Record Reviews

Songs I Turned Up: Just My Imagination, The Temptations

Posted on April 13, 2011

To fully appreciate this song, don’t listen to it on a compressed mp3 file. Find a remastered CD or an old piece of vinyl and listen to it on a nice stereo system. You will be amazed.

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Songs I Turned Up: Rock & Roll, The Velvet Underground

Posted on April 6, 2011

“And baby it was all right,
And it was all right,
Hey it was all right,
It was all right.”

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Papa John DeFrancesco, A Philadelphia Story

Posted on March 24, 2011

Devotees of soul jazz records made by the great B-3 players like “Groove” Holmes, Jimmy Smith, Dr. Lonnie Smith and Brother Jack McDuff, run out to your local record dealer and immediately grab this new disc by ‘Papa John’ DeFrancesco. It’s like steppin’ back to 1972.

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The Babies, Self-Titled

Posted on March 23, 2011

The opening track, “Run Me Over” sounds like something Nancy and Lee would do if they were 23 years old and recording in the new millennium.

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Donnie Ray, Who’s Rockin’ You?

Posted on January 19, 2011

I’m no different than a dope fiend junkie / ‘Til I can get in the sack / I got a Love Monkey on my back

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Cake, Showroom of Compassion

Posted on January 17, 2011

Is it a marvel in song construction, mimicking the sheep that we are in our willingness to follow our leaders?

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Redondo Beat, Meet Redondo Beat

Posted on January 11, 2011

“The Spell I’m Under” is a catchy piece of pop rock, sounding like Shadow Morton got a hold of a Marshall Crenshaw rarity.

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The Guess Who, Artificial Paradise

Posted on January 11, 2011

The album opens up with “Bye Bye Babe.” It was an attempt at boogie-rock, like the sound of Humble Pie, early Foghat and 70s circa Status Quo

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Hacienda, Big Red & Barbacoa

Posted on January 5, 2011

And at number two on the Mondophonic top ten of 2010…

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Spoon, Transference

Posted on January 1, 2011

And at number three on the Mondophonic top ten of 2010

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