841. Erasure: The Innocents
842. Eric B. & Rakim: Paid in Full
843. Esquerita: Vintage Voola
844. Essential Logic: Beat Rhythm News
845. David Essex: Rock On
846. Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine: Let It Loose
847. Bill Evans: The Village Vanguard Sessions
848. Bill Evans Trio at Shelly's Manne-Hole
849. Gil Evans Orchestra: Out of the Cool
850. Gil Evans: Priestess
851. The Everly Brothers Greatest Hits
852. The Golden Hits of the Everly Brothers
853. Everly Brothers: EB84
854. Every Mother's Son: Come on Down to My Boat
855. The Very Best of Fabian
Mixworthy: "Paid in Full," #842; "Some Other Time," #847; "(Till) I Kissed You,"
"All I Have to Do Is Dream," "Problems," and "Let It Be Me," #851; "Come on Down
to My Boat," #854. Oh no--Eric B. & Rakim are misfiled. They're used to the neigh-
bourhood, though, so they're staying put.
Spent: "Rock On."
Nothing from Essential Logic, so I guess I have to turn in my copy of Lipstick
Traces. I'll give it another listen--it was just too weird for me at the time, but
I'll hazard a guess that 20 years later it doesn't sound all that much different
than X-Ray Spex, so maybe there's something there that I should be listing...I said
that Bo Diddley was my second-favourite of the early guys after Chuck Berry; actu-
ally, that'd be the Everlys. I like their rock and roll fine, even if I've only
listed "Problems," but they've got to be the most sublime white ballad singers ever.
I saw Simon & Garfunkel at Maple Leaf Gardens last year--my first show since Sonic
Youth 17 years ago, the reasons for which I'll reiterate somewhere along the line
here--and it was really something when Don and Phil came out and joined them for
"Bye Bye Love." Not sure if they're talking to each other at this point or not;
c'mon, Everlys, can't we all just get along?...Speaking of the early guys, there
was a big commotion when the Esquerita reissue came out in the mid-80s. Did anyone
try to make the case that he was better than Little Richard? I can't remember--I
hope not. His pompadour's higher, that much is true.
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856. Faces: A Nod Is as Good as a Wink...To a Blind Horse
857. Faces: Ooh La La
858. Eria Fachin: "Savin' Myself" 12-inch
859. My Name Is Eria Fachin
860. Fair Warning: You Are the Scene!
861. The Essential John Fahey
862. Fairport Convention: Unhalfbricking
863. Fairport Convention: Rising for the Moon
864. Adam Faith: What Do You Want?
865. Faith Hope & Charity
866. Faith Hope & Charity: Life Goes On
867. Marianne Faithfull: The Best Of...
868. Marianne Faithfull: Broken English
869. The Fall: Grotesque (After the Gramme)
870. The Fall: Bend Sinister
871. The Fall: The Frenz Experiment
Mixworthy: "Stay With Me" and "That's All You Need," #856; "Who Knows Where the Time
Goes," #862; "Come Stay With Me," #867. I've caught up with a few of John Fahey's
more famous albums on CD and would definitely be listing three or four songs from
those; ditto Fairport Convention's "Time Will Show the Wiser" and "Come All Ye." The
Faces' "Ooh La La" makes for a great finish in Rushmore; on its own, not good enough.
Faith Hope & Charity was comprised of Brenda Hilliard (nicknamed "Faith" on their
debut), Albert Bailey ("Hope"), and Diane Destry ("Charity"), yet nowhere on the two
albums I have are "Faith" and "Hope" separated by a comma--not on the covers, not on
the spines, and not on the records themselves. But there was never a Faith Hope; she
only exists in some alternate universe along with Peter Paul, Emerson Lake, and that
bastard love-child of folkie grunge and film noir, Beck Bogart... It doesn't get any
better in the car these days than hearing "Stay With Me" on Q-107 every now and again.
All that show-offy guitar that makes up the last minute is phenomenal. Rod Stewart and
Ron Wood are still attending once-a-week sensitivity workshops as recompense for the
lyrics.
