I really like this live version of this song . Tried to listen to the album version and I feel like she was over produced and made to sound very pop radio. I still laugh at the facial expressions .



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Television ‎- Marquee Moon LP (4 Men With Beards) OG 1977 Reissue 2003



^Essential Rock album. File under Punk\Post Ponk. Me trying to review this is like someone trying to review Dr. Dre's Chronic, it's already been reviewed and heralded 1000 times before, so who the hell am I to bother trying? So I'll summarize with this... These guys were really far ahead of their time when they dropped this (wait for it!) seminal album back in 1977. Repressed by the repress gods at 4 Men with Beards and like most of their represses this gatefold high gloss 180 gram release is top notch.



and a couple of funkish 45s...



Alonzo and the Eternal Drive - Get Down, Make It Funky 7" (De Tone) 1980



^I'm guessing Alonzo is the singer, and he's your slightly below average sounding funk\soul singer. His band on the other hand is pure funk fire, they steal the show on this split-song funk 45. I kinda wished the instrumental was on the flip so I could zone in a bit more on the band, but regardless of that I'm feeling this bigtime.



Harold Johnson Sextet - Think / Sorry 'Bout That 7" (Revue) Unknown Year



^Bought this for the JB cover "Think". It's alright, kinda cool, but the b side wins fa sho. These guys remind me of a super-tight High School jazz marching band for some reason, very young sounding, really raw, but still they are funky and talented.



Rudolph Johnson - Diswa / Devon Jean 7" (Black Jazz Records) 1971



^NICE! My first Black Jazz Records 7" and this straight up Jazz track is a stormer. This is one of those records that reminds me I gotta do a strictly 45 jazz mix when I get around to it. Too many of these types of 45s sit slept-on in my 45 section, they need to be compiled for a mix.

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Spinning this right now, one of my favorites without a doubt.

Burned through some of the Curtis classics this afternoon:

^Is Short Eyes the best out of those three?



Recently...

Megadeth - Peace Sells, But Who's Buying LP (Capitol Records) 1986



^Tidbit: The word Megadeth is actually a word and it's spelled that way. It means 1 million deaths and the word didn't exist in the English language until after Hiroshima. Anywayz, nuff nerd talk... I'm a Megadeth completionist. That's the only reason I spent way too much money on an album with 1 or maybe 2 good songs. They were so new back in 86. They really didn't start to hone in till much later. I'd kill to have Countdown to Extinction their best album.



Neu! - Neu75! LP (United Artists Records) 1975



^Krautrock gods NEU! not nearly in the form they were in on their first Self Titled album. This album, NEU! 75 is interesting but unlike their first anything but essential.



Various - Let Them Know LP Box\Book (Better Youth Organization) 2009



^2 LPs of super fat punk, along with a 12" coffee table book of high quality pictures and stories of some of the best years of underground punk music. On top of that it includes a documentary I haven't seen yet, and the CD version of the records. This is like Numero quality pressing, and loaded with music I haven't even scratched the surface on learning about. Quality.



Various - Nuggets LP (Rhino) 1984



^The original psych-rock\psych pop comp from the 80s, reupped in 180 gram pressing on this reissue. I heard this from an old friend of mine many many years ago, he basically made me sit through it and I wasn't feeling the 60s psych at all. I wasn't ready, fresh out of High School and into some totally different music. But I remembered it and gradually I started to get what classic psych is all about. This is truly thee quintessential psych comp if there ever was one.



Raoul/Francesco De Masi - Tema Di Arizona 7" (RCA Italy) 1966



^Nice cool lookin' 7" pic cover of a spaghetti Western I never saw. I love the music though, it's Ennio Moriconeish for sure.

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