9/14/24

Bob Marley & The Wailers- One Love At Studio One: 1964-1966 (Record Two)
Cheap Trick- In Color (Kevin Gray Remaster)
Sam The Sham & Pharoahs- The Wooly Bully Years (Personal Playlist)
v/a- the Mod Top 100 (25 Personal Picks)
Krasno/Moore Project- Book Of Queens

9/13/24

Jennifer Lara- Studio One Presents...
The Rolling Stones- Their Satanic Majesties Request (U.K. MONO)
Pink Floyd- Atom Heart Mother (Personal Edit)
Family- Entertainment
Sparks- Mael Call (Personal Playlist)
Electric Light Orchestra- VH-1 Storytellers
Siouxsie & the Banshees- Juju
Iggy Pop- Singles & Rarities

iPod on Shuffle:
Waste Not Want Not- The Pretenders
I Found The Magic- Dwight Twilley
All La Glory- The Band
Whisky River- Budgie
Stream Of Stars- Jeff Lynne
California- Tom Petty

9/12/24

Robyn Hitchcock- 1967: Vacations In The Past
(I was hoping to like this more. But almost all of his covers really got under my skin.)

Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets- Indoor Safari
The Who- Kingston, 2/12/20
MC5- High Time
The Stooges- Personal Playlist

Jack White- Fear Of The Dawn

Living Colour- Collideoscope
(I remembered nothing about this record, but I have been on a Living Colour kick and I really loved their last album "Shade." This record was horrible. Dense and tuneless. Explains why I have no memory of it.)

v/a-Roots Rock Rebels: When Punk Met Reggae 1975-1982 (Disc 1)
(Great Disc One. Really solid programming. Looking forward to Disc Two.)

Joe Higgs- Life Of Contradiction
(Emailing with a vinyl buyer looking for reggae titles, and we both agreed that this record is a Top 5 of all time. I told him I thought it was the "Rubber Soul" of reggae records. If you are reading, you should listen to it, if you don't know it.)

9/11/24

Scott Walker- Scott 2
Roland Alphonso & the Beverley's All-Stars- Dream Land
Neil Young- After The Gold Rush
John Cale- Slow Dazzle
David Bowie- Reality
The Kinks- Something Else By...(Kevin Gray MONO Master)
Eva Cassidy- Live At Blues Alley
Terry Reid- S/T
The Yardbirds- Having A Rave Up
Radio Birdman- Radios Appear

9/10/24

iPod on Shuffle:
That's The Way God Planned It- Joe Bataan
I Just Want You- Ozzy Osbourne
Remember Sam- The Easybeats
American- The Plugz
Save Me, Jesus- Bobby Charles
Bright Light Girl- Heart
The Jangling Man- Martin Newell
On The Beach- Neil Young
Another World (Reprise)- Cheap Trick
Running- Scott Walker
You Got It (L.F.D.H.)- Todd Rundgren & Daryl Hall
Falling In Love Again- Robert Plant
Words Of Wisdom- U-Roy
What You Were Doing- The Lemon Twigs
Limelight- Rush
Old World- The Modern Lovers
E Too D- Small Faces
Never Going Back Again- The Candy Butchers

Robert Fripp- Exposure (Third Edition)
Rickie Lee Jones- Pirates
The Wild Tchoupitoulas-S/T
St. Vincent- Marry Me
The Idle Race- The Birthday Party

9/9/24

Bob Dylan- Blood On The Tracks (MoFi HSM)
The Zombies- Continue Here
David Bowie- Diamond Dogs
The Ventures- In Space
Browning Bryant- S/T
Electric Light Orchestra- Face The Music
Led Zeppelin- IV (Companion Disc)
Golden Earring- Moontan (U.S., Side One)

9/8/24

Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66- S/T
Grant Green- Feelin' The Spirit
The Modern Jazz Quartet- Patterns
(This was a very satisfying trio on a Sunday morning.)

Bob Marley & The Wailers- Uprising
Sade- The Best Of...

Sly & The Family Stone- Greatest Hits (Quad Mix)
(A few of these mixes are wild! Fun to hear songs you think you knew inside out, inside out.)

Beastie Boys- To The 5 Boroughs
(Haven't played this one in ages. Saw this tour at MSG. Great show and great record. Sounded good today.)

Doris Troy- S/T
The Fireman- Electric Arguments

Faces- BBC In Concert, April 1973
(Another set from that new BBC box. Excellent!)

Thin Lizzy- Jailbreak (Kevin Gray Master)
T. Rex- Bolan's Zip Gun
The Replacements- Boink!!

9/7/24

Jeff Lynne- Armchair Theater

Prince Lasha Quintet feat. Sonny Simmons- The Cry!
(Impossible to find for years. Brand new, stellar reissue released on Friday. Brilliant!)

Crosby, Stills & Nash- S/T
Massive Attack- Blue Lines

David Bowie- Never Let Me Down (2018 McNulty Remix)
(Mario McNulty did the impossible and turned one of the worst records of Bowie's career into something very listenable. I genuinely like this record now.)

