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 […]
Tag: 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 […]
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 […]
Dio – “Holy Diver” (1983 – Japanese Pressing)
In a way Holy Diver informed my thinking about music without me having heard it. I was living in Columbia, South Carolina in 1983 when Dio released their debut, just discovering music for the first time thanks in large part to MTV and while not quite yet in high school already seeing how musical tastes […]