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Freak Out!
Found this at a garage sale, plunked down my 25 cents, then went home and put it on the turntable. My world literally changed. I was now in…
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Can’t Buy A Thrill
Really quite good, for a band named after a dildo. No, really! The name came from William S. Burroughs’ novel, “Naked Lunch”, which, if you…
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Physical Graffiti
Most people think the name of this band came about because of the phrase “that’ll go over about as well as a lead balloon”, except using a…
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Kind Of Blue
Kind of blue? Well, I guess. I do hear a lot of blue notes in this, which is pretty much a given, since it’s jazz. And it does invoke a…
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Dire Straits
“Dire” implies something urgent, desperate, grievously troublesome, or of a nature that invokes fear or suffering. A “strait” is a narrow…
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The Marshall Mathers LP
Back in the day, as us old farts used to say back in the day, before your time, etc… People used to put an ‘e’ in front of everything…
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John Barleycorn Must Die
Who is John Barleycorn, and why must he die? And who enlisted Stevie Winwood to help advertise this hit? You know what would be cool? If…
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Music from Big Pink
I think it’s a little arrogant that they call themselves THE band, as there are many, many bands in the world. Unless they’re trying to…