Jack White- No Name
Led Zeppelin- III
(There are so many Zeppelin references and sounds and phrasing on this new Jack White record, it brought me right to "Zep III.")

Cheap Trick- Heaven Tonight
Leon Russell- S/T (Kevin Gray Master)

9/6/24

Bash & Pop- Friday Night Is Killing Me
(This has aged really well. It's like The 'Mats going full on power pop.)

David Gilmour- Luck And Strange
(Lots of fine guitar playing, as well as a few memorable tunes. But def needs an edit.)

Bad Brains- Quickness

Willie Tee- I'm Only A Man
(Very happy to have this back in the collection.  For years it was a $400 record. I finally sold it for good money. And now it's back in a limited run of 1000. A New Orleans legend, Willie Tee meets a legendary producer David Axelrod, and the results are exactly as good as they should be. A deep soul classic!)

The Doors- S/T (APP 45 RPM Cut)

Jack White- No Name
(Wow! Did not expect to love this as much as I did. Dedicated post on Burning Wood coming Monday.)

The Plugz- Electrify Me
Queen- S/T

iPod on Shuffle:
Seven Years In Tibet- David Bowie
In The Light- Led Zeppelin
The Little Things (My Baby Does- Bruce Springsteen
Rock & Roll Pussy- Todd Rundgren
Pictures- Tommy Keene
Sister Europe- Psychedelic Furs
Daddy Don't Live In That N.Y.C. No More- Steely Dan
Santa Barbara- World Party
C'mon Everybody- NRBQ
No Expectations- The Rolling Stones

9/5/24

Rockpile- Seconds Of Pleasure
The Remains- S/T (Kevin Gray MONO Master)
The Beach Boys- Wild Honey
The Beach Boys- 20/20
The Guess Who- The Best Of
(Did some record shopping in Philly on Wednesday and picked up a dozen or so records, including these five. That mono Remains is a great release and a must listen, and I do think "20/20" is really underrated.)

Rhett Miller- The Believer
(Too much to say about this. Stay tuned for a Burning Wood post.)

Elvis Costello- Spike
(There's a great E.P. within this album.)

Faces- John Peel, 1971
(If the whole BBC box sounds like this, it's going to be one of the best releases of the year!)

Bobby Womack- My Prescription

New Order- Substance
(Had to hear this after seeing it performed live in Philly on Wednesday. "Substance" would be a contender for best  "best of," but a few songs really knock this down a peg. It felt that way at the show, too.)

9/4/24

Amyl & The Sniffers- Comfort To Me
The Waldos- Rent Party
Dr. John- Gris Gris
MC5- Back In The U.S.A.

9/3/24

Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks- True

African Head Charge- Drastic Season (about half)
(Man, this is one weird record.)

v/a- Niney The Observer Presents Jah Fire!
Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster NCF All Stars- The Broadside, 5/1/24
Eno- Here Come The Warm Jets
Jefferson Airplane- Surrealistic Pillow (Kevin Gray MONO Master)

Living Colour- Shade
(If you have ever enjoyed this band, this is a late career gem,)

The Rolling Stones- S/T (U.K.MONO)
The Rolling Stones- Now! (MONO)
(These records are terribly underrated. I think both "Aftermath" and "Between The Buttons" are overrated. They seem to lose their way a bit. But on the first three or four, they really knew what they wanted.)

9/2/24

The Flying Burrito Brothers- The Gilded Palace of Sin (Kevin Gray Master)
Ian Hunter- Man Overboard
Traffic- S/T (Kevin Gray Master)
Mott The Hoople- The Hoople
David Bowie- The Next Day

9/1/24

Caravan- S/T (U.K. MONO)
Bob Marley & The Wailers- Kaya

Benny Trokan- Do You Still Think Of Me?
(First solo record from Jay Vons, Reigning Sound and Spoon bassist. Great 60's AM radio sound and vibe, but as usual, no real songs to go with them. I've heard worse.)

Engelbert Humperdinck- Gold
(Just read about the ongoing 60 year feud between Humperdinck and Tom Jones, with Jones just last week calling Humperdinck a "prick." Put me in the mood for some of the Hump's 60's singles. I really dig about a dozen of them.)

Wings- Venus & Mars
St. Vincent- Actor
Yes- S/T

8/31/24

Ranking Joe w/Sly & Robbie- Top Ranking (five songs)
(Not good.)

Beck, Bogert & Appice- S/T
(I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would. Really not a fan of this record and hadn't played it for a years. But on a whim, pulled it out. Feeling like I will play it again very soon.)

Paul McCartney- Chaos & Creation In The Backyard
(Late career masterpiece.)

Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint- The River In Reverse
Lloyd Charmers w/Byron Lee & The Dragonaires- Reggae Charm
The Beatles- 1962-1966 (2023 Remix: Sides Two, Three, Five & Six)
The Who- WHO