The Grammys are nothing more than a marketing tool for people to buy music who normally don’t buy music.

An unequivocal fact since the mid-#70s .

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GIL SCOTT-HERON
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
2025 Europe reissue

A perfect Sunday morning spin to go with my apple pancake breakfast.

“And on the seventh day, God rested… to listen to Gil Scott Heron.”

For people who love Gil, you shouldn’t hesitate when it comes to snagging this reissue.
It sounds excellent, particularly Gil’s great voice, which is front and center and sounds killer.

The word “masterpiece” is thrown around a lot these days, and it’s kind of lost all true meaning, being applied to horrible “works of art”.

The title track is a TRUE masterpiece, and this is one of the more perfect compilation albums of any artist’s work.

All songs come from his first three albums on Flying Dutchman, Small Talk at 125th and Lenox (1970), Pieces of a Man (1971), and Free Will (1972).

Just a great artist.

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🇺🇸 Pixel Grip "Heavy Handed" – 2019

A hard-edged, club-focused record driven by dark electronic textures and commanding vocal presence. The album leans into rigid drum programming, distorted synth layers, and a cold, controlled intensity that feels built for late-night environments...

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THE JESUS LIZARD
Down
2009 U.S. reissue
[autographed by David Yow]

A continuation of my previous post.

This is my favorite JL album (& one of my fave #90s albums period), & this vinyl copy of mine was signed to me by the one & only David Yow.

It shows how awesome of a dude David is, as this was a replacement for my signed CASSETTE copy, which David signed for me the FIRST time I met him (inside the men’s room at the long defunct Venus DeMilo in Boston, Ma. in 1994.

As you can see, David signed it very creatively in THREE places:

1. The “x” on the front cover, as well as the dog barking “fuck”.
2. The dog farting the words “Hello, Keith, I’m a dog fart.”
3. His name on the back.

It truly is one of my prized possessions, & each of the four times I’ve met David, he’s been a wonderful human being.

As far as the album goes, it pummels.

My fave JL song is on it; “Countless Backs Of Sad Losers”.

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#NowSpinning The Funkiest Band You Never Heard (Perception) by Catalyst

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SCRATCH ACID
Just Keep Eating
2025 UK, EUROPE, US reissue

Noise rock euphoria.

Scratch Acid’s one and only full length studio album, and a precursor to the legendary Jesus Lizard for David Yow and David Wm. Sims.

Nobody does gallow’s humor better than David Yow.

Ive had the great pleasure of meeting David on numerous occasions (one of my biggest heroes); the first time when I was 16 at a urinal in the men’s room of the Venus DeMilo in Boston, Ma in October of 1994, where he signed my cassette copy of TJL’s DOWN WHILST URINATING.

I lost that autographed cassette in my move to Canada in 2007, but upon hearing I lost it the SECOND time I met him many years later, signed my VINYL copy of that same album (which I’ll post next once this SA album is over.

As wild as he is on stage and in concert, you couldn’t meet a nicer or cooler guy than David Yow.

One of rock n roll’s greatest frontmen ever.

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ROBERTA FLACK
First Take
1971 Canada pressing

I got into an interesting conversation with a friend of mine yesterday; one that drove me to pull this record out.

He had asked me “What song elicits the most emotional response in you? Do you have one of those? A song that just overwhelmingly takes you over any time you hear it?”.

As a matter of fact, I do.

It’s “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” by Roberta Flack.

One would assume it is related to my beautiful wife of almost 20 years, but no, it is not.

It’s a song that is heavily rooted in the birth of (& love for) my now teenage son.

It’s an achingly beautiful song that I loved LONG before he was born (I first heard it in the film The Best Of Times), but when my son arrived, the lyrics took on new meaning for me.
Oddly, it was also the first song I’d heard after he was born, and it transformed me forever.

Do any of you have a song like that?

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45 years ago today, April 11, 1981, Charly McClain debuted at #72 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart with “Surround Me with Love”. It went on to peak at #5 for two weeks and spent a total of 18 weeks on the chart.

It’s been my hobby to collect 45 RPM singles. I enjoyed listening to this song on the radio and went to my favorite record store to buy and added it to my treasured music collection back then.

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The Alen Parsons Project
EVE

Gatefold, NM, VG+

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