Rise up, gather ’roundRock this place to the ground,Burn it up let’s go for broke,Watch the night go up in smoke. Rock on (rock on)… The 1980s were the apex of bands and artists singing about rock. Not being rock, per se, but singing about it. Singing about rock, and rocking, and how great it […]
Category: Japanese Pressing
Led Zeppelin – “The Song Remains The Same” (1976)
I know, I know… more Led Zeppelin, you’re thinking. “Yeah, sure, but this is the Japanese pressing,” he said sheepishly, knowing it did not make the situation seem cooler, at least not to most people. We spent a long weekend up in Bellingham, Washington, near the Canadian border, and while there I popped into the […]
Mötley Crüe – “Shout At The Devil” (1983)
I know there are a lot of people who don’t like blogs or reviews that contain a heavy dose of the writer’s personal experience. I get it – sometimes you just want the information. But Life In The Vinyl Lane is as much about my relationship to music as it is about the music itself. […]
P-Model – “In A Model Room” (1979)
The greater Seattle-Tacoma region has some great record shops, though at times if feels like most are more generalists and it would be nice to have a bit more… uniqueness. Fortunately we have Selector Records in Seattle specializing in electronic music, probably the only such store in the state. And most recently we saw the […]
David Bowie – “Stage” (1978)
My first encounter with David Bowie was 1983s Let’s Dance, an album widely derided by Bowie fans when it came out, and for a number of years after, for being a commercial sell out. James Hartley’s Advanced Genius Theory teaches us that one of the things required for an artist to AdvanceTM is they must […]