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Robert Calvert Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters. A fab space rock album from the former Hawkwind frontman @Hawkwind #viny|community #nowplaying #recordcollection #onmyturntable #33rpm #vinylcollection

Carl Johnson 12h ago

April March – In Cinerama
Oh, this vanity project. I'm trying to remember back to the time when I started it, and the thought that I would be able to move quickly through the several hundred records I had in my collection, in alphabetical order, and then just occasionally post when I added something new. Nope!
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Russ’ Record Rainbow 19h ago

Justice has been derided for too damn long as technical but soulless, cold, LONG, and lacking bass.

Those last two points are true enough, I guess. But there’s so much good to this album.

Yeah, I know that they went in grieving and decided to make the most challenging, technical music they could. And I know that James in particular was hit HARD by Cliff dying to the point where he didn’t seem to get over it until *checks notes* about a year before 72 Seasons came out? At the earliest when the Through the Never movie was released.

Honestly, it felt like James was holding onto his grief because he felt like letting it go would be betraying Cliff.

It’s sad.

This album is impossible to disentangle between a grieving band, a band that HAS to get back into the studio to maintain momentum, and a band that is starting to have honest to god challengers that are also gaining steam.

It had to happen and it was always going to be this, good and bad.

Yes, the songs get a little long. But I still love it. I really embraced the “shit’s fucked, let’s fix it,” attitude present in most of these songs. Everyone always talks about how negative metal is but I honestly think bands like Metallica skew so far towards “we can fix this” that they look like hippies who write good music.

I love it. Genuinely.

And “Dyer’s Eve” alone is worth the price of admission.

Probably could have cut “To Live Is To Die” altogether, though. That main Spanish section is a 40-second intro a la “Battery” and little more.

I am VERY interested in finding the elusive “And Justice For Jason,” which I understand is just this album with bass. I would buy that.

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H.A. Hakonen 1d ago

Don't get it why this album has bad reviews and never been released on cd. I think it's great and he stepped out of the blues-box to do something different. I like this very much. I saw John Mayall & Bluesbreakers at Pori Jazz in 1986 but I've never heard this album before. My Discogs rating: 4/5.
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VellaEscola 2d ago

Cara A: Ken Boothe–Moving Away
Written-By – K. Boothe

Cara B: Skatalites–Street Of Gold
Written-By – C. Dodd

Ken Boothe / Skatalites – Moving Away / Street Of Gold
Label: Studio One – none
Format: Vinyl, 7", Repress, 45 RPM
Country: Jamaica
Released:
Genre: Reggae
Style: Reggae, Ska

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Russ’ Record Rainbow 2d ago

I was in college when iTunes really started to pick up steam and become available on Windows. They ran a promotion with some soda company and, because I worked for the university and received a meal card that gave me either food or three sodas, I spent every day tipping 20oz bottle of soda to try to see the underside of the cap and find winners.

When I did (the odds were with me), I pieced this album together. Now I can’t download it again. It says it’s been downloaded too many times or on too many devices or something.

But I think it’s incredibly interesting that I went from “ooh, mp3s!” to vinyl records and digitizing the hell of them.

Digital services have been wildly disappointing and I’m tired of trying to get alone with them, so fuck it: here’s my record that I will record and re-record and re-record until the grooves widen too much or the stylus just goes right through the PVC.

What a fun EP. People say Black Sails is where the real AFI started - it’s where Davey said he actually TRIED writing songs - but I think this was where the real birth was.

Is it perfect? Almost. Their cover of Halloween goes on for WAY too long and I was forced to make an edit that fades out sooner or I’d starve between it and the next track.

But the songs are too notch and the energy can’t be beat. The guitar work is great, the pace is break-neck, the Halloween cover is awesome, and the vibe of the whole record fits perfectly with every other part of its presentation. The artwork is cool, and just look at that pretty orange vinyl!

My only real beef is that 10” records are annoying. I’ve got plenty of 7” and even more 12” but I have TWO 10” records and that just isn’t going to work for the long term.

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Carl Johnson 2d ago

Harvey Mandel – Get Off In Chicago
This is a brand new addition to my collection, just within the past few weeks – a gift from my record-store owning friend for some minor favors I did him.
https://vinyldistractions.com/harvey-mandel-get-off-in-chicago/
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John Kreitlow 3d ago

"It's Amazing to be Young" / Before "You I Just Forget" by Fontaines DC

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Russ’ Record Rainbow 3d ago

BLUF: This is my favorite Green Day album.

It goes back to their episode of Behind the Music where Armstrong’s wife said he didn’t write songs as a teenager anymore because he WASN’T a teenager. He was an adult with adult issues and he was writing adult songs.

Now, 17-year-old me did NOT like this album but I learned two critical things from it:

1) The albums that require a little more thought before going all-in as a fan are usually the best ones. They challenge you and you learn about yourself in the process.

2) She was right. I genuinely don’t think there’s anything more punk than writing mature songs about the missteps of adulthood and the frustration with a middle-aged life because that’s not what sells. That’s not what the kids (or adults who still want to cosplay as such) want so to do is to really put yourself out there and, once I heard that, it clicked for me.

I also really liked the guitar tone. Yeah, there’s a LOT of acoustic on this record but that fat P90 growl from a Les Paul Jr is really tough to beat.

I just wish this album had been more successful. I think they saw the numbers and decided to veer into the waters that have the cash. Armstrong himself said about the follow-up to this album that it’s all about being 14 and rocking out in front of your bedroom mirror.

That’s a far cry from what was said on Behind the Music and I wish we got the chance to see where a more successful WARNING: could have gone.

And, just as a side note, I love how Armstrong is constantly pushing out new signature models because out of his… three(?) generations of Gibson models, the internet seems to agree that the one that feels the closest to his #1 is actually the Epiphone and that sounds like Armstrong, proving success with Gibsons so he could give the good stuff to the poor people playing in their rooms.

Yeah. Big fan.

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VellaEscola 3d ago

Cara A: Joe White And Chuck Barry–Punch You Down

Cara B: Tommy McCook And His Skatalites–Cotton Tree

Joe White And Chuck Barry / Tommy McCook And His Skatalites – Punch You Down / Cotton Tree
Label: Ska Beat – JB.180
Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single, 3-Prong Push-Out Centre
Country: UK
Released: 1964
Genre: Reggae
Style: Ska

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