Posts Tagged Vinyl Etc. Stories

Something I came across this morning that made me pause… Discogs posted an article with a list of the Saddest Albums of All Time. These were the most notable entries for me: Pastel Blues – Nina SimoneBlackstar – David BowieBerlin – Lou ReedUnknown Pleasures – Joy DivisionDummy – PortisheadFaith –

Not sure how long this will take, but I’m going through my entire record collection A to Z, listening to anything I haven’t listened to in the past couple of years, with the intent of seriously downsizing my collection and selling off what I don’t feel the need to have

A little something to make your Sunday special… I have loved this piece of music since the first time I ever heard it in 1986. I’ve had it on CD ever since and get much joy out of listening to it every now and then. I recently managed to get

So very sad to hear of Sinéad’s passing today, at the oh so young age of 56… regardless of whether you liked her music or not take a listen to this track, in my opinion the most powerful vocal performance she did, I love this song, written by Bono for

OH MY! This is a real treat… though deemed a walk down a jazzier path, this 2nd solo outing from The Pretenders lead vocalist is far more than that. As Chrissie Hynde says in the liner notes, “… jazz is something I grew up around (thanks to my bro) and

It’s David Bowie’s birthday January 8th and isn’t this a lovely birthday surprise! It’s been announced that ‘ChangesNowBowie’ will be released on Record Store Day on April 18th, 2020, my birthday!! And beginning today six previously unreleased rarities from David’s archive called “Is It Any Wonder?” will be released in

I bought this used record today. I lost a lot of my records in a flood back in 1980, and this was one of them. I had replaced it on CD years later, but now I have it on vinyl again, and it was pure pleasure listening to it tonight.