I recently purchased a large lot of 45 RPM records, fully expecting them to be older music because the first handful I examined were largely The Everly Brothers. So, imagine my surprise when I was picking something for today and Electric Avenue, a song I recognize. Electric Avenue is from taken from the LP Killer …
We should never have allowed disco to become a musical punchline. It was and is a valuable form of musical expression, it is almost always a lot of fun, and is oh-so fun to dance to. There was space in popular culture for it and whatever its detractors were into. But we live on this …
The majority of my collection comes from what I affectionately call junk stores. Rarely are these the chain thrift stores (although these are where the majority of my hifi components were found), they are too picked over by high foot traffic. Junk stores are smaller, often the ground floor of an old house, or a …