Albums

Let me start by being unambiguous: The Rolling Stones’ new album, Hackney Diamonds is near-great. I write this after listening to it a few times, so this is my initial impression, and of course that might change, but upon hearing…

While I was writing yesterday’s post about Bowie’s worst album (see yesterday’s post), I noticed that the video link to one of his better albums, 1. Outside, was broken. Apparently, YouTube no longer has a link to a recording of…

Note: the following post includes several links to some of my earlier posts. Rather than me writing “click to link” after every link, I’ve simply bolded links. So when you see a song, album or term bolded— link to my…

Unfortunately the entire Love You Til Tuesday promotional film is not available in its entirety on YouTube, so the above video is just of the title song. The entire film was a compilation of videos of Bowie’s never-to-be-well-known songs from…

Update (8/13/23) The following post from 2018 was about what I guess is now a rare live recording of Bowie during the Glass Spider tour of 1987. As you will read, I reference having seen a broadcast of the concert…

As I previously wrote, 2023 is a strange anniversary year for Bowie. It is the first year that ends in the number three that Bowie hasn’t released a new album since 1963, and therefore is the anniversary of several Bowie…

I am the wrong guy to be writing about “club music.” I have never been to a dance club, and aside from weddings, the last time I went to anything like a dance was in the 1990s (once). From a…

This week’s cover of the week is an entire album— Capsula, a band from Argentina with an international following, Dreaming of Ziggy Stardust is the band’s cover of the Ziggy album. Although I think the album was released, or at…

On the occasion of Tina Turner’s death I was looking back over past blog entires and noticed that the video I linked to my discussion of the album Tonight had broken. That provided me an opportunity to update the entry…