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872. Family: Fearless
873. Family: Bandstand
874. Family: It's Only a Movie
875. Fanny: Charity Ball
876. The Best of Donna Fargo
877. The Fast for Sale
878. Disco 3 (Fat Boys): "Reality" 12-inch
879. Fat Boys
880. Fat Boys: Big & Beautiful
881. Fat Boys: Crushin'
882. Fear: The Record
883. Fear: More Beer
884. Phil Fearon and Galaxy
885. The Feelies
886. Feelies: Only Life
887. Felt: The Pictorial Jackson Review
Mixworthy: "Let's Have a War," #882; "Raised Eyebrows," #885; "It's Only Life," #886.
I burned the Feelies' The Good Earth a few months ago, and overall I'd take it over
either LP listed above.
I was confused by the mis-alphabetization of the Disco 3 12-inch at first, figured
out pretty quickly that it must be the Fat Boys, got excited thinking the record
might be valuable, started checking around online and came across "The Fat Boys: A
Large Body of Work" from Roctober #32:
"For some time now collectors and DJs have caused vintage vinyl of 80s Hip
Hop to skyrocket in price. Except for Fat Boys records. Anyone who haunts
quality used records shops has likely noticed a surplus of Fat Boys LPs and
their Sutra label 12" singles in the budget bins mingling with superabundant
Dan Fogelberg, Neil Diamond and JFK memorial albums."
Dan Fogelberg? Ouch, that hurt--my hopes and dreams of a better life crushed once
more. I'm not exactly sure how I knew enough in the first place to file "Reality" in
the right spot; that the Fat Boys were once the Disco 3 has never, to the best of my
knowledge, been one of the four or five million useless bits of information that clut-
ter up my mind. I'm guessing that wherever I got it, someone had strategically placed
a "Fat Boys!" alert on the price tag, just waiting for that one buyer shrewd enough
to act swiftly and decisively on such news: "Fat Boys? Man, if I don't buy this right
now, it'll be gone."
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888. Narvel Felts: The Touch of Felts
889. Freddy Fender: The Texas Balladeer
890. Fergus: All the Right Noises
891. The Best of Ferrante & Teicher
892. Bryan Ferry: "These Foolish Things"
893. Fetchin Bones: Cabin Flounder
894. Fetchin Bones: Bad Pumpkin
895. Fetchin Bones: Galaxy 500
896. Richard "Dimples" Fields: Mmm...
897. Dimples: Dark Gable
898. The Fiestas
899. 5th Dimension: Greatest Hits on Earth
900. 52nd Street: Children of the Night
901. Fine Young Cannibals
902. Fine Young Cannibals: The Raw & the Cooked
Mixworthy: "Midnight Cowboy," #891; "So Fine," #898; "One Less Bell to Answer" and
"Wedding Bell Blues," #899.
Spent: "Good Thing," #902.
Calling the listed songs from Greatest Hits on Earth mixworthy does not begin to de-
scribe how high they sit in the pantheon for me. There might not be another record in
my collection where there's such a pronounced gap between the marginality of the per-
former and the brilliance of its two best songs (true of many albums when talking about
one song, but two cuts the list drastically)...All the Right Noises was an early-70s
Canadian release. I think Paul White, a retired Capitol A&R guy I used to work with at
Backtracks, had a hand in signing Fergus, although I don't see his name in the notes...
Three Fetchin Bones albums? Looking at Galaxy 500's cover--a not very subtle attempt to
conjure up the look of X's Wild Gift--I remember how Bad Pumpkin seemed like a passable
enough imitation at a moment when X themselves were floundering around. What I'm not
sure of is the complicated relationship between Galaxy 500 the album (1987), Galaxie
500 the band (formed 1986, debut album 1988), and Galaxy 500 the car (popular Ford
model, 1959-1974), other than that the band was easily the slowest of the three...
I prefer the plaintive harmonica version of the Midnight Cowboy theme heard in the
movie (played by Toots Thieleman) to Ferrante & Teicher's psychedelicized muzaky hit,
but anything that brings to mind the film is all right by me. I'm walkin' here! I'm
walkin' here!