Tag: Life at 33 1/3

Eagles: One Of These Nights (Asylum) They had been America’s most promising new act back in ’72 thanks to hit singles “Witchy Woman” and “Take...

The Boomtown Rats: A Tonic For The Troops (Ensign) Produced by: Robert John “Mutt” Lange and The Boomtown Rats Personnel: Bob Geldof – vocals, saxophone Pete Briquette –...

Small Faces: Small Faces (Immediate) Small Faces thought they had entered paradise as they left Decca for Andrew Loog Oldham’s Immediate Records.  And who could...

Bobbie Gentry: Ode To Billie Joe (Capitol) Bobbie Gentry had not yet turned 23 when this album was released, and the title-song caught people completely...

The Beatles: Rubber Soul (Capitol) This month the original American Beatles-albums were released on CD in perfect miniature replicas of the original cardboard sleeves.  You...

Yardbirds: Yardbirds(Columbia) They started out as blues purists, bending the blue notes with such ragged ease that the late great Sonny Boy Williamson hired them...

The Rolling Stones: Flowers (London) The Beatles were not alone struggling with a headstrong American record label.  The Rolling Stones ‘ U.S. catalog between 1964...

The Beatles: The U.S. Albums (Capitol/Apple) Be warned. This piece has been written by a Beatles-nerd. Europeans did not understand the point of the U.S. Beatles...

Mothers of Invention: Freak Out! (Verve) The first double-album of rock, was it Dylan’s “Blonde On Blonde” or Zappa’s “Freak Out”?  It’s being claimed that...

Roll up, roll up for Brazilian psychedelia Brazilian cult band (often wearing weird hats) whose name is being whispered in awe in the inner circles...