling Dizzy” and “On My Mind” on the b-side) but as a 12″ 45rpm record.

    I’m a massive fan of EBTG so was super excited to find this at Joe’s Albums in Worcester. It was half-speed mastered at Abbey Road by Miles Showell and released on clear vinyl to celebrate the 40th anniversary – limited to 2000 copies, though they are not numbered.

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  • Madness, Baggy Trousers, 2022 on BMG

    Madness, Baggy Trousers, 2022 on BMG

    While the original single “Baggy Trousers” came out in 1980 on Stiff Records, this 2022 six song EP is the first 12″ version. It was released for Record Store Day 2022 on 180g vinyl by BMG / Union Square Music.

    Six generously proportioned tracks together for the first time

    This includes a French cabaret style slowed down version, “Le Grand Pantalon” incorporating an accordion (though still sung in English).

    My copy via Joe’s Albums in Worcester MA.

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  • Bruce Cockburn, The Trouble With Normal, 1983 on True North

    Bruce Cockburn, The Trouble With Normal, 1983 on True North

    Cockburn’s 13th (I think) studio album, as he transitioned from old school folkie into new wave / alternative with more electric guitar and synthesizers but carrying forward the same politics and attitude. (“The trouble with normal is that it always gets worse”).

    True North was an independent Canadian label founded by Bernie Finkelstein (who gets management credit but not producer credit on this LP) but was distributed by CBS/Columbia.

    My copy, via Beatnick Records in Montréal Québec, is a CBS Records Canada pressing on True North labels via Don Mills ON, and came with a dual-language lyrics sheet in English and French.

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  • Sarah Vaughan, Duke Ellington: Song Book One, 1980 on Pablo Today

    Sarah Vaughan, Duke Ellington: Song Book One, 1980 on Pablo Today

    First of two records of Sarah Vaughan doing Duke Ellington songs recorded in 1979 and released in 1980 (there is a Song Book Two, also released in 1980). Produced by Norman Granz, and engineered by Val Valentin and Bob Simpson.

    Supporting artists include Waymon Reed (trumpet), J. J. Johnson (trombone), Frank Foster (tenor sax), Frank Wess (flute, tenor sax), Zoot Sims (tenor sax), Jimmy Rowles & Mike Wofford (piano), Joe Pass & Bucky Pizzarelli (guitar), Andy Simpkins (bass), and Grady Tate (drums), with Billy Byers arranging and conducting.

    Pablo Today was a sub-label that started in 1979 and focused on “non-mainstream jazz” – not sure what that means but I’ve had great luck picking up Pablo records in general.

    My copy, via Beatnick Records in Montréal Québec, is an original 1980 US pressing. with “Manufactured by Pablo Records” rim text.

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  • Lou Rawls, The Best From Lou Rawls, 1976 on Capitol

    Lou Rawls, The Best From Lou Rawls, 1976 on Capitol

    2xLP collection of previously released Lou Rawls tracks I picked up during a trip to Montreal last year. What a fantastic set of songs – I think Lou Rawls is underestimated as a singer and vocal stylist across the 60s and 70s.

    My copy, via Beatnick Records (Disques Beatnick) in Montréal Québec, is a Canadian pressing (manufactured by Capitol Records-EMI of Canada Limited).

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  • Count Basie and Oscar Peterson, Night Rider, 1980 on Pablo

    Count Basie and Oscar Peterson, Night Rider, 1980 on Pablo

    One of my favorite Pablo records, bringing together two legends: Count Basie and Oscar Peterson, with support from Louis Bellson and John Heard. Produced by Norman Granz and engineered by Val Valentin, with liner notes by Nat Hentoff.

    Basie plays organ on “Memories of You” and Peterson plays electric piano on “Blues for Pamela.” The opening 12:38 cut of the title track is, as they say, worth the price of admission on its own.

    My copy, via Beatnick Records in Montréal, QC, is a Canadian pressing (Manufactured and Distributed in Canada by RCA Limited).

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  • Weird Al Yankovic, Dare To Be Stupid, 1985 on Scotti Bros.

    Weird Al Yankovic, Dare To Be Stupid, 1985 on Scotti Bros.

    This was the third studio LP from Weird Al, produced by Rick Derringer. Mixture of paradoes and “style parodies” which don’t copy specific songs but a generalized look and feel – like “Dare to be Stupid” which is in the style of Devo.

    Apparently he approached Prince about doing a parody of “When Doves Cry” but Prince refused. (Yankovic could do these without permission but prefers to only do them with the participation of the originating artist). I do wish Prince had consented.

    My copy, via Beatnick Records in Montréal Québec, is a Canadian pressing (Don Mills Ontario plant) manufactured and distributed by CBS Records Canada Ltd / CBS Disques Canada Ltée.

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