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...