Tag Archives: Record Collecting
RECORDS AND OTHER MEDIA
When Vinyl Connection began in 2013, I knew that a cross-platform presence was important. I just didn’t know what social media was. Or were. Or are, for that matter. Accounts on Tumblr, Instagram, Linkedin and Twitter were duly created, but the only one I paid any attention to (other than this venerable blog) was Tumblr, […]
ALBUM COVERS | WALKING THE DOG
* PAUL McCARTNEY — Paul Is Live [1993] VAN MORRISON — Days Like This [ 1995] NEIL YOUNG — Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere [1969] JAMES TAYLOR — One Man Dog [1972] JONI MITCHELL — Dog Eat Dog [1985] JIMMY SMITH — Back At The Chicken Shack [1963] JACK BRUCE — Things We Like […]
ALBUM COVERS | A DOG’S LIFE
* ANIMAL LOGIC — Animal Logic [1989] RUSH — Signals [1982] ERIC CLAPTON — There’s One In Every Crowd [1975] BLUR — Parklife [1994] THE CRUEL SEA — Three Legged Dog [1995] WEEZER — Raditude [2009] RICK SPRINGFIELD — Working Class Dog [1980] THE CHURCH — Priest = Aura [1992] PAVLOV’S DOG — Pampered Menial […]
LITTLE EDEN
The last time Nick Saloman and I spoke he had just sent off the digital files for the next Bevis Frond album to his record company, Fire Records. We spoke about his hopes for the two-dozenth Frond opus. As always, the songwriter was phlegmatic about the record’s future. “I write songs,” he says. “I record […]
RELICS
Pink Floyd’s Relics, which came out in May 1971, was the perfect example of a record company stop-gap release. The band toured extensively in that era (the time of Atom Heart Mother) and when they did eventually make it into the studio, there were worries their rate of creating new music was far from brisk. […]
1971 COUNTDOWN: #71 — #66
After some time becalmed in lockdown waters, word has come from the poop deck of the good ship Vinyl Connection that it is well and truly time venture once more into the ocean that is “1971”. Although voyages on this varied and exciting sea have been a tad irregular, a few nautical miles have accumulated. […]
FILLING THE SAILS
Let’s not beat about the bush. Having a paying gig writing about music is wonderful. I respect Discrepancy Records for what they are aiming to be (a first class on-line record store) and love the way it has provided opportunities to explore different types of music writing. It’s great that even within the frantic world […]
RAINBOW VINYL — SUMMARY
The collected rainbow vinyl posts. Because it’s pretty. Red — Orange — Yellow — Green — Blue — Purple * * The feature image is, naturally enough, what you get when a rainbow is de-prismed. The white knights were:
RAINBOW VINYL — PURPLE
“There’s gold at the end of them there vinyls” * Hope you’ve enjoyed this rainbow vinyl trip. * I recall being quite excited when I heard the first Tame Impala album back in 2010. Kevin Parker seemed to have reinvented—or at least re-invigorated—psychedelic rock for the 21st century and it was good. The follow-up album […]
RAINBOW VINYL — BLUE
Coloured vinyl. Guaranteed to lift the wintertime/summertime blues. * This excellent LP from female quartet Beaches has appeared in these pages before. In fact, it was one of Vinyl Connection’s more gushing reviews. Playing it today, I was again mightily impressed with this excellent debut. * Sydney’s Sunnyboys were also on the end of a […]
