1379. Tommy Keene: Run Now
1380. Tommy Keene: Based on a True Story
1381. Best of Gene Kelly: From MGM Classic Films
1382. Roberta Kelly: Trouble Maker
1383. Johnny Kemp
1384. Johnny Kemp: Secrets of Flying
1385. Eddie Kendricks: All By Myself
1386. Eddie Kendricks: Eddie
1387. Eddie Kendricks: Boogie Down!
1388. Eddie Kendricks: For You
1389. John Fitzgerald Kennedy: A Memorial Tribute
1390. Brooks Kerr-Paul Quinichette Quartet: Prevue
1391. Amy Keys: Lover's Intuition
1392. Chaka Khan: I Feel for You
1393. Chaka Khan: C.K.
1394. Chaka Khan: Life Is a Dance: The Remix Project
1395. Kiara: To Change and/or Make a Difference
1396. Kid Creole and the Coconuts: Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places
1397. Kid Creole and the Coconuts: In Praise of Older Women and Other Crimes
1398. Greg Kihn
1399. Andy Kim's Greatest Hits
Mixworthy: "How'd We Ever Get This Way," "Shoot'em Up, Baby," and "Rainbow Ride,"
#1399.
Spent: "I Feel for You," #1392.
Five words you won't hear again for as long as you live: Andy Kim to the rescue...
There may be something on the Chaka Khan remix album I'm missing; I've got it in the
back of my mind that there's some connection between her and one of the Inner City
songs I like so much. Otherwise, nothing. With Kiss on deck, here are the three most
oversexed artists thus far:
1. JFK
2. Rick James
3. Chad
Jeremy (tie)
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1400. The Uncollected King Sisters with Frank DeVol's Orchestra
1401. Albert King: Born Under a Bad Sign
1402. B.B. King: On Stage • Live
1403. B.B. King: A Heart Full of Blues
1404. Ben E. King's Greatest Hits
1405. Carole King: Tapestry
1406. Carole King: Music
1407. Carole King: Wrap Around Joy
1408. Claude King/Ferlin Husky: $Million Sellers$: Country Favorites
1409. Dee Dee King: Standing in the Spotlight
1410. Let's Hide Away and Dance Away With Freddy King
1411. James King & the Lone Wolves: Texas Lullaby
1412. Pee Wee King: Ballroom King
1413. King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King
1414. Kingdom Come: "Get It On" 12-inch
1415. Kingsmen: Volume 3
1416. The Kingsmen on Campus
Mixworthy: "It's Too Late," #1405; "It's Going to Take Some Time," #1406.
Spent: "Stand By Me," #1404.
King's Row, from B.B. to Dee Dee to Pee Wee...Another large haul about which I have
little to say beyond a few random notes: 1) Frank Devol (#1400) played Happy Kine on
Fernwood 2 Nite, the best fake TV-talk-show until Larry Sanders came along; 2) How
low is it theoretically possible to set one's expectations for something? I think I
once tried to sell my friend Peter on the idea that there were a couple of "pretty
good songs" on the Dee Dee King album. (It was Peter who first got me going on the
Ramones in the summer of '79.) Based on the few seconds of "Funky Man" that turned
up in last year's Ramones documentary, I'd be afraid to launch an investigation into
which songs I had in mind; 3) While checking #1413's spine for the correct album ti-
tle (Court of the Crimson King or Court of the King Crimson?), I see that the artist
credit reads "An Observation by King Crimson." That's just so totally schizoid; 4) I
had the Kingdom Come song in my Top 10 for 1988, a list that was never published be-
cause the magazine it was intended for launched a preemptive bankruptcy. Kingdom Come
themselves were Kingdom Gone shortly thereafter; 5) It's close, but I like my two
favourite songs from Music ("It's Going to Take Some Time" and "Sweet Seasons") a
little more than my two favourite from Tapestry ("It's Too Late" and "So Far Away").
