Truth be told, this is a pretty good VMP month. The Salt-n-Pepa and Stevie Nicks albums are stone classics. If I hadn’t spent my $ on other stuff I wanted more, I’d pick em up. If I resub in the future, maybe they’ll be swaptions!
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I’m over budget next month on vinyl. I got 3 Kendra Morris albums, Amo (one of my faves from last year), and 2 from the 70s (Heart Like a Wheel and Secret Treaties). No resub to VMP and cutting my own hair for a month help with budget.
A cold take: the new Fiona Apple album is Very Good. AoTY so far, for me.
Even in the middle of a pandemic - actually, especially in the middle of a pandemic - one is compelled to strut in the grocery store when “I’m still standing” is played
1973: (1) Herbie Hancock (2) Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and (3) New York Dolls.
Perfect timing for my VMP subscription to be up! I’m not a fan of The Stooges or Rick Ross. I already have an Otis Redding album and even if I wanted the Classics album, it was sold out. So I gave the money I would’ve spent to an unemployed bartender for karma points.
If The Rolling Stones had scored Rocky Horror Picture Show, I feel like the result would be close to New York Dolls
For anybody interested, my 1972 buys ended up being (1) Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust (2) Mayfield’s Superfly and (3) Lou Reed’s Transformer.
So...uh...there were quite a few big albums released in 1972, huh? I might have to have a 2-month buying period for ‘72. Jeeeeez.
My 1971 buys for my collection are Rolling Stones “Sticky Fingers,” The Who “Who’s Next,” and Carole King “Tapestry”
I feel like I've gradually gotten way more selective about my record purchases. This time last year: "It spins! I'mma get it!" Summer last year: "It slaps! I'mma get it!" Now: "Is this one of the greatest albums of all time? Better stream it 25-37 more times to be sure before I buy it." I think it's space rather than fear that's the mind killer...
Selena Gomez’s new album kinda sounds like what a Charli XCX album would sound like if Charli XCX was Selena Gomez.
Listening to Louis Armstrong's Hot Five --->Dizzy and Bird---->Miles Davis--->John Coltrane--->Comet is Coming is a very cool time travel experience
For 2020, I’m going to focus on the “essential classics” of the 70s. To get a bit more variety than just a whole bunch of Black Sabbath and David Bowie, I am going to abide by the rule of “only 1 album from this decade per artist.” This January, for the year 1970, I am getting (1) Black Sabbath - Paranoid (2) Led Zeppelin - III (3) Van Morrison - Moondance.
The family got me (1) What’s Goin’ On? (2) OK Computer (3) Moving Pictures (4) Appetite for Destruction and (5) Dark side of the Moon for Christmas!
Merry Christmas!!
I seem to have fallen down a Blackpink YouTube hole and I don’t want to get out of it.
The Billie Eilish carpool karaoke is delightful
Hmmmm...Fiona was delivered today. But no Aretha, Run DMC, or TLC (which should have been part of my box). Is VMP shipping stuff separately now?
This snow is awesome!
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