Rich here. As a Methodist pastor's son who went to Sunday School virtually every week for the first 18 years of my life, you can understand why, when I saw the title of the 1987 album by The Silencers, "Letter from St. Paul," I immediately
Out of nowhere, this song just popped into my head tonight.Cinnamon Cinder was the name of a small chain of clubs owned by game show host Bob Eubanks.This popular song by The Pastel Six made it to number 25 in 1963.We used to listen to this…
Recorded in 2006, but it sounds like it was recorded in 1966, The Morlocks had that retro sound down perfectly, and this album titled "Easy Listening For The Underachiever" proves just that. Retro to the max, even their name came from the c…
In my humble opinion, one of the greatest songs ever recorded came from this 1962 LP titled "Here's The Man, by Bobby "Blue" Bland.From the perfect horns to little drum break, Bobby winds it up, and lets it go for an amazing thrill filled t…
The Call had a top 100 hit in 1983 from their album titled "Modern Romans," but chances are if you're under the age of 40, you've probably never heard it.Biblical implications and anti-war sentiment, that's what this song is all about!Peopl…
You might be familiar with "Race With The Devil" from this 1968 LP by The Gun, or this amazing album cover by Roger Dean, but here's an instrumental tune that's a little more obscure but seriously cool.I do admit that I like short songs, bu…
As far as I can tell, this 1986 LP by The Primates was their solo effort.This record sounds like it would have been a later Seeds LP but with more grungy guitars. Here's a flyer from one of their shows that I just put up on eBay for any of
Rich here. For those of us who grew up watching "Rocket Man" movie serials on Saturday afternoon TV, we felt that a certain promise was implicit -- in The Future, we would all have jet packs we could strap to our back, and fly. Once the Spa…
I've had this EP by The Sinister Cleaners titled "Goodbye Ms Jones" for a couple of decades, and I've never understood why this band from Leeds, UK was not more popular.The lead song off of this four tune EP is a good one, and I think it sh…
What's not to like about this 1979 album by James White And The Blacks? Well, basically nothing, that's for sure.I probably should have presented the song "Contort Yourself," but you can look that up easily enough yourself.This was a great
Eyes, or The Eyes were a Los Angeles based punk band that recorded in 1979. Their only other release was an EP that included two other bands, The Controllers, and The Skulls.The A side of this single was "TAQN," or "Take A Quaalude Now."I a…
This 2003 release from NY band Firewater is all over the place. The pundits might say you need to develop a style, but I'm much more in favor of go ahead and explore all styles, and that's what Firewater does.Firewater is basically Todd Ash…