Another '70s name too good to be true: Danny Kootch, guitar and backup vocals on
Music.
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1417. Kinks: You Really Got Me
1418. The Kinks' Greatest Hits!
1419. Kinks: Face to Face
1420. Golden Hour of the Kinks
1421. The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
1422. Kinks: Part One: Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround
1423. John Kirby: 1938 - 1941: The Biggest Little Band in the Land
1424. Kiss: The Originals
1425. Kiss: Alive!
1426. Kiss: Destroyer
1427. Kiss: Smashes, Thrashes & Hits
1428. Kix: Blow My Fuse
1429. Klymaxx: Meeting in the Ladies Room
1430. Knickerbockers: Jerk and Twine Time
Mixworthy: "Stop Your Sobbing," #1417; "Tired of Waiting for You," #1418; "Party
Line" and "Too Much on My Mind," #1419; "See My Friends" and "Where Have All the
Good Times Gone," #1420; "Lola," #1422; "Comin' Home," #1424; "Strutter," #1425;
"King of the Night Time World," #1426; "Jerk Town," #1430.
Spent: "You Really Got Me," #1417; "All Day and All of the Night," #1418; "Rock and
Roll All Nite," #1425.
Because I'll occasionally see the Kinks tagged as being underrated, I'm inclined to
say they're a little overrated (cf. Joe Rudi, the most overrated underrated player
in baseball through the early '70s). At their best, obviously I like them a whole
lot--I've listed seven songs, would add two more from my CDs ("Nothin' in the World
Can Stop Me Worryin' 'Bout That Girl" and "Love Me Till the Sun Shines"), and there
are still the two I moved over to spent, either of which might sound like the great-
est thing ever if I hear it under the right circumstances next week. But I've seen
people rank the Kinks as the equal of the Beatles and Rolling Stones, and to me
they're not close; I also place the Who well ahead of them. They fight it out for
fourth on the '60s British list with the Yardbirds, and, at least in terms of quan-
tity, that one goes to the Kinks. (Though the trifecta of "Shapes of Things"/"Heart
Full of Soul"/"Over, Under, Sideways, Down" tops any three Kinks songs.) Wes Anderson
made brilliant use of "Nothin' in the World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'Bout That Girl" in
Rushmore, and it's well known that he originally wanted to go with an all-Kinks sound-
track. If he had, if "Here Comes My Baby" and "I Am Waiting" and "Making Time" and
"A Quick One While He's Away" had been replaced by the Kinks, the film would have
suffered...Whenever I start comparing notes with anyone on the best live shows I've
ever seen, the one I'm most inordinately proud of claiming as part of my "heritage"
is Kiss, Blue Oyster Cult, and Artful Dodger at Toronto's Varsity Stadium in 1977.
Yeah, I guess I should have been listening to the Sex Pistols and the Ramones at
the time, but the town I grew up in was still very much operating on standard dazed-
and-confused time in 1977; I think a small underground network of Cars and Devo fans
might have infiltrated my high school the following year, but that was about it for
punk rock. I'm not even totally sure who was with me at Varsity Stadium, other than
that there were three of us and my dad wasn't one of them. I saw a lot of great club
shows through the '80s, but Kissapalooza '77 was a benchmark, the one show that most
makes me feel a part of my favourite musical decade of all. And now, if you don't
mind, I'm going to give myself a round of applause. The band says I deserve to.
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1431. Gladys Knight and the Pips: Teen Anguish Vol. 3
1432. Gladys Knight and the Pips: Greatest Hits
1433. Presenting Gladys Knight & the Pips
1434. The Best of Gladys Knight & the Pips: The Columbia Years
1435. Knitters: Poor Little Creature on the Road
1436. Terry Knight and the Pack
1437. Buddy Knox
1438. Frankie Knuckles: Beyond the Mix
1439. Best of the Kodaks Featuring Pearl McKinnon
1440. The Best of Kool and the Gang
1441. Everything's Kool & the Gang: Greatest Hits & More
1442. Kool Moe Dee
1443. Kool Moe Dee: How Ya Like Me Now
1444. Kool Moe Dee: "No Respect" 12-inch
1445. The Best of Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas
1446. Kraftwerk: The Man-Machine
Mixworthy: "Every Beat of My Heart," #1431; "Wild Wild West," #1443.
In a Nerve article about my years as a record collector (yes, this whole thing is
just an expanded rehash of something I wrote 18 years ago), I talked about being
able to retrieve a few albums from a junky pile my parents kept in the basement.
Two of the rarer ones are listed back-to-back in this group: Terry Knight and the
Pack (Grand Funk before they were Grand Funk) and Buddy Knox (Huey Lewis before
he was Huey Lewis--as rockabilly goes, Buddy's on the milder end of the spectrum).
There are about a dozen others scattered through my collection that came from that
pile. Among what I've already listed: the Kinks' Face to Face, the Incredible String
Band's the Hangman's Beautiful Daughter, and Donovan's Mellow Yellow, and later on
there'll be Love's Forever Changes and a couple more. I never did get around to ask-
ing my dad if he preferred tripping out to Love or the Incredible String Band...Six
or seven years ago, I bought a bunch of doo-wop compilations in one go at a Toronto
record convention. I think they were priced at $5 across the board. The Kodaks LP
was one of them, there were the Jesters, the Crowns, and some other things already
listed, plus a few more. As always happens when I buy too many records or CDs at
once, they got filed after a single play in an effort to get through everything.
I've undoubtedly missed a few great songs from the doo-wop haul; I just don't know
these albums as well as what I'd been accumulating at a more reasonable pace over
the years...I've gone on ad nauseum about the many canonical artists who don't mean
anything to me. There's also a shadow group behind them, the anti-canonical canon,
that hardly registers either: Kraftwerk, Abba, Can, etc...When Gladys Knight decides
to make a bid for a younger demographic, there's an album title just sitting there
waiting for her: Pip My Ride.
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1447. Kris Kristofferson: The Silver Tongued Devil and I
1448. Krystol: I Suggest U Don't Let Go
1449. Kwamé: The Boy Genius
1450. Radio W.W.R.L.'s Bobby Jay Presents the Laddins
1451. Lakeside: Power
1452. Patti La Belle: Winner in You
1453. Robin Lane & the Chartbusters
1454. David Lanz/Michael Jones: Winter
1455. David Lanz: Cristofori's Dream
1456. Billy Larkin & the Delegates Featuring Clifford Scott: Blue Lights
1457. Larks: My Reverie
1458. The Last: L.A. Explosion!
1459. Cyndi Lauper: She's So Unusual
1460. Laurel & Hardy: "Clunk Click" 12-inch
1461. Lazy Cowgirls
1462. Zarah Leander: Kann denn Liebe Sünde sein
1463. Leather Nun: Lust Games
Mixworthy: "The Pilgrim--Chapter 33," #1447; "Time After Time," #1459.
Spent: "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," #1459. Still one of the greatest videos ever,
but besides too much airplay, I listened to it one day at 16 r.p.m. and it sounded
just like David Bowie. That's not good.
I can no longer hide: when doing the second incarnation of the CIUT show ("Intro-
spective Guy Town"), I had a brief flirtation with Windham Hill and what used to be
called "new age" (now called either "Moby" or "DJ Shadow"). Please don't ask me to
explain--in the context of the show, placed between the Moonglows and third-album
Velvet Underground, it worked...Three reasons for listing the Kristofferson track:
one, its appearance in Cisco Pike, a good (and almost impossible to see now) early-
70s film; two, its centrality to the Travis-Betsy romance in Taxi Driver ("I ain't
no pusher...I never have pushed"); and three, it inspired Green Day's best song,
"Walking Contradiction"...The most inexplicable Greil Marcus fetish of all: Robin
Lane & the Chartbusters.