Living with Lewy Body Dementia
Counting down my 678 vinyl records before I die of brain disease
ALBUMS: Wheel of Fire (1968); Disraeli Gears (1967) MVC Rating: Wheels 4.0/$$$$;l Disraeli, 4.5/$$$$$ Listening to these now after all these years, they sound to my ears like historical archives. It’s like finding old Da Vinci sketches that were mind blowing at the time. But now while those flying machines are fun, they don’t really …
ALBUMS: KIng of America (1986); Imperial Bedroom (1982); Get Happy (1980); Armed Forces (1978) MVC RATING: King 4.0/$$$$; Imperial 4.5/$$$$; Get Happy 4.0/$$$$; Armed Forces, 4.5/$$$$ I may have mentioned this before but Elvis Costello substantially opened my world to another kind of music. The Beatles first moved something inside and paved the way for …
ALBUMS: Ice Cream for Crow (Captain Beefheart, 1982) Sufficiently Breathless (Captain Beyond, 1973) MCV Rating: Beefheart 4.0/$$$; Beyond 3.5/$$$ Two Captains. Passing in the night. Captain Beefheart, and Captain Beyond. Here are two albums I’m going to review together because, well, it seems like a good idea as I type this. There’s nothing that really …
Continue reading “Captain Beefheart, Captain Beyond — 600, 599”
ALBUMS: Trap Door (1982); Proof Through The Night (1983); T Bone Burnett (1986); The Talking Animals (1987) MVC Rating: Trap: 4.0/$$; Proof: 4.0/$$; T Bone 4.5/$$$; Talking 3.5/$$ I think I may be the only one in Alabama to have four T Bone Burnett albums. For one thing, Burnett is much better known as a …
ALBUM: Right on Time (1976) MVC Rating: 3.5/$$$ The Beatles did Strawberry Fields Forever. Prince changed fruits when he went for Raspberry Beret. But that song along with the Beatles song have connection in mood and sound, if not fruit, with one of my 70s favorites: Strawberry Letter 23 …
ALBUM: The Fabulous Paul Anka (1959) MVC Rating: 3.0/$$ (Gained a .5 for introducing me to some obscure R&B) The cover of this record album has 7, no less, photos of Paul Anka all in different sizes, including the big one. They are all the same floating mug of Anka with an alarming grin.. …
ALBUM: Get Your Wings (1974) MVP Rating: 4.5/$$$$ This is a guitar hard rock album (though there is a saxophone on the first cut). Got this when I was living in Indiana at about 14 or 15. It was just the beginning of my record-buying ways. It was a time when I was listening